Upgrade to KDE3.5.10 - can't login (Solved)

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

Hi,

I've just upgrade KDE 3.5.9 > 3.5.10 and can not log in.

My user-name comes up OK, but after I enter my password i am returned to the log-in screen.
I can log-in to a terminal as a normal user/root OK.

Any help is much appreciated
CM

andip · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject:

could be you have this problem : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5795804.html#5795804

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

I did as suggested in the post, but no change.

To clarify, when i log-in, the screen goes black for a second or two then returns with the blue background and log-in box.

There are no messages in any logs that i can find.

I remerged xorg-server just to see, but no change.

I've looked and searched all over but to no avail.

andip · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

sounds like the problem i'm having, though logs tell me pam is the problem really. seems xdm/kdm can't work with pam, so (in my case) kdm just restarts after login-info is entered.
could you check, or have you checkd /var/log/messages when you try to log in via kdm/xdm and see if you get any pam-errors there?

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I can't access /var at the moment - am on windaz and /var is ext4, but I can't recall any pam errors (probably would have reinstalled/uninstalled if so).
I have just reinstalled pam after reading a thread on the KDE forum - no change. I can log into xdm OK.
I am wondering if an unmerge - remerge of KDE may fix it, or maybe complete Xorg/X11?

stalinski · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:13 am Post subject:

I had the same problem, solved it by explicitly emerging kdebase-meta.

There were some packages which were not updated (with emerge -DavuNt world) and also one missing package:
kdebase-startkde
...

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

Well I'll try that then. I did emerge kdebase-startkde after the upgrade.
Thanks

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

Well, I emerged kdebase-meta with the same result. I've been over to the KDE forums, but there was nothing substantial. I registered for the forums, but it has not been activated (2 days), and sending an email to them had the same result. <sigh> I think I'll look at gnome.

ChairmanMao · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Posts: 14

Well, I was using gnome for a while (sigh), and found that I could access kde from GDM. After a few system updates I can now use kdm