On 12/21/20 2:34 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 21/12/2020 19.25, Jim Flanagan wrote:
On 12/20/20 6:39 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2020-12-20 at 16:55 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote:
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Welcome. Let's go step by step.
I also found this searching the web. What about re-installing plasma.desktop or updating it?
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/541072-no-menu-available-after-up...
I don't think it applies to your problem. He said he did a fresh install without formatting, and that's a recipe for problems. If you can not format, the correct procedure is "upgrade", as you did.
But you got some advice from Patrick that might work [...] Ok, I see it didn't.
Ok, what happens if, on the text console, you do:
init 3 init 5
Tell the exact errors you get. Take a photo perhaps.
I can and have been going to tty (F1) and can log in as jim and root. I have run init 3 just ot shut down the desktop before i make changes. Then running init 5 takes me back to desktop login (KDE). I can do this in tty on that machine or thru temrinal on my macbook. I've even run init 6 via remote terminal to restart the machine, works fine. The system is up and running, and has been. That "logitechmediaserver" rpm is managed thru http://localhost:9000, that's the only display built in, so I don't see that that would be a problem. And it is working fine. I haven't done the rest of your suggestions below yet. I will shortly, but wanted to relay this. The desktop is up (and has been). Previous widgets are there and working. I can right click on the desktop and select the options present, and those work. From there I can open Dolphin, or select 'Leave' to logoff, restart etc, all of which work fine. Its just that when I click specifically on the Start gecko, I get the following bubble popup message just over the start gecko right where the menu should be: Error loading QML file: file:///usr/share/ plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kicker/ contents/ui/main.qml27.1: module "org.kde.plasma.private.kicker" is not installed Before I proceed with the below, I'll wait to see if this provides any more clues as to what to do. Many thanks, Jim F
*if it fails*, please run:
update-alternatives --display default-displaymanager
and tell the results.
Mine:
Telcontar:~ # update-alternatives --display default-displaymanager default-displaymanager - auto mode link best version is /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm link currently points to /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm link default-displaymanager is /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/console - priority 5 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/gdm - priority 25 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/kdm - priority 15 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/lightdm - priority 15 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm - priority 25 /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/xdm - priority 10 Telcontar:~ #
I don't remember if the default for a plasma systemd is "kdm"; you could try switching to "sddm" instead, but you might have to install it:
zypper install sddm
Once installed, to do the switch you would do:
init 3
update-alternatives --set default-displaymanager \ /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/sddm
init 5
And maybe with that you get a graphical login.
Then, try to login to plasma, and if that fails, try other desktops till one works. You might have to install some extra pattern to get more desktops.
Note: doc for update-alternatives:
https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.0/#general
Section 5.2