David C. Rankin composed on 2018-08-27 02:31 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
OP: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde3/2018-08/msg00031.html
All these failures are associated with another new ~/.config/gtkrc* file.
Same PC has separate TW installation with Plasma that works as expected. :-p
Ideas?
Felix, only guesses (15 is my latest),
To get kdm happily working there in the new "update alternatives" world, I followed the standard advice of:
# update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3 15
(that did not change the DM)
I then set:
# update-alternatives --set default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3
which did change the DM to kdm3, but had the associated cannot find display-manager.service issue.
So I provided my own display manager service:
# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/kdm3.service [Unit] Description=KDE3 Display Manager After=systemd-user-sessions.service
[Service] ExecStart=/opt/kde3/bin/kdm
[Install] Alias=display-manager.service
(did the obligatory systemctl daemon-reload, and did not enable or start the service, but since it is aliased to display-manager, it is found and systemd is happy -- you can enable it, but it is really just used one-shot so there is no benefit)
I don't know if this will fix your issue, but making sure that display-manger is actually aliased to something may provide a solution.
I doubt the problem here has anything to do with /etc/alternatives. I have other TW/KDE3 installations that work as expected. On the failing one I had this already: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 4 2017 default-displaymanager -> /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jun 16 22:37 default-xsession.desktop -> ../../usr/share/xsessions/kde.desktop I redid the latter to be a normal symlink instead of relative, but it changed nothing. Startx fails to start icewm, which coredumps as well, so apparently this isn't just a KDE3 problem. Doesn't look like kernel either, as same failure whether 4.18.0, 4.17.14, 4.16.12 or 4.15.13. :-( -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org