loginscreen loops

[capesidereal]

I have a kubuntu installed for over 6 months now without any major problems, unfortunately yesterday i noticed automatix2, installed it and used it to install clamav, guarddog, mplayer-plugin for FF and the KDE upgrade...

Now i'm stuck with a login screen that loops, after i fill in the password, again the loginscreen returns.

Automatix2 clearly messed up things. Is there a way i could restore my system ?

thx,

Cape

[penguin.ch]

Re: loginscreen loops

Cape,

you should be able to directly log-in to the console (e.g. by typing [Alt] [N] when the log-in screen appears) - but be aware: the keyboard layout there might default to US style ... however, the (console) command to get rid of annoying packages is

sudo apt-get --purge remove[name of package]

- otherwise, the APT How-To should help you on.

HTH
Bernd

[capesidereal]

Re: loginscreen loops

thx for answering but still no luck.

I guess a complete reinstall will be unavoidable

[kubicle]

Re: loginscreen loops

You can try to troubleshoot by launching kde from the console (it might give you 'useful' error messages), try this:
1. Go to the virtual console
Ctrl+Alt+F1
2. Log in
3. Kill KDM

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

4. Launch kde

startkde