Bug 160325

Summary:	can't log in after update to KDE 4.03
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	edgar klüsener <edgar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	Jeremiah
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description edgar klüsener 2008-04-03 16:04:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

KDE 4.03 does not start, instead an error message appears in a terminal, saying:

"Call to lnusertmp failed (temporary directories full?), check your installation"

After clicking "okay" I find myself thrown back to the login screen. This only affects KDE 4.03, KDE 3.5 starts up normally.

Comment 1 edgar klüsener 2008-04-05 12:34:48 UTC

Problem solved. I've unstalled the most recent updates offered by SuSe and KDE4 starts again.

Comment 2 Tom Shield 2008-05-27 21:23:33 UTC

Same behavior under 4.0.4 (latest Fedora 9 rpms).  Workaround appears to be to do the following:

rm -rf /usr/tmp/k*-USER
rm ~/.kde/tmp-HOST
rm ~/.kde/cache-HOST
rm ~/.kde/socket-HOST

(where USER is replaced by your username and HOST by your machine name)

Then you can log in.  But have to repeat this again each login.

Comment 3 George Goldberg 2008-06-03 04:13:03 UTC

*** Bug 159434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Claude Jones 2008-06-25 00:27:23 UTC

Mine is a very recent upgrade from Fedora8 to Fedora9. I'm running the KDE packages prepared by Rex Dieter from KDE-redhat-unstable, which are running fine on a different machine. I get the message each time I try to log in; it acts as though the xserver is being restarted after I click on the 'OK' button. I've tried creating a new user, but same result; I've tried removing all the files suggested by Tom Shield above, but I still can't log in; in another location, I found a suggestion to check whether I'd lost ownership of my home folder and I ran the command to ensure that ownership -- still no success. I can log in to Gnome and XFCE. Unfortunately, the 'fix' suggested by Edgar is too vague to be useful. I haven't updated any packages recently, except to migrate from KDE3.5 to KDE4

Comment 5 Claude Jones 2008-06-25 16:35:40 UTC

To add to the above, I have tried logging in as other users and as root as well, but I always get the same message. I've disabled Selinux as well, and before doing that, I'd tried a relabel.

Comment 6 Claude Jones 2008-07-02 15:22:12 UTC

It turns out there was a bug related to finding lnusertemp in the kdelibs-4.0.83-3
package I was using from kde-redhat-unstable; this was cured by an update, and KDE now starts fine. Here's the explanation:

Fwiw, /usr/bin/lnusertemp is incorrect, it should be looking in /usr/libexec kde4/ , and kde4-config --path exe didn't include that correctly

Comment 7 Josh Berry 2008-07-13 01:26:55 UTC

Marking as WORKSFORME, as your update seems to have fixed the problem.  Thanks for providing a clear descriptions.