Very strange; your first reply arrived on-list, but not in my inbox. Your latest (quoted below) arrived in my inbox, but not on-list (though it is in the list archive). I think my ISP is perhaps playing games with my incoming mail. On 22/02/16 08:25 AM, billb@sent.at wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, at 06:16 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
It is a mystery why this machine just rebooted into runlevel 5 with this corrupt config file, but refused to do so previously. You switched kdm -> sddm back? Yes. On this boot, all the junk was ignored, so I wound up with all the daemons and printers and other such stuff still showing up in the login screen.
It is also a mystery why it keeps getting corrupted. Would it help if I log out, switch to runlevel 3 to modify the file, then go back to runlevel 5? I saw that kind of corruption of that file awhile ago.
Iiuc you're not supposed to text-edit KDE configs while "in use" by the DE. Perhaps not, but it still shouldn't result in a corrupted file. In any event, I'll do as you suggest--->
Drop to init 3, edit, reboot - is what I'd try. Stay tuned ;)
Or better, recreate the file in case something's screwy at that inode. So
mv /etc/sddm.conf /etc/sddm.conf.OLD edit /etc/sddm.conf copy/paste the contents of /etc/sddm.conf.OLD => /etc/sddm.conf reboot
I'm not 100% sure that's all I needed to do.
Doubtful, as I can read the file OK with anything I've tried; however, better safe than have to keep re-editing the thing... later. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org