From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiUnn-0004cO-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:39:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49CE521C15A; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F0521C197 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekd41 with SMTP id d41so16973724eek.40 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=m6Nb3KFTfqzG10RpCMA5vwZb3H5IdMqBolyVRqskzTs=; b=feTIFHWnOw5i22MArp2eeT2US0djFBRfQURqFByA0J0UvkrsjQwOQcxc+yRUsCxJg8 t1A9B9Z4Y4EU66iIBB8mtMfU1WHnX/G+++J0d7Y1G1nNOFGO7x8qYZgqnx1Qs/dlhw7s RrL8VF0B5/uqvmNBYXikdyLEhoFYS3/dzVpKA= Received: by 10.213.29.68 with SMTP id p4mr11588475ebc.41.1325698623990; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC6058E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.5.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q67sm160319981eea.8.2012.01.04.09.37.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:03 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up.... Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:36:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1944972.rAINDZGOdj@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.8 rc1 (Linux/3.0.7; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> References: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 9f291d1b-9a5c-4134-96b6-f9c1f0b40295 X-Archives-Hash: 710af4ee5b44ca5f563bcf5e2e3a9999 Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: > > emerge -NuD world > > There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I > compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia > driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the > machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp, > mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the > screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly > appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login. > > I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the > kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the > problem persists. I've looked at the xorg & kdm logs and there are a > few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that > is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog > standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get > KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing > this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that > I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to > debug the KDE startup? > > Any thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew .xsession-errors Xorg.0.log please. If both are huge, upload them somewhere. Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the past that some update did some very scary things to both places. -- #163933