On Thursday 07 October 2004 09:48 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday, 8 October 2004 04.41, Richard wrote:
Today I used red carpet to update my SuSE9.1/KDE3.3. That resulted in a reboot that turned into a loop. The login screen showed SuSE9.0 and wouldnt let me login as user OR root.
I had to boot with the rescue disk, go into INIT 3 and using yast, reinstall kde3. All my sources are for 9.1 so I dont know where or how it got me into 9.0 login screen.
What does it say in your /etc/SuSE-release SuSE 9.1 (586)
Also, that text on kdm is just that: text. You should have checked the rpm versions (rpm -qi kdebase3 for example, and check what it says for "Distribution" at the bottom)
As for why you couldn't log in, well, you should have looked in /home/<username>/.xsession-errors and /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/messages to see what went wrong.
I just looked at my 32 meg .xsession-errors and see a huge amount of kbluetoothd errors: HciSocket:: open(): error creating socket. which is interesting since I dont have any bluetooth stuff.
You could do this in text mode right after a failed login.
It was in a continuous loop so I never got to the any login prompt til I used the rescue disk. At that point it indicated some file errors which couldnt be fixed automagically so I decided to start yast and redo kde. But first I tried to get the network to work but nothing would go. Ifconfig got me nothing but the localhost and wouldn't fire up eth0.
If you really did get 9.0 packages, that is extremely odd, I have never seen that. The only way I could imagine that happening is if your SuSE-release said 9.0, or if the apt repositories were screwed up
I looked at the apt sources and the yast settings and they both were pointed at suse 9.1. The end result was a reinstall of kde3 followed by an online update by Yast and everything was back to normal. Thanks Anders for the pointers. Am off for a week for holiday so will address this when I return. Glad to have you back. Nice to hear a sane voice in the Linux wilderness. Regards, Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!