Kubuntu problems

[Icedude]

I installed Kubuntu and logged in fine but couldn't set up my serial mouse.
Now I think I now how to do it and want to start it up but I only get a
root directory instead of the normal screen. Can someone tell me why that
is and how to change that?

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[Sebastian Georgi]

Hi,

you probably want to take a look at the Xorg-logfile located in /var/log
to see why your Xorg-Session crashes/doesn't start. I had problems with
mice as well which prevented the system to start up normally. Try to
change your configuration back in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. You now
should be able to log graphically.

Cheers,
Seb

Icedude wrote:

> I installed Kubuntu and logged in fine but couldn't set up my serial mouse.
> Now I think I now how to do it and want to start it up but I only get a
> root directory instead of the normal screen. Can someone tell me why that
> is and how to change that?
>

[Icedude]

Sebastian Georgi <sgeorgi@sgeorgi.de> wrote in news:48formFj1ua7U1@uni-
berlin.de:

> you probably want to take a look at the Xorg-logfile located in /var/log
> to see why your Xorg-Session crashes/doesn't start. I had problems with
> mice as well which prevented the system to start up normally. Try to
> change your configuration back in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. You now
> should be able to log graphically.

That doesn't seem to work. I'll explain in detail what happens.

I startup Kubuntu and then it shows a screen with on top Kubuntu, just
below that a bleu progress barr and below that all the processes that are
starting up. Newt to all these processes is OK so everything should be ok,
right?
Then when the login screen should appear there appears some sort of grey
screen and less than a second afterwards there appears some sort of a root
asking for my login. I enter that and then it asks for my password. I enter
that and next appears the root directory.

I'm not sure how I should get to that logfile exact but when I enter
kdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get to the xorg.conf I get the message
"couldn't access Xserver"

How do I solve that?

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[Sebastian Georgi]

Right, it's only the Xorg-server that won't start, probably due to some
configuration issues. To solve that you could either re-do the whole
Xorg-configuration process by executing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

If you already have a customized configuration you should make a backup
of it before with

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup

because it will be overwritten with a, hopefully functional, new version.

After that you can try to restart the Xserver by issuing

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

If it still doesn't work, try "startx" which will write logs directly to
the console your logged in at.

kate won't work because it ain't a console-based editor and relies on
the xorg-session you lack at the moment. Try "vi" instead for editing,
and "less" or "cat | more" for scrolling through files.

Good luck,
Seb

Icedude schrieb:

> Sebastian Georgi <sgeorgi@sgeorgi.de> wrote in news:48formFj1ua7U1@uni-
> berlin.de:
>

>> you probably want to take a look at the Xorg-logfile located in /var/log
>> to see why your Xorg-Session crashes/doesn't start. I had problems with
>> mice as well which prevented the system to start up normally. Try to
>> change your configuration back in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot. You now
>> should be able to log graphically.

>
> That doesn't seem to work. I'll explain in detail what happens.
>
> I startup Kubuntu and then it shows a screen with on top Kubuntu, just
> below that a bleu progress barr and below that all the processes that are
> starting up. Newt to all these processes is OK so everything should be ok,
> right?
> Then when the login screen should appear there appears some sort of grey
> screen and less than a second afterwards there appears some sort of a root
> asking for my login. I enter that and then it asks for my password. I enter
> that and next appears the root directory.
>
> I'm not sure how I should get to that logfile exact but when I enter
> kdesu kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get to the xorg.conf I get the message
> "couldn't access Xserver"
>
> How do I solve that?
>

[Icedude]

Sebastian Georgi <sgeorgi@sgeorgi.de> wrote in news:48fvhiFjs774U1@uni-berlin.de:

> Right, it's only the Xorg-server that won't start, probably due to some
> configuration issues. To solve that you could either re-do the whole
> Xorg-configuration process by executing
>
> because it will be overwritten with a, hopefully functional, new version.

Well, it didn't work.

>
> If it still doesn't work, try "startx" which will write logs directly to
> the console your logged in at.

The last lines are:
XIO: fatal IO server error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0known processed) with 0 events remainaning

Does that help you?

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[Sebastian Georgi]

Icedude schrieb:

> The last lines are:
> XIO: fatal IO server error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0known processed) with 0 events remainaning
>
> Does that help you?
>

Nope sorry! Could you post a few lines back? Or directly from the log?

(tail -20 /var/log/Xorg.o.log)

[Icedude]

Sebastian Georgi <sgeorgi@sgeorgi.de> wrote in news:48g32eFjoqe6U1@uni-
berlin.de:

> Nope sorry! Could you post a few lines back? Or directly from the log?
>
> (tail -20 /var/log/Xorg.o.log)

It's too bad I can't save it and read it in Windows, otherwise I could give
you the whole log.

Maybe it's easier to completely reïnstall the Kubuntu.

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