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Post subject: No KDE/KDM after DU today
 Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 05:46 PM
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Hi I ran SMXI today at about 1815 GMT and, after a reboot, it's all gone rather belly-up.
The big problem is that I can now no longer login to KDE (or Fluxbox, or failsafe). When I enter my login details, the screen goes blank as normal but instead of KDE I am returned almost immediately to the login screen again with the username and password forms boxes blank.
I've tried reinstalling my graphics driver and init scripts but that hasn't worked. Can someone suggest how I should go about diagnosing the problem please?
Another problem is that my wireless card is no longer recognised -I guess I can solve that by reinstalling the intel firmware.
I'm running ererbus 64bit on a Dell XPS 1530 with an Nvidia 8600 grpahics card -if it helps to know. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 06:03 PM
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32 bit tartaros fully updated up to the minute, without problems.
If it was a video card driver issue I don't think you could reach the login screen. Any way change the driver to vesa in xorg.cong and try to see if you can login. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 06:06 PM
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snvv,
did you reboot?
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:00 PM
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dave,
please, before doing anything, can you give us an:
ls -al /etc/shadow
to get a timestamp of any changes.
now look at the size
is it 0 byte?
if so, there should be /etc/shadow-
rename it to /etc/shadow and your login should be back
(thxx to reihu for debugging)
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:34 PM
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I am not sure. Please wait. If I am not back after 2 mins then I have the problem too 
EDIT. devil, yes I rebooted without problem. |
Last edited by snvv on Jul 16, 2008 - 07:39 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:38 PM
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dave,
i got the same problem, because my harddisc was filled up.
with:
df -h
in a konsole, you can take a look at your free space. Maybe you have to clean your partition a little bit? |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 07:45 PM
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toga,
thats rather not the issue.
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 08:07 PM
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http://sidux.com sid/fix.main lsb-base 3.2-14+c0.sidux.1
http://sidux.com sid/fix.main lsb-release 3.2-14+c0.sidux.1
should fix the issue for now
please test.
greetz
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 09:44 PM
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I'm also getting this on sidux 64.
/etc/shadow seemed normal but I replaced it with /etc/shadow- anyway.
Made no difference.
Installed the fix lsb-release/lsb-base
Still no difference.
I'm completely locked out.
Everything was fine before today's dist-upgrade. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 09:53 PM
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| I'm having similar problems. Did you check your .xsessions-error file? I'm curious if you have something there about permissions denied in /dev/null |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 10:01 PM
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| Yep:
Code:
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 75: /dev/null: Permission denied
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 67: /dev/null: Permission denied
Xsession: unable to create X session log/error file; aborting.
/etc/X11/Xsession: line 18: /dev/null: Permission denied
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 11:11 PM
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-bash: /dev/null: Keine Berechtigung
seems same problem here on my 64 bit machine after I had just done smxi |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 11:12 PM
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I'm still trying to get my head around it, but try to (as root) chmod 666 the following files*:
/dev/null
/dev/urandom
/dev/random
That's as far as I've gotten. I did a blanket chmod 666 of the entire dev directory and have been able to get *almost* back to normal. Somewhere something is setting permissions wrong on boot.
* no warranty.. I'm playing w/ fire.. |
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Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 11:26 PM
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| sounds like it's a good idea to put these pakcages back on hold in smxi until this is resolved. |
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Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 12:19 AM
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please: no dist-upgrades until further notice.
your systems might get unusable, even unbootable!
there is more than lsb involved in this.
we are still investigating.
greetz
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