On 2017-07-21 00:02, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 07/19/2017 04:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Have you tried using the greeter to select an IceWM session instead of Plasma? That will probably define whether you have a KDE problem or an Xorg problem - unless maybe yours is an authorization problem. 'WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/icewm startx -- :1' which AFAICT you didn't try as root login, would have served the same purpose. Hello again Felix, (sorry for the delay getting back with a response, had to spend the day canning peaches! ;-) )
The WINDOWMANAGER command does indeed work and I do get a desktop with it, regardless of whether I login in as root or as me! Not the desktop I want to use however as it does not run any of the KDE tools that I am familiar with. But at least this is some progress...
I am not sure how to use the greeter to select an IceWM session instead of Plasma. When using KDM as my DISPLAYMANAGER all I see is a prompt for my login name, and then another for my password. Perhaps I don't understand what you mean by "greeter"?
That is the "greeter". The official name is "display manager". The place where you login to X. There should be a point to click where you wold get a list of desktop choices, sometimes after entering the user name.
I will be happy to switch this thread over to the opensuse-kde mail list (and subscribe to it I guess) if you still think that is appropriate.
I think you should stay here for the moment.
Maybe 'zypper ve' (verify) is called for here. Maybe something among your updates didn't complete correctly. Other than trying to use lightdm, sddm, kdebase3-kdm, gdm or some other greeter, I don't know what else to suggest given the content shown in your /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ and the could not start kdeinit5 errors.
bigbang:/home/marc # zypper ve
Comment. Use "su -" instead of just "su".
Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... 7 Problems: Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.akregator.appdata.xml) needed by application:Akregator-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.korganizer.appdata.xml) needed by application:KOrganizer-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.kleopatra.appdata.xml) needed by application:Kleopatra-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.kaddressbook.appdata.xml) needed by application:KAddressBook-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.kontact.appdata.xml) needed by application:Kontact-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.knotes.appdata.xml) needed by application:KNotes-.noarch Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.kmail.appdata.xml) needed by application:KMail-.noarch
Problem: nothing provides appdata(org.kde.akregator.appdata.xml) needed by application:Akregator-.noarch Solution 1: deinstallation of application:Akregator-.noarch Solution 2: break application:Akregator-.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c] (c): c
Not sure what to do about these issues so I just bailed out... Marc...
Solution 2. I don't recall the correct explanation for this type of error, it is caused by "applications" support not being completed in zypper. You can ignore it. The real solution is to delete an xml file somewhere, but I'm unsure of it this instant in the night (3 AM). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)