Okay, I've installed GDM and tried starting KDE that way. It fails as well, same error message. GDM also gives me the option of viewing .xsession-errors, and when I choose that option, THAT fails as well-- says it's unable to open the file (which is 644). For your viewing pleasure, I've included a copy of that file.
$ cat .xsession-errors /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... 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. Link points to "/tmp/kde-jwoods" Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-jwoods" Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-jwoods" startkde: Starting up... EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Check your installation. $ It would be awesome if you'd mark this bug up to critical. I can't use KDE! -- [Hardy] KDE4 logon failure: 'startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Check your installation.' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187918 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
