On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Erik Sorenson
Started my computer this a.m. and it booted my 11.3/kde3 partition as it should, but dropped to the commandline rather than go through to the desktop. Logging in and "startx" worked right off. Problem is repeatable, and booting will not go through to the GUI without dropping to the commandline.
Tried it on the 11.4/kde3 that I had created a week ago (pure icewm install for 11.4, then add kde3 repo), and the same thing happened. Yesterday both were working fine.
Here are the pertinent lines in /var/log/warn's from these two systems (Xorg.0.log is useless):
Mar 13 15:37:18 s113kde3 kdm[2373]: X server startup timeout, terminating Mar 13 15:37:18 s113kde3 kdm[2373]: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled
Mar 13 15:19:05 s114kde3 kdm[1904]: X server startup timeout, terminating Mar 13 15:19:05 s114kde3 kdm[1904]: X server for display :0 can't be started, session disabled
Eric, It might be the same issue I've seen before with oS 11.1 and newer kernels (from Evergeen repository). Somehow the KDM is started early and X later and KDM times out before X is ready. The simple workaround was to change KDM timeout in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc The default was 15 seconds. I set it to 100 and it solved the issue. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+help@opensuse.org