Andreas Braml schrieb: > Everything worked fine before the upgrade and continued to do so > after the reinstall with the new version of the OS and KDE, but > yesterday I got a phone call from my "employer" (a not-for-profit > radio station) that some users can't login anymore.
[...] > KDM loads as usual, but when someone tries to login, either > a) the KDE splash shows up, when it reaches the third logo it (i.e. > the logo) keeps blinking for a while, then the splash disappears, > the background from the KDM stays there, Ctrl-Alt-Backscape required > b) nothing happens, i.e. the KDM login window disappears and that's > it; Ctrl-Alt-Backscape required I'm almost willing to bet that if you wait a really long time (up to ten minutes) without hitting ctrl-alt-backspace, KDE will eventually start up, which would indicate that a DNS problem appeared on your network - perhaps some infrastructure change happened over the last few days? Check that /etc/hosts has no stale entries, make sure the machine(s) in question have a hostname set and can resolve localhost properly. You can find quite a bit of correspondence about this problem in the archives of this mailing list (mostly under the subject of 'slow startup' and similar). Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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