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homis

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Registered: 2010-12-29

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kdm hangs

Hi, installed arch for the first time last night, along with KDE.  When I boot, kdm starts fine.  But when I login, it seems to be loading up fine then everything freezes.  I cannot even access my mouse or keyboard (both USB) at this point.

kdm.log

(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Serif,20,5,0,50,0'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Sans Serif,10,5,0,50,0'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Sans Serif,10,5,0,75,0'

I have seen this fbdev problem a few times on this forum and it seems to be harmless.  Or am I wrong?  I installed 'xf86-video-intel' (as I have integrated intel graphics) which I thought would suffice, or should I install xf86-video-fbdev?

messages.log:

Dec 28 23:18:14 myhost init: Entering runlevel: 5
Dec 28 23:18:20 myhost dhcpcd[1175]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.64 for 86400 seconds
Dec 28 23:18:20 myhost dhcpcd[1175]: forked to background, child pid 1198
Dec 28 23:18:29 myhost polkitd[1306]: started daemon version 0.99 using authority implementation `local' version `0.99'
Dec 28 23:18:29 myhost kernel: start_kdeinit (1354): /proc/1354/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/1354/oom_score_adj instead.

Xorg.0.log doesn't seem to have anything worth reporting.

Any idea what is going on?  Need me to provide any more information to diagnose the problem?

Thanks.

Mr Green

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Re: kdm hangs

I assume xorg is set up correctly and you have installed packages for keyboard and mouse

Get into a console and stop kdm starting

sudo /etc/rc.d/kdm stop

Then try

startx

See if you get any output errors etc

Last edited by Mr Green (2010-12-29 14:18:48)

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homis

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Re: kdm hangs

Issuing 'sudo /etc/rc.d/kdm stop' just caused kdm to restart.  So I told inittabs to just start in console then I could call startx manually that way.

X seems to be fine.  I got the fbdev error again and it was complaining about xclock, but nothing fatal.

Mr Green

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Re: kdm hangs

If X is ok then must be a problem with KDE, which version are you using?

Also assuming you have read wiki guide on installing KDE

Last edited by Mr Green (2010-12-29 14:47:34)

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homis

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Re: kdm hangs

Well I just did a net install last night and installed 'kdebase' so not full kde.  I just searched for kdebase in the packages section on the arch site and it says version is 4.5.4-1.

Last edited by homis (2010-12-29 16:32:59)

Mr Green

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Re: kdm hangs

Think you need to do some reading up of wiki and complete install

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homis

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Registered: 2010-12-29

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Re: kdm hangs

Pretty sure I followed the minimal install guide to the letter.  Either way, I'll have another look, thanks.

homis

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Registered: 2010-12-29

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Re: kdm hangs

I don't know what the problem is.  I went through it again, I even installed full kde.  Same problem.  Got rid of it, installed Gnome.  Which is working fine...

mmbossoni

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Registered: 2011-01-10

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Re: kdm hangs

Hi there.

This is a pretty strange bug but I figured out how to solve.

Kubuntu guys have the same problem (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.p … 62745.html) solved by editing kwinrc

Add to the .kde4/share/config/kwinrc (.kde/share/config/kwinrc)

[Compositing]
Enabled=false

Maybe this a KDE bug that doesn't handle compositing detection very well.

Hope that help us (LOL)