Le Tuesday 10 August 2010 22:48:34, Petric Frank a écrit : > Hello, > > On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 20:26:29 Petric Frank wrote: > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. > > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. > > > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or > > 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then > > comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). > > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which > > remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no > > VT-switch, nothing. > > > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And > > where to look for the issue. > > > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs (/var/log/messages, > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. The last line in > > > > /var/log/messages reads: > > <timestamp> <hostname> kdm: 0:[<pid>]: pam_unix(kde:session): session > > > > opened for ... > > > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no .kde4 > > directory in his home directory. > > Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed the > user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal screen > came up. > > So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging system. > > At which places i should throw an eye ? > > regards > Petric
first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ? kde won't start until it have some space ... -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc
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