On 10/24/22 23:21, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
Hello,
In the Message;
Subject : startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation. Message-ID : <5044e87c-08ab-9bb0-f385-f6f4ebeefa7a@marcchamberlin.com> Date & Time: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:53:05 -0700
[MC] == Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> has written:
MC> Hello - I have a recalcitrant computer running OpenSuSE 15.3 MC> that is refusing to start the KDE/Plasma desktop. After login I MC> get a dialog box saying "startkde: Could not start MC> kdeinit5. Check your installation." [...]
Maybe, this log file give you a clue;
$ kdeniit5 > kde.log 2>&1 Thanks Masaru Nomiya , here is what was produced, not sure what to do about it,
nova:/home/marc # kdeinit5 > kde.log 2>&1 nova:/home/marc # more kde.log kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Google hasn't been helpful yet, looking for this particular $DISPLAY error message. There are lots of different solutions depending on platform and type of underlying process/purpose involved, but I am still surfing and looking for clues/answers... One thing I tried, no joy, was to enable the sddm.service so that it is started automagically. If you got any good ideas on how to proceed, I sure would appreciate! Marc...
Regards.
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