Ubuntu
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kde4 logon failure...

Bug #243690 reported by Philippe Piquer
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xorg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Timo Aaltonen

Bug Description

Hi,
 currently running
Linux kubuntu 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:43:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
KDE4.1 b2

I think this started with KDE4.1b1 : after logon I received somme message boxes about errors (I think it was about D-Bus) but as it didn't affect fonctionnality , I didn't care too much...
Then the day when b2 was released , but before uprading, KDE4 freezed, and was unable to logon again ...
After I enter my login/password and choose a KDE4 session, logon splashscreen appears, HD icon stays on for about 45s. then Settings icon stays for 4 or 4 minutes and then I go back to the blueish session login background with nothing more than the arrow cursor.

So I tried removing ~/.kde4(does nothing), enabling debug in kdm(black screen and freeze), running kdm-kde4 (t's ugly!), ... with no luck.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/xorg
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Philippe Piquer (philippep62) wrote :
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Philippe Piquer (philippep62) wrote :

The bug was found in /etc/X11/Xsessions.d/30xorg-common_xresources : a simple typo error, it init the command run_parts wich does not exists , it should be run-parts !!

I did not touch this file , so where does it come from ?? (package hint : xinit)

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Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel) wrote :

This affects Intrepid, I just upgraded a laptop from Hardy to Intrepid with "do-release-upgrade -d" and have run into this.

On the other hand it appears that run_parts is not a typo, but is a shell function defined in /etc/gdm/Xsession which isn't getting used in this case.

Result - you cannot login from KDM. :-(

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

That file should not be on the system anymore, since it has been replaced by 30x11-common_xresources a while back. The installation scripts should remove those on upgrade but apparently don't.

Changed in xinit:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in xorg:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

I'm preparing an update to the package and ask for you to test how it handles the cleanup.

Changed in xorg:
assignee: nobody → tjaalton
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

uploaded to my PPA, only for intrepid ATM:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~tjaalton/+archive

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.4~2ubuntu1

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xorg (1:7.4~2ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Bryce Harrington ]
  * local/Failsafe/failsafeXinit: Replace use of displayconfig-gtk with
    a simple troubleshooting/reconfiguration menu.
  * apport/source_xorg.py:
    - Add Xorg.0.log.old
    - Add xkbcomp and setxkbmap for keyboard bugs.
    - Add intel_reg_dumper for -intel bugs.
  * control:
    - Add xinput to xorg Depends so xinput is included in main

  [ Timo Aaltonen ]
  * x11-common.{preinst.in,postrm.in,postinstall.in}
    - Remove old conffiles that used to be in our xinit but have been
      left behind on upgrade. (LP: #243690)
  * control: move xfonts-scalable to Recommends (LP: #84938)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:33:40 -0700

Changed in xorg:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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