Can't login after 4.2 update

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Last time I tried to switch back to nv, i basically couldn't. So if
>> that is going to be a suggestion, could some one let me know how to
>> disable desktop effects from the command line? KDE simply won't
>> startup with nv last time i tried.
>
> edit ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc to contain:
> [Compositing]
> Enabled=false
>
> (or remove/rename kwinrc)


I remamed kwinrc on the guest account, and login still does not work.

----- /var/log//messages ----
Feb 23 14:52:27 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
Feb 23 14:52:27 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP
V3 device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:52:27 Watson kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:52:28 Watson acpid: client connected from 4054[0:0]
Feb 23 14:55:42 Watson acpid: client connected from 4633[0:0]
Feb 23 14:55:43 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
Feb 23 14:55:43 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP
V3 device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:55:43 Watson kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:55:43 Watson acpid: client connected from 4633[0:0]
Feb 23 14:55:53 Watson acpid: client connected from 4895[0:0]
Feb 23 14:55:54 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
Feb 23 14:55:54 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP
V3 device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:55:54 Watson kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:55:54 Watson acpid: client connected from 4895[0:0]
Feb 23 14:56:00 Watson acpid: client connected from 5191[0:0]
Feb 23 14:56:01 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
Feb 23 14:56:01 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP
V3 device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:56:01 Watson kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
Feb 23 14:56:01 Watson acpid: client connected from 5191[0:0]
Feb 23 15:00:08 Watson acpid: client connected from 5488[0:0]
Feb 23 15:00:09 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP 3.0 bridge
Feb 23 15:00:09 Watson kernel: agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: putting AGP
V3 device into 8x mode
Feb 23 15:00:09 Watson kernel: nvidia 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3
device into 8x mode
Feb 23 15:00:09 Watson acpid: client connected from 5488[0:0]
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