Hi Duncan Thanks for your thorough guide to pinpoint my problem.
On 8. june 2011 14:56:01 Duncan wrote: > > If I move .kde4 out of the way I am able to login with a working > > keyboard. > If you've ever played the kids game "20 questions" or used the git bisect > tool Yes I have done this kind of debugging in the past but looking at the amount of application catalogs under share/apps/ was a bit scary. So I was kind of hoping that somebody had seen this error before. This a machine at work so I had to find a quick way to get productive again. So I selected a similar approach. Having moved $KDE_HOME out of the way and with a fresh desktop in place I made a list of the programs who had valuable configuration in. Most important kmail, kopete, kwallet and a few more. Then before starting any of these I used rsync to copy settings and data for these programs to my new $KDE_HOME. Fortunately none of them carried the problem (I would have been surprised if the had). I still have the old $KDE_HOME saved, so if I discover more lost setting I still have the possibility close the program and fetch the old setting. > Meanwhile, attacking the problem from a different angle, ..... IF your > previous kde version was 4.5 or earlier, than it was hal-based, while 4.6 > (and later) are now udev(and family, /udisks/upower/...) based. It's > quite conceivable that has something to do with it if indeed you're on kde > 4.6 now while 4.5 or earlier before the upgrade. You are right: My new installed version is indeed 4.6.00. I am not sure if it made any difference. but I decided to clean out the swamp of linked and cached files in /tmp and /var/tmp In runlevel 1 so nothing else was running it still took about 20 minutes to clean out these (rm -rf) I really should put some cronjob to keep these from growing wild ;-) -- Regards Klaus ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
