Ok, I finally figured it out myself. For others to replicate I describe how I did it. As I new that I could log into KDE with other user accounts I first moved all hidden files ~/. to a new directory. Then I tried to log in and it worked. Next I started to move those files and folders back to my home directory ~/. Then I figured out that .profile was causing it, better said I checked into what was causing it. I saw that the inclusion of my ~/bin directory was the root of the problem. In that directory I have a lot of executables, I think most or all of them were copied by RVM (Ruby Version Manager). Then I furthermore drilled untill I finally found the causing file(s).
I had 3 dbus executables in there, that were probably outdated and conflicted with newer libraries but were called by the /usr/bin/startkde script. The files were: dbus-cleanup-sockets dbus-deamon dbus-uuidgen The dbus-deamon was the one to remove to be able to log in again. I have no idea when, how and why these files where copied into the ~/bin folder. Hope this will help others that experience the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373792 Title: Can't log in with one user, other user log in fine - "Could not start ksmserver, check your installation" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-workspace/+bug/1373792/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
