Karmic Cant login in KDE, but in GNOME

[Berta]

Binary package hint: yelp

I've installed Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala directly from livecd but it doesnt work. When I tried to login appeared a black screen and after a few seconds it returns back to the login screen.

Now I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 and then Kubuntu by Synaptic. The problem seems to be the same, but only with KDE, Gnome works perfect.

Xorg.0.log shows a few errors, but are the same in both cases (KDE, GNOME).

Syslog shows,

Feb 23 16:40:23 federico-desktop anacron[2129]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-02-23
Feb 23 16:40:23 federico-desktop anacron[2129]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop console-kit-daemon[763]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop acpid: client 1886[0:0] has disconnected
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop acpid: client connected from 2156[0:0]
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop kernel: [ 657.146223] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.5 bridge
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop kernel: [ 657.146255] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: bridge is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop kernel: [ 657.146264] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Feb 23 16:40:27 federico-desktop kernel: [ 657.146318] pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Feb 23 16:40:31 federico-desktop gdm-simple-greeter[2225]: WARNING: Unable to lookup user name sebastia: Éxito

Then I've tried to login in recovery mode, and run kdm from console. The kdm login screen appear, but the problem still the same. In this case syslog is slightly different

Feb 24 17:36:06 federico-desktop anacron[2031]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-02-24
Feb 24 17:36:06 federico-desktop anacron[2031]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
Feb 24 17:36:07 federico-desktop kdm[1165]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Feb 24 17:36:07 federico-desktop kernel: [ 334.373265] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.5 bridge
Feb 24 17:36:07 federico-desktop kernel: [ 334.373297] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: bridge is in legacy mode, falling back to 2.x
Feb 24 17:36:07 federico-desktop kernel: [ 334.373305] agpgart-via 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Feb 24 17:36:07 federico-desktop kernel: [ 334.373359] pci 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
Feb 24 17:36:08 federico-desktop kdm_greet[2077]: Cannot set locale. Translations will not work.
Feb 24 17:36:09 federico-desktop kdm_greet[2077]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
Feb 24 17:36:19 federico-desktop wpa_supplicant[806]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Feb 24 17:37:19 federico-desktop wpa_supplicant[806]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Feb 24 17:38:19 federico-desktop wpa_supplicant[806]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Feb 24 17:39:19 federico-desktop wpa_supplicant[806]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS

At last i've tried to run plasma-desktop while i was in a gnome session. This also works, and the KDE desktop appears over ubuntu.

I don't know where is the problem. Thank you for your help.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 24 20:46:05 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_AR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

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[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

Could you please attach a screen-shot of the issue?

[Berta (federico-bertalot)]

The problem is just when i try to login a kde session. It's only a black screen that lasts a second and then i'm again at the login screen. I dont know how to print a screenshot before login in. i can take a photo with my camera, but i believe it wouldnt be helpful.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Does this by any chance resemble the issue described at http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/when-x-decides-to-crash/

[Henri Laurie (henri-laurie)]

I am having a somewhat similar experience in Lucid. This is on a laptop with non-standard and not fully known hardware, 7 years old and sold in South Africa under a name I couldn't find elsewhere (euroTeK).

What happens is that kde installs, but login fails in exactly the same way as described here. I have tested the following: installed kubuntu: login screen appears fine, type username and password, icons start appearing, just when you think that login has completed, BANG, back at the login screen.

I have also installed kde from Lucid itself. So the login screen in gnome, but I set the session to kde. When I try to login, the kubuntu screen (blue, with dots) appears, and then the icons and then it fails (as far as I can tell, in the same place as under kubuntu proper).

[jhthayer (jhthayer)]

I have been having a similar problem in Kubuntu 9.10 since the late April updates. Another problem occurred at the same time and somewhat obscured this, but I have now resolved that, leaving the kdm bug. It seems to be due to kdm judging from the logs, .Xsession-errors in particular. However the kde people say that it must be a distribution bug, so I suspect this may be a great merry-go-round. I cannot tell if kdm uses pam for authentication or not, so it is possible that the problem lies there.

[David Pache (david-pache)]

Same problem here. I make accidently a interessant discover. My girlfriend can connect without any problem on her account. So maybe a problem with a booting program, but I cannot detect wich one. <i>startx</i> on kde is ok.

[Kimdino (kimdino)]

Sounds like what I'm finding. I have just done a completely fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04, to dual-boot, on a spare partition in my VectorLinux box. On first, and every subsequent boot of Lucid I am unable to do a grapical login. Initially I though it was a login fault but on switching to tty02 I found I could login smotthly. On later attempts at a graphical login I noticed that the screen momentarily filled with rubbish before returning to the graphical login prompt.

The installation was done from the 'kubuntu-10.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso' image.

From tty02 I examined the logs and noticed that syslog gained the following every time I tried.
"Aug 23 18:49:58 DeanMachine kdm_greet[1946]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory".
A look in the given 'kdm' directory showed:-it contained nothing but the following directories: 'patterns', 'pics', 'programs', 'sessions' and 'themes'. There is no 'faces' directory.

As this is a completely fresh installation onto freshly formatted partitions then I would guess that this might be a problems in the packages ?

I am, for the moment, not going to disturb the installation by trying to fix it. You will appreciate, though, that I am unable to use any of Kubuntus bug-handling tools. I can, however, use the VL installation to examine Lucids files.

Any further info I might give?
Cheers, Kimdino

[Anzenketh (anzenketh)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[vineeshpv3 (vineesh-pv3)]

cd /usr/lib
sudo rm libGL.so.1
sudo ln -s libGL.so.1.0.8762 libGL.so.1
this may fix....

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