Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo wvenialbo@gmail.com wrote:
I am using Fedora 17 KDE (specifically the computing science spin), I have been running it for a while and never have major problems ;) until this morning, since when KDE refuses to start. The system boots normally to the login screen, I provides my username and password and it seem that KDE will start, but the scren blink and return to the login screen.
However, I get logged without any problem via console (<CTRL><ALT><F2>) and have full access to the system. Does any one know about this bug and how to solve it? Anything to cleanup from some script file?
Any help would be apreciated.
Error should be in $HOME/.xsession-errors, and just may point out the issue.
I would also create a new account and see if they account can log into KDE.
Also might take a look in your /tmp account. KDE creates a few files and directories in there. Typically the name are like /tmp/kde-<username> or such. One of those might have had their permissions/ownership change for some reason. This could happen if you changed anything that might affect /etc/passwd (perhaps changing your UID or GID for some reason).
/mek