On 6/19/22 16:02, Felix Miata wrote:
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. Hello again Felix, and again thank you for your assistance. And thanks to Patrick's magic I was able to start the IceWM which seems to be working fine. The only hitch was that I use both Knockd and Fail2Ban to control remote access to this system, and both had stopped working also. Internet research lead me to discover that OpenSuSE 15.3 relatively recently switched the Firewalld from using iptables to nftables. Took me awhile to figure out how to get it back to working with iptables instead. Guess this will be another problem to solve later, getting both Knockd and Fail2Ban to work with nftables instead of iptables. 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
I found and changed the setting for automatic login in the KDE Systems Management utility, after getting the IceWM working. However it did not make a difference, unfortunately, I am still getting the kdeinit5 error message. Unfortunately the update-alternatives command does not offer me the choice of using IceWM as my default windows manager. SIGH! And I would prefer using SDDM since I already familiar with it and know how to use it.
Once that's done, let's see output of the following command: zypper se -si | grep 'tem Pac' | grep -v plication OK, here you go, kinda long and wraps every line, sorry!
In SeaMonkey Mail, which TB was forked from, and now supplies patches that SM Mail uses to continue, I am able to toggle line wrapping on/off in the current composition. Can't you add the Toggle Worg Wrap extension to TB?
I don't recognize anything amongst those oldies that should impact starting up a Plasma session. Let's work first on getting any X session to start, by disabling auto-login.
I added the extension to Thunderbird and hopefully it will come in handy the next time you ask me to produce some output! 😁
I cut your System Packages output down to manageable groups:
i+ | awesfx | package | 0.5.2-lp153.117.1 i+ | clementine | package | 1.3.99.20210609-lp153.151.3 i+ | curl | package | 7.83.1-lp153.324.1 i+ | libcurl4 | package | 7.83.1-lp153.324.1 i+ | libdvdcss2 | package | 1.4.2-lp153.2.1 i+ | libgnutls30 | package | 3.7.6-lp153.72.9 i+ | libhogweed6 | package | 3.7.3-lp153.27.1 i+ | libnettle8 | package | 3.7.3-lp153.27.1 i+ | libopenssl-1_1-devel | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1 i+ | libopenssl-devel | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.1.1 i+ | libopenssl1_1 | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1 i+ | libprojectM3 | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1 i+ | libsuil-0-0 | package | 0.10.10-lp153.33.1 i+ | libtasn1-6 | package | 4.18.0-lp153.18.3 i+ | libtasn1-tools | package | 4.18.0-lp153.18.3 i+ | libzvbi0 | package | 0.2.35-lp153.52.1 i+ | openssl | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.1.1 i+ | openssl-1_1 | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1 i+ | perl-Class-Std-Fast | package | 0.0.8-lp153.4.1 i+ | perl-Number-Bytes-Human | package | 0.11-lp153.5.1 i+ | perl-SOAP-WSDL | package | 3.004-lp153.2.1 i+ | perl-Sys-MemInfo | package | 0.99-lp153.5.1 i+ | perl-Sys-Mmap | package | 0.20-lp153.3.1 i+ | projectM | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1 i+ | projectM-data | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1 i+ | projectM-devel | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1 i | python3-zm_database_init | package | 3.3.3-lp153.5.1 i+ | snapd | package | 2.56-lp153.1.1 i+ | vorbis-tools | package | 1.4.2-lp153.273.2 i+ | vorbis-tools-lang | package | 1.4.2-lp153.273.2 i+ | ZoneMinder | package | 1.36.18-lp153.5.1 i+ | bacula-client | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1 i+ | bacula-common | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1 i+ | bacula-console | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1 i+ | hw-probe | package | 1.5-lp152.6.1 i+ | libbind9-160 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libdns169 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libirs160 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libisc166 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libisccc160 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libisccfg160 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | liblwres160 | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6 i+ | libply-boot-client4 | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4 i+ | libply-splash-core4 | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4 i+ | libply-splash-graphics4 | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4 i+ | libply4 | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4 i+ | libwireshark13 | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1 i+ | libwiretap10 | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1 i+ | libwsutil11 | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1 i+ | libyui-ncurses11 | package | 2.54.5-lp152.1.3 i+ | libyui-qt-graph11 | package | 2.46.3-lp152.1.1 i+ | libyui-qt11 | package | 2.52.4-lp152.1.1 i+ | libyui11 | package | 3.9.3-lp152.1.3 i+ | patterns-desktop-multimedia_opt| package | 20170319-lp152.5.3 i+ | python2-iniconfig | package | 1.1.1-lp152.2.3 Some of these I would have expected to be upgraded by a zypper dup, but the rest are from your optional repos.
I am not sure if you are asking me to do a zypper dup on this system or not. The last time I just ran zypper up thinking that was probably safer. Still stuck but feeling more hopeful now that I see IceWM is working OK. I wonder if there is some kind of configuration error for SDDM but I haven't messed with it (don't know how) AFAIK. 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./)