Cannot Start KDE / Login through KDM

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the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:49 pm

It's really two issues that might be connected. This is on a new build. I'm sure i'm missing something really simple here i just cant put my finger on it. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!!

1) I cannot run startkde (startx and startxfce4 work fine). I get the following error : $DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server

2) I cannot login to any DE using KDM (xdm works fine). After I type in my user name and password it kicks me back out to the main KDM login screen. Happens on every user account.

kdm.log

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X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux alpha-centauri 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 21 14:05:38 EDT 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 22 October 2009  11:34:57PM
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 23 12:42:36 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 122 of inet
(EE) XKB: No components provided for device Virtual core keyboard

xorg.conf

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Section "ServerLayout"

#    Screen      2  "Screen2" 3200 0
#    Option	"AIGLX" "true"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

# Removed Option "Xinerama" "1"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "g15daemon"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbVariant" "dvorak-r"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "CorePointer"
    Option         "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option         "Buttons" "10"
    Option         "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL E198FP"
    HorizSync       31.0 - 80.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "HP w2408"
    HorizSync       24.0 - 94.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 85.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

#    Option      "DRI" "true"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 285"
    Option         "UseEvents" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "nologo" "true"
    Option         "RandRRotation" "on"
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"
    Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
#    Option	"AllowGLXWithcomposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"

#    Option	"DRI" "true"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTX 285"
    Option         "UseEvents" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "DamageEvents" "True"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "True"
    Option         "nologo" "true"
    Option         "RandRRotation" "on"
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"
    Option         "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
#    Option      "AllowGLXWithcomposite" "true"
    BusID          "PCI:4:0:0"
    Screen          0
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "TwinView" "1"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0, DFP: NULL"
# Removed Option "TwinView" "0"
# Removed Option "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +1920+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "1920x1200 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option         "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-1: 1920x1200 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"

#    Option         "Damage" "True"
    Option         "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

emerge --info

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Portage 2.1.7.1 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:55:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p33
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://osmirrors.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/portage"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 arts berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups custom-cflags custom-cxxflags custom-optimization custom-optimizations dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac fng fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pertty png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thread threads thunar tiff truetype type1 unicode usb visualizations vorbis x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:51 pm

can you post the output of rc-status please.

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:03 pm

rc-status

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Runlevel: default
 udev                                                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 sshd                                                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 dbus                                                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 hald                                                                                                                                        [  started  ]
 netmount                                                                                                                                    [  started  ]
 local                                                                                                                                       [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged
 udev-postmount                                                                                                                              [  started  ]
 net.eth0                                                                                                                                    [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: needed
 udev-mount                                                                                                                                  [  started  ]
Dynamic Runlevel: manual

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:09 pm

Now that is super-weird. Why is udev in the default runlevel?

Please post the output of this

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ls /etc/init.d | grep udev

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:18 pm

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alpha-centauri ~ # ls /etc/init.d |grep udev
udev
udev-dev-tarball
udev-mount
udev-postmount

I can take udev out of the default runlevel and it doesnt make a difference. I added it there after fooling around with udev,hald,dbus (trying to resolve this issue). Initially i had forgot to start and add hald and dbus.

Thanks

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:26 pm

udev should be in the sysinit runlevel

hald and dbus in the default runlevel

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:43 pm

thanks,

yeah thats all fine, still the same issue. any ideas?

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:01 pm

in make.conf you should have

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INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"

then rebuild x11-drivers

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emerge portage-utils && emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:12 pm

thanks! yeah i didnt have evdev on my last build because it caused some random issues. I did what you suggested, however that command did not rebuild x11-drivers with the new use flag. just did an emerge -av x11-drivers afterwards and it compiled the evdev package and recompiled x11-drivers appropriately.

That still didnt seem to resolve the issue, do i have to add evdev to xorg.conf or something else?

Thanks

EDIT:
I didnt have evdev compiled in my kernel. I compiled it as a module and tried to start kdm (the same error thats always happened with me and evdev persisted), everytime i'd type a character itd input it 3 times. So when i type "d" it displays "ddd" .. I tried compiling it into my kernel and got the same result.

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:38 pm

That happened before here.

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:51 pm

thanks!

getting rid of the two input sections for keyboard/mouse in my xorg did resolve the repeating issue (although i cant use my xkb or mouse button mapping settings anymore). EDIT (Actually i think it was getting rid of the allowemptyinput option that did it, i can play around with that later.)

however i still have the same issues trying to login via KDM as i originally did.

Mike Hunt · Post by **Mike Hunt** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:22 pm

Try re-emerging sys-libs/pam and kde-base/kdebase-pam

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:46 pm

Done, didnt change anything unfortunately

I've also remerged my entire world and there's no config files that need updating.

I really appreciate the help. anymore ideas?

forkboy · Post by **forkboy** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:51 pm

try /etc/init.d/consolekit start

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:56 pm

That was it! I've probably built a dozen or so gui gentoo machines, never recall havening to start that before. perhaps it would add itself automatically in the past?

THANKS EVERYONE! Gentoo community is still the best out there.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:08 am

on my system consolekit gets started by hald.

forkboy · Post by **forkboy** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:09 am

Struggled with that for awhile myself as all of a sudden that service needed to be running. I even submitted a bug report but it was marked invalid as apparently kdm's elog tells you to have consolekit running.

Mgiese · Post by **Mgiese** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:53 pm

forkboy wrote:try /etc/init.d/consolekit start

tried all suggestions above, nothing helped so far.

"consolekit start" just shows an error(red !!), i just don`t know where to find the appropriate log.

kdm starts, i enter username & password and kdm restarts... it does not matter which environment i select, tried kde,gnome,fluxbox,icewm ...

any hints ?

the.root · Post by **the.root** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:00 pm

hmm, do you have dbus and hald started? is consolekit built with the PAM use flag?

I have the following packages built with the consolekit use flag(not sure if it helps):

xinit
pambase
hal
kdm

I'd recommend try recompiling all of that with those use flags to start

Also make sure your config files are up to date

Mgiese · Post by **Mgiese** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:11 pm

the.root wrote:hmm, do you have dbus and hald started? is consolekit built with the PAM use flag?

I have the following packages built with the consolekit use flag(not sure if it helps):

xinit
pambase
hal
kdm

I'd recommend try recompiling all of that with those use flags to start

hald was started, dbus not, so i started it manually. all packages are compiled with "consolekit" useflag. right now, i try resync & revdep-rebuild, after that (dbus is started now) i will check if consolekit or kde will start

thx so far

muhsinzubeir · Post by **muhsinzubeir** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:48 pm

forkboy wrote:try /etc/init.d/consolekit start

Thanks...first time that I have to run this service manually...