Hello  -  I have a recalcitrant computer running OpenSuSE 15.3 that is refusing to start the KDE/Plasma desktop. After login I get a dialog box saying "startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation." Despite the fact that the KDE/Plasma desktop won't start, I can SSH into the system and everything else (processes, services) I want running do start up OK. In the file /var/log/warn I do see a couple of messages that are of concern, one in particular -

2022-10-24T21:58:44.060159-07:00 nova ksplashqml[2832]: QCoreApplication::arguments: Please instantiate the QApplication object first 2022-10-24T21:58:44.121497-07:00 nova startplasma-x11[2751]: "/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit_wrapper" ("--kded", "+kcminit_startup") exited with code 127 The startplasma-x11 error is the one I think I should be most concerned about.  Google tells me that an exit with code 127 means there is a missing or unreadable file. I checked to see if "/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit_wrapper" exists and it does.

nova:/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5 # ll /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10616 Aug 26  2021 /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6376 Aug 26  2021 /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit_wrapper

nova:/ # find /usr -name kcminit_startup -print /usr/bin/kcminit_startup I also ran zypper up to make sure I had all the latest versions of software installed on this system, and I used YaST2 to find any package with files that had "kdeinit" in their provides or file lists and forced

start_kdeinit_wrapper is not a txt file so I am unable to inspect it any further. I also searched for a file called "kcminit_startup" and found it at those packages to be updated as well. That is about as far as my debugging skills can take me, any kind gurus around who can help me get this beast going? Thanks as always, in advance.     Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_   _   .   .   .       .   .   .   _ _       .   _   _   _   _   .       .   .   .           _   .   .       .           .   _   _       .   _       _ _   .   .   .       .   _   _   .       _   .   .   _   .   _   _           _   _       .   _       .   _   .     _   .   _   . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)