help: cannot start kdm

[gamelife]

My kubuntu system was running fine for a month, until today I ran update manager and it said some updates was not completed successfully. After some minutes I rebooted, then the system can't boot into KDE login screen. Instead, the screen becomes text mode, stopping at the line:

* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]

Then it hangs here.
I pressed ALT-F1 to switch to terminal, and saw the screen reads:

Starting up...
Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/disk/by-uuid/blah-blah-blah) = sda5(8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/blah-blah-blah
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 7.10 xxxxx tty1
xxxxx login: _

Then I login again, tried to run sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart, but it still failed.
Can someone help me figure out what's the problem?
Thanks a lot.

(update: i tried to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but it said xserver-org is not installed)

[nilsA]

Re: help: cannot start kdm

My kubuntu system was running fine for a month, until today I ran update manager and it said some updates was not completed successfully. After some minutes I rebooted, then the system can't boot into KDE login screen. Instead, the screen becomes text mode, stopping at the line:

* Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]

Then it hangs here.
I pressed ALT-F1 to switch to terminal, and saw the screen reads:

Starting up...
Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/disk/by-uuid/blah-blah-blah) = sda5(8,5)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/blah-blah-blah
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 7.10 xxxxx tty1
xxxxx login: _

Then I login again, tried to run sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart, but it still failed.
Can someone help me figure out what's the problem?
Thanks a lot.

(update: i tried to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, but it said xserver-org is not installed)

Full disk?

Did you try

sudo apt-get clean

Or, if you have been doing some Bit Torrent downloads, and not used the bit torrent client to remove the files, you may have leftovers that can fill the disk very fast.

[gamelife]

Re: help: cannot start kdm

I managed to get kdm running again by

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

sorry it failed before due to typo myself.

However, when I tried to re-enable nvidia driver (I'm using 8600GTS) using

sudo nvidia-xconfig

and restart, the old problem comes again.
Any hints?

[lingenfr]

Re: help: cannot start kdm

I think that those files errors? with kinit are meaningless. I have a similar problem as yours with the ATI driver. In my case, I started the problem when I tried to install compiz fusion. I am currently running on vesa and when I try to get back to the ati/fglrx driver it barely works and performs terribly. If there is a post in my thread that looks promising, I will try to put a link here.

I got the solution when sheeetin suggested removing xserver-xgl That fixed mine.

[silverfox]

Re: help: cannot start kdm

I have exactly the same problem, I am unable to fix it properly as yet - but do have a good work around solution. (NVIDIA card user)

1 Login in text mode
2 run startx - if this fails with a driver / kernel version mismatch I reload the nvidia package
3 stop kdm '/etc/init.d/kdm stop'
4 run 'startx /usr/bin/startkde --:1' voila!!! already logged in and in full graphics mode.

If you know that your graphics driver /kernel are of identical versions you don't need step 2.


Previously for step 4 I ran 'sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart' but this gave a very very slow graphics response.

Also try running 'nvidia-settings' if you get a popup saying that the Xserver (or similar) is not running then step 4 is the right direction.


Now can anybody tell me how to make the nvidia kernel changes stick?