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Bug#754257: [kdm] Workaround: Started with Empty Home Directory



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¡Hola David!

El 2014-07-16 a las 14:50 +0300, David Baron escribió:
> Yes, empty home directory for user and it logs in. Any data, of course, can be 
> brought in from the saved copy.

Let's make a summary so far:
 * You have at least one user in your system that fails to log in using kdm.
 * In the same system you have other users that do work correctly.
 * With a new user the session starts correctly.

I couldn't find in the reports what kind of session you are trying to start
with the users that can't login, I'm assuming you are trying to start kde
plasma.

With this information, I would suspect of a composite/opengl related issue,
and of some corrupted data in the home user directory that causes the session
to fail completely.

Please respond as clearly as possible the questions bellow:

You mentioned that the bug doesn't happend with your user, which makes me
wonder if you are loging in your user in the first graphical session and the
failling users are trying to log in in the secondary graphical sessions
(Change users/ New Login in kde). Can you confirm me if you log the failling
user in the first graphical session if it works or not?

Does the session of the failling users start correctly using another display
manager (lightdm, gdm, etc)?

Does the session starts correctly if you use another type of session/desktop
environment/window manager (like openbox, for example)?

After replying these questions, a good way to find the culprit would be to do
a binary search with the data in the home user. It would be particularly
useful if you could reproduce the issue copying a failling user ~/.kde and
~/.config to a newly created user home.

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