On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 19:02 +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:

I tried to send this email to opensuse@opensuse.org first, but it didn't come to me through the mailing list ::shrug::

Actually it did.

SuSE 10.0.

I recently switched from Fedora Core where I was used to Gnome. So, when I switched to SuSE, I made sure that all of the Gnome and GTK stuff was installed and Gnome was the default. I thought I'd give KDE a try, since it's SuSE's default and there are a lot of programs that I'm not using which are KDE based.

After I switched, using the "Session" link at the bottom of the greeter, I can't use the keyboard. I know it works, I just can't use it from within KDE. I can't type in a Konsole terminal... I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to the actual console. I can't open the YaST Control Center properly because I can't type the root password when I'm prompted.

If I use the mouse to log out, or end my session, I can type again... I can log in. Everything works fine in Gnome.

I read something from an old message that seems to describe this problem in relation to upgrading KDE, but this is the first time I've run KDE.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Vince

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner. Please read below... On 11/15/05, Christian Boltz wrote:

Hello,

Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 11:52 schrieb Vincente Aggrippino: [Login using KDM]

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After I switched, using the "Session" link at the bottom of the greeter, I can't use the keyboard. I know it works, I just can't use it from within KDE. I can't type in a Konsole terminal... I can't use CTRL-ALT-F1 to switch to the actual console. I can't open the YaST Control Center properly because I can't type the root password when I'm prompted.

If I use the mouse to log out, or end my session, I can type again... I can log in. Everything works fine in Gnome.

I read something from an old message that seems to describe this problem in relation to upgrading KDE, but this is the first time I've run KDE.

There was a similar bug in 9.3 beta phase, but it was fixed (and not re-introduced, 10.0 works here :-)

However, here's the bugreport I made at that time - maybe it contains some points that could be useful for you.

I found your bug report and read through it before posting my message. Unfortunately, the problem isn't the same. I can log in without difficulty. It isn't until after I log in that I lose the ability to use the keyboard.

=== bugreport against 9.3 beta === After booting, KDM does not accept any key press events. This means logging in is impossible.

Ctrl-Alt-F1 is also impossible (switches back to X immediately).

Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't even work :(

I have to kill X with SysRQ-K (Ctrl-Alt-backspace is disabled in my config) and calling "rcxdm restart" to make it working.

I tried Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. It's not disabled on mine, but I still had no result. I didn't know about the SysRq-K key sequence. It's worth a try.

This seems to be related to the earlykdm service, see http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-kde/2005-Feb/0010.html http://lists.suse.com/archives/suse-kde/2005-Feb/0031.html

=== end old bugreport ===

Regards,

Christian Boltz -- Die Borg sind einfach eine Allegorie auf M$: gross, toll und voller endloser Featuritis - aber wenn es ernst wird, sterben sie an einer Schutzverletzung. [Andreas Pohlke in drsst]

I knew it!!! ... :) ... o well I only understand 2 words: Borg and M$, but that sums it up pretty well :) Well, I'd still like to try KDE out. It's very wierd. Gnome works without problems. There must be some log file somewhere that says what's happening, but I don't know where. I've already taken a look at .xsession_errors, but I didn't see anything that looked important. Does anyone have any ideas where to look? Thanks, Vince

Problem solved!! Thanks Christian :) I guess I'm a little late, though, since SuSE has now completely abandoned KDE in favor of Gnome (<-- WooHoo!!! Flames... Flames... I Love Flames!! :) ) ... heheh... just kidding... I haven't read any of the press releases and I don't know anything about the status of SuSE and KDE. On 11/21/05, Christian Boltz wrote:

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Does anyone have any ideas where to look?

Did you try logging in as a newly created test user?

This is what did it :) I really should have thought to try this sooner. When I created the new user and logged in, everything worked fine. So, I renamed the .kde directory in my own home directory so that it would be re-created the next time I started KDE and everything worked fine :) I'm not sure what could've been in there to break it because I haven't used KDE before. Regards,

Christian Boltz --

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Der Testbug (#48) ist übrigens ein Duplikat von Bug #29 ;-) Shit. Machst du 'nen Bugreport? :-) [> Christian Boltz und Ratti in fontlinge-devel]

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