On Tuesday 06 April 2010 19:31:19 Smokejohn wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Klaus Becker <
colonius@free.fr> wrote:
> > Le Mardi 06 Avril 2010 18:35:51, John Kapnogiannis a écrit :
> > > Hello there. I got a debian testing installation and I currently cannot
> > > login in kde. I give my pass and instead of a proper kde session I get
> > > kdm's login screen again. I haven't done any upgrade but I did a really
> > > stupid thing: I hit the power button and turn the laptop off the hard
> > > way while it was in suspend mode. I tried googling but it gave me no
> > > usefull things.
> > >
> > > The .xsession-errors file in my home folder says Permission denied. I
> > > checked the permissions in /tmp and /var/tmp and everything seems fine.
> > > I also deleted the .kde folder. Login in as root and typing startx
> > > opens a kde session.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > PS: I did the instructions described in this page:
> > >
https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCL-510 in order to fix skype
> > > on me 64-bit installation, but I don't think it has something to do
> > > with my problem. I think something got wrong when I hit the power
> > > button. :(
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > perhaps
> >
> > #chown -R john /home/john
> >
> > or any username you use ?
> >
> > If this does'nt work, you can try to create a new user and then cope all
> > your
> > files to /home/new-user.
> >
> >
> > Nope did not help. Adding a new user did not fix anything too. I tried
>
> login in a console and then startx and I got some errors about xkb not
> being able to get initialized. Strange.... So the thing is that no user
> except the root can start a kde session.