stuck at login screen kubuntu 8.04

[Sundar Nagarajan]

Sundar Nagarajan wrote:
> Juan Kawada wrote:
>> sorry, I meant 8.10
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:juankawada at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     My friend's dell inspiron laptop is stuck at the logon screen.  He
>>     did a dist-upgrade through adept, and has not been able to logon
>>     since then.  After you type n the password, the screen blinks some,
>>     and then returns to the logon screen.
>>     I tried a console logon and startx but it produced the same result.
>>     Any ideas? I saw some others with this bug but no solution so far.
>>
> 
>  From the fact that a similar effect is seen on the console, it seems to 
> look like login itself is failing . Maybe some problem with the 
> dist-upgrade left a key library unusable - like libc or in some other 
> way is preventing login authentication from happening.
> 
> I can't think of a solution, but perhaps someone else can suggest ways 
> to fix a failed libc upgrade or a failed PAM upgrade?
> 
> 

Looks like I misread the original post, and it does _not_ say that the 
console login is failing. Don't know if you tried this - by pressing 
CTRL-ALT-F1. If you can get in that way, it's probably a KDM / X 
misconfiguration, and you should look at /var/log/Xorg0.log