Comment 2 for bug 640497

I created a VirtualBox guest host using the 9/8/10 Maverick LiveCD. It ran well. Yesterday I received notification of updates available. Rather than run KPackageKit I opened a Konsole and used apt-get. About 274 packages were updated. I rebooted and my KDE desktop appeared and ran normally. A few minutes later KPackageKit said 254 packages were available. I let it do the updates and rebooted when it told me to. I was greeted with the login screen loop. None of the usual remedies would fix it.

So, also yesterday, 9/15/10, I downloaded the Maverick daily livecd with the intention of installing it over the existing Maverick guest OS on VirtualBox. Booting the LiveCD up within VirtualBox using the existing Maverick guest OS I was greeted with the Maverick LiveCD menu.

I selected the install option straight away. An "ubi-partmon failed with an exit code 141". A retry failed. Ignoring the failure resulted in a sterile install, with the progress bar missing, and it never progress beyond the final ad graphic. I canceled and the system proceeded to go to the LiveCD KDE desktop. While still running the LiveCD KDE desktop I installed gparted and created a bootable EXT4 partition, erasing the Maverick install that had resided there. Then I ran the install option from the desktop icon. Upon completion of the install I rebooted and was greeted again with the login screen loop. Today, 9/16/10, I booted into a console screen, thinking there would be some additional downloads which would resolve the situation. I did the apt-get update & dist-upgrade. After between 20-30 downloads installed I rebooted. The login screen loop remains. The contents of the .xsession-errors file is copied below (only because this bug system allows only on attachment per post)
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Xsession: X session started for greygeek at Thu Sep 16 10:04:11 CDT 2010
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
[: 225: ==: unexpected operator
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
kbuildsycoca4 running...
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
Fetched layout groups from X server: layouts: ("us") variants: ("")
Fetched layout groups from X server: layouts: ("us") variants: ("")
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Invalid D-BUS member name 'idle-hint' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'is-local' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'remote-host-name' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'session-type' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection
<unknown program name>(1085)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating: "KMaverick32guest;1284649463;614549;1085_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
kded(1089)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.7'
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceCreated(Device*) to Monolithic::deviceCreated(Device*)
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceDisappeared(Device*) to Monolithic::regenerateDeviceEntries()
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::deviceRemoved(Device*) to Monolithic::regenerateDeviceEntries()
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
Object::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KUniqueApplication::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance()
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL vendor is "Mesa Project"
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL renderer is "Software Rasterizer"
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: GL version is "1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.9-devel)"
kwin(1156) KWin::CompositingPrefs::detectDriverAndVersion: Detected driver "software" , version "7.9.-devel)"
kwin(1156): glCheckFramebufferStatus failed: "GL_NO_ERROR"
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/greygeek/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
<unknown program name>(1162)/ kdemain: !!{} STARTUP TIME 36268069 START (line: 48 )
plasma-desktop: cannot connect to X server :0
plasma-desktop(1162): Communication problem with "plasma-desktop" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" : " "The name org.kde.plasma-desktop was not provided by any .service files" "

kcminit(1103)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: "libkcm_kpk_update.so"
kcminit(1103)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: "libkcm_kpk_addrm.so"
<unknown program name>(1160)/: Communication problem with "knotify" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected" : " "Connection is closed" "

kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
bluedevil-monolithic: Fatal IO error: client killed
kglobalaccel: Fatal IO error: client killed
Qt-subapplication: Fatal IO error: client killed
kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 23 requests (8 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
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