On 01/12/2019 05:35 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
However, that lead me to another mess, after logging in to my account, I discovered the KDE/Plasma desktop was not working properly. I had a few konsole windows that opened up (ones I had left open when I brought the system down) but the plasma part of the desktop was not there. No background, no kicker bar, no mouse activity or the ability to right click and bring up the pop up menu dialog etc. In other words almost useless, although all the services and background tasks I have configured to run started up fine. (things like Apache, Tomcat, Bind, DHCPD etc.) I don't know how to recover from this mess, I tried reinstalling all the KDE and Plasma packages but no joy, so I decided to try a different approach - At this point you should just have created a new user and login as him instead. Seeing that you have not yet formatted this partition, you can still try.
Hi Carlos and thanks for your thoughts... I tried to create a new user and login is him but not joy, it results in a total black screen that is unresponsive to anything other than having an active mouse cursor. Right clicking fails to bring up the context menu either. So something is hosed at the system level and not allowing plasma things to run. The only thing that saves me in my own account is that I have been leaving some konsole windows open whenever I exit or reboot the system. Those get reopened whenever I log back in to my own account so at least I have shell access then and can run stuff from the command line. Marc.. -- Linux Counter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org