| J.O. Aho 2007-11-17, 1:12 am |
| Ant wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Earlier, I exited KDE and X back to console/text mode and restarted it
> (startx) but now I get a hang. I see a black with a mouse cursor
> (movable). I have to use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X.
At least not a hard lock that is one of the most common things you can get
with the nvdriver.
> I tried recompiling NVIDIA driver, but that didn't make any differences.
> I tried deleting everything in /tmp and it didn't fix the problem. I
> tried renaming my .kde/ directory to start clean, but that didn't fix it
> either. I tried switching from KDE to Gnome, and Gnome worked without
> any problems. So, it seems like KDE is broken somewhere but I am still
> stomped on why. I think the last time I restarted X was like a few weeks
> ago. I restarted it today because I saw kdelib package upgraded with
> today's apt-get update. I already tried uninstalling it and running
> startx, and still got the hang. I guess KDE doesn't use those files
> during its boot up.
What do you get in the Xorg.0.log and kdm.log? Anything there that hints you?
Next time you post large outputs from your system, paste those to a file,
which you put up on a web server and just post the link in the post to the
newsgroup.
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//Aho
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