Re: FIXED: can't start KDE as user

[Andreas Bohnert <abo@online.de>]

check your diskspace as well!
I had the same situation, and found that my harddisk was nearly full.
After cleaning up, I was able to login as a normal user again

good luck
andreas

Arne Goetje wrote:

> On Monday 03 November 2003 15:03, Paul Scott wrote:
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> > Paul Scott wrote:
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> > I installed the fixed libc6 without seeming to fix the KDE problem.
> >
> > I looked at Debian-KDE found a reference to
> > http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE where I found libsensors-1debian1
> > <http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/06/24/debian/pool/main/l/lm-sensor
> > s/libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb> which is missing from sid.  Clicking
> > that link will D/L it which can be installed with dpkg.  Then you can
> > install kde-core from sid and maybe that will fix it for you as it did for
> > me.  It may take a couple of login's before KDE3 shows up in the list and
> > maybe two logins to KDE3 before it works.
> >    
>
> That didn't do it for me yet... but I found another interesting thing:
> is it correct that the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin is 700?
> I get complains from Xsession that it cannot find certain scripts in that 
> directory...
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> I guess xserver-common sets this permissio as I first chose 'root only' at the 
> question who should be able to start the xserver... I later changed it to 
> 'anyone', but it seems that didn't fix the permissions...
>
> If this can be confirmed it should be a bug in the xserver-common script.
>
> Cheers
> Arne
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