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victorhooi

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Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 109

KDM - Black screen after login

heya,

I just did an update of my Arch Linux system (Arch64) last night (2009-12-19), and now it appears that KDE won't start. I have KDE-mod installed (KDE 4.4 Beta 1), and the hardware is a Lenovo X200 Tablet PC.

On bootup, it will go to the KDM screen fine. However, if you attempt to login, the screen goes black, and caps-lock doesn't seem to work. Also, going to a console login also seems to go to a black screen as well, caps lock also non-functional. I tried moving my .kde4mod config folder away, still the same thing.

From memory, I think there were some updates to hal (?) or xorg-input (?), but I can't be certain. There weren't any updates to any KDE-mod packages, and there haven't been any changes/updates to that since the KDE 4.4 Beta 1 release around two weeks ago.

I've put up my Xorg.log and kdm.log here:

http://dpaste.com/135957/

http://dpaste.com/135958/

I did see mentions of seg-faults in the logfiles, I'm guessing that's the issue?

I saw another thread talking about segfaults in KDE Plasma, however, I assume this is in plasma, and this guy/girl is actually able to login:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87134

I also saw another thread about a bad upgrade causing problems with GDM here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87122
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87123

and that seems to be fixed with a console-kit upgrade. However, that talks about missing buttons in GDM, and nobody there mentioned issues with KDE.

Any advice?

Thanks,
Victor

Last edited by victorhooi (2009-12-20 22:45:00)

victorhooi

Member

Registered: 2009-08-06

Posts: 109

Re: KDM - Black screen after login

heya,

Gosh, should have waited just a bit more. The consolekit update did come through on the mirror I used, however, I also needed to do a reboot .

So now I'm back in KDE. I did notice that a reboot from KDE seems to take quite a while (a couple of minutes, sitting at a blank black screen). Also, a logout seems to cause KDE to hang (black screen, but sits there for a long time...I eventually just had to power-cycle it). Weird.

Cheers,
Victor