Public bug reported: Hi!
Since about 2 days ago I can't get to see a desktop when I start kde. As a test, I just mved out of my home the .kde and ,kde4 directories from my home and tried to start kde again. Same thing. It all looks like it's going to start normally. I get the splash screen, I get to hear the welcome sound, I even get to see some notifications at the top of the screen (one of them says that some application crashed... perhaps that's the problem), but the desktop.... at the end it's empty. I can't get to kill it with alt+e or alt-ctrl-backspace. I have to get to the VTs (alt-ctrl-Fx does work... at least) and restart kdm to kill my session. Also, I can use the alt-F2 combination. That's how I started ksnapshot to get the picture I'm sending along with this bug. Here's the list of processes running on the computer right now. $ ps axf PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 2 ? S< 0:00 [kthreadd] 3 ? S< 0:00 \_ [migration/0] 4 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ksoftirqd/0] 5 ? S< 0:00 \_ [watchdog/0] 6 ? S< 0:00 \_ [events/0] 7 ? S< 0:00 \_ [khelper] 10 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kstop/0] 144 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kintegrityd/0] 146 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kblockd/0] 148 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kacpid] 149 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kacpi_notify] 208 ? S< 0:00 \_ [cqueue] 215 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ata/0] 216 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ata_aux] 217 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ksuspend_usbd] 222 ? S< 0:00 \_ [khubd] 225 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kseriod] 231 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kmmcd] 237 ? S< 0:00 \_ [btaddconn] 238 ? S< 0:00 \_ [btdelconn] 287 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 289 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kswapd0] 331 ? S< 0:00 \_ [aio/0] 347 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ecryptfs-kthrea] 528 ? S< 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_0] 531 ? S< 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_1] 555 ? S< 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_2] 558 ? S< 0:00 \_ [scsi_eh_3] 629 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kstriped] 632 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kmpathd/0] 633 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kmpath_handlerd] 634 ? S< 0:00 \_ [ksnapd] 637 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kondemand/0] 643 ? S< 0:00 \_ [krfcommd] 1353 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kjournald] 1909 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kpsmoused] 2350 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kjournald] 2370 ? S< 0:00 \_ [loop0] 2371 ? S< 0:00 \_ [kjournald] 6064 ? S 0:00 \_ [pdflush] 1 ? Ss 0:01 /sbin/init 1482 ? S<s 0:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon 2369 ? Ss 0:01 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /media/hda2 -o rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 2650 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 2651 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 2657 tty2 Ss 0:00 /bin/login -- 5230 tty2 S+ 0:00 \_ -bash 2661 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 2662 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 2769 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket 2848 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/syslogd -u syslog 2869 ? S 0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg 2871 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/klogd -P /var/run/klogd/kmsg 2892 ? Ss 0:01 /bin/dbus-daemon --system 2980 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe 3022 ? Sl 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --sk 3024 ? S 0:00 \_ logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i -t mysqld 3097 ? S 0:00 ddclient - sleeping for 280 seconds 3163 ? S<s 0:00 dhclient3 -e IF_METRIC=100 -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases eth0 3227 ? S<s 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd 3248 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/uml_switch -unix /var/run/uml-utilities/uml_switch.ctl 3418 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd 3443 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/winbindd 3502 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon 3681 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd 3743 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid 3754 ? S 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log 3757 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/nm-system-settings --config /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf 3767 ? Ss 0:00 avahi-daemon: running [parrados.local] 3768 ? Ss 0:00 \_ avahi-daemon: chroot helper 3791 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd 3872 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd 3900 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 3926 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 4004 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 4005 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 4006 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 4007 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 4008 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start 7408 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald 7409 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-runner 7441 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event3 7530 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec) 7533 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/fd0 because it is explicitly disabled 7537 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket 7934 tty1 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 9182 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm 9184 tty7 Rs+ 0:38 \_ /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-yEQmNh 9218 ? S 0:00 \_ -:0 9249 ? Ss 0:00 \_ xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8 -geometry +1+1 9367 pts/0 Ss+ 0:00 \_ bash 9224 ? Ss 0:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 9225 ? S 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch feadd202c0e1c5bcf09a3300462993fd --binary-syntax --close-stderr 9385 pts/0 Sl 0:06 konsole 9393 pts/1 Rs 0:00 \_ /bin/bash 9410 pts/1 T 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde 9511 pts/1 T 0:00 | \_ kwrapper4 ksmserver 9899 pts/1 Sl 0:35 \_ /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/firefox 9974 pts/1 R+ 0:00 \_ ps axf 9389 ? Ss 0:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 9390 pts/0 S 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch feadd202c0e1c5bcf09a3300462993fd --binary-syntax --close-stderr 9447 ? Ss 0:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session 9448 pts/1 T 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session 9456 ? Sl 0:00 kded4 9512 ? Sl 0:00 ksmserver 9514 ? Sl 0:00 \_ kwin 9529 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/kwrited 9533 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver 9537 ? S 0:02 \_ /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukstorage 9538 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukqueryservice 9539 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukontologyloader 9540 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukmigration1 9542 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/nepomukservicestub nepomukfilewatch 9534 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/knotify4 9607 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/kaccess 9615 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/krunner 9619 ? S 0:00 python /usr/bin/printer-applet 9620 ? S 0:00 python /usr/bin/update-notifier-kde 9622 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/klipper 9623 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/kblueplugd 9625 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/kmix 9626 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/policykit-kde 9878 ? Ss 0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running... 9879 ? S 0:00 \_ klauncher 9882 ? S 0:00 kded4 9891 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/knotify4 9905 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 9946 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/packagekitd 9949 ? S 0:03 python /usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py 9966 pts/1 S 0:00 klipper How can I get my desktop back? Thanks in advance. ** Affects: meta-kde4 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Jaunty: Can't get to a desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342817 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs