[NTLUG:Discuss] Unable to log into KDE

[Greg Edwards]

1. Can you login from a console (CTRL-ATL-F1)?
      I assume you can but it verifies no actual login problems
2. Move your current home
      mv yourname yourname.bak
3. Create a test home
      mkdir yourname
      chown yourname:yourname yourname
4. Login with KDE

This is the safest way to check it out.  It also gives you the option 
to recover your home 1 step at a time.

Greg
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Wayne Dahl wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 11:41 PM, Gilbert Morrow wrote:
>> If you don't format /home KDE remembers settings as it caches data there.
>> What file system? cxt2, 3,4 etc...? Use to you could delete the KDE file in
>> /home and KDE would rebuild out on reinstall, but haven't had to do that in
>> a while so don't know if it will still work.
>> On Jan 27, 2014 7:52 PM, "Wayne Dahl" <w.dahl4 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I've had an issue with my computer.  I installed Kubuntu 13.04 on a
>>> fairly new computer I've built on 2 separate hard drives, one with the
>>> OS and one with /home.  It was unstable, locking up to the point that
>>> the only way I could do anything with it was a hard reset.  After one of
>>> these episodes, upon reboot and after a hard drive check run by Kubuntu,
>>> the login prompt comes up for KDE, but when I put in my password for my
>>> username, it acted like it was going to log in only to return to the
>>> login prompt.  I could put in a wrong password and it would tell me it
>>> was wrong.  I put in my correct password and it would chew on it for a
>>> few seconds, look like it was going to log in and then return promptly
>>> to the login propt with no error message.
>>>
>>> Thinking something got hosed in the install and, because the
>>> installation across the two hard drives was unstable (I think the OS
>>> drive has something wrong with it...I haven't used it in a very long
>>> time), I reinstalled on the same drive the /home partition is on, which
>>> is how it was installed in an old tower I had that had the motherboard
>>> crap out in it.  Long story short, after reinstalling on the same hard
>>> drive that it worked flawlessly on before, I still can't log in.  I get
>>> the KDE login screen, put in my password and get the same behavior as
>>> before, it goes right back to the login screen with no errors.
>>>
>>> I'm sure this is probably something simple, but I really have no idea
>>> what to look for on this one.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> --
>>> Wayne Dahl
>>>
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>>> initial composition of sending of this email.
>>>
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> Ok, here's an update.  It looks like the problem is with my user login.
> I can login as a guest with no password and it works just fine, so KDE
> itself doesn't appear to be broken.  Any idea where to go from here?
> I've heard before about deleting the .kde directory from my /home and
> letting KDE rebuild it.  Is that a viable possibility?  If so, what
> would the ramifications be?
>
> In answer to your questions above, it's EXT3 filesystem.
>
> Thanks for any elp you can give!
>