After entering in the username and password and attempting to log-in, KDM instantly crashes back to the log-in screen again. This is an infinite loop. Please note: All packages are latest STABLE releases. No packages are unmasked or forced to the latest version. Suggesting that I am using KDE 4.8 is incorrect or an unstable version of dbus is incorrect. The error is here: klauncher(1031) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! kdmgreet(1025)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus server" kdmgreet(1025)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try logging in via KDM greeter 2. Do it again a bunch of times 3. Nothing ever changes. Actual Results: klauncher(1031) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! kdmgreet(1025)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus server" kdmgreet(1025)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned Expected Results: The software should have shown the KDE desktop after logging in, INSTEAD of just making me log-in again. Consolekit and dbus are running fine. It is not related to which daemons I forgot to load.
I know this is from an Arch Linux forum, but this is the same problem as mine. The solution is awfully irrelevant.. Phonon, Gstreamer? What the heck does that have to do with KDM crashing back to log-in screen? Heh.. Well here is the link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128689
Here is another link I found. Sorry for extra comment. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-889262-view-next.html?sid=36206783251d0cad5d2e8bd2199b84b
Emerging kdebase-kdestart and several other kde meta packages fixed this problem. I was trying to figure out a way to not have every single KDE package built but apparently Gentoo needs everything, not just the minimal KDE runtime and KDE workspace (Gentoo calls this plasma-workspace.) All is good now. In short, don't try and work around the fact that you need to build a bunch of KDE packages, not just the base stuff.
