Comments on: Help! Technical advice.

By: elmindreda

elmindreda — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:31:54 +0000

Hmm, silly me. If the problem remains in gdm, then that can’t be it. No idea then, but I’ll see if I can think of anything.

By: elmindreda

elmindreda — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 01:30:33 +0000

That’s indeed very weird. I’ve had similar bugs on other systems, where some broken application creates invisible windows over parts of the screen. Have you installed or upgraded any UI-application recently, especially tray applets or something else that loads at login and stays resident?

By: n.

n. — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:06:14 +0000

G said ought to search the forums, but looks like you already have:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=308676

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:26:19 +0000

Sounds like a KDE or window manager bug. You could also try upgrading KDE (‘up2date kde’ might do) or, a more drastic step, switching to Gnome.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:02:23 +0000

I generally solve such malfunctions by trying a series of successively more drastic levels of reboot. Sounds like you’ve been doing that, but there’s another level beyond rebooting the machine from the console that you haven’t mentioned trying yet: physically disconnect the machine from its power source (i.e., pull the plug, or pull out the battery if it’s a laptop). Leave it to sit disconnected from the power source for an hour or more, then reconnect it and start it up again. That’s worked for me on a couple of occasions when nothing else worked.

By: Danni

Danni — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:51:28 +0000

I have absolutely no idea why that’s happening (I’m currently fighting with Kubuntu on my daughter’s machine- it isn’t even booting at the moment). Have you tried posting it on ubuntuforums.org? They’re pretty helpful on there. There’s always the irc channel on freenode as well, but that’s pretty dependant on the right people being online.

I’m sorry I can’t be much more help, but I’m still pretty new to Linux myself.