KDE Restarts after Login

the1wraith · 10-03-2007, 03:19 PM

I'm running Kubuntu 7.10 Beta fully patched and only recently started having a problem with it.

Whenever I login, it looks like a script tries to run, and then KDE restarts and I'm presented back at the KDM login.

I am able to login via safemode, but I'm not sure what I should do with that.

Help would be much appreciated.

Note: I'm running Compiz Fusion off of my nvidia card driver.

Cheers,
Nils

Junior Hacker · 10-04-2007, 01:33 AM

Does this happen when you disable Compiz?
Usually when KDE does this it is because there are some corrupt KDE files in the user's /home directory.
If you can create a new user, does the new user log in without issues?

the1wraith · 10-06-2007, 05:04 PM

Yeah it continues with compiz disabled. When I created a new user, it said it couldn't load kstartupmanager and failed to login.

Cheers,
Nils

the1wraith · 10-20-2007, 08:09 AM

Would it help to delete all the users and recreate them? slash does anyone know how to do that?

My only other solution is to reinstall kubuntu : \

AceofSpades19 · 10-20-2007, 05:11 PM

You might want to do a fresh install of 7.10 stable

the1wraith · 10-21-2007, 10:33 AM

I was hoping there was another solution since I spent forever setting compiz up : \

how could I go about recreating home directories?

indeliblestamp · 10-21-2007, 11:39 PM

Before you do a fresh install, have you tried moving your ~/.kde folder first? Just rename it to .kde.old and see if KDE logs in with the default settings at least. Its possible some script in ~/.kde/Autostart (or some such local setting) is causing problems.
You also might want to check the logs (~/.xsession-errors? /var/log/messages? I dunno) to see if there's a hint of the problem.