Kwheezy cannot get past the login screen. Splash screen crashes, gets back to login.
 

Hi,

I am novice linux user. I have installed Kwheezy a week ago. Everything was working fine until today. Today morning,

> I booted Kwheezy, everything loaded normally and the login screen appeared.
> I entered the login name and password.
> The splash screen shows the hard drive icon and crashes, it then gets backs to the login screen again.
> I tried to login as administrator but in vain, I had the same result.

I could successfully login through command line. But when I tried to start Xserver I got an error stating "xinit: connection to X server lost"


Can anyone please help me solve this problem?

Here is a screen shot of the Error

well login through the shell (command line in your case). after that type
see whether it starts or not.

As I have mentioned earlier, I have tried this. Typing startx gives the same result. The splash screen loads for a second, crashes and gets back to the login screen.

well, try using the failsafe mode if you have one and see if that makes any difference. which DE do you have installed????

Tried failsafe mode, same result! :( I am using KDE.

If you run from a tty logged on as root, what error messages do you get?
jdk

I ran the code as root and I got following error message.

Then try and report any error messages.
jdk

After I ran the above code it brought me to the login screen again. I tried logging in. I got a blank screen for a second and came back to the login screen again.
When I switched to shell I had the following code.

That's good and when you go to your x-session screen using Ctl-Alt-F7 do things look normal? Please try to be more complete in what exactly you do so we can help you identify the problem.
jdk

Yes, the x-session looks very normal. Sorry if I am explaining my problem poorly. Actually, I don't know much of the technical jargon that is used.
Both x-session and shell is working normally. Its just that I am not able to login to the KDE desktop. Starting x-server by typing startx gives me the error I have mentioned earlier (I have attached a screenshot of the error).

One more thing that I noticed is that, while booting, while /dev is loading I get the following error message. I have no idea if this error is related to my problem in anyway. I have attached a screenshot of the error that I am getting. Please check.

Error while /dev is loading

Have you looked in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Does it show any errors?
jdk

The desktop manager is up so that it states
Now the only thing is that you cannot get past the login screen. It might be that your x-server is not responding properly. In that case you might think of reinstall kdm. I am afraid can't think of any other solution presently.

Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2
Login
sudo su -
try to do dpkg-reconfigure on kdm, or just install xdm via aptitude, you will get a tui asking which display manager you want.