Hello,

In the Message; 

  Subject    : Re: Need help with a laptop that will only run Plasma/Wayland
  Message-ID : <a8e0af9e-d532-4ca6-9c1a-f51c3a508416@marcchamberlin.com>
  Date & Time: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:34:58 -0700

[MC] == Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> has written:

[...]
MN>  > You've got a dependency issue.
MN>  > 
MN>  > Please execute this;
MN>  > 
MN>  >         $ startplasma-x11 > plasma.log 2>&1
MN>  > 
MN>  > This plasma.log will give you a clue to the solution.

MC>  Naw no joy! I ran this under the plasma/wayland desktop (which is
MC>  the only one I can bring up) and all it said was

MC>  marc@marcslaptop:~/Documents> startplasma-x11 > plasma.log 2>&1
MC>  marc@marcslaptop:~/Documents> more plasma.log Plasma seems to be already
MC>  running on this display.

This can be done in a virtual console, which is the usual way;

At the login screen;

   1. Ctrl+Alt+F1 key

   2. Log in as root

   3. Execute

	# init 3

   4. Ctrl+Alt+F2 key

   5. Log in as root, again

   6. Exucute

     $ startplasma-x11 > /tmp/plasama.log 2>&1

Then, check the plasma.log.

Not sure if this is helpful or not, but this is what was captured in the plasma.log -

marc@marcslaptop:~> cat /tmp/plasma.log
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.

and sure enough the $DISPLAY variable is not set. I suspect it should be set to either :0 or 0:0 but I am not sure where or who it should be set for (if I need to edit some startup shell script, or simply to do an export under root and/or myself) I tried fooling around with setting the DISPLAY environment variable but didn't succeed in getting startplasma-x11 to run..

Marc...