On 6/19/22 18:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> [06-19-22 19:03]:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2022-06-19 14:34 (UTC-0700):
Felix Miata wrote:
What happens when you try a normal boot now? Felix - I still get the same error - startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation. If Plasma won't start, try IceWM, or whatever other session type your login manager offers. Um, I am gonna need some help I think. The system was set up to automatically log me in, so I don't get the login manager screen. Without the GUI I don't know how to reset this. I don't remember the official way to disable it when you cannot get into an X session, but if you rename your greeter's config file that should allow all the defaults, and let you start a session. Try /etc/sddm.conf or whatever /etc/sddm.cond.d/ contains, or the equivalents if using GDM or LightDM. YaST ought to be able to do it, but if not, you could try changing to a different DM:
update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager
as root systemctl isolate multi-user
<ctrl><alt><f1>
log in as <your user name> startx /usr/bin/icewm-session-default -- :1
will open an iceWM session for you.
Thanks Patrick, your magic incantations worked and I am able to bring up the iceWM session! Still no joy getting kdeinit5 working and (if I grok this correctly) starting up the SDDM session. Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)