I created a VirtualBox guest host using the 9/8/10 Maverick LiveCD. It
ran well. Yesterday I received notification of updates available.
Rather than run KPackageKit I opened a Konsole and used apt-get. About
274 packages were updated. I rebooted and my KDE desktop appeared and
ran normally. A few minutes later KPackageKit said 254 packages were
available. I let it do the updates and rebooted when it told me to. I
was greeted with the login screen loop. None of the usual remedies
would fix it.
So, also yesterday, 9/15/10, I downloaded the Maverick daily livecd with
the intention of installing it over the existing Maverick guest OS on
VirtualBox. Booting the LiveCD up within VirtualBox using the existing
Maverick guest OS I was greeted with the Maverick LiveCD menu.
I selected the install option straight away. An ubi-partmon failed with an
exit code 141. A retry failed. Ignoring the failure resulted in a sterile
install, with the progress bar missing, and it never progress beyond the final
ad graphic. I canceled and the system proceeded to go to the LiveCD KDE
desktop. While still running the LiveCD KDE desktop I installed gparted and
created a bootable EXT4 partition, erasing the Maverick install that had
resided there. Then I ran the install option from the desktop icon. Upon
completion of the install I rebooted and was greeted again with the login
screen loop. Today, 9/16/10, I booted into a console screen, thinking there
would be some additional downloads which would resolve the situation. I did
the apt-get update dist-upgrade. After between 20-30 downloads installed I
rebooted. The login screen loop remains. The contents of the .xsession-errors
file is copied below (only because this bug system allows only on attachment
per post)
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Xsession: X session started for greygeek at Thu Sep 16 10:04:11 CDT 2010
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
[: 225: ==: unexpected operator
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method
KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
kbuildsycoca4 running...
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path
Fetched layout groups from X server:layouts: (us) variants: ()
Fetched layout groups from X server:layouts: (us) variants: ()
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method
KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
Connecting to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method
KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
Connecting to deprecated signal
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Invalid D-BUS member name 'idle-hint' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'is-local' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display-device' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'display-device' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'remote-host-name' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'session-type' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface
'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
unknown program name(1085)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating:
KMaverick32guest;1284649463;614549;1085_TIME0 : unnamed app
kded(1089)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was
':1.7'
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceCreated(Device*) to
Monolithic::deviceCreated(Device*)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceDisappeared(Device*) to
Monolithic::regenerateDeviceEntries()
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceRemoved(Device*) to
Monolithic::regenerateDeviceEntries()
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method
KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL vendor is Mesa
Project
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL
