
On 09/05/2014 11:50 AM, mararm wrote:
What I did this morning was
1) installing latest updates (via apper-plasmoid)
Well OK, but I normally use 'zypper up' at the console so I can see what's going on.
2) log out of KDE
Generally I don't do this. Why? Many updates don't affect KDE. No need to log out in that case.
3) log in to console 4) sudo zypper ps, which listed kdm
Right!
5) sudo systemctl restart xdm.service
Normally, this would restart kdm and take me to the graphical login on vt 7.
Ah, yes; sounds like, generally, you've done what I do, so here it gets ... /interesting/ I wish you had started with this detailed description! Details are good. If you'd told us this in your first post quite a few of the previous posts, mine included, would never have happened :-)
It did not. It did not report anything either.
'zypper ps' still listed kdm
/_Very_ interesting/
I saw this behaviour already two or three days ago. Then, I did the 'kill <pidofkdm>', which pretty much "ruined" my system and I had to reboot. I have no idea, why that happend, but I did not want to do it again.
Now wanting to reboot is good. It means you haven't been brainwashed into being a Microserf :-)
On the graphical console I could get the screen to flash by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace twice, which in my opinion should restart X. But the kdm process stayed.
Even more ... /interesting/
Normally, stopping kdm should disable the graphical login. It did not. Then I tried stopping it.
$ sudo systemclt stop xdm.service did not report errors. kdm stays alive.
$ systemctl status xdm.service xdm.service - LSB: X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm) Active: inactive (dead) since Fri, 2014-09-05 11:10:24 CEST; 6h ago Process: 22085 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/xdm stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 21836 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/xdm start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/xdm.service ├ 1441 /usr/bin/kdm └ 22099 /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -seat seat0...
I did not understand this. Hence, I logged back in KDE and wrote my first mail of this thread.
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