https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391748 User drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391748#c6 --- Comment #6 from David Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> 2008-05-18 00:50:12 MST --- Dirk, Below is this ~/.xsession-errors. There isn't a ~/.X.err and top was uneventful with nothing stuck and just the normal Xorg and ksplash momentarily appearing. I do think you are narrowing it down quite a bit. the xsession-error looks promising. I have also included the dump of 'ps axf' showing the number of kdeinits running. I used killall kdeinit to clean that up. Same symptoms though. Somewhere kde is hanging. After the killall kdeinit, an kwrited style dialog appeared over the splash screen and told me that the session could not be initialized. I closed it and then hit ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to kdm. Here is the ~/.xsession-errors: [01:41 nirvana/home/david] # cat .xsession-errors /etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started. /etc/X11/xim: user environment variable LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method). Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ... There is no default input method for the current locale. <note> # this is all that was there before this last start attempt everything below came from this last attempt to start kde </note> startkde: Starting up... kdeinit: Shutting down running client. /opt/kde3/bin/startkde: line 360: 29438 Terminated LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit_wrapper --new-startup +kcminit_startup startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused kbuildsycoca running... kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed klauncher: Exiting on signal 15 DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'kded' to 'klauncher' ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed startkde: Shutting down... kded: Fatal IO error: client killed DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-29481' to 'kded' Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. I will attach the 'ps axf' info after I post this. Thanks and let me know what else you want. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.