Guest dancer_69 Report post Posted September 11, 2011 I have installed madriva 2011 and it's my first time using this distro. The system works fine before this problem appear, the last time I was login to kde and I didn't install anything new or update the system. I just used firefox and some media player stuff. Powered off pc, and the next day I tried to boot to madriva, only console mode was available. I can login to my user or to root user and I can start kdm, but when trying to login to kde only a black screen appears for a wild and then fallback to kdm. I tried to startx manually, but same thing happens again. This is not kde user's only problem, because I tried the same and for root user(which I dind't used never before, so there isn't created a .kde4 user folder) I'm new to madriva and I don't know how to find what causes this problem. Can someone help me? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jza 0 Report post Posted November 9, 2011 I experienced something similar, my guess is that Plasma is crashing. .xsession-error files usually give you the issues. I will recomend to install a second window manager to fall back like urpmi task-lxde or icewm. I recomend using tail -f .xsession-error on a console before going Ctrl-Alt-F8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
