On Tuesday 25 October 2022, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello - I have a recalcitrant computer running OpenSuSE 15.3 that is refusing to start the KDE/Plasma desktop. After login I get a dialog box saying "startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation." Despite the fact that the KDE/Plasma desktop won't start, I can SSH into the system and everything else (processes, services) I want running do start up OK. In the file /var/log/warn I do see a couple of messages that are of concern, one in particular - ...
The cause might be a broken config file for this particular user. Have you tried logging in as a different user or tried a freshly created user? If either of those suggestions work, it still might prove difficult to track down which file is broken, but perhaps take a closer look at any that have changed recently, for example: % find ~/.config ~/.local -newer a-file-that-predates-the-problem To find a file that predates the problem, you could use ls on the users home directory: % ls -lart It's possible some cluses may be logged to the journal, % journalctl --boot might help. I'm not sure if leap still logs to xorg-session, but it might we worth looking in the user's .local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log Often there is too much info in these files, but you never know. Hope this helps. Michael