Hello,
after upgrade to 14.04 I cannot get the desktop: After typed userid and passwd on the panel , I get now a little window, on the left corner of the video, like a terminal, where is possible type the comand linux and if I type "exit" I get again the panel of the userid and passwd. That is very strange for me.

Other useful information :
the cmd "uname -a" gives "Linux 3.2.0-61-generic", and on the terminal I see “Ubuntu 14.04 LTS” .

Please could help me ?
thanks in advance

is the /home partition mounted? if so do you have ownership and rw access to your ~/ folder

google01103 wrote:is the /home partition mounted? if so do you have ownership and rw access to your ~/ folder

I already did this but the problem persists.

Do you have any idea ?
thanks

can you log into KDE as root? yes, not an accepted practice but just as a test

does it look like this

I get now a little window, on the left corner of the video, like a terminal, where is possible type the comand linux and if I type "exit" I get again the panel of the userid and passwd

That's a failsafe session. The window is an xterm and there's no windowmanager.
- ensure (in the login window) that you have selected to log into a KDE session at all (there'll be a config button somewhere)
- if yes, in the xterm (the only window in the failsafe session), try to enter "kwin &" and see whether you get a titlebar
- if not, enter "which kwin" and check for the output
- if there's a complete path (eg. "/usr/bin/kwin"), enter

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ldd `which kwin`"

(notice the backticks!) and post the output here.