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stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

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kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

I upgraded my system this afternoon, but when the upgrade completed all my window decorations were gone and plasma as down.  I restarted kde from virtual console 1 and the login screen was brought up.  Now when i go to login i get stuck in an endless loop.  I type in my username and password, and then after a few seconds the login window reappears. 

I checked /var/log/errors.log and there are a number of lines like this:

kdm_greet[3623]: Cannot open default user face

i then installed gdm which wouldn't log me in either, but gave an error along the lines of xclient doesn't exist

this error occured after installing xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1

any help would be appeciated as i can't use arch at all atm!

draugdel

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

The kdm_greet message shouldn't prevent you from logging in. I get the same error in the logs and I can log in.

I would try to log in with a new user (and therefore a fresh .kde4 in its home directory). It sounds like a borked up kde configuration. When the login works with the new user, it is definetly that.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

Or just move ~/.kde4 to for example ~/.kde4bak and try. It may take a start, crash, and restart for KDE to make the new ~/.kde4.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-05-31 18:40:11)

stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

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Re: kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

sorry, i forgot to mention it.  I've tried both of those things and niether helped.  Same problem.  I also changed the permissions on the /tmp directory which removed another error message to the effect of: cannnot save user authorization,

oh and just fyi, my disk is not full, there is at least 5gb free on that partition, so thats not what was causing that error.

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

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Re: kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

do you have nvidia/ati and updated mesa? If so you may need to reinstall nvidia/ati card drivers

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: kde 4.2 won't login after xorg-server-1.6.1.901-1 upgrade

Does using kdestart from console give any useful output?

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