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 1RiUIA-00017N-MN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:06:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A464421C14A; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail15.tpgi.com.au (mail15.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.61]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970B021C043 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) X-TPG-Junk-Checked: Yes X-TPG-Junk-Status: Message not scanned because user authenticated using SMTP AUTH X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed X-TPG-Abuse: host=27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au; ip=27.33.235.192; date=Thu, 5 Jan 2012 04:04:55 +1100; auth=uvyrE+o6fAwqkkuYeCaT6kEOJM7fAGbLpPpVerb0wHQ= Received: from [192.168.14.3] (27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au [27.33.235.192]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail15.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agl@wht.com.au) (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q04H4rnN000750 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 04:04:55 +1100 Message-ID: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:04:53 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Organization: Wombat High Tech User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up.... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fafc67c7-7814-4de3-a699-8c7af71dbcfb X-Archives-Hash: 0049e3f951ad12669e7d73c8c9f99f01 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