After emerging KDE 4.1.3, serious problems occurred: 1. the KDM sessions manager fails to start KDE regardless of what session was chosen. All choices resulted in a single xterm being started. 2. KDE does not respect UTF8 settings Reproducible: Always Actual Results: It doesn't work. Expected Results: It works. Portage 2.2_rc14 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7250_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-loop-linear -ftree-vectorize -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -ftree-loop-linear -ftree-vectorize -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--as-needed,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amr bash-completion berkdb bidi branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dirac dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gdbm geoip gif glut gmp gnutls gpm hal iconv ieee1394 imlib isdnlog ithreads jpeg jpeg2k kde ladspa lcms libcaca live logrotate lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musepack musicbrainz ncurses nptlnptlonly offensive ogg opengl pam pch pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection rtsp samba schroedinger session shorten shout smp sndfile socks5 speex spell spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 svg sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora threads threadsafe tiff truetype twolame unicode usb vorbis wavpack wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib"ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions aliasauth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please review https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity before marking a bug critical. You might also want to read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml Don't open up a bug under a general description of "completely non-functional" as that doesn't describe in any way the problems you're facing. Furthermore, the 2 issues you raise are totally unrelated. 1. This seems to be caused by a missing XSESSION or by some config issue. What sessions are available on kdm? Please provide detailed logs of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors 2. What do you mean? Did you configure the keyboard in "System Settings"?
Same problem. After I type in opened xterm startkde, the splash screen is appeared and then X server is killed. The ~/.xsession-errors is empty. Portage 2.2_rc14 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_6000+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:29:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ " LANG="ru_UA.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru uk" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 artswrappersuid berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbus dbx dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode expat fbcondecor ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv innodb ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kdm libsamplerate libwww lirc mcal mhash midi mime mmx mp3 mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl php png pppd qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio readline reflection session slang smp sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs syslog tcpd tiff truetype unicode v4l v4l2 xml xorg xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru uk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #2) I had the same problem as you and it was caused by using the nv driver instead of nvidia. To solve it you have to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Where it says Driver "nv" Put Driver "nvidia" If this is your problem then it's a different bug.
(In reply to comment #3) I have already set driver to `nvidia` in xorg.conf. Also `eselect opengl list` is saying that the system is using nvidia opengl interface. So I believe this problem is not related to nvidia drivers.
(In reply to comment #0) > After emerging KDE 4.1.3, serious problems occurred: > > 1. the KDM sessions manager fails to start KDE regardless of what session was > chosen. All choices resulted in a single xterm being started. > As a solution to this problem KDE can be emerged with 'kdeprefix' use flag.
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #0) > > After emerging KDE 4.1.3, serious problems occurred: > > > > 1. the KDM sessions manager fails to start KDE regardless of what session was > > chosen. All choices resulted in a single xterm being started. > > > > As a solution to this problem KDE can be emerged with 'kdeprefix' use flag. > Sorry, that is not a solution to this problem. If you ever want to change from -kdeprefix to +kdeprefix or vice-versa, read *very* carefully the KDE4 Guide[1]. [1] - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml
