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kaszak696

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 543

[Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

Hi there.

I decided to fix my Arch i abandoned couple a months ago (bad me!). After the entire system update i happily rebooted, started kdm, logged in on my user account and kdm suddenly restarts itself. It happens every time i try to log in on any user account. Root account works normally, but i don't want to use it for everyday activity I've looked into logs and whatever, found nothing useful. Removed .kde4 from home dir, still nothing. i've run out of ideas now, what can be preventing me from enjoing my linux?

Thanks for help.

Last edited by kaszak696 (2010-11-01 10:32:12)

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qiii2006

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: [Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

do these normal users have correct shell?

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ChoK

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Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: [Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

did you look in ~/.xsession-errors ? it smells like a dbus/console-kit/policykit problem if root works.

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kaszak696

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Registered: 2009-05-26

Posts: 543

Re: [Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

did you look in ~/.xsession-errors ? it smells like a dbus/console-kit/policykit problem if root works.

I've found there some errors regarding missing files in my home directory. Using google i tried recreating them, but nothing worked, so i kinda rage-deleted all config files in ~ and kde suddenly started working. Looks like it was just silly problem with outdated configs, sorry for wasting your time.

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ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

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Re: [Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

It's not a waste of time, other people will search through the forum with this kind of problem and hopefully your thread will point them in the correct direction.

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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
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dragonhawk360

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Registered: 2010-10-20

Posts: 21

Re: [Solved] KDE cannot be starded as a normal user

It's not a waste of time, other people will search through the forum with this kind of problem and hopefully your thread will point them in the correct direction.

He's right.  I had a similar issue a while back and it took me much longer to solve on my own, than it did for the people who read my post.  Marking as solved is always helpful.

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