Re: [tlug] Kubuntu 8.04 -> 8.10 Upgrade "Problems"

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Francois Cartegnie wrote:
> > I rebooted and ... I see the "This is your PC on drugs" background, but
> > no combobox asking for entering my user ID or my password.  I have
> > rebooted using the repair function for the latest kernel, and have run
>
> I don't use ubuntu, but what I can guess is that your X session is stuck at 
> the display manager which might be kdm.
> Try: shutdown your X server from a virtual console, run startx as user and/or 
> as root. You'll see if the problem is with the session manager (kde will be 
> launched), or the display manager (will be stuck too).

Thanks to you and Steven for that suggestion.  I had run "kdm" and 
"startx" from the  command line several times before asking here.  And I 
had also attempted to edit xorg.conf using previously known values ... 
none of which made a single bit of difference.  At the suggestion of the 
Kubuntu Forum intelligentsia, I D/L'ed an .iso and reinstalled from 
scratch ... which also enabled me to mostly make the ugliest parts of 
KDE4 go away, and I have my data back and am running again.

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CL