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[ubuntu] Hanging at login

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http://ubuntuforums.org – After upgrading the packages on my laptop I'm not able to login anymore. I'm using LXDE and LXDM but after the login the background is just blue. The console shows that there is the zombie process PreLogin. Has somebody this problem too? (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 01/22/2013

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I have a number of production servers that started off as gnome-based, but a couple of years ago I installed lxde and lxdm, and encouraged users to switch (the resource use of gnome-3 is unsustainable for these systems). However this has left the login manager as gdm (unlike the lxde spin, where it is lxdm).

I just upgraded to KDE 4.8 via ppa. Now when I want to login at the login screen, KDE does not accept my password anymore. But I can login in terminal/console.

What can I do?

Can I start the desktop gui at least from Konsole? But how? I don't know the console command.

Please, help!

[ubuntu] Cannot Login anymore 1 year 23 weeks ago

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Can't login anymore 3 years 22 weeks ago

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