Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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. I prefer to emerge $( qlist -IC x11-drivers/ ), this makes sure all relevant drivers are being re-compiled. Or emerge @x11-module-rebuild if you are running the new portage. But as you write there are no errors in Xorg.0.log, this cannot be your problem. Rename your .kde4 directory, or try to log in as another (new) user. Let's see if this is a system-wide issue, or some KDE config screwup. Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:59:13 +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: > > .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. > > Also /var/log/kdm.log would be of use (if you are (well, want to ;) > using KDM as the login manager)... because it seems that the > problem might be with KDM greeter or something similar. Also the output from genlop -l --date yesterday so we know what you emerged. -- Neil Bothwick Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.Richard Feynman signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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. Also /var/log/kdm.log would be of use (if you are (well, want to ;) using KDM as the login manager)... because it seems that the problem might be with KDM greeter or something similar. I had it segfaulting once, the symptoms were very similar, KDM did bring up X and start kdmgreet which crashed, X went down immediately, because they had no clients, KDM noticed that X was running only for a very short time and interpreted that (correctly) as a sign that something went wrong and didn't restart the X and insted just stopped... that would also explain why running startx works ... btw, does startx /usr/bin/startkde start a KDE session? yoyo
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
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
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
Andrew Lowe wrote:
> 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
>
Anything in ~/.xsession-errors?
I wonder if KDE's {window manager|session manager} is failing out. I
don't know KDE very well, but that's what it sounds like.
[gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....
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
