KDE Startup Problem [Almost Solved]

xor_ · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

Hi all. After last night's update to KDE 4.14.3 my desktop doesn't come up properly anymore. I see the KDE startup graphic for less long than I'm used to. It comes up for a second or so with the mouse pointer showing. I can also move the mouse pointer at this stage. Then the screen goes black, and after a while the empty KDE background and an empty taskbar comes up. Mouse pointer is gone, and no way to do input. I tried deleting my ~/.kde4 directory, letting it build a new one, but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

Posting emerge --info

Edit: see updated .xsession-errors, kdm.log and Xorg.0.log in Post 4.

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xor_ · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

Ah, just noticed this is syslog:
Feb 26 19:46:34 localhost kdm: :0[3103]: pam_unix(kde:session): session opened for user xor by (uid=0)
Feb 26 19:46:34 localhost kdm: :0[3103]: pam_ck_connector(kde:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0

Could be part of the problem, eh?

Edit: Ok, so the discussions I find about this error message say this happens when "failsafe" mode is selected in KDM . But even if I make sure to check Plasma, the problem still occurs with this same error message.

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Edit2: No, unfortunately that pam stuff isn't the problem. This problem still occurs when I run startkde as authenticated user.
Trying to rebuild KDE without all that indexing bloat now.

linuxtuxhellsinki · l33t Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hellsinki

I had also big problems upgrading to KDE-4.14.3, mostly with akonadi/baloo/semantic-desktop/indexing-crap, but the last fix for me was with xorg.

This is the way how I tried to fix (and fixed after all) my system.

1st I tried to log with new clean user, which was helping a bit and I could log in, but the system was really slow etc..

Then I tried to disable all the indexing-crap (and compositing), killing akonadi etc. processes from the terminal and editing some configs in ~.kde4/ ~.config/ cause the gui and the systemsettings to disable the Desktop search and pim/akonadi stuff were not working well, like...

i92guboj · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:15 am Post subject:

Mmm, I see that the kde semantic desktop stuff is as funny nowadays as it's always been. Nice to know...

Anyway, next time that something segfaults like that after an upgrade, you can try "emerge @preserved-rebuild", and, failing that, try also the good-old "revdep-rebuld" (from gentoolkit) which might still catch some breakages that @preserved-rebuild fails to see.

xor_ · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

Edit: Got the problem solved by doing a complete reinstall of KDE.
Still don't know what the cause was.

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Thanks for the suggestions.

xor_ · n00b Joined: 09 Aug 2009 Posts: 10

Thought I'd post this in case someone else runs into it.

This issue has taken a somewhat interesting turn. The other day I noticed by accident that when I do this:

- switch to a text console while KDE completes its startup
- then switch back to VT7 once it's done

my normal desktop comes up as if nothing ever happened.

So the problem only occurs if the KDE startup screen remains in the foreground.

I've done all sorts of vaguely relevant rebuilds I could think of, including a full rebuild of KDE and its dependencies (emerge -avet kdebase-meta). but the problem persists.

At this point the problem is only a minor annoyance, but it's still weird. It looks like something is crashing but I can't figure out what and why. I don't see anything that jumps out in the log files. Anyone have further ideas?