You have been subscribed to a public bug: If $HOME is an NFS mount, startkde show a write error and fails to start ksmserver.
Xsession: X session started for kelleher at Fri Jun 1 20:45:36 EDT 2018 localuser:kelleher being added to access control list openConnection: connect: No such file or directory cannot connect to brltty at :0 Loading stage "initial" 247 startkde: Starting up... dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 kdeinit5: Aborting. No write access to $HOME directory (/home/kelleher). kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: No write access to $HOME directory (/home/kelleher). KDE is unable to start. startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. startkde: Shutting down... kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can not contact kdeinit5! startkde: Done. Xsession: X session started for kelleher at Sun Jun 3 19:39:04 EDT 2018 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/kelleher/.Xauthority localuser:kelleher being added to access control list dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DISPLAY=:0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN=/run/user/1000/kwallet5.socket dbus-update-activation-environment: setting MANDATORY_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/plasma.mandatory.path dbus-update-activation-environment: setting USER=kelleher dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DESKTOP_SESSION=plasma dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DEFAULTS_PATH=/usr/share/gconf/plasma.default.path dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/kelleher dbus-update-activation-environment: setting HOME=/home/kelleher dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/plasma:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHELL=/bin/bash dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting IM_CONFIG_PHASE=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting SHLVL=1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting LOGNAME=kelleher dbus-update-activation-environment: setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PAM_KWALLET_LOGIN=/run/user/1000/kwallet.socket dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XAUTHORITY=/home/kelleher/.Xauthority dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session1 dbus-update-activation-environment: setting XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-plasma:/etc/xdg:/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PATH=/home/kelleher/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin dbus-update-activation-environment: setting _=/usr/bin/dbus-update-activation-environment kcm_input: Using X11 backend startkde: Starting up... kdeinit5: Aborting. No write access to $HOME directory (/home/kelleher). kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: No write access to $HOME directory (/home/kelleher). KDE is unable to start. startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. startkde: Shutting down... kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can not contact kdeinit5! startkde: Done. ** Affects: kde-baseapps Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: plasma-workspace (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: kubuntu-desktop nfs -- kubuntu - can't login with NFS $HOME https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774902 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-workspace in Ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs