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Hello,

I attempted to install Mageia 3 KDE over the existing partitions of a computer running Mandriva 2011.
However I am experiencing problems logging into KDE.

If I boot into Mageia 3 I am never presented with the login panel where you can select the user.
Instead I am taken straight to a KDE desktop. This desktop has no desktop icons and no task manager bar at the bottom.
It does have the desktop widget in the top right corner. If I use the desktop widget and invoke leave then I am taken to the login panel where you can select the user. Here I see my user but I cannot enter a password. I cannot get the cursor to show up in the password field.

If I boot into Mageia 3 Safe Mode then I can invoke KDE 4 from the command line. And I am taken directly to a full desktop with desktop icons, the task manager bar at the bottom and he desktop widget. From here if I invoke the MCC and go into Manage User then I can see my user and nothing stands out as strange. I assume I am root when in Safe Mode since I am not prompted for the root password when entering the MCC.

All advice would be greatly appreciated.

Try "removing" .kde4 in your user home (meaning rename it say .kde4old) and reboot.
It should give you a fresh kde desktop to start with.

I removed .kde4 but this did not solve the problem. Behavior is the same. Thanks for the idea though.

You installed using the Live DVD.
The Live DVDs by default set up the computer for automatic login. If you open MageiaControlCentre>Boot>Automatic Login you can change it.

As for the issue with the desktop if you installed using an existing /home you may have an issue with the UID number of your user. If you open a terminal and enter

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ls -la

check that the files in your home directory are owned by your user.

I disabled automatic login and confirmed all the files belong to the user. This did not solve the problem. Behavior is the same.

I solved the problem.
I deleted the user account but not the users home directory.
Then I went into the users home directory as root and deleted all hidden files and hidden folders.
Then I recreated the user account via the MCC.
Now the account is working although I did lose save settings for a few programs.

Next time better create a new user to rule out possible problems with old/probelmatic configuration files, avoids losing too much settings.

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks