After updating to KDE 4 system locks up

[ka9yhd]

Upgraded my desktop running 2007 with "big update" and all current updates, to KDE 4 from KDE 3.5.10 using task-kde 4-extra in Synaptic.
To install KDE 4 I followed these instructions from Tex.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,63698.0.html

After logging in the splash window appears, then as soon as the hard drive icon appears on the splash screen the mouse cursor freezes and the hard drive lite is off.......... system locks up.

I am currently posting this from the Gnome desktop on my desktop system.

If needed desktop specs:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 755 Host (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus controller 180 SATA/PATA  [SiS] (rev 01)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 44
model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm
bogomips : 3598.97
clflush size : 64
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

[root@localhost ~]#

[Joble]

How much memory do you have on that system?

[ka9yhd]

1gig.

[T6]

i never heard of a similar lockup but still could be a partial update, verify in synaptic that you have all the packages form task.kde4 and task-kde4 minimal and extras installed, if possible verify another repo, disable the one you have and enable another

how many users do you have, only user and root? does this happen as root?

if only happens as your user, you could rename the .kde4 folder inside your home folder, some config could fail and give you this result, after the rename of this folder kde4 will generate another empty config folder

[ka9yhd]

Only 1 user account and root access and it locks up with both.

And I am still kind of new at this.  How do I verify that all of the required packages have been installed?
Is there a list of packages I can compare this to?

[kjpetrie]

If there are required packages missing you should get a warning in Synaptic about "broken packages". Sometimes there are conflicts and errors when upgrading to KDE4 because it's such a massive change and it depends what you already have installed. It's always good to open Synaptic again and mark all upgrades again and make sure there's nothing left to do after such a big change.

[ka9yhd]

"Mark All Upgrades" comes back with nothing and no error messages.

[muungwana]

what video card do you have, what version of what driver is driving your card? from the log in screen, select terminal log in, log in as root and type "video" and see if you can reconfigure your video driver

[ka9yhd]

GeForce FX5200 and the Nvidia driver 173.14.12

[muungwana]

did you try to reconfigure your driver? while logged in from the terminal, type "startx" and report any errors you get if you get any. You can enter ctrl+alt+backspace if your GUI hangs when logging in to go back to the terminal

[ka9yhd]

I have not tried to reconfigure the video card.

I rebooted the desktop system and chose "console login"  Logged in as root.  Typed "startx", and could not read anything because it immediately went to the splash screen.  It loaded KDE4 and I am using Firefox in KDE4.

[muungwana]

what happen when you log in as normal user from the terminal and then run "startx"? it works there too?

can your problem be your kde4 locks up when trying to log in from the log in screen but it works when starting kde4 from the terminal?

[ka9yhd]

When I logged out it went back to the console login and I must have typed in the user name wrong, so I rebooted.
It locked up when logging into the user account, so I rebooted again and this time I used the graphical log in for the root access and I am using KDE4.

Interesting thing when I log out I get a terminal window and not the graphical log in window.

[T6]

only as root or as normal user too?

f as root is working, something in your kde4 config folder is not working properly

[ka9yhd]

I can log into either the user account or root access through the console login only.