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waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 137

[SOLVED] KDM service is running but X doesn't start

Hi all,

yesterday I updated system (after one month) and then shuted PC down. Today I started PC and X didn't started. I checked Xorg.log but there is no error. I tried to restart KDM service and after start KDM I can see underline on black screen in left corner for a few seconds, then I can see clock for a few miliseconds and then I'm back in tty.

I tried to run X from tty console under root. I can see black screen without any mouse, windows. In stdout is any error displayed.

I have small suspicion. After updated system I run diffpac and made some changes in configuration files. Between these files were although passwd, group and shadow. I found out missing mysql and my own user in passwd which I filled back in. But I don't know if there is missing anything else.

Waldauf

Last edited by waldauf (2014-06-25 22:17:24)

waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] KDM service is running but X doesn't start

So new news. :]

No I run: systemctl status kdm and the output is:

Started K Display Manager.
0[1237]: no user like 'kdm'
0[1236]: Cannot execute "/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet"(greeter for display :0)
Stopping K Display Manager...
Stopping K Display Manager.
Stopping K Display Manager.

... so that means I removed kdm user. Is there any way how to recovery removed user?

Walda

waldauf

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] KDM service is running but X doesn't start

Problem solved. I added 'kdm' user into /etc/passwd.

Waldauf