On 07/19/2017 04:44 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2017-07-19 13:41 (UTC-0700):
Edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager directly. They are supposedly self-documenting, although the displaymanager I'm looking at ATM on TW, with kdm-4.11.22, for DISPLAYMANAGER= lists neither lightdm nor sddm as options; mine has "kdm" set. For Plasma 5 to be default set "kde-plasma" as DEFAULT_WM= in windowmanager. 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
Felix Miata wrote: 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.... From the above and the other info you posted I'm now of the belief that Patrick could have been on the right track with his answer yesterday. I'm now thinking yours is either a login authorization problem and/or a Plasma/KDE problem, and that the help you need might be better asked among those focused on Plasma/KDE, in the opensuse-kde mailing list. Point to the archive of this list thread if you proceed there so anyone who tries to help won't have to ask for the same info.
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"? 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.
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 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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org