[clue-tech] KDE login freeze

[David L. Willson]

Mike,

You probably already tested these, among all the other things you
tested, but just didn't mention it.
      * Did you try renaming your .kde directory and either let it get
        rebuilt or copy in the one from your non-borked test user?
      * Did you try a different wm?  It looks like you did and they
        didn't work, which ~seems~ to isolate the problem to ~your~ kdm,
        but I'd like to see you try xdm and/or gdm, to confirm.  I'm not
        sure how you do that, though...
      * So, is there a .k(anything) in your $HOME or $HOME for
        non-borked that might relate?  Can you rename yours and let it
        rebuild / copy his in?

David

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 16:44 -0700, Michael S. Farnsworth wrote:
> CLUEmeisters, need some help re where to look for help.
> 
> Not sure what the heck happened but am having sudden problems with my
> laptop freezing solid trying to login to a KDE session from the KDM
> login screen although once in a while it reboots the machine instead.
> On the other hand, if I do init 3 and then startx, all is well.
> 
> I followed the following advice that I managed to google up (courtesy
> of wiki.kde.org). Towit, I created a new user and the KDE login works
> fine for that lucky sap. So am assuming the trouble might lie
> somewhere within my ~/.kde?
> 
> I followed the further advice of exiting X altogether and then
> deleting:
> 
> ~/.DCOPserver-*
> 
> /tmp/k*<user>
> 
> /var/tmp/<similar>
> 
> ~/.kde/socket-<hostname>
> 
> ~/.kde/tmp-<hostname>
> 
> and generally anything else I found that mentioned my username. No
> luck. Still freezing. Didn't find anything related on bugs.kde.org.
> Couldn't get onto the CLUE server to search and am wondering if anyone
> knows of a source for the detailed workings of KDM.
> 
> It's apparently not just KDE because I get the same freeze trying to
> start the other window manager sessions as well. I found kdmrc but
> don't know what to do with it without some more documentation. I read
> the XDMCP Howto but couldn't see anything that looked helpful (of
> course it would help if I could understand it better). :-)
> 
> Pointers?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Farnsworth
> 
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