On 01/19/2011 04:38 PM, James Pifer wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:32 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
I tried upgrading my laptop from 11.1 to 11.3. The upgrade seemed to go fine, but when the system boots up the desktop doesn't load correctly.
Yes, I saw this problem on a couple of machines that I upgraded from 11.1 to 11.3 directly. I ended up doing a re-install of 11.3 after this happened as I could not find a way to recover.
It's set to use gnome. All I get is a blue screen with my pidgin window in it, but it doesn't have the normal title bar or border. I have no desktop icons or task tray. Right clicking doesn't do anything.
I also had nvidia drivers installed so I thought that was the problem. I managed to get an X session going over vnc (where the desktop didn't work right either). I was able to get into yast, add repositories, including nvidia, and do a full update. Unfortunately it's still at the same spot.
Also when it starts it seems to try and start a remote desktop session to one of the servers I normally connect to. Not sure why it's trying to do that.
Anyone have any suggestions for troubleshooting this? How can I see what things are tryign to auto load on X startup? How can I reset gnome's settings? Maybe there's something in there from 11.1 it doesn't like.
I'm going to try creating a test user to see if a fresh user has the same problems.
Follow-up, I tried a test user and gnome would not load so maybe it is hosed. How can I switch the desktop manager? KDE is also installed. Any help is appreciated.
You will need to get into the system somehow, liveCD or install DVD in rescue mode. Then mount your root filesystem somewhere. Modify /mntPnt/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager and set the DEFAULT_WM value to kde /mntPnt/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager set DISPLAYMANAGER value to kdm I think you can get away without running SuSEconfig after the changes but I am not 100% on that one. If you have to run SuSEconfig you will need to chroot /mntPnt HTH, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org