KDE desktop no longer starting
Please help
I upgraded to Fedora 16 from 15 using the "preupgrade" option Everything seemed to be going fine until I noticed some bizarre behavior with the screen saver. I was running "xscreensaver" the "gleidescope" package. The screen was going blank and exhibiting other strange behavior and ultimately causing my system not to work. I decided to upgrade my video drivers from Nouveau to the Nvidia drivers for PAE, which seemed to work perfectly. Tonight, I accepted some package updates using "apper"? and was told I needed to re-log in. I rebooted my system and all of the sudden, KDE is not starting. The submarine graphic is appearing and after I log in, the disk, tools and globe icons are appearing and then the system is halting. An error is appearing as follows: "Executable: kded4 PID: 2269 Signal: Segmentation fault (11)" Please someone help or guide me with advice / instructions on how to determine what is going wrong and how to fix. I'd really hate to have to re-install my OS after finally getting "preupgrade" to work (which I've never been able to do before) |
Hi,
What you can try is to get rid of your current kde4 settings to reset your KDE4 back to default. Just log in to the console and in your home directory do something like Code:
mv .kde4 .kde4.org |
Thank you - I can't seem to find a .kde4 file or directory. There is a .kde directory in my home directory. I executed the mv command as you instructed but it didn't seem to do anything. My system is still exhibiting the same behavior.
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you could try changing the Video driver that X11 is using from nvidia back to nouveau or even to vesa.
Code:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Code:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf Code:
init 3 Code:
init 5 You may even have to reboot for this change to take effect. |
I tried the changes and now I can't even get into a terminal window to recover. I am re-installing everything and will consider switching to a different distro of Linux - I don't seem to have much luck with Fedora.
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The next question is what nVidia Video card are you using? To recover all you have to do is reboot the machine and at grub add 1 to the very end of the options line. THis should boot you into "Recovery Mode" or Run Level 1. This should allow you to make any changes needed. |
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