[SOLVED] Desktop startup issue

[Guest]

Hi,

I was making some changes to the Desktop Effects settings, and my machine hung. After a few minutes of nothing, I rebooted. Since then I haven't been able to get the desktop to start. After logging in, The 'progress box' pops up, and works fine until 4 of the 5 progress icons have been displayed. Then I see a little more disk activity, then nothing.

I've tried, from single user mode,

1) Creating a new user, incase it was a per-user setting which was corrupted
2) Purge-install of systemsettings, kdebase-workspace, kubuntu-desktop. (Though I guess a few of these ar dummy packages)

Result - no change.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Desktop startup issue

Start by looking into your logs to find where it's hanging up.

Usually failure to log in is a permission or full disk issue. I've never heard of effects settings causing this sort of problem. Verify there's still space on all your partitions.

[Teunis]

Re: Desktop startup issue

Renaming ~/.kde might help, during start up a fresh one will be created.
Once you're OK you can copy back the bits that don't cause grief and delete the rest.

[Guest]

Re: Desktop startup issue

Thanks for your suggestions guys.

After a more thorough go over of my logs (kdm.log in particular) I was led to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1743377 after I found a reference to the DBUS server failing to start.

In short, ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc needed a change:

[Compositing]
...
Enabled=false

need to be set. I guess it must be set true by default, as the new user I created didn't work either.

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