[gentoo-user] kdm or kde won't login specific user, but "startx" works

[Francisco Ares]

Hi, All

After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few seconds after password, the login windows reappears.

But the strange thing is that logging in a text console and issuing that old and good "startx" command, the kde session starts as expected.

Anyone have any idea where should I start checking?

Thanks
Francisco

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[Francisco Ares]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Gmail <hung...@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post
your xdm and kdm log file.

Hung

Francisco Ares wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> After several upgrades, now kdm (apparently) doesn't login my wife's
> user - or perhaps kde doesn't keep an open session for her: a few
> seconds after password, the login windows reappears.
>
> But the strange thing is that logging in a text console and issuing
> that old and good "startx" command, the kde session starts as expected.
>
> Anyone have any idea where should I start checking?
>
> Thanks
> Francisco
>
> --

Hy, Hung, thanks for your answer.

I don't have consolekit at boot runlevel. Don't even have it emerged yet. Didn't know I was supposed to. Doing so right now.

Meanwhile, I have no xdm log, but in kdm.log there is a difference during my  login and my wife's login, it is this only two entries in /var/log/kdm.log after my wife's user login:

(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

I've done a search for "Virtual core" and didn't find a thing up to now.

Any hint?

Thanks again

[Gmail]

Have you added consolekit to the boot level? If you did then please post
your xdm and kdm log file.

Hung

[Francisco Ares]

Well, I had consolekit up an running and didn't know that, sorry.

There is no xdm log, and the only two entries already mentioned.

I'll try to remove the user and add it again, perhaps a permissions issue.

[Paul Colquhoun]

Before you do that, rename the .kde directories in their home directory to
something like .kde_old and let KDE create new ones on her next login, and see
what happens then. It could just be some bad config settings from previous
versions.

--
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.

[James Ausmus]

Have you checked to see what ~/.xsession-errors contains? It might give you some hints as to what is happening. Also, does top show anything consuming a lot of CPU or a lot of memory? (M to sort by memory usage, P to sort by CPU usage)

-James

[Francisco Ares]

Thanks a lot, guys.  I don't like it, but I have removed and created again the user, and now everything works as expected.

I said I don't like it because we didn't exactly know where the problem was. I've checked permissions and groups before that, and had the home directory backed up before removing the user and completely restored after the user creation, so all files and directories kept the same permissions and mode bits and the user has the same uid and belongs to the same groups as before.

I'm surely capable to live without that knowledge, but I can't help thinking I would live better if knowing ;-)

Thanks again
Francisco