[opensuse-kde] Kdm disabled in bios after apper upgrade
I have a HP laptop that I have a dual boot (win 7 and Suse 13.1 that has System management Bios, on it. Everything was working fine until a Apper upgrade now KDE won't start. I am running KDE 4.13.3. Looking through the error messages on start up, I get a message that kdm is disabled by bios. I have tried going into the bios but there are no settings other than picking startup order of the drives, and a system check. I ran the system check and it came back fine, I am using grub for startup, both windows and Linux starts up but no kde. I tried the desktop recovery mode start up with the same result. Any Ideas ? -- Bob C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
In data lunedì 28 luglio 2014 17:53:12, Robert Cunningham ha scritto: Hello,
now KDE won't start. I am running KDE 4.13.3. Looking through the error messages on start up, I get a message that kdm is disabled by bios. I
This is a false positive: you're seeing "kvm: disabled by bios", and in that case it has no relation to KDM, but to the hardware virtualization capabilities of your CPU.
have tried going into the bios but there are no settings other than
Can you check /var/log/messages, the output of journalctl -b, and /var/log/kdm.log? There might be clues on why it's not starting. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79
On 07/28/2014 05:53 PM, Robert Cunningham wrote:
I have a HP laptop that I have a dual boot (win 7 and Suse 13.1 that has System management Bios, on it. Everything was working fine until a Apper upgrade now KDE won't start. I am running KDE 4.13.3. Looking through the error messages on start up, I get a message that kdm is disabled by bios.
That makes no sense to me. The bios doesn't know about KDE. The bios doesn't even know about Linux. As i understand it the bios doesn't even know about grub. The bios only knows about the MBR. The MBR load grub. Grub loads the initrd. The initrd works some magic and LO! There is a running system and the init which is now systemd starts. Systemd start stuff the eventually runs kdm, or xdm or gd, and prompts for a login. The login has the option of which Dm you want to start, KDE, Gnome, e16, lxde or other. There are a lot of steps between the bios and kde.
I have tried going into the bios but there are no settings other than picking startup order of the drives, and a system check.
Right.
I ran the system check and it came back fine, I am using grub for startup, both windows and Linux starts up but no kde. I tried the desktop recovery mode start up with the same result. Any Ideas ?
There are many reasons why KDE won't start after an upgrade. They all get back to the X server not starting. Look for lines with "EE" in /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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On 07/28/2014 05:53 PM, Robert Cunningham wrote:
I have a HP laptop that I have a dual boot (win 7 and Suse 13.1 that has System management Bios, on it. Everything was working fine until a Apper upgrade now KDE won't start. I am running KDE 4.13.3. Looking through the error messages on start up, I get a message that kdm is disabled by bios.
That makes no sense to me.
certainly doesn't
There are a lot of steps between the bios and kde.
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There are many reasons why KDE won't start after an upgrade. They all get back to the X server not starting.
Look for lines with "EE" in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
And/or are you using an nVidia or AMD video driver and just forgot to rebuild the kernel files: sh ./NVIDIA.....run -a -K I sometimes forget and cannot boot into runlevel 5 as I have not updated the kernel files. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
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