Felix Miata said the following on 05/01/2011 01:16 PM:
ISTR your problem initially was that logging into KDE was looping back each time to the very same KDE login screen instead of starting a KDE session. The greeter is the KDM thingie, sometimes a little window, sometimes a whole screen, depending on theming or no theming, where you type in username and password, and have the option to shutdown and other things, among them to select a session type other than default.
Hm. YSTR .... not what I thought I said. No looping. If it was looping I'd have said. In my mail of Message-ID: <4DBC02D6.2050909@rogers.com> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:38:46 -0400 I reported the error from /var/log/kdm.log which ended in No protocol specified kdmgreet: cannot connect to X server :0 After the non-appearance of the login screen the console tells me that it has tried to run the processes in /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ and ending in "after.local" I logged in as root then tried an "init 3" followed by an "init 5" and got a flash of a blank screen and than back to the console I did that a few times - this was the only 'repeat' :-) Because I never get the login screen, and yes, in my time I've changed themes and done custom greetings with custom images, so I know of what you speak, I cannot change the session type; not to gnome, lxde, plasma or anything. It is not looping; it tries once and dies. It never gets to try "startkede" and fails and loops back. It never gets to try 'kde4" .... The background image never appears The dialog box never appears The pulldown menu for session type never appears. I'm stuck in text-mode. So I login in as 'anton' in text-mode and run 'startx' and I get a GUI. So its not a problem with X. Yes, I've tried reinistalling KDM. Yes, I've tried systemsetting -> ....login screen to set other themes and tor turn these off and use a custom image etc The problem persists despite all that.
So try selecting plasma as a session type _at_the_greeter_. You haven't yet mentioned trying that. ;-)
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