After recent updates and removing hal package, I can't log into KDE 4.6.3/4.6.2 anymore. The splash window hung before the big K icon flashes. I followed the 4.4 to 4.6 upgrade doc, but no avail. It's strange that remote KDE desktop login via NX worked fine. Just in front of the machines that failed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install recent updates 2. Upgrade to 4.6.2 or 4.6.3 3. Try log into KDE after reboot Actual Results: Login splash window hung before big K icon shows up. Expected Results: Able to log into KDE 4.6.2/4.6.3 after replacing hal. Kernel 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2500_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 virtual/os-headers: 0 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" 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/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd fortran gdbm gpg gpm gtk iconv ipv6 kde mbox mmx modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl policykit pppd python qt qt3support readline sdl semantic-desktop session ssl sysfs tcpd udev unicode v4l2 win32codecs x86 xcb xorg xorg-x11 xprint 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 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US zh zh_CN" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 arm x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 arm x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The upgrade guide mentions a login problem, at the end of the doc: ==== No login possible, hangs at splash screen (bug 365637) If you have been playing with unstable Gnome stuff (naughty!) you may encounter a so-far unexplained incompatibility. Logging in to KDE fails as soon as net-libs/glib-networking is installed. Unmerge that package and you should be fine. ==== Does this work? If not, your ~/.xsession-errors (from the login-failing user) would be interesting.
Created attachment 276297 [details] KDE login errors
Glib-networking is not installed.
Just did a new installation using stage3 with kdebase-meta. Same problem. Can't log into KDE.
I had (well, still have) the problem that's described here as well, and in my case it turned out to be related to desktop effects. My system *was* letting me login, but as soon as the desktop effects stuff started up, everything on the screen would freeze except for my mouse, giving the impression that X or KDE itself froze. Temporarily disabling desktop effects with ctrl-alt-f12 'fixed' the problem; as soon as I did that my normal desktop session appeared. Re-enabling effects caused the screen to freeze again. I've since had to permanently disable effects in order to use my system, and have yet to figure out how to properly fix it. Can you try this and see if it's the same problem?
Another user reported the same problem. He found the latest stable NVIDIA driver (270 series) was the cause for his problem. Downgrading to 260.19.36 fixed his problem. It's very likely the NVIDIA driver caused problem since I remember the problem started shortly after upgrading NVIDIA driver and restarting the machine. I reinstalled my machine with stage3 6/14 build and it worked fine now, though I have not enabled composite yet.
For me nvidia-drivers 270/275 seems to be the culprit. I moved from nvidia-drivers to nouveau and the login problem is gone now.
(In reply to comment #7) > For me nvidia-drivers 270/275 seems to be the culprit. I moved from > nvidia-drivers to nouveau and the login problem is gone now. Very possible. I experienced the very same problem after upgrading NVIDIA driver from 269 to 270.x.x with Sabayon 5.5. This is a very nasty bug. However, after installing from latest stage3 from scratch, I don't have the problem with 270.41.06. Simon
Switching off (In reply to comment #5) > Temporarily disabling desktop effects with ctrl-alt-f12 'fixed' the problem; as > soon as I did that my normal desktop session appeared. Re-enabling effects > caused the screen to freeze again. I've since had to permanently disable > effects in order to use my system, and have yet to figure out how to properly > fix it. > > Can you try this and see if it's the same problem? Same here, without desktop effects login is fine. Switching on desktop effects freezes the screen.
Most desktop effects can be used with composite "XRender". Some read you may find interesting: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/09/driver-dilemma-in-kde-workspaces-4-5/ http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/09/demystifying-opengl-desktop-effects/
I am having this same problem with kde 4.6.3 and nvidia 270.41.06/270.41.19 I tried to simply downgrade to 260.19.44, but I had a newer xorg-server that 260.X does not support. I am now downgrading both xorg-server and nvidia-drivers and will post results later.
Downgrading both xorg-server and nvidia-drivers resolved the problem. I have a GeForce 7300 card in this system, and I found on nvidia's forum that this is a bug in the 270+ drivers with 7300/7400 cards. Here is a link to the thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=160115
Just a quick tip not solution for those who can not log into kdm: eselect opengl xorg-x11 instead of nvidia.
The OpenGL etc detection and initialization code was updated a lot with kde-4.7.0. Could you please try that and give us feedback? kde-4.7.0 won't be stabilized as ".0" version, but many of us have been running it for a month already and it works imho very well.
Updated to KDE-4.7.1 today while using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07. I tried to switch from XRender to OpenGL which failed until I switched off "activate direct rendering" (German: "Direktes Rendern aktivieren"). Still not everything is working as it should (or is it my video card?). The login problem seems to be gone for settings accepted by systemsettings, at least composite OpenGL can be switched on again.
Not really our problem then...
Can be closed?
(In reply to comment #17) > Can be closed? Matter of taste... some people would say, lets wait until the fix goes into stable. Anyway.
