I have just installed KDE , set up my preferred environment (with desktop cube effects color scheme, set the splash screen to "minimalist" and also installed ksnapshot.) Installation was done with the terminal,
sudo apt-get install kde-desktop
Everything seemed to be working fine (actually pretty stellar.) Then I did a reboot to make sure all my changes could settle-in properly. When I got back to the login screen, which is the KDM login screen I selected in the setup process, however, there seems to be no user account for me (or anyone else for that matter.) If I click "switch user," my only option is something that says, "Unused (:0, vt8)" which is already selected. If I type in my previous username and password, it won't recognize it and acts as though I've typed in error.
While I cannot login, I do seem to have other options. The blue down-arrow gives me options of which desktop to use. options are
- "Defualt,"
- "KDE Plasma Workspace,"
- "KDE Plasma Workspace (failsafe session),"
- "Ubuntu," and
- "Failsafe."
The red "shutdown" button on the screen gives me the options,
- "Switch User,"
- "Restart X Server,"
- "remote Login,"
- "Console Login," and
- "Shutdown."
Would someone please help me get it functioning again?It seems this has happened before.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2003566&highlight=kdm+username+password
This person closed their thread before there were any responses, so I wasn't able to post that I'm having the same issue. The "long-story short" version of this is, KDM won't accept (or seem to recognize the existence of) my username or password, or any other, and I cannot switch to another login manager to try that because that would require that it accept my credentials first. If it helps to know, before my reboot and subsequently getting stuck at KDM, LightDM logged me into KDE just fine.
