Kubuntu issues

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/7/13 Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> John Nielsen wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Well I have what I imagine to be the lastest version of Kubuntu and it
>> was going well right up unitl the point I did an update....then as
>> indicated I reebooted the poota...and got to the log in screen...put in
>> the password that I'd used before and it re looped to the log in screen.
>>
>> I've re set the password still the same thing happens.
>>
>> So what do I do next?
>>
>> Growing frustration
>>
>> John N
>>
> that's probably an X issue, a KDE problem, or a bash problem (weird, but
> yes, bash profiles did this once with me!)
> can you remember what packages were last installed? also, it might not
> be related to the update, the problem occurred because of something you
> did else.
> if an X package has been installed, go to a console from the login
> screen and run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg"
> have you changed any of these files in your home directory, ".bashrc"
> ".profile" or any similar bash settings file? if so, either restore a
> backup, fix it, or simply delete it.
> hope this helps

And just to role out a login problem, press CTRL-ALT-F1 and try to
login from a console. If that work it's probably a KDM/KDE problem.
I don't think it's a X problem as KDM is starting up OK.

/Jonas