KDE not starting up on boot

[coolpcguy]

hey there, I shifted to openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1 recently, while till yesterday everything was working fine. Now all of a sudden, on booting, I get a console login. The system *does* goto run level 5, though. after logging in, I've to issue a startx for KDE to start.

Now the here it gets weirder

1. On issuing startx I get auto-logged in, even though I have auto-login disabled (I *did* have it enabled previously, afterwards I've disabled it)

2. The DE to which I get booted into is random - sometimes its KDE4.1, sometimes its KDE 3.5.9, sometimes its Gnome, although I didn't choose to install KDE 3.5.9 OR Gnome, prolly got isntalled because of some dependencies ? :-/ I have no idea.

3. Even on the rare occasions that I do get a KDE4.1 bootup, I plasma crashes with a sigsev

I tried removing .kde and .kde4 directories in /home but makes no difference

Any suggestions on
(1) How to get the GUI without having to issue startx?
(2) Ensuring that KDE 4.1 is what starts up ?

EDIT: Seems like KDE4.1 is starting, plasma doesn't load, when I issue plasma & at terminal, plasma gets loaded with widgets, ie, with the second Application launch bar and all:
here's a pic



Upon checking kdm.log seems kdmgreet is crashing, here's /var/log/kdm.log

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X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux sathya 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686
Build Date: 07 June 2008  12:37:27AM

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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 22 11:02:30 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOn called
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF, removing from list!
Driver not XRANDR 1.2 capable, ignoring DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* settings
KCrash: Application 'kdmgreet' crashing...
Synaptics DeviceOff called

[phreak0ut]

Sorry, not much help from my side, but I wanted to say that it's a BEAUTIFUL wally

[QwertyManiac]

Could you try cleaning and re-installing the KDM and its associated packages?

[coolpcguy]

@phreakout Ah Thanks, It comes with KDE 4.1

@Qwerty Will try it.

[QwertyManiac]

What's the result? I have no KDE-3.5.x libs installed (Just GTK2 and KDE-4.x/9999 libs), so I can't exactly figure out what might be causing both of them to run, crash and burn...

Also, check out the other .<file|folder>s on the $HOME and remove anything unnecessary/might belong to KDE3. My .kde/ is ln'd to .kde4/, though I have a .kde3.5 too (Think it came with a previous merge, haven't deleted it though), its not the active one. Could you try changing the link and see as well? Maybe KDE4 is reading it all wrong?

[mehulved]

Opensuse 11.0 ships with KDE 4.0.4.

[Faun]

^^yup I had to update it for KDE 4.1

[coolpcguy]

Originally Posted by mehulved

Opensuse 11.0 ships with KDE 4.0.4.

yup, and I've upgraded to KDE 4.1.1 using the 1-click install

@Qwerty havent done it yet, since a reinstall of kdm related packages means that I'll have to d/l from the net and my data card doesnt work in Linux. (I'd done the upgrade using BSNL BB conn, when I was back home on vacation). Will be trying it soon as I switch to Plug2Surf, which might be this weekend.

And the only "k" related . files were .kde and .kde4 deleting both had no effect. Will see if changing the link will have any effect.

[coolpcguy]

Hey there. Well good news is that I've fixed the kdm_greet crashing issue, while going through the startup logs in YaST(God bless it!!) I found this particular entry

 kdm_greet crashes with code 125 signal 0

A quick Google search for "kdm code 125" gave me this page as 3rd result which mentions,

kdm was working perfectly until ... kdm_greet crashes with code 125 ??? signal 0 after debugging with gdb, I find that findfont from xfree called by qt was in
cause. Then I made a fc-cache and all worked perfectly

So I do a fc-cache in console, restart and BINGO! No more crashes!!
One problem still remaims - it's booting into KDE 3.5.9 instead of KDE 4.1!
I had a look at /etc/X11R6/xinit/xinitrc.common which calls the startkde script
The startkde script loads KDE4.1 Besides there's a separate starkde3 script.
So any pointers on how to get KDE 4.1 starting ?

EDIT: .kde is not linked to .kde4