[opensuse] Upgrade to 11.2 and now can't log in
I upgraded last night b the 'change repositories' method just as I did for 11.2 -> 11.2. All went well. On completion I rebooted. New colours. No indications in the boot and RC activity of any problems. My LVM has been renamed ... /dev/dm-XX However when X comes up and the KDM login dialogue box appears I cannot log in with it. It looks OK and the pull-down shows all my installed desktops, KDE, E .... and offers shutdown and console as it should, but when I try typing a password nothing echoes. If I type my password 'blind', ignoring the no-echo, I still can't log in. I can log in at the console with all available IDS so its not a /etc/passwd problem This seems a problem localized to KDM I've looked at my /use/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and its the old one. No changes there. I don't see anything in /etc/pam.d for KDM, but even so, why would that affect the password echo? Suggestions as to what else to investigate ... /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
I upgraded last night b the 'change repositories' method just as I did for 11.2 -> 11.2. All went well.
Assuming you mean 11.2->11.3,
However when X comes up and the KDM login dialogue box appears I cannot log in with it. It looks OK and the pull-down shows all my installed desktops, KDE, E .... and offers shutdown and console as it should, but when I try typing a password nothing echoes.
If I type my password 'blind', ignoring the no-echo, I still can't log in.
I can log in at the console with all available IDS so its not a /etc/passwd problem
This seems a problem localized to KDM
I've looked at my /use/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and its the old one. No changes there.
I don't see anything in /etc/pam.d for KDM, but even so, why would that affect the password echo?
Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...
Is HAL installed and running? Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
I upgraded last night b the 'change repositories' method just as I did for 11.2 -> 11.2. All went well.
Assuming you mean 11.2->11.3,
I upgraded 11.2 -> 11.3 JUST AS I DID FOR 11.1 -> 11.2
However when X comes up and the KDM login dialogue box appears I cannot log in with it. It looks OK and the pull-down shows all my installed desktops, KDE, E .... and offers shutdown and console as it should, but when I try typing a password nothing echoes.
If I type my password 'blind', ignoring the no-echo, I still can't log in.
I can log in at the console with all available IDS so its not a /etc/passwd problem
This seems a problem localized to KDM
I've looked at my /use/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and its the old one. No changes there.
I don't see anything in /etc/pam.d for KDM, but even so, why would that affect the password echo?
Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...
Is HAL installed and running?
Yes. That's a potential pending problem as it says /dev/sr0 is disabled, but its running ... hald --daemon=yes hald-runner hald-addon-input hald-addon-leds hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch hald-addon-storage ..... claims /dev/sr0 is disabled hald-addon-acpi The KDM dialog box is not accepting input in ANY field. If I go to the 'remote' part of the dialog that won't accept input either. Has this something to do with how X is dealing with the keyboard? Most likely. There is no xorg.conf but the log file says that there is no input driver specified but is ignoring that, and then it says 'Rules returned no components ... failed to compile keymap' So, I thought the new xorg.conf-less X was smart. Or is there something wrong with the install? Is another repository needed? Or do I need to flutz around with a new xorg.conf like in days of old? /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
I upgraded last night b the 'change repositories' method just as I did for 11.2 -> 11.2. All went well.
Assuming you mean 11.2->11.3,
I upgraded 11.2 -> 11.3 JUST AS I DID FOR 11.1 -> 11.2
Of course.
The KDM dialog box is not accepting input in ANY field. If I go to the 'remote' part of the dialog that won't accept input either.
Has this something to do with how X is dealing with the keyboard? Most likely. There is no xorg.conf but the log file says that there is no input driver specified but is ignoring that, and then it says 'Rules returned no components ... failed to compile keymap'
So, I thought the new xorg.conf-less X was smart. Or is there something wrong with the install? Is another repository needed? Or do I need to flutz around with a new xorg.conf like in days of old?
I had the same problem and cannot remember what I did to fix it. Perhaps restarting udev and kdm or using the old xorg.conf did it. (I'm using xorg.conf because my monitor isn't automatically detected). Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 9:49 AM:
So, I thought the new xorg.conf-less X was smart. Or is there something wrong with the install? Is another repository needed? Or do I need to flutz around with a new xorg.conf like in days of old?
I had the same problem and cannot remember what I did to fix it. Perhaps restarting udev and kdm or using the old xorg.conf did it. (I'm using xorg.conf because my monitor isn't automatically detected).
I just tried that. What a disaster. It can't find ANYTHING. No my mouse, not my synpatics pad, not anything specified in the xorg.conf I think there is something seriously wrong with the X libraries and DB. I'm going to zypper RM and reinstall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 9:49 AM:
So, I thought the new xorg.conf-less X was smart. Or is there something wrong with the install? Is another repository needed? Or do I need to flutz around with a new xorg.conf like in days of old?
I had the same problem and cannot remember what I did to fix it. Perhaps restarting udev and kdm or using the old xorg.conf did it. (I'm using xorg.conf because my monitor isn't automatically detected).
I just tried that. What a disaster. It can't find ANYTHING. No my mouse, not my synpatics pad, not anything specified in the xorg.conf
I think there is something seriously wrong with the X libraries and DB.
Did you forget to upgrade libpciaccess0? If I remember correctly, X would crash with exactly the same symptoms as yours when it used the old version. Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 10:13 AM:
It can't find ANYTHING. No my mouse, not my synpatics pad, not anything specified in the xorg.conf
I think there is something seriously wrong with the X libraries and DB.
Did you forget to upgrade libpciaccess0? If I remember correctly, X would crash with exactly the same symptoms as yours when it used the old version.
No, its there, a symlink to libpciaccess0.s0.10.8 However the logs to say that UDEV isn't telling it things about the keyboard and pad, but oddly it is telling of he mouse ??? WTF ??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...
Is HAL installed and running?
Yes, but if I kill it off I get my keyboard back :-) I can log in. I presume I need HAL for other things though .... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 23 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...
Is HAL installed and running?
Yes, but if I kill it off I get my keyboard back :-) I can log in.
HAL is running here and the PS/2 keyboard works... Go figure!
I presume I need HAL for other things though ....
HAL is deprecated, although KDE 4.4 requires it, if I remember correctly. Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 07/23/2010 05:56 AM:
On Friday 23 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
auxsvr@gmail.com said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...
Is HAL installed and running?
Yes, but if I kill it off I get my keyboard back :-) I can log in.
HAL is running here and the PS/2 keyboard works... Go figure!
I presume I need HAL for other things though ....
HAL is deprecated, although KDE 4.4 requires it, if I remember correctly.
Could you give me a reference or two for each of those, please -- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- George S. Patton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 23 of July 2010, Anton Aylward wrote:
HAL is deprecated, although KDE 4.4 requires it, if I remember correctly.
Could you give me a reference or two for each of those, please
Sure, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613898 . Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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