[Gllug] KDE login trouble

[Sean Burlington]

Ian Northeast wrote:
> 
> Can you log in at a text console (ctrl-alt-F2 to activate one)? Even if 
> you can't you're more likely to get helpful error messages. If you can, 
> then try "startkde".
> 

Yes that was working (mostly - sometimes the consoles were black)

Thanks for the tip - I may try it but I'll see how I go with gnome for a 
while now.

> BTW I prefer to use text login and start the desktop manually, it 
> prevents the sort of problem you're having from stopping me logging in 
> at all.

Yeah - thinking about it - that probably doesn't even slow down the boot 
to usable time much.


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