Re: woody's kde erratic
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:37:44 +0200
martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> does anyone of you have an idea why the kde installation on a woody
> machine which hosts two users, works fine for one but doesn't even
> start for the other -- *even* after i removed *all* .kde and related
> settings from that users home?
>
> the symptoms are that after a kdm login, the startup screen of KDE
> indicates that it's establishing communication (stage 1) and then
> initializing system services (stage 2). it might hang there for
> a while before "initializing peripherals" (stage 3), where it will
> definitely hang for a long time. after that long time, the stages 4-6
> are completed in a flash, the startup screen disappears, and nothing
> but the user's background bitmap are shown. no KDE.
>
> kdm.log shows no anomalies.
>
> any clues?
>
Are there any differences in the groups the users are a member of? Maybe
it's a permission thing (on something in /dev/ for example).
Just shooting in the dark here ;)
grtjs Tim
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