KDM won't start

[nikkiwikki]

After installing or should I say updating Kubuntu from 804 to 810 my computer cannot start up KDM. Can someone help me out. Thanks

[Snowhog]

Re: KDM won't start

Do you mean you aren't presented with the KDM Login screen, or you are, but after typing in your password, you are returned to the Login screen?

[rlynch]

Re: KDM won't start

I had a problem where it said that kdm couldn't start, but the heart of the problem was my graphics driver. The update seemed to remove my nvidia drivers, so I had to reinstall those (I used the glx-177 drivers), and then reinstalled kdm and kwin. That seemed to have fixed the immediate problem.

If you have an nvidia card I would suggest looking into this.

[nikkiwikki]

Re: KDM won't start

i don' get a login screen at all. Just a terminal screen

[dibl]

Re: KDM won't start

If you can log in at the CLI, then issue

startx

-- does that start the X server?

[Guest]

Re: KDM won't start

I had the exact same problem =)

This is what I did

1) Start up in Recovery Mode
2)aptitude purge kdm-kde4
3)aptitude reinstall install kdm
4)depmod -a
5)dpkg-reconfigure kdm
6)type exit
7) choose dpkg from the menu
8) answer yes to all
9) drop to root
10) apt-get autoremove
11) find what your graphic driver is
12) uninstall all drivers for your graphics card
13) reboot
14) KDE LOGIN SCREEN!!!
15) Session Type = KDE
16) LOGIN!

[infinitelink]

Re: KDM won't start

Hi, I have the same problem: just a terminal screen that I can login to, but still just a terminal.

I tried your steps, no cigar: any more suggestions?

I tried "startx", and here's what I get (from what I can catch since not all of it fits on the screen):

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Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x79) [0x80c3009]
1: [0x67fd8400]
2: /usr/lib/xofg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a50607]
3: /usr/lib/xofg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a1e55a]
4: /usr/lib/xofg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so [0xb7a214fc]
5: /usr/bin/XaaX X(InitOutput +0x96f) [0x80aac9f]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X (main +0x279) [0x8071b19]
7: /lib/tls/i686/emov/libc.so.6 (_libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7bd7685]
8: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8071101]
Saw signal 11. Server aborting.
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error.
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