trace42
April 30th, 2012, 11:47 AM
After upgrading to 12.04 KDE was not loading properly. After the GUI login prompt the system was very sluggish and the "progress bar" never shows the KDE logo. I finally get the KDE desktop, but kwin just keeps on crashing (or so it tells me). I first assumed it had something to do with the graphics driver. I tried to "reset" the nvidia settings as /etc/X11/xorg.conf was empty of most settings, might have been before upgrade too. But I never got anything started under X, the menu popped up when clicked, but took no mouse input.
I finally logged in with KDE failsafe and the system was responsive and I ran the nvidia utility. I do not know what video driver I was running before running this. In oneric I was running a proprietary nvidia driver.
I then had to leave for work.
A wild guess is I had some broken KDE config files which the failsafe did not load or reset. My question is where should I hunt for traces of what went wrong? I have yet to try a normal login.
I am running both Dropbox and Spideroak, but other than that I'm not aware of anything that is autostarted when I login. My ~/.kde/Autostart folder is empty.
I finally logged in with KDE failsafe and the system was responsive and I ran the nvidia utility. I do not know what video driver I was running before running this. In oneric I was running a proprietary nvidia driver.
I then had to leave for work.
A wild guess is I had some broken KDE config files which the failsafe did not load or reset. My question is where should I hunt for traces of what went wrong? I have yet to try a normal login.
I am running both Dropbox and Spideroak, but other than that I'm not aware of anything that is autostarted when I login. My ~/.kde/Autostart folder is empty.