X login for KDE needs user+pass twice!
 

ok, this is a minor problem in slac 9.1

after boot I come to the graphical login. I use KDE as
default, type in user name and password, and starts initializing. When KDE reaches
"initializing peripherals", the screen goes momentarily blank and I 'm taken back to the login screen. I retype user name and password and KDE is running fine
with no (initialization) delay.
Interestingly enough:
1) I have been running fine for some time WITHOUT this error message
2) if I choose gnome instead, no such problems appear

All in all a very minor inconvenience, but I am curious why I get this.
here is the /var/log/messages. Could it be the UMSDOS error message?

Thanks, svar

/var/log/messages

Jan 4 14:33:59 darkstar exiting on signal 15
Jan 4 15:34:17 darkstar syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Memory: 515348k/524208k available (1813k kernel
code, 8472k reserved, 614k data, 116k init, 0k highmem)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order:
7, 524288 bytes)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6
, 262144 bytes)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0,
4096 bytes)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order:
5, 131072 bytes)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support...
done.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf08f0, l
ast bus=1
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1

Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.
0
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society
NET3.039
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf4000000, mapped to 0x
e080d000, size 1536k
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pa
ges=41
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:4
c90
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with H
UB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7
.00beta4-2.4
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO mo
des; override with idebus=xx
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs
later
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 contr
oller on pci00:04.1
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS setting
s: hdaMA, hdbMA
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS setting
s: hdcMA, hddio
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cach
e, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA(66)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: hdb: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1794KiB Cach
e, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(66)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Partition check:
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: linear personality registered as nr 1
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DIS
KS=27
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: autorun ...
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 3
2Kbytes
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768
bind 65536)
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET
4.0.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp mem ory: 439M
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATA PI devices
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
Jan 4 15:34:18 darkstar sshd[100]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jan 4 15:34:28 darkstar kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.0
Jan 4 15:34:28 darkstar kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:04.2
Jan 4 15:34:28 darkstar kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:04.3
Jan 4 15:35:17 darkstar kernel: NET4: Linux IPX 0.47 for NET4.0
Jan 4 15:35:17 darkstar kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Jan 4 15:35:17 darkstar kernel: IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva , Inc.
Jan 4 15:35:17 darkstar kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18a for Linux NET4.0
me@darkstar:~$