boot issue

[rhthekida]

When I boot using Kubuntu on my laptop it gives me this error.

"The application unknown (kdmgreet) crashed and cause the signal 11 (SUGSEGV)."

Any ideas or help that can be offered? I cannot get into my laptop at all except in recovery mode, and I have no idea what I should be trying to do in that.

Thanks.

[Vergil83]

have you recently upgraded? did you do something that may have caused it? When this error comes up, do you get sent to the command line? Try looking in the folder

/var/log/kdm

and see if any of the logs give more information

[rhthekida]

I can only go to a command line if I boot in recovery.

I didn't do a full epgrade but I did some upgraded programs like kaffeine

[Vergil83]

I can only go to a command line if I boot in recovery.

I didn't do a full epgrade but I did some upgraded programs like kaffeine

In that case I bet it was something that didn't get upgraded
try doing from the command line as root

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

or if you don't want to upgrade your entire system

apt-get update
apt-get install kdm

and check the /var/log/kdm folder and look what is there. To view the contents of a file use

less file_name

[rhthekida]

I tried all of the things you said.

When I update it says this at the end:
"W: GPG error: hhtp://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F"
"W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems"

When I try to apt-get dist-upgrade:
It gives me a list of things saying something like
"kweather: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>4:3.5.1-1) but it is not installed"
"E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f."

When I try and apt-get install kdm:
it gives me a list of things saying
"libkonq4: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.1-1) but it is not going to be installed"
It says that for a bunch of things and then at the bottom of all that it says
"E: Unmet dependecies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)

When I ls /log there are a bunch of kdm's
kdm.log, kdm.log.1, kdm.log.2.gz and then the same thing up to kdm.log.7.gz