Bug#628437: Display freezes after ksplash screen is finished

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2011-05-29 18:01, Andreas Feldner wrote:

> I noticed that the problem seems to be related to the actual session configuration, as booting a remote XDMCP session worked absolutely fine. So I switched off all effects in the KDE settings, and selected the KDE standard splash screen, but no difference.
> 
> I also noticed that the X session actually seems to be working although not visible - the mouse pointer changes shape to a cursor at a place where a password prompt would appear, and after typing it in, it vanished. Even one single window is showing: the "tip of the day" pop-up of KMail.
> 
> To me, that sounds really mysterious. Any chance to find out more about the origin of the problem? Having a "long-grown" installation (maintained via nvidia-installer manually earlier), should I check for any inconsistencies? The usual suspect, libglx.so looks OK:

* try a minimal minimal xorg.conf as described in
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian.gz
* try to create a new user, so all the user configuration is recreated
from scratch

Andreas