[opensuse] kde3 logout error on 10.3
Hello: My computer started acting strangely. If I try to logout from a KDE session after pressing the Logout/End current session buttons KDE does not log me out. Instead it logs me in again automatically; this login however is different from my normal login and it is similar to the original default SUSE login but at the end I get a white background with my icons. Panel and menus are different from my setup as well. If I try to logout from this sessions this automatic login occurs again (over and over). The only way I can log out is to switch to console mode, login as root and start an init 3 then init 5 (ie kill and restart KDM). This starts the normal KDM3 login screen. If I login on this screen the system logs me in as normal with my own setup but I can't log out again and the whole thing starts over. The same occurs to other user accounts as well. Any hint? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
My computer started acting strangely. If I try to logout from a KDE session after pressing the Logout/End current session buttons KDE does not log me out. Instead it logs me in again automatically; this login however is different from my normal login and it is similar to the original default SUSE login but at the end I get a white background with my icons. Panel and menus are different from my setup as well. If I try to logout from this sessions this automatic login occurs again (over and over). The only way I can log out is to switch to console mode, login as root and start an init 3 then init 5 (ie kill and restart KDM). This starts the normal KDM3 login screen. If I login on this screen the system logs me in as normal with my own setup but I can't log out again and the whole thing starts over. The same occurs to other user accounts as well.
Any hint?
i'd have no idea where to start with that...well, maybe you ought to add a new user, then log out and log in again, as that new user and see if the system then works as expected....if it does it probably means that you have in some unknown way damaged one or more files in the home directory of the broken user.... which means, you might be able to (with sufficient patience and a too like diff) go through *all* the files in (say) ~/[broken]/.kde and compare them with the works ok files in ~/[new user]/.kde until you find the problem.. or, copy the data needed from broken to new and just abandon the broken one.. HOWEVER, since 10.3 is no longer supported, you are now running without any new security patches that might pop up...is that what you wanna do? (which is another way of saying: maybe installing the next version will fix that problem [and undoubtly bring many new ones--sigh]).. DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Thank you. I had kdebase4-session installed. After removing this package everything went back to normal. I don't know how it could be activated as I never used it, except one try when I installed it, very long time ago. Cheers, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Istvan Gabor wrote:
I had kdebase4-session installed. After removing this package everything went back to normal.
where was it located? how did you learn that was the problem? please.. DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I had kdebase4-session installed. After removing this package everything went back to normal.
where was it located? how did you learn that was the problem? please..
1. Since all user accounts suffered from it I guessed it was a systematic error, not user related. 2. As it was related to login session I just had a feeling that it could be KDE4. Checked installed packages and found it was really installed. I do not like KDE anyway. It can not compete with KDE3 in functionality. It is not cubes, transparency other eye-candy what I want but the possibility of customization, even small details. This is what KDE4 lacks. Cheers, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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