Solved my own problem. It seems that the kde packages failed to create a link to startkde in /etc/X11/Xsession.d, so startkde never got run. Creating that link fixed everything.
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:50, A.J. Aranyosi wrote: > Hi, > > Having a weird kde problem (I'm a Gentoo user myself, but it's my > girlfriend's machine, and I'm less familiar with Debian). She's using > Testing, running KDE 3.2.2; these problems appeared when she upgraded > from stable to testing. The symptoms are these (in order, from less > bizarre to more bizarre): > > 1) Logging in from either kdm or xdm returns to the login screen (Big > Shock: Some Error Caused X Startup To Fail) - same happens with an > account created explicitly for testing; > > 2) ~$USER/.xsession-errors is empty; > > 3) /var/log/XFree86.0.0g and /var/log/kdm.log have no useful info about > the error; > > 4) She has no problem logging in using a failsafe WM; > > 5) After logging in using a failsafe WM, she can run kwin and kicker > from the command line and get essentially a fully-working KDE system; > > So there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with KDE, but for some reason > she can't use it to login properly. It looks like kdm is not starting > kwin properly for some reason. Any ideas what might be the problem? >
