On 07/19/2017 04:49 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-07-19 22:41, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 07/18/2017 06:26 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2017-07-18 16:30 (UTC-0700):
Hi Felix, OK, I followed your instructions and set my DISPLAYMANAGER to kdm, and DEFAULT_WM to kde-plasma. Upon reboot, I now do get a login screen but when I enter my name and password I again get the popup dialog saying " Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation. ". I cannot get any further than this, if I click on OK it just represents me with the login screen and this cycle repeats. CTRL-ALT-F3 gets me to the command line screen.... You should try to start a non kde desktop. Like icewm.
Hi Carlos, I think I just did and it seems to have worked, see my previous reply to Felix... I am still hoping to get my trusty KDE desktop back however...
A brief start would be journalctl | grep fail OK, here is what returned, I cut out some obvious stuff that was not applicable, such as messages about Fail2Ban, vsftpd authentication failures, smartd Prefailure attributes etc.....
bigbang:/boot # journalctl | grep "Jul 19" | grep fail
There is a better command than grep for the current boot session. Simply use "journalctl -b | grep -i fail".
As it is, I don't know if the failures to mount /home are during start or during halt today:
Nice!!! I can do that... Some of this is obviously not relevant, but I will show everything just in case... bigbang:/home/marc # journalctl -b | grep -i fail Jul 20 14:52:08 bigbang kernel: Ignoring BGRT: failed to map image memory Jul 20 14:52:08 bigbang kernel: acpi PNP0A08:00: _OSC failed (AE_ERROR); disabling ASPM Jul 20 14:52:08 bigbang kernel: [drm] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP Jul 20 14:52:20 bigbang systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Network Manager Wait Online. Jul 20 14:52:20 bigbang systemd[1]: NetworkManager-wait-online.service: Job NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jul 20 14:52:21 bigbang smartd[1132]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 99 to 100 Jul 20 14:52:25 bigbang bash[1159]: channel: no 'mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org' record found, channel failed Jul 20 14:52:33 bigbang systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service... Jul 20 14:52:40 bigbang fail2ban-client[2449]: 2017-07-20 14:52:40,347 fail2ban.server [2792]: INFO Starting Fail2ban v0.9.7 Jul 20 14:52:40 bigbang fail2ban-client[2449]: 2017-07-20 14:52:40,347 fail2ban.server [2792]: INFO Starting in daemon mode Jul 20 14:52:42 bigbang systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service. Jul 20 14:52:51 bigbang server[1852]: log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. Jul 20 14:52:51 bigbang server[1852]: 20-Jul-2017 14:52:51.943 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal One or more Filters failed to start. Full details will be found in the appropriate container log file Jul 20 14:52:51 bigbang server[1852]: 20-Jul-2017 14:52:51.943 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal Context [/JSPWiki] startup failed due to previous errors
Here is what I see in /boot
bigbang:/boot # ls -al total 54112 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 18 12:29 . drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jul 6 16:38 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1725 Oct 7 2016 boot.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178511 Jun 24 06:32 config-4.4.73-18.17-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178538 Jul 1 00:46 config-4.4.74-18.20-default drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 efi drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 18 12:27 grub2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 18 12:26 initrd -> initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default -rw------- 1 root root 9923568 Jul 14 21:15 initrd-4.4.73-18.17-default -rw------- 1 root root 9865028 Jul 18 12:27 initrd-4.4.74-18.20-default initrd-4.4.73 was not regenerated. But this seems to be normal, looking at mine.
What about 'WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/icewm startx -- :1'? WINDOWMANAGER ??? Are you asking me to set DEFAULT_WM to this value, or something else? I will await your reply before I do anything.
No, just type that line and press enter, in the console, as root. The variable is set for this command only, not saved to file, and not even for later commands.
Thanks Carlos, yeah Felix straighten me out, I am not a Linux guru, by any means, and am still learning a lot of the ropes... I tried this and it did indeed bring up a desktop, just not one I like or want to use... But it is progress! Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org