On Thursday 03 February 2011 13:11:13 Will Stephenson wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 12:16:19 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I just updated KDE to 4.5.5 on openSUSE 11.2. I get the kde login screen, and I can log in to other desktops (ice for example). But when I log in to KDE, the screen turns white and then black. I get an arrow cursor. Nothing more. I can restart the X server with the ctrl-backspace sequence. X is running. The cursor moves. I never get the KDE busy cursor one sees when KDE is starting.
The repo KDE came from is:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.2/
The chipset is an ATI ES1000. It runs as a non 3D chip. Nothing fancy.
I forced a reinstall of the packages in this repo. No difference.
I tried adding a new user jic. No difference. I see (on a virtual terminal) that many kde apps are running. But I cannot tell if one is 'stuck' or some important one is missing.
Of course I am at a remote site with limited time. Could it be any other way? I am sure this is the same release of KDE that I am running on a few other systems (different hardware of course). I did not expect a problem.
Hi Roger
Tricky situation!
What last worked? Did you upgrade from 11.2's default KDE 4.3 to 4.5?
First get some verbose debug (if kwriteconfig doesn't work then the installation is borked at a package consistency level).
kwriteconfig --file kdebugrc --key DisableAll false
Then I'd look at .xsession-errors or start KDE from a text console (export WINDOWMANAGER=`which startkde`, startx -- :1) and look for complaints. Enable
I'm guessing kwin has a problem - see if the debug output is informative. Try forcing compositing off (kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled true) then logging in. Or try starting a different window manager inside the running session (icewm --replace).
FWIW I was able to reproduce this behaviour with a vanilla 11.2 in Virtualbox upgraded to 4.5.5 from KDE:Release:45. I get a black screen whether or not Virtualbox had 3D acceleration enabled. Disabling compositing in kwinrc resolved the issue. I don't know yet why kwin didn't fallback to 2D itself. I don't have time to troubleshoot further today, it's 11.4RC1 checkin deadline for me and I am preparing for FOSDEM (And KR45 packages are so not on the list of things I'm supposed to maintain!). HTH WIll -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org