I have just installed Kubuntu 9.04 on a desktop machine, and after only one boot, it freezes on startup. I installed it twice, but it behaves identically. When the computer reboots from the installation, it's fine, but on subsequent starts it seems to hang when starting kdm. It prints out something along the lines of *Checking battery state [OK] then it stops. If I leave it alone for about half an hour, it will say something about starting a system log daemon, I think. At any point I can switch to a different tty and log in, but the X server will not start from the command line using startx. I re-installed Kubuntu, with the same results. I used the same install cd to install it on a laptop, and it went perfectly there. The problematic machine has an intel x86 quad core processor. Has anyone had a similar problem? I haven't the faintest idea how to deal with kdm, as I have never had problems of this nature before.
Thanks in advance
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