Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2391 mails)

[Julien Michielsen <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Saturday 2008-05-10 at 09:18 +0200, Julien Michielsen wrote:
>
> > When I start my opensuse 11 I first get the message "can't start 
> > window- manager. please install one". Subsequently I issue the 
> > startkde-command, and everything works fine. I'm fed up having to give 
> > this command every time again, and wonder why this won't execute 
> > automatically. In addition it frustrates the shutdown procedure. When 
> > I want to "leave" the machine  does not shutdown, but only stops the 
> > kde-script. I then need to go to a console (ALT_CTL_-F2) and give the 
> > three finger salute.
>
> Have a look at the log files before you issue the startkde command; 
> probably "/var/log/Xorg.0.log".

Thanks for your reply. I did check /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and this gave a 
few hints. Then again I don't know how serious they are.
As a start it complained that a number of font-directories did not 
exist, like
/usr/share/fonts/local
               ../PEX
                ../latin2/75dpi
                ../latin2/100dpi
 and quite some more. Might these have prevented kde to start, and 
should they have been installed automatically?

Subsequently a number of lines appeared, giving the output of the 
pci-scan. None of them displayed errors.

> Later, do "init 3 ; init 5" and check for errors in the text console.

an init 3 only gave me a text console, init 5 gave me exactly the same 
result as a normal boot: a message " "can't start window- manager. 
please install one", and that was the message I wanted to prevent ;-(

> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.

Thanks for your help.

--
Julien Michielsen
julien_at_michkloo.xs4all.nl

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