Cannot log in to KDE

[eqisow]

Whenever I try to log in to my KDE desktop something quite intriguing happens. When I attempt to login it goes black as if it's about to boot into KDM... then goes right back to the login screen. This happens no matter who I log in as.

If I ctrl+alt+F1 to the command line I am able to log in. If I then issue the stop command for KDM, followed by the start command, it takes me back to the login screen. The only difference is that under switch users it shows me loged on twice. if I switch it just takes me back to the command line. Under session it shows nothing selected, I'm not sure if this is normal or not. If I select a KDE session and then attempt to login the same thing happens, and it reverts back to no selection under session.

Am very confused.

[eqisow]

If I log into console mode and run 'startx' I get the following error:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line9: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory

[eqisow]

OK, so I tried making an empty file at /etc/X11/Xsession. The error message regarding that file no longer shows up. I now get the following:

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

[eqisow]

Some more, hopefuly helpful, info:

The file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
#$Xorg:xinitrx.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17
#/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrx
#
#global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx)
#invoke global Xsession script
./etc/X11/Xsession

The output of slocate Xsession is:

/etc/X11/Xsession (the one I created)
/etc/X11/Xsession.options
/etc/X11/Xsession.d
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30xorg-common_xresources
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xorg-common_determine-startup
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xorg-common_ssh-agent
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xorg-common_start
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/20xorg-common_process-args
/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession
/usr/share/man/man5/Xsession.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/Xsession.options.5.gz

I tried using cp to move the Xsession file at /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession to /etc/X11/Xsession. X will now start but only goes to a gray screen with an X for a curser.

[budman7]

To get startx to work all you need to do is create a .xinitrc file.
And put one line in it.

nano .xinitrc

add this line

exec startkde

Ctrl + x to quit, then save your work.
Now startx will work.

[engineuity]

The best bet is to check the logs. The log for X should be under /var/log/<whatever X your using>.x.log
If you tail it, you will see what the error is. Repost that and it may be a little easier to troubleshoot