Hello, On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon 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 ? > > > > first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ?
Yes. There is at least 5 GBytes free. > kde won't start until it have some space ... It is starting if the user is not member of the group plugdev. I thought - ok, if not plugdev then use policykit. I enabled this use-flag and re-build everything marked by this flag (emerge -uDN world). But this does not help. I'm back to not being able to log in. :-( regards Petric
