Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: > > emerge -NuD world > > There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I > compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia > driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the > machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, > mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the > screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly > appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. > > I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the > kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the > problem persists. I've looked at the xorg & kdm logs and there are a > few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that > is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog > standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get > KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing > this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that > I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to > debug the KDE startup? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew
.xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places. -- #163933
