I have installed slackware and it mostly seems to be working.

So, I turn on my computer, it boots and loads and stuff, then I get the console, I login, it all goes well, I type "init 4" and it dumps me on the KDE boot screen, though when I login (as root if it matters) I it goes onto the thing where it shows those pictures then it goes back to the login screen...it is clearly not because I have got the wrong password because when I tried logging in with the wrong password, it just greys out and makes me type it again. (if it matters I'm using the 64-bit version)

Thanks for any help

Create a non-root user account first, and then try logging into KDE using that new non-root account. Using root to logon to the graphical environment is not advised.

Eric

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Thanks, do I tried doing that though when I type init 4 it says 'init: command not found' (not that exact wording, though you get the point)When I type startx it says a whole bunch of stuff with xauth locking <something>, if it is relevant I could rerun it and write them down.

Anyway, after it has shown about 4 lines of that, it shows a simple window saying 'kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The' and I think there is an 'n' after that though I can't see and as I don't have a mouse and the keyboard is doing nothing, it just stays on this. I've done this twice so it probably isn't a one off.

Ignore my previous post, that was just my incompetence at setting up a user.

I have now set up a non-root (I think, you can't have more than one root can you?) account and I tried running startx and I got the same result; a couple of pictures, then it tossed me back into the console. Is there any way to scroll up a bit in the console, just wondering.

Anyway, if you need it, I'll post everything I've got, though a basic overview leaving meaningless looking lines out would be:

Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
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QBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5'
kwin(3216)...: GL vendor is "Mesa Project"
kwin(3216)...: GL renderer is "Software Rasterizer"
kwin(3216)...: GL version is "1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.9.2)"
kwin(3216)...: glCheckFrameBufferStatus failed: "GL_NO_ERROR"

Backtrace:
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Segmentation fault at address (nil)

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault).Server aborting

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plasma-desktop: cannot connect to X server :0
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xprop: unable to open display ':0'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
startkde: Done.
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit

Actually, XFCE works, so this looks like a KDE problem rather than a Slackware problem.

If anyone has any ideas I'm still listening

@jalfor

TRy editing .kde/share/config/kwinrc file of the user you created that wont login

Change OpenGLIUnsafe=false to =true

try startx

regards

Lawrence