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ralvez

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Registered: 2005-12-06

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KDE Only in Safe mode after upgrade [CLOSED - not solved -]

Yesterday I run a  pacman -Syu. Everything seemed OK but after reboot my KDE desktop does not load.
This is the sequence:
1. I cold boot
2. It loads and runs the POST and module loading etc. just fine
3. Stops at the log in screen
4. I log in and starts to load the KDE system
5. It HARD FREEZES when loading the desktop (the 4th icon in the splash KDE screen)

I deleted .kde and .kde4 directories and .ICEauthority (which in the past had given me some trouble, in another system, locking the desktop at boot) but to no avail.
I created a new user (to see if the problem was related to my account) but same problem.
I can use openbox just fine, so it has nothing to do with the OS at all, since the problem is confined to KDE.

I also downgraded the KDE packages from the last update but to no avail either.

Any one having similar problems? Any ideas as to where to go from here?

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-08-13 02:28:10)

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: KDE Only in Safe mode after upgrade [CLOSED - not solved -]

Update:
No solution yet. I downgraded the kernel, since in the KDE forum someone suggested that some kernel modules could affect KDE. Since I had also done a kernel upgraded I tried that too, but no joy.

R.