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Old 03-13-2004, 08:03 AM   #1
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Can't login on KDE or GNOME


Hi, I'm running Mandrake 9.2 and have this problem with KDE and GNOME, again. After I rebooted my computer, I tried to login on KDE. The splash screen appeared, and then just stopped at the System Services icon. I waited a bit and the whole system just crashed. I also tried to go to the command line but it was frozen as well. Same applied for Gnome.
Any ideas?
 
Old 03-13-2004, 08:22 AM   #2
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check your dmesg to see if you have anything hanging during boot. When did this start? Was it an upgrade, did you change your network or other service? A bit more info could help...
 
Old 03-13-2004, 11:21 AM   #3
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Well, I never installed anything, upgraded, or done any major changes to the system. It just happened one day after a reboot. Dmesg doesn't seem to show anything hanging either.
Please help!

EDIT: As a matter of fact, please disregard this question, looks like I'm going to upgrade to Mdk 10.0

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Old 03-13-2004, 06:30 PM   #4
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Okay

Just some words of advice, I tried the 10 beta version about (a month?) ago, and everything installed fine [no errors], however, when I reboot into X, my screen turned white!!

What sucked about that is that X thought everything was fine (I couldn't find anything wrong in the logs) and it seemed that I was able to use my mouse, and if I moved to the KDE menu, I was able to open programs... however, everything was still in white.. it was so bad, that even switching to a console didn't work (it was white also)...

I hope that it was just a bug, however, I had no way to report it...! (I didn't have html at the command line running. I was on a laptop, and didn't have a chance to set up my encryption protocols to allow it to talk to my AP... Anyway, good luck with your upgrade!
 
Old 03-14-2004, 12:02 PM   #5
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Ah, I took yet another look at dmesg and it appears that Samba had hung during boot. No idea how I overlooked that. Either way, still going 10.0; thanks for the support ryeman!
 
Old 03-14-2004, 07:46 PM   #6
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Not a problem..!

I found that the logs in /var/log to be very useful for finding problems like that.

Good luck with your upgrade!
 
  


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