Marc Chamberlin composed on 2017-07-20 15:02 (UTC-0700):
Felix Miata wrote: ...
Have you tried using the greeter to select an IceWM session instead of Plasma? That will probably define whether you have a KDE problem or an Xorg problem - unless maybe yours is an authorization problem. 'WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/icewm startx -- :1' which AFAICT you didn't try as root login, would have served the same purpose. ... The WINDOWMANAGER command does indeed work and I do get a desktop with
WINDOWMANAGER is not a command. It's a peculiar form of startup option for startx (only? on openSUSE).
it, regardless of whether I login in as root or as me! Not the desktop I want to use however as it does not run any of the KDE tools that I am familiar with. But at least this is some progress...
I am not sure how to use the greeter to select an IceWM session instead of Plasma. When using KDM as my DISPLAYMANAGER all I see is a prompt for my login name, and then another for my password. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean by "greeter"? Somewhere on the login screen there are supposed to be options other than username and password, things like shutting down, rebooting, and selecting the desktop to start. There should be a desktop select list somewhere where IceWM is offered along with Plasma and others, like maybe LxDE, Gnome or XFCE. If you can't find IceWM anywhere on the login screen, it's almost certainly broken.
Greeter == login manager. Login manager used to say "Welcome to..." before theming became standard. My installations don't use greeter theming (useTheme=false in ?dmrc), so they all still include "Welcome to..." (KDM, KDM3, TDM and none other), and I always know where to look for DE selections and other options. :-)
Maybe 'zypper ve' (verify) is called for here. Maybe something among your updates didn't complete correctly. Other than trying to use lightdm, sddm, kdebase3-kdm, gdm or some other greeter, I don't know what else to suggest given the content shown in your /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ and the could not start kdeinit5 errors.
bigbang:/home/marc # zypper ve Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 7 Problems: ... Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): c
Not sure what to do about these issues so I just bailed out... Marc...
You obviously have KDE/Plasma package problems. :-( If you have a file /etc/zypp/locks, what packages are in it ('zypper ll')? Do as Patrick told you. Verify the content in /etc/zypp/repos.d/ is all appropriate. One or more repos are, or at least at the time you updated, were, inappropriate or otherwise broken. That 'zypper ve' now says there are problems suggests most likely your repo configuration is bad (some kind of mismatch). If any of *.repo contain any version number other than the one you are running (42.2?) it needs to be fixed. All are plain text files. Follow that up with 'zypper ref; zypper ve' and reboot. If the greeter still can't give you a working Plasma session (or any other session type), and you are sure your repos are correctly configured, it's time to either take it to opensuse-kde, or if you are brave enough, give 'zypper -v dup' a try. (Here it would be the latter first. ;-) ) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org