Thanks Udo for this suggestion - it solved my problem. As you said one has to copy back carefully the files for kmail etc. So far it all seems to be working fine. John On Monday 15 March 2004 15:38, udo wrote:
Am Montag, 15. März 2004 12:12 schrieb John Satherley:
Dear All I'm running SuSE 8.1 and last week I upgraded to KDE3.2.1 using synaptic. Everything went just fine until the last few packages when synaptic seemed to get itself into a loop. The kernel closed the system down and rebooted. When the system came up again I could not log in as user. (This was user area from which I did the upgrade calling root of course). The log in screen just disappeared and then returned - kde never started. However, I discovered I could log in as root and as any of the other users on the system. Furthermore I could log in to my user area via the nxserver I have installed and I could also login I did a "start new session". It seems that I can log into display 1 but not display 0 (?).
After the reboot there were some problems with the rpm database - I guess because synaptic did not exist cleanly. However, I was able to fix this up and it all seems fine now. (But maybe there are somethign which are not installed fully or correctly -even though yast2 and synaptic do not report any problems.
In the initial login screen there is a message saying 'linux ksm-greet [2059]: can't open default user face' This message is new since upgrading to kde3.2.1.
Any ideas about what could be wrong or what I can do to fix this up? Thanks for help. Best regards John
-- Dr J. Satherley Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool Liverpool Merseyside L69 7ZD United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 151 794 3530 Fax: +44 (0) 151 794 3588 Email: js1@liverpool.ac.uk
I solved the problem by deleting the following files/dirs in /home/jdoe: /.fonts /.kde /.mcop /.qt /.skel .ICEauthority .Xauthority .dmrc .mcoprc
But before deleting, save your .kde dir to a save place so that you can copy back carefully some selected config files (kmail, korganizer, etc) afterwards.
Regards, Udo
-- Dr J. Satherley Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool Liverpool Merseyside L69 7ZD United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 151 794 3530 Fax: +44 (0) 151 794 3588 Email: js1@liverpool.ac.uk