On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Klaus Becker <colon...@free.fr> wrote:
> Le Mardi 06 Avril 2010 18:35:51, John Kapnogiannis a écrit : > > Hello there. I got a debian testing installation and I currently cannot > > login in kde. I give my pass and instead of a proper kde session I get > > kdm's login screen again. I haven't done any upgrade but I did a really > > stupid thing: I hit the power button and turn the laptop off the hard > > way while it was in suspend mode. I tried googling but it gave me no > > usefull things. > > > > The .xsession-errors file in my home folder says Permission denied. I > > checked the permissions in /tmp and /var/tmp and everything seems fine. > > I also deleted the .kde folder. Login in as root and typing startx opens > > a kde session. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > PS: I did the instructions described in this page: > > https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCL-510 in order to fix skype on > > me 64-bit installation, but I don't think it has something to do with my > > problem. I think something got wrong when I hit the power button. :( > > Hi, > > perhaps > > #chown -R john /home/john > > or any username you use ? > > If this does'nt work, you can try to create a new user and then cope all > your > files to /home/new-user. > > > Nope did not help. Adding a new user did not fix anything too. I tried login in a console and then startx and I got some errors about xkb not being able to get initialized. Strange.... So the thing is that no user except the root can start a kde session.
