Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

[kristian.mailinglists@ewetel.net]

> > > I have a big problem sincen the update on Monday evening, 21.5.
> > > I use an aspire laptop with sid and kernel 2.6.20.
> > >
> > > When I tried to login at kdm after the update, after giving the user
> > > and pass, the kde welcome-screen comes up. The start window with the
> > > symbols showing what  loads at the moment stopped at the second one (I
> > > think "devices") for 30 seconds. After that I got my backround image
> > > (without desktop icons) and a grey bottom-bar (where normally the
> > > kde-taskbar is) and a moveable mouse cursor. Nothing more! No
> > > interaction possible. I installed fvwm to use my programs.
> > >
> > > I tried it several times, sometimes it hangs completely at the second
> > > symbol, blinking but nothing more.
> > >
> > > Is the reason a broken KDE, I have no explanation.
> > >
> > > The /var/log/kdm.log gave no help.


> > This is the output from ps aux:

> > ...

> Nothing suspicious, but now I would suggest you start killing KDE  
> processes >(with -9 if needed) starting with the highest pid  
> (artsd). Once you kill a
> process, switch back to X and see if KDE resumes booting. Hopefully, this
> will help to track down the process that hangs.

Sorry, but I didn't found any progress. I started to kill processes:  
artsd, kmix, kaccess, kicker, kdesktop, kwin, ksmserver, no change  
till ksmserver. After killing that kdm restarts and shows a new login  
screen.

Hope that helps,

Kristian