On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 13:11 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 12:16:19 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I just updated KDE to 4.5.5 on openSUSE 11.2. I get the kde login screen, and I can log in to other desktops (ice for example). But when I log in to KDE, the screen turns white and then black. I get an arrow cursor. Nothing more. I can restart the X server with the ctrl-backspace sequence. X is running. The cursor moves. I never get the KDE busy cursor one sees when KDE is starting.
The repo KDE came from is:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.2/
The chipset is an ATI ES1000. It runs as a non 3D chip. Nothing fancy.
I forced a reinstall of the packages in this repo. No difference.
I tried adding a new user jic. No difference. I see (on a virtual terminal) that many kde apps are running. But I cannot tell if one is 'stuck' or some important one is missing.
Of course I am at a remote site with limited time. Could it be any other way? I am sure this is the same release of KDE that I am running on a few other systems (different hardware of course). I did not expect a problem.
Hi Roger
Tricky situation!
What last worked? Did you upgrade from 11.2's default KDE 4.3 to 4.5?
It was from the KDE update KDE version. I can add that I can start things like konsole or dolphin from IceWM. I suspect kwin is the problem. But I do not know...
First get some verbose debug (if kwriteconfig doesn't work then the installation is borked at a package consistency level).
kwriteconfig --file kdebugrc --key DisableAll false
Then I'd look at .xsession-errors or start KDE from a text console (export WINDOWMANAGER=`which startkde`, startx -- :1) and look for complaints. Enable
I'm guessing kwin has a problem - see if the debug output is informative. Try forcing compositing off (kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Compositing --key Enabled true) then logging in. Or try starting a different window manager inside the running session (icewm --replace).
I tried all but the different wm. I sent you direct the log that I get when running startx. This looks similar to waht I saw in the .xsession-errors file. My eye is not trained to see suspect things in this context. So some obvious error might pass me unnoticed. I was not sure how to run icewm in this context. Where would I actually run toe command?
HTH
Will
-- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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