Installed kbuntu 11.04 into a partition (sda7) and wrote grub to mbr. Other partitions have win 7, mint 10, and regular 11.04 (beta-2 with current updates). My 11.04 ubuntu root is ext4 in sda8 with a btrfs /home in sda9. I formatted sda7 btrfs as root and mounted sda9 as /home without formatting.
The login screen comes up, I enter my user name and password and a white rectangle appears (about 1/3 screen on left) for about 2-3 seconds and then I am back at the login window. I tried a few things and found I could login successfully to a console window. Clearly the password was okay, and in fact, I can do a startx from that console window and what appears to be a usable kde session comes up - I can launch the browser, and search the web etc. Of course, when I log off, I am back in the console window. The warning prior to starting a console window seemed to indicate that it would terminate in 40 seconds without activity, but that doesn't seem to happen. Looking at dmesg the only thing that looks stange is [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id.
Since some other things like update-grub didn't work, I thought maybe I had a bad download, but that sha5sum stuff checked (which I kind of expected since I downloaded with torrent). So, I decided to reinstall into the same location (sda7). Prior to installing I ran the disk check and memory tests which all passed. I then went ahead and reinstalled, but got the same results - can't login from the kde login window. Note that all my other partitions are still okay and I can access my home directory which has all of the documents and stuff available.
Anybody have a pointer as to what to do next?
The login screen comes up, I enter my user name and password and a white rectangle appears (about 1/3 screen on left) for about 2-3 seconds and then I am back at the login window. I tried a few things and found I could login successfully to a console window. Clearly the password was okay, and in fact, I can do a startx from that console window and what appears to be a usable kde session comes up - I can launch the browser, and search the web etc. Of course, when I log off, I am back in the console window. The warning prior to starting a console window seemed to indicate that it would terminate in 40 seconds without activity, but that doesn't seem to happen. Looking at dmesg the only thing that looks stange is [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id.
Since some other things like update-grub didn't work, I thought maybe I had a bad download, but that sha5sum stuff checked (which I kind of expected since I downloaded with torrent). So, I decided to reinstall into the same location (sda7). Prior to installing I ran the disk check and memory tests which all passed. I then went ahead and reinstalled, but got the same results - can't login from the kde login window. Note that all my other partitions are still okay and I can access my home directory which has all of the documents and stuff available.
Anybody have a pointer as to what to do next?
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