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Saturday, February 17th 2007, 1:48pm

not login into kde with standard user after kernel upgrade

Hi,

a couple of days ago I upgraded (or updated, not sure) my kernel following the automatic updates of Kubuntu 6.06. After restarting the computer I wasn't allowed to go further as the login window. I put the login data and it seems to do something for a couple of seconds and go back. I am not completely sure it is KDE stuff, but I am also not sure what could be happening. At first (and according to the problems usually reported by people) I though it could be a matter of special drivers or configurations, but now I am not sure anymore, because I can login and get KDE working from root account. I would say it is something from KDE or X that I must have been missing, but as said, not sure. If you think that this post doesn't fit here, just tell me. But if anyone could give me a hand, he/she is welcome.

Data:
- Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper
- KDE 3.5.2
- Graphic card Radeon Mobility X300
- Kernel: 2.6.15-28-386

Thank you all!
Samu

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Saturday, February 17th 2007, 6:47pm

So, when you log in as user, X crashes and drops you back to the login manager, while when you log in as root X (and kde) start normally.

If the kernel upgrade broke the configuration of your graphics card (often the case if you use the driver fglrx for ATI-cards), you shouldn't be able to login as root as well.

So it might be something else.

You could try to login manually from a console with this command:

first go to another terminal with [Ctrl][Al][F2]
login as user (keep in mind that linux won't give you feedback when you type your password)
and start X (and kde) with:
startx -- :1

if kde starts normally, then there is something wrong with your login manager
if kde crashes and drops you back to the terminal (if you drop back to the grafical login, go back to the terminal with the keybinding [Ctrl][Al][F2]), look at the output in the terminal to see if you get any information about what went wrong.
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Saturday, February 17th 2007, 10:04pm

Thanks for your answer! I tried that and it didn't open anything, instead it got blank a couple of seconds and then stayed in the console showing:

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Synaptics DeviceOff called
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONCloseScreen
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONDRIStop
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet(0,0x0)
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestore
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode()
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode(0x81ff870)
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() :
(**) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION   : 0x1fff0000
(**) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0x27ff2000
(**) RADEON(0):   Map Changed ! Applying ...
(**) RADEON(0):   Map applied, resetting engine ...
(**) RADEON(0): Updating display base addresses...
(**) RADEON(0): Memory map updated.
(**) RADEON(0): Programming CRTC1, offset: 0x00000000
(**) RADEON(0): Wrote: 0x00180006 0x00010035 0x00000000 (0x0000a700)
(**) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=6, fd=53, pd=1
(**) RADEON(0): Disposing accel...
(**) RADEON(0): Disposing cusor info
(**) RADEON(0): Disposing DGA
(**) RADEON(0): Unmapping memory
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing
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I tried to read through the Xorg.1.log (which I attach) and the only line that caught my attention was:

"error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy"

But I don't know what could be wrong. Any ideas?
Samu has attached the following file:
  • Xorg.1.log (44.54 kB - 31 times downloaded - latest: Jul 7th 2008, 12:24pm)
Samu

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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Samu" (Feb 17th 2007, 10:05pm)

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Sunday, February 18th 2007, 2:19am

well, i can't find anything wrong with it.
It does complain about a wacom tablet not being present, but does not stop on it, and that errror should also cause problems when loggin in as root.

Another possibility is that something went wrong with the kde configuration of the user.
Check if the home directory has enough space left (if it is on a seperat partition/drive), check the file permissions in your home directory: are you still owner of all the files?
Try to move the kde configuration away temporally (bij deleting /tmp/kde-username and renaming /home/username/.kde to something else, like /home/username/kde-backup) and see if it starts.
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Sunday, February 18th 2007, 9:28pm

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Originally posted by Rinse
Check if the home directory has enough space left (if it is on a seperat partition/drive)


That was it!! It was on a separate partition and completely full. I didn't think about it. Really good point. After a couple of reboots I could login back smoothly. Thank you very, very much, for your time and for your help, Rinse!
Samu

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