I am a newbie with some Linux knowledge.
I have been using Kubuntu Dapper for the past 3 weeks and using apt-get to update and upgrade on a daily basis (if not 2-3 times per day). On May 1, I booted up in the morning and I was not able to login through the splash screen using any user ID. It would go to blank screen, it might flash a screen line at the top, show a graphic mouse pointer arrow in the middle of a blank screen and then return to the Kubuntu login splash screen.
I AM able to login by going to the splash screen login menu button and getting a console login screen. I can login as any user. However, trying to do a startx from this point (a user prompt) gives various xorg failure messages:
"error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy"
Note: There is no such directory or SecurityPolicy document.
"FreeFontPath: FPE "usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing"
Note: I have no idea what that means!
I tried redoing the xorg.conf file - no good.
I tried doing the latest updates which included updating some more of the xorg/xserver packages (from ubuntu36 to ubunt38 versions). However, this did not address the problem.
I tried converting to Gnome from KDE in case there was a KDE problem. This did nothing to solve the problem. Now I am in Ubuntu Dapper Beta mode and I can't figure out how to get back to KDE. Nothing seems to work.
I tried looking at the Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and KDE forums and bug reports. The closest I came to a possible explanation was a Critical bug related to .ICEauthority file ownership (supposedly solved long time ago), starting KDE apps from inside a terminal causing changes in file ownerships, kdeint not being "wrapped properly" and other cryptic references to potential solutions.
Is there someone out there that has survived this experience and has a clean set of instructions as to how I can recover my system? I do not want to continue running in root (sudo). and i do not want to have to scrub the disk and reload Kubuntu.
All help is appreciated
I have been using Kubuntu Dapper for the past 3 weeks and using apt-get to update and upgrade on a daily basis (if not 2-3 times per day). On May 1, I booted up in the morning and I was not able to login through the splash screen using any user ID. It would go to blank screen, it might flash a screen line at the top, show a graphic mouse pointer arrow in the middle of a blank screen and then return to the Kubuntu login splash screen.
I AM able to login by going to the splash screen login menu button and getting a console login screen. I can login as any user. However, trying to do a startx from this point (a user prompt) gives various xorg failure messages:
"error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy"
Note: There is no such directory or SecurityPolicy document.
"FreeFontPath: FPE "usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing"
Note: I have no idea what that means!
I tried redoing the xorg.conf file - no good.
I tried doing the latest updates which included updating some more of the xorg/xserver packages (from ubuntu36 to ubunt38 versions). However, this did not address the problem.
I tried converting to Gnome from KDE in case there was a KDE problem. This did nothing to solve the problem. Now I am in Ubuntu Dapper Beta mode and I can't figure out how to get back to KDE. Nothing seems to work.
I tried looking at the Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and KDE forums and bug reports. The closest I came to a possible explanation was a Critical bug related to .ICEauthority file ownership (supposedly solved long time ago), starting KDE apps from inside a terminal causing changes in file ownerships, kdeint not being "wrapped properly" and other cryptic references to potential solutions.
Is there someone out there that has survived this experience and has a clean set of instructions as to how I can recover my system? I do not want to continue running in root (sudo). and i do not want to have to scrub the disk and reload Kubuntu.
All help is appreciated
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