Hello, On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 20:26:29 Petric Frank wrote: > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server.
To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or 6 > icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then comes > clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which remains > blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no VT-switch, nothing. > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And where > to look for the issue. > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs (/var/log/messages, > /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. The last line in > /var/log/messages reads: > <timestamp> <hostname> kdm: 0:[<pid>]: pam_unix(kde:session): session > opened for ... > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no .kde4 > directory in his home directory. Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed the user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal screen came up. So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging system. At which places i should throw an eye ? regards Petric
