Kde will not open

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Richard Barmann <reb68 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu 9.10 and had Kubuntu as a second session. Now it shows
> KDE in the se3ssion choices but goes back to the login window and will not
> open Kubuntu. I did notice that if I filled in the missing "en" in
> .kde/share/config/startupconfigfiles  that Kubuntu will install, but that is
> a one time thing. Even though I save the change in the above mentioned files
> the file will go back to missing "en"  See example
> "kdeglobals Locale Language 'en' # trigger requesting languages from KLocale
> /home/dick/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals"
> Thanks for any help.
> Dick
>

You could try to move your ~/.kde to .kde.org and log in again and KDE
will recreate all setting files. This has happened to me a few times
and it looks to be related to upgrades of KDE. You could also look in
~/.xsession-errors from a console for any clues after a failed login.

/ Jonas