Re: KDE still won't load completly

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Daniel Fabian wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load
> completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root
> and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the
> keyboard symbol of the splash screen, it returns back to the loginmanager. I
> also tried another loginmanager (kdm instead of xkd, that's better for the
> eye :), no success.
>
> In order to keep this mail as small as possible, I put the XFree86 logfile
> on my webserver (http://fabiand.net/XFree86.0.log). In the last line, it
> says that it "Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M". I tried to
> install xfonts-pex but for some strange reasons, apt-get says package not
> found (oh, now that I think about it: perhaps its on cd 3-7?). Do you thing
> installing this package would help?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Daniel
>
>
>
>  

It may be a problem with X instead of with KDE. If there are any other 
wm's listed in the KDM menus, such as ICEWM or WindowMaker, try one of 
those. Also, take KDM out of the picture. Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to the 
first virtual terminal, create the files .xinitrc and .xsession, with 
the single line
   icewm
and make sure icewm is installed (apt-get install icewm), then run 
"startx -- :1" which will start a second instance of X on the second X 
display (VT7).

Let us know the results.

Sometimes a font problem will prevent X from starting up; sometimes not. 
If there aren't any other errors, then yeah, installing that package 
might help.

Kent