Hi - Thanks for all the info above. Unfortunately jth's fix #10 didn't work for me.
I have the same symptms - KDE starts sucessfully with gdm as the window manager, but not with kdm : - 'kdm[5107] X server died during startup' 'Failed to start X server. Starting failsafe X server.' - I can only start the system by a combination of : killall Xorg / killall kdm - kdm then respawns and starts correctly - Sometimes I have to log-in remotely to issue these commands as my screens are totally blank on ctrl-alt-F1 - I have dual screen monitor and I sometimes I get the message on the bootup monitor 'wrong screen resolution' (think that is in 'safe mode graphics') - Also in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc I have three similar sections: [X-*-Core] [X-:0-Core] [X-:*-Core], and I adjusted the first one. - I also tried timeout of 500, but I still cannot start my system normally - I have a dual-monitor setup, nvidia graphics card GEforce 9300 GE), nvidia driver: 185.18.36 Any help/guideance/ suggestions to try would be most welcome!. -- kdm fails to start/restart (but gdm does properly) in kubuntu karmic 64 bits and nvidia driver 185 -- Solved! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477066 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
