I have a very similar, probably related problem: When I enter my username and password into KDM, the screen flicks and KDM is presented again (looks like KDM just restarded). I cannot even login into metacity or failsave. So my system is quite useless for now.
My last update was this morning, and the only error I could find was in /var/log/kdm.log: FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing. error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. Synaptics DeviceOn called Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list! QImage::convertDepth: Image is a null image QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image Since I upgrade this system on a daily basis, I guess one of the packages updated yesterday is to blame. Best regards, Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]