Login issues after new Mageia 3 KDE installation

[Menendez]

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.

[gohlip]

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.

[Menendez]

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

[djennings]

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.

[Menendez]

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

[Menendez]

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.

[doktor5000]

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