On Wednesday 26 January 2011 02:02:57 Will Stephenson wrote:

On Wednesday 26 January 2011 05:49:30 Matt Hayes wrote:

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On 01/25/2011 10:33 PM, Bruce Samhaber wrote:

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Hi,

I have OpenSUSE 11.3 with a system that hangs when run in Normal Kernel mode; does not hang in Failsafe mode. In trying to fix that problem I booted with the Kernel with the option nomodeset. As of that boot and another KDE will not run from the KDM4 display manager.

I am really stuck with this machine and openSUSE. Help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

First question I have is what repos do you have activated on this box and did you do any recent updates? I just have the defaults that were installed with the system. I did an update right after installing the system. The Repos are:

samhaber-nb:/var # zypper lr -d # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service --+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+-------- 1 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/ | 2 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 | 3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ | 4 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/ | 5 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ | 6 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.3-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ |

Second question part 1, can you log in to a fresh user account created with yast?

No I cannot login to a new user with a KDE session.

Part 2, can you log in to the original user account if you change the session type to icewm or twm?

Yes these both work. In fact I am using ICEWM right now and like it, it is very lean.

Will

Here are the messages that I get from running 'startkde' from an XTerm, while logged in with twm session startkde: Starting up... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kded4.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_kglobalaccel.so kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "kmix" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "kwin" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "krunner" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "plasma-desktop" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "khotkeys" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "kded" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::loadSettings: Loading group "synaptiks" kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::registerKey: Registering key "Ctrl+Alt+T" for "synaptiks" : "touchpadOn" kglobalaccel(5749) KGlobalAccelImpl::grabKey: grab failed! kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcut::setActive: "touchpadOn" : Failed to register "Ctrl+Alt+T" QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::accessibilityChanged(bool, const QString) to DeviceAutomounter::deviceMountChanged(bool, const QString) kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.5' kcminit_startup: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit4_kcminit_startup.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver <unknown program name>(5742)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating: "samhaber-nb;1296017741;509035;5742_TIME0" : "unnamed app" ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory startkde: Shutting down... kglobalaccel(5749) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::unregisterKey: Unregistering key "Ctrl+Alt+T" for "synaptiks" : "touchpadOn" klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. bruce 102 % Is there a non destructive disk checking utility to verify that my harddrive is OK without destroying the contents? At 5 1/2 yrs old it seems like a good idea to check it. Thank you for your help, -- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

samhaber-nb:/var # rpm -q kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-4.4.4-6.1.1.i586 samhaber-nb:/var # ^C Would it be a good to uninstall this package and re-install it? I would need to do this from Yast since I do not know where to find the package to install it from. Thank you Bruce. On Wednesday 26 January 2011 14:51:00 ne... wrote:

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 17:06, Bruce Samhaber <bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca> wrote: [snip]

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kcminit_startup: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit4_kcminit_startup.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver <unknown program name>(5742)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId: creating: "samhaber-nb;1296017741;509035;5742_TIME0" : "unnamed app" ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

From those two errors about missing files I would say that you are missing the kdebase4-workspace rpm. What does rpm -q kdebase4-workspace say?

HTH ne...

-- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Bruce Samhaber <bruce.samhaber@samhaber.ca> wrote:

Is there a non destructive disk checking utility to verify that my harddrive is OK without destroying the contents? At 5 1/2 yrs old it seems like a good idea to check it.

badblocks -v /dev/sdX badblocks -v /dev/sdXX Substitue XX with your drive letter and/or paritition. You can also download the Ultimate Boot CD and use any of the hard drive utilities on it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org