On Wed, 30 May 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi,
Reference:
From: "Brian W." <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:48:20 -0700
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"Brian W." wrote:
On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, "Gary Aitken" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote:
I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop.
I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system
will not work as expected.
when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm)
I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I
login,
all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has
gone
dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the
cli
window.
All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot.
If I do not try running "kdm", the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet
works,
and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no
value).
Suggestions would be very appreciated.
I don't know about the mouse dieing. I'm running 9.0 and I've seen that
once or twice when first setting up X. You don't need to reboot. Do
<alt><Fn> to switch to a different vty. Log in on that vty, do a ps to
find the process you used to start kdm, (ps -ax | grep kdm) and kill -TERM
that process. That should get you back to a regular prompt on the original
vty. Do <alt><F1> to go back to that screen.
Gary
Ctr-alt-shift-backspace has also killed many a stuck x session.
& you can also, from another host (perhaps also running X,
so you still have full convenience/comfort :-) do an
rlogin or ssh or telnet stuckhost
& then do
ps -laxww > /tmp/t ; vi /tmp/t
look at the columns PID & PPID (parent of Process ID)
ls -ltr /var/log
not only to find & kill stuck stuff, but to analyse what is getting stuck,
failing, & what is called from where, etc.
Cheers,
Julian
If you have not, look at .xsession-errors, Xorg.0.log, and kdm's log. All this
can be done via ssh of course and is much easier to do that way with a working
GUI et all.
Flop the hal setttings, e.g. off if on and vise versa. Also you can try xdm and
startx to see if you get any different symptoms. My last idea is to use tmw with
xdm or startx. If you still get the error at least you know its Xorg and not
kde.
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