On Monday 08 March 2004 06:21 pm, Ricardo Galli wrote: > On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:06, Jonathan Byrne shaped the electrons to > > shout: > > Over the weekend I upgraded my desktop system to KDE 3.2.1 (from 3.1.5) > > and did the same on my Thinkpad this morning. Everything seems to be > > working fine except for one puzzling problem. After logging in via > > kdm, it gets as far as the default KDE background and then just stops, > > with nothing on-screen except the background. It does it on both > > machines, so I guess it can be called duplicatable. > > > > My temporary workaround is to use gdm and select a KDE session, which > > works without a hitch. > > > > The kdm version is 3.2.1-1, on Sid. > > > > Has anyone else seen/solved this problem? > > Yes, but it was solved by selecting kde session in the kdm menu. And the > waiting few minutes because it was recreating fonts due to a X's > misconfiguration: add -dpi 100 (or whatever was before) > to /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers > > > > -- > ricardo galli GPG id C8114D34 > http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/ > Recursivo. (del lat. recursus), adj. Condici�e recursivo. Slow fonts I've seen many times. It happens when I upgrade XFree86 (which happened recently with the update to 4.3, or when updating any font related packages such as fontconfig or freetype. What happens is the font cache is a binary file dependent on the executable code of font related stuff, and gets out of date when executables get changed. It's easy to fix. Get a root shell prompt and type "fc-cache -f -v" to rebuild the font cache. Doug
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