[SOLVED] Logging in problems after upgrade to kde-3.5.7

firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

I'm writing this in links, as I can't get my X environment to work!

I've just done an upgrade to kde-3.5.7 (also upgraded gnome to 2.1

- after finally ironing out the problems I obtained using revdep-rebuild, I can get kdm to start. When I type in my username and password and choose my session type, instead of loading kde, kdm just goes back to itself! I also tried selecting Gnome from the Session type, but I got the same result.

I've set the XSESSION variable in /etc/rc.conf to load kde-3.5.7, cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't display any errors (EE). I don't think dmesg is relevant but I looked at that too, no problems there either. Am I missing something really obvious or is there something wrong?

Anyone help?

didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

Check /var/log/kdm.log
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firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

Checked it - again, no EEs, just some Synaptics DeviceOn/Device/Off calls etc, something about FreeFontPath: FPE [..] refcount is 2 should be 1; fixing.

Don't know if this is relevant: AUDIT: [date] 12750 X: client 2 rejected from local host (uid 1000).

No idea what that means but something's been rejected!

didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I think that's definitely relevant. Your user account has uid 1000 (or it should). Did you alter the hostname or anything like that? You could also try renaming ~/.Xauthority and then attempt to login again.
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firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

I'm not sure how to check my userid on the commandline...

Thought I'd also make it clear that I'm running kdm with the script /etc/init.d/xdm start.

I tried renaming .Xauthority in my user directory to .Xauthority_old, but that didn't help.

Basically all that happens is the screen goes black for a moment and then kdm appears again... Any ideas what else I could try? I'm a little out of my depth at this point...

Appreciate your help didymos!

didymos · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

Tried to delete both ~/.ICEauthority and ~/.Xauthority, still getting same results! id -u identifies my root at 0 and my user as 1000, so I guess that's right...

Do you know what the AUDIT line actually means? Or what's causing the problem?

Everything's built properly as revdep_rebuild gives me no errors... really didn't think I'd have this many problems upgrading to 3.5.7 - spent some time reading the forums as well before taking on the challenge!

firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

Is it possible the problem's related to disk space? Just realised I have very little left...

As I'm running out of ideas on what to delete, I was wondering if it's possible to delete the source files for programs downloaded by portage without breaking anything?

firsttry · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 81

Problem solved - it definitely was disk space.

didymos · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:23 am Post subject:

Really? Huh, I'll have to remember that. I guess it couldn't create the sockets and whatnot it needed.
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