| 1 |
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
| 2 |
> Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: |
| 3 |
> > Hi all, |
| 4 |
> > I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > emerge -NuD world |
| 7 |
> > |
| 8 |
> > There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I |
| 9 |
> > compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia |
| 10 |
> > driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the |
| 11 |
> > machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, |
| 12 |
> > mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the |
| 13 |
> > screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly |
| 14 |
> > appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. |
| 15 |
> > |
| 16 |
> > I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the |
| 17 |
> > kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the |
| 18 |
> > problem persists. I've looked at the xorg & kdm logs and there are a |
| 19 |
> > few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that |
| 20 |
> > is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog |
| 21 |
> > standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get |
| 22 |
> > KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing |
| 23 |
> > this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that |
| 24 |
> > I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to |
| 25 |
> > debug the KDE startup? |
| 26 |
> > |
| 27 |
> > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, |
| 28 |
> > |
| 29 |
> > Andrew |
| 30 |
> |
| 31 |
> .xsession-errors |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
> Xorg.0.log |
| 34 |
> |
| 35 |
> please. |
| 36 |
> If both are huge, upload them somewhere. |
| 37 |
> Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the |
| 38 |
> past that some update did some very scary things to both places. |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
Also /var/log/kdm.log would be of use (if you are (well, want to ;) |
| 41 |
using KDM as the login manager)... because it seems that the |
| 42 |
problem might be with KDM greeter or something similar. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
I had it segfaulting once, the symptoms were very similar, KDM did |
| 45 |
bring up X and start kdmgreet which crashed, X went down |
| 46 |
immediately, because they had no clients, KDM noticed that X was |
| 47 |
running only for a very short time and interpreted that (correctly) as a |
| 48 |
sign that something went wrong and didn't restart the X and insted just |
| 49 |
stopped... |
| 50 |
|
| 51 |
that would also explain why running startx works ... |
| 52 |
|
| 53 |
btw, does |
| 54 |
startx /usr/bin/startkde |
| 55 |
start a KDE session? |
| 56 |
|
| 57 |
|
| 58 |
yoyo |
Archives