Login twice? (SOLVED)

[cloggie]

Hi,

Installed 8.10 this weekend, fresh.
Now every time I login, I have to do it twice. What happens is after I enter my name and password the normal splash screen appears, the logo's fade in, slowly, screen goes black and pooff, I'm back at my login screen. After that it works normal, meaning that after typing my name and password it just logs in to Kubuntu.
Does this have anything to do with the screen res. or so?

Thanks, Will.

[toad]

Re: Login twice?

Does this have anything to do with the screen res. or so?

Not as far as I can make out. You may want to try a virgin .kde directory and see whether that gets rid of your problem. To do so log out, log into the shell in kdm and run the following command

mv -r ~/.kde ~/.kde~

Now try loging into kde again.

[cloggie]

Re: Login twice?

Hi toad,

Sorry to bother you, but it says :

mv: invalid option -- 'r'

so where in your opinion should the "r" stand for then?

Thanks, Will.

[toad]

Re: Login twice?

I'm sorry, my mistake. I keep on expecting the r flag in mv but it simply isn't there

Instead do a

cp -r ~/.kde ~/.kde~

followed by a

rm -r ~/.kde

Now log in again and report back.

[cloggie]

Re: Login twice? (SOLVED)

Toad,

Thanks man, so far that seems to have solved the problem.
You wouldn't have any idea btw how this could have happened eh?

Anyway, cu at the next problem.

[toad]

Re: Login twice? (SOLVED)

First of all thanks for marking it as solved.

And I have no idea what could have happened, some file got corrupted? Did you install anything from kde-apps that didn't agree, tinker with any *rc files? I dunno...

Anyway, you can now safely remove the back up copy ~/.kde~ by typing

rm -r ~/.kde~