[SOLVED] kdm/gdm not letting me log in - tty access only

Question

I was on the road for a month and updated my desktop (64 bit) via ssh regularly. Everything went well until 5th April when I upgraded, among others, sqlite3, libproxy and libsoup. These were the last signs of life from my desktop...
I returned home today and managed to get it up to date (although I still don't know why ssh failed). Then attempted to go into init 5 and kdm popped up as advertised but upon entering my password it simply drops back to the kdm mask.
~/.xsession-errors says:
libglade-2.0.so.0: file too short
libsqlite3.so.0: file too short
I installed gdm just for the fun of it and it reports the same errant behaviour (much better than kdm btw which didn't tell me sod all).
Neither login manager lets me into any other DE either. So, what am I missing?
Oh, and many thanks for any hints/tips/suggestions
croak
Last edited by toad (2009-04-15 12:56:22)

Answer 1

update:
libsqlite3.so.0.8.6 was 0 byte. I attempted to reinstall sqlite3 but pacman wouldn't let me - so I forced it and it obeyed.
result:
I can log in again from the command line only
kdm is still complaining about libsqlite3.so being too small... afaik there is no way of removing and reinstalling kdm on its own, is there? Oh, I should add I've got KDE vanilla.
toad@deskarch 62\1 ~ > sudo pacman -Sy kdm
Password:
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
rfad is up to date
kdm package not found, searching for group...
error: 'kdm': not found in sync db
Perhaps some rc file which I can tweak? I am not familiar enough with kdm, so any hint would be greatly appreciated!
And last but not least the last entry from the kdm log:
X.Org X Server 1.5.3
Release Date: 5 November 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.29-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux deskarch 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 12:39:28 CEST 2009 x86_64
Build Date: 05 April 2009  01:22:07PM                                                                 
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org                                             
        to make sure that you have the latest version.                                                 
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,                                     
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,                                       
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Apr 14 11:32:42 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
Warning: font renderer for ".ttf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".ttc" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".otf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".otc" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pfa" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pfb" already registered at priority 0
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
error setting MTRR (base = 0xd0000000, size = 0x01000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
        If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
        and start again.
Last edited by toad (2009-04-14 11:20:45)