Gnome or KDE will not start.

waynehapp · 01-14-2006, 10:35 PM

I'm using a RedHat distribution and I'm having problems with both KDE and Gnome. When I login as a user other then root the screen goes blank and stays that way. It appears as it the window manager is not starting. rott can get in OK.

My machine is a DHCP client to me broadband provider. I'm thinking that maybe it's an IP address issue.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Distribution - RedHat Enterprise AMD64

pinknick · 01-15-2006, 04:14 PM

Hi,

Try logging on console ALT-CTRL F1 as user or root and try to start KDE using

Code:

startx

You may need to do something like:

Code:

# kdm --nodaemon
# pkill kdm

Just not to restart kdm or different diplay manager you use (gdm, xdm)...

after that post content of .xsession-errors file that you find in home directory of affected user.
It may be also helpful if you send content or last 10 lines from /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

All the best.