Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

[Eikcuhc]

hello i am having a problem with Kubuntu,

it was working fine last night with everything working and i went to add/remove programs and installed a few and then shut down. when i woke up this morning i tried to login to Kubuntu with my login and it goes to a black screen then back to the login screen..any help?

[dibl]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

i went to add/remove programs and installed a few

I'll speculate wildly that this might be relevant to the new problem.

What were those "few"?

[Eikcuhc]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

well lets see..it wasn't really a "few" it was actually a wide variety

Gaim
Firefox
Restricted Drivers
Some Media Codecs and Helix (sp?)
Wireless Managers
uninstalled OpenOffice and installed KOffice
and a few others i believe cant remember atm..

[mfburgo]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

check the ~/.xsession-errors file and see what errors you get after login. This can be done from the console with less .xsession-errors. This will show you what caused your session to fail. I have had .XAuthority files become corrupt and need deleted and recreated to correct this in the past.

[Eikcuhc]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

could you maybe tell me how to do this?
im fairly new to Kubuntu

[SheeEttin]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

Well, you can get to a login screen, so that's a good sign. Shoots down most of the trickier problems.

Boot it up, then hit the "menu" button > session type > failsafe. Log in and you get one terminal. Just execute "less .xsession-errors", then scroll to the end. Write down pertinent errors, then post them here.

[Eikcuhc]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

ok i did that and i got:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 143
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 143
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 143
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 154
Major opcode: 143
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kbuildsycoca running...
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 10
(END)




Should i just reinstall Kubuntu? (again )

[SheeEttin]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what that means.
The KDE log is at /var/log/kdm.log, see if that contains anything more useful.

[Eikcuhc]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

i dont know exactly what im looking for..im just going to reinstall Kubuntu yet again and install everything one by one

you all are great, i suppose i will find out what did it if i take everything slow and reboot after i install things ill get back to you all if i run into any more problems!

[Eikcuhc]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

sorry for the double post but i found my problem after messing up Kubuntu yet again

i ran

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

as it says on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fi...esolutionHowto

because my resolution was not at 1600x1200 like on windows

and i rebooted and i got the black scrren with the blinking underscore _

any help or watever would be cool but i hope i helped

[v_override]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

When you startup (or reboot) your PC,
have you tried to select the "Recovery Mode" from the list yet ?

[SheeEttin]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

If that was all you did after reinstalling, it was probably an answer you gave to one of the questions.
Post the result of "grep WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log && grep EE /var/log/xorg.0.log". (You can execute it from the "recovery mode" console, in the Grub menu.)

[dibl]

Re: Wierd Problem Not Allowing Me To Log Into Kubuntu

i got the black screen with the blinking underscore _

When you see that, you can usually do Alt-F1, or else Ctrl-Alt-F1, and get a text login prompt. This usually happens after xorg.conf has gotten borked up, so the xserver won't start.

To get a usable GUI, run the configuration script

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

, on the first screen answer "no" to the autodetect question, and on the second screen choose "VESA" for the display. Then you can accept defaults for keyboard and mouse, unless you have special hardware. When you get to the monitor resolution section, pick your favorite resolution that you know your card and monitor can use, and then set vertical and horizontal refresh rates that you know your monitor can accept. When you finish the script, it will dump you back to the text prompt, and at that point you can enter

startx

and you should get a usable GUI, in which to continue chasing the REAL driver installation process that you need.