On 04/04/2020 11.05, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
Idézet (Simon Becherer <>):
Am 03.04.20 um 18:25 schrieb oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu:
Hi all,
Yesterday I ran again into a problem which I cannot solve by myself. I updated my TW (with KDE). The update included a kernel update and many more. After rebooting the graphical environment did not start, only thr command line. I have network access, and I also see all things on this laptop. Interestingly, I can play the sound of a movie but cannot play music. Systemctl says I am at graphical target. I tried to boot with the kernel that was replaced with this update and worked fine, but the same happenned: no greaphical environment.
What can I do to avoid reinstall and start KDE (or even iceweasel) again.
Any help is welcome,
if its an older machine where you jumped over some updates, it sounds for me like a know problem not resolving .rpmnew config-files
check for all .rpmnew and rpmsave files with the command: rpmconfigcheck
especially this one: /etc/nsswitch.conf
merge the files, or remove the old one and use the new one. (make backup of the rpm file before)
try restart
I ran rpmconfigcheck and one of the items is /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew. I also do not know how to proceeed?
Basically, you compare the active file (/etc/nsswitch.conf) with the other file (/etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew), and you decide what new options to activate or ignore. Repeat for every file, after every zypper dup. If you have another machine, you can in that machine "ssh -X ..." to this machine, then run: meld /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew to do the edit and comparison (you may need to install meld first). And yes, you are the admin, it is you who has to decide what to do with those config options. Sorry, it is one of the reasons I do not "use" tumbleweed. Depending on the case, you have to accept the new options, refuse them all, accept some refuse some, edit some, whatever. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)