Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login :(

[handyman24602]

Hi i Deleted a huge 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home and am now now stuck at login . I type my pass and click to log in then it goes back to the log in screen.

Although i can log in via the command prompt (but i need my GUI!).

Please help, i researched deleting this file on forums, i gathered it was safe to do so .

Any thoughts?

[jankushka]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

it is safe to delete .xsession-errors.
you must have a problem elsewhere.
log in from a tty (command prompt, as you call it), then enter:

startx

see what it says...
hth

[handyman24602]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

the XKEYBOARD keymap controller (xkbcomp) reports a 'bad length in compatMap' error.

plus this error"

(EE) intel(0): IB830 Vblank Pipe Setup failed 0
(EE) intel(0): IB830 Vblank Pipe Setup failed 0
(EE) intel(0): IB830 Vblank Pipe Setup failed 0

FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing"

[jankushka]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

looks like a driver issue to me.
we need a few things, i guess:
- the details of your graphics card (brand and model)
- what kind of setup you have (single/dual monitor, ...)
- the content of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file

EDIT:
and the output of the lspci command.

[kubicle]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

As already mentioned, .xsession-errors is just a log file, so removing it is not causing your issues (the fact that it was 24gb, seems to suggest a vocal error filling up the log file).

I concur with jankushka, probably a problem with the intel video driver, so the information requested are likely to help solving the problem. In the mean time, you may find some help by googling with the error:

"(EE) intel(0):" "Vblank Pipe Setup failed 0"

or with something like:

intel xorg "vblank pipe setup failed"

[handyman24602]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

OK i found out that the problem was most likey caused by lack of disk space.

I found the recyle bin and deleted xsessions-errors from there. Now i have disk space.

Trouble is now after loging in, i get the desktop wallpaper and a command prompt

nothing else.

Tried $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm-desktop

no change .

[handyman24602]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

<<<UPDATE>>>

i managed to get back onto the desktop, after i changed a few settings on the login page after the kde reconfigure.

however the war is not over.

xsession-errors is growing again .

every minute it gets a gig larger?

that gives me 20 minutes.

[flarson]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

It is probably repeating the same message over and over. It would help to see what that message is.

[jankushka]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

it's the first time i see .xsession-errors growing so much and so rapidly.
it has to be something macroscopic.
yeah, it would help to see what that log file says.
you could run the following command:

tail -1111 .xsession-errors > /tmp/xxx

then post /tmp/xxx as an attachment here.

[handyman24602]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

tail Xsession: X session started for daniel at Tue May 19 16:04:58 BST 2009
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: kpersonalizer not found! Please install to properly configure your user.
kbuildsycoca running...
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
Ignored duplicate item: KArm
Ignored duplicate item: KDE Groupware Wizard
Ignored duplicate item: KNotes
Ignored duplicate item: Kontact
Ignored duplicate item: KDE Groupware Wizard
Ignored duplicate item: Strigi
Could not find 'guidance-power-manager.py' executable.
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 13
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80d3d70 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "file_quit"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80d3d70 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "file_quit"
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 11
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/sumc.desktop


head:
Xsession: X session started for daniel at Tue May 19 16:04:58 BST 2009
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: kpersonalizer not found! Please install to properly configure your user.
kbuildsycoca running...
*** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
Ignored duplicate item: KArm
Ignored duplicate item: KDE Groupware Wizard
Ignored duplicate item: KNotes
Ignored duplicate item: Kontact
Ignored duplicate item: KDE Groupware Wizard
Ignored duplicate item: Strigi
Could not find 'guidance-power-manager.py' executable.
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 13
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80d3d70 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "file_quit"
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80d3d70 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "file_quit"
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 11
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/sumc.desktop
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x18000a6



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Note the problem may be now complicated by me using dpkg-reconfigure kdm

[flarson]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

This looks to me like you have multiple attempts to configure KDE, like maybe you have remnants of an older system in a newer system. Are you using 7.10? Have you recently upgraded KDE? X? Have you possibly installed KDE4 on a system where ~/.kde was set for KDE 3.5?

[handyman24602]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

how would i check? Ive been installing alot of stuff recently, obviously as my above post states i used dpkg-reconfigure kdm, but the problem existed before this.

[flarson]

Re: Deleted 24gb ./xsession-errors file in home, now stuck at login

A couple of things you should check to know what your situation is.

cat /etc/issue

will show you which release you are running. Look in the file /etc/apt/sources.list to see which release is referred to in your sources. If /etc/issue refers to Gutsy and sources.list refer to hardy you are probably in the middle of an upgrade.

You probably should upgrade to Hardy at least, but in any case you need to make sure your system has a consistent set of software, which means running

sudo aptitude update

and

sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade

until you do.

The problem of the growing .xsession-errors file can probably be solved by moving your .kde directory to something else. After you do that a new one will be created when you login again. Something like. logout.

Ctl-Alt-F1

login at a terminal

mv .kde bad.kde
Alt-F7

Login.

At that point you will have tested whether or not the problem is in your .kde directory. If that fixed it then you can start moving your customizations back into .kde, or recreating them from the GUI, and watch to see if the problem comes back.

Even if this is fixed you should update your software and make sure it is in a consistent state.