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 1RiURy-0003Zv-IE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:16:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2BAE21C179; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D28221C14A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:13:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakk12 with SMTP id k12so36114525iak.40 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:13:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z3egZKl26M9+Iv6HqEF2i3l0PaKjAZItoeBBzkE5ELM=; b=Zb2uqGTUScnUhKpMCbQUQ4H57MUcM6pOnbk5uiFLiyHQYhUjaemCS5qvXWd2ODgWWK 9iiChjsGqlKm/Cv1A1f0kaLFkKW7BR21As/jp20fe1r/nKQ+ZSvmECDX6xgv0q4JMcw4 HcKa65zZt+I0LhIBNd2ZLSEwqNCglWHX4FByc= Received: by 10.42.151.195 with SMTP id f3mr59036803icw.19.1325697227760; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.9.92] ([76.236.174.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm191348131ibc.6.2012.01.04.09.13.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:13:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0488C7.20201@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:13:43 -0500 From: Michael Mol User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 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: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up.... References: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 58aaf0b3-b0eb-4775-9ab6-220de18446be X-Archives-Hash: c8e2fecaf6743a5a6e07a990dd88fa22 Andrew Lowe wrote: > 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 > Anything in ~/.xsession-errors? I wonder if KDE's {window manager|session manager} is failing out. I don't know KDE very well, but that's what it sounds like.