[Bug 528926] [NEW] KDM skips login screen and hangs while trying to load KDE

[Stéphane]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kdebase

I use Kubuntu 9.10 (karmic) on a generic desktop computer with Intel
Core2 Duo and nVidia graphic card (with the proprietary nVidia driver).
I use all the last official available karmic updates (27.02.2010):

Linux generic PAE 2.6.31-19.56
nVidia 185.18.36-0ubuntu9
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
KDE 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu~karmic1

When I boot the login screen of KDM appears very shortly, doesn't wait
for user name or password and skips directly to the next step. The
progress dialog for KDE appears and hangs at the first step (the
stylized HDD). Important: I don't (and I never did) use the auto login
feature of KDE! I use the Oxygen-Air theme (standard in karmic) as login
theme.

Workaround: I press Ctrl+Alt+F1, login in tty1 and type: sudo killall kdm.
After being terminated, kdm automatically restarts and shows the login screen. There I can normally enter my password and login to KDE (without hanging in the progess dialog). It works but it is very annoying.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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KDM skips login screen and hangs while trying to load KDE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528926
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