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    [SOLVED] Desktop startup issue

    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.

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    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.

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      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:

      Code:
      [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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