Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session

[Petric Frank <pfrank@gmx.de>]

Hello,

On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured
> > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server.
> > 
> > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86.
> > 
> > > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5
> > > or 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and
> > > then comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...).
> > > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which
> > > remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no
> > > VT-switch, nothing.
> > > 
> > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And
> > > where to look for the issue.
> > > 
> > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs
> > > (/var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious.
> > > The last line in
> > > 
> > > /var/log/messages reads:
> > >   <timestamp> <hostname> kdm: 0:[<pid>]: pam_unix(kde:session): session
> > > 
> > > opened for  ...
> > > 
> > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no
> > > .kde4 directory in his home directory.
> > 
> > Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed
> > the user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal
> > screen came up.
> > 
> > So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging
> > system.
> > 
> > At which places i should throw an eye ?
> > 
> 
> first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ?

Yes. There is at least 5 GBytes free.

> kde won't start until it have some space ...

It is starting if the user is not member of the group plugdev.

I thought - ok, if not plugdev then use policykit. I enabled this use-flag and 
re-build everything marked by this flag (emerge -uDN world).
But this does not help. I'm back to not being able to log in. :-(

regards
  Petric