Hello - I am running a desktop system using openSuSE Leap 42.2 x64 and after receiving and installing a set of updates I can no longer bring up the KDE desktop with Plasma. I am in need of some kind KDE guru to help me fix this problem and have been advised to join this forum and ask for help here. I started a thread on the opensuse@opensuse.org forum titled "Failing to get login screen or desktops" that will help explain my problem and show the progress I have made so far trying to resolve this issue. (Sorry, that thread is rather long and will take a bit of time to grok.) In a nutshell, the only window manager I can get running is ICEWM. All the KDE variants give me an error message saying "Could not start kdeinit5. check the installation." and will not allow me to proceed any further. I have managed to get the KDM display manager working so at least I do get to the login screen. Some helpful information I was told to pass along to the KDE gurus is shown below - bigbang:~ # journalctl -b | grep kdeinit Jul 21 11:34:01 bigbang kernel: kdeinit5[3307]: segfault at 8 ip 00007fa1720c6ded sp 00007ffea9846c20 error 4 in ld-2.22.so[7fa1720b7000+21000] Jul 21 11:34:01 bigbang systemd-coredump[3311]: Process 3307 (kdeinit5) of user 1000 dumped core. and (from all my many attempts to get KDE back up and running) I was told to also show all these coredumps I have gotten - bigbang:~ # ls -al /var/lib/systemd/coredump total 12256 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Jul 21 11:37 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jul 4 09:16 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 389620 Jul 19 19:11 core.dolphin.0.bc49fc18af9042e582bfd8383909cd80.4542.1500516700000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 389440 Jul 20 14:01 core.dolphin.1000.c3f516e2c47c4294a9921c78ebe004ac.4201.1500584504000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 390384 Jul 20 14:02 core.dolphin.1000.c3f516e2c47c4294a9921c78ebe004ac.4308.1500584528000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 422272 Jul 19 19:12 core.gwenview.0.bc49fc18af9042e582bfd8383909cd80.4821.1500516735000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122328 Jul 20 21:44 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.4030.1500612245000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122064 Jul 20 21:45 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.4925.1500612338000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122480 Jul 20 21:46 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.5187.1500612360000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122260 Jul 20 21:47 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.5836.1500612442000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 121988 Jul 20 21:47 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.6090.1500612462000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122424 Jul 20 21:48 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.6401.1500612496000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122040 Jul 20 21:48 core.kdeinit5.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.6649.1500612515000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122052 Jul 21 11:34 core.kdeinit5.1000.30b04aa02f5449a6b6010c5f08f8451e.3307.1500662041000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122524 Jul 20 14:53 core.kdeinit5.1000.392f63e4c51c4eed97e4dbb4ac6a81c2.3501.1500587631000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122204 Jul 21 09:40 core.kdeinit5.1000.39ab1ced588c42619c175e3ffe0312e6.3391.1500655257000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122412 Jul 19 13:54 core.kdeinit5.1000.763b219f4db0404ab804b715da33d1cc.3347.1500497691000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122604 Jul 20 13:53 core.kdeinit5.1000.b4819a6980494dc4b1f80536174fad50.3305.1500584010000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122488 Jul 19 19:08 core.kdeinit5.1000.bc49fc18af9042e582bfd8383909cd80.3254.1500516485000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122044 Jul 20 13:59 core.kdeinit5.1000.c3f516e2c47c4294a9921c78ebe004ac.3297.1500584392000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122160 Jul 21 10:02 core.kdeinit5.1000.e8624938aa35409c9cac6aebb7b61fd6.3388.1500656524000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122736 Jul 19 12:31 core.kdeinit5.1000.f90aa36c75fa45f5b6925fe316117ee6.3360.1500492668000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122380 Jul 20 21:45 core.kdeinit5.1004.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.4629.1500612309000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 122076 Jul 20 13:54 core.kdeinit5.1004.b4819a6980494dc4b1f80536174fad50.3604.1500584046000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 270136 Jul 20 21:50 core.ksplashqml.0.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.7455.1500612643000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 270240 Jul 19 19:03 core.ksplashqml.0.763b219f4db0404ab804b715da33d1cc.16257.1500516208000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 270532 Jul 20 13:54 core.ksplashqml.0.b4819a6980494dc4b1f80536174fad50.3802.1500584067000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 270616 Jul 19 13:22 core.ksplashqml.0.f90aa36c75fa45f5b6925fe316117ee6.16502.1500495772000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 268400 Jul 20 21:44 core.ksplashqml.1000.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.4010.1500612245000000.xz -rw-r-----+ 1 root root 269568 Jul 20 21:45 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core.sddm-greeter.483.ba982bdf727a421c8a63d03b3f4c0537.3045.1500418122000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 169264 Jul 18 11:33 core.sddm-greeter.483.c490cd1e96c84ea5b0cb762c7e01902c.3047.1500402826000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 212664 Jul 18 13:43 core.sddm.0.6af6c36197af451f8c71854a8bafbc87.2949.1500410580000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 105544 Jul 20 21:52 core.y2controlcenter.0.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.8069.1500612727000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 107180 Jul 20 21:56 core.y2controlcenter.0.2419ae5a680048799ecb2f60e3bd3665.9369.1500613019000000.xz -rw-r----- 1 root root 105544 Jul 21 11:37 core.y2controlcenter.0.30b04aa02f5449a6b6010c5f08f8451e.4408.1500662246000000.xz So.. Pretty Please! Can some kind guru here take the time to retrace my path on the opensuse forum (if that will help fill in some necessary background info) and help guide me out of these dark woods? Or perhaps this is already a known issue? In which case what should I do about it? Thanks so much in advance for any and all offers to help me! Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org