Can't log in with one user, other user log in fine - "Could not start ksmserver, check your installation"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
I've upgraded some packages 2 days ago, mainly dbus related I think, and suddenly I cannot log into my KDE desktop anymore.
When logging in I can see the message "Could not start d-bus. Can you call qdbus?".
So after Googling I found the Solution to that bug "https:/
I did what comment #12 says: qdbus=QT_SELECT=qt4 qdbus
However I still cannot log in, now I get the following error for my user , also an XWindow :
"Could not start ksmserver, check your installation"
On my system I have two users, my main one: CkDev, and another one corck. When I log in as ckDev I get the following errors above, however when I log in with my user "corck" everything works fine. I've even created a new user "guest" and logged in with it and it works fine as well.
So next step I took, I removed ~/.kde and ~/.config and tried to log in, same error.
On another thread I read about killing "lightdm" and logging in using startx, so I switched to terminal mode, and stopped lightdm and executed "startx". Then my user ckDev is logging in straight away and I have my Desktop again, with some bugs like my webcam is not working anymore.
So I don't really know whats happening, but after I can log in with "corck" and "guest" I feels like these users are not using /usr/bin/startkde but another script, otherwise the Bug #1304805 should have affected them as well.
I'm on Kubuntu Trusty.
Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
I saw some threads on the issue "Could not start ksmserver, check your installation" that are talking about Nvidia Prime so I disabled Optimus and tried to use Intel graphics only, but that did not help either.