On 10/03/2010 04:24 PM, Bob Rea wrote:
then it had trouble starting but finally got to kde login, now won't accept my password. What can I do about that?
Can't upgrade til I have working dvd or cd drive, which was the point of the exercise.
Bob, Dunno, sounds like something with pam may be messed up or whatever backend you use there. If you just want to boot into your desktop (kde4 I guess?), then you can login to a text console on your box and set the desired desktop in ~/.xinitrc and then start your desktop with 'startx' Just boot the runlevel 3 and do a normal terminal login. Then copy the ~/.xinitrc-template to ~/.xinitrc and edit your ~/.xinitrc by substituting the executable name for $WINDOWMANAGER at (near) the bottom of the file: original template: <snip> unset WINDOW_MANAGER STARTUP exec $WINDOWMANAGER in your ~/.xinitrc file make it: <snip> unset WINDOW_MANAGER STARTUP exec $WINDOWMANAGER Where $WINDOWMANAGER can be replaced with any one of the following on suse (if the desktop is installed): exec gnome-session exec startkde exec startxfce4 exec startfluxbox exec /opt/kde/bin/startkde After you have put your wm of choice in ~/.xinitrc, then just type 'startx' at the command line and it will launch your desktop w/o a password prompt. Good Luck, post back if you get stuck... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org