New to OpenSuse and still learning my way around in Linux.
Installed OpenSuse 11 and booted into the desktop. That was as far as I could get. None of the menu options except ‘Leave’ worked. None of the desktop icons worked either. I tried changing the permissions on the icons but that didn’t seem to help.
I re-booted using the safe mode and everything works. Is this something that someone else has seen or is it just that I haven’t searched enough or with the right search words? Please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Harold
One other question. I keep having to give my sign in id and password it seems everytime I go to a differnt page. Is this normal?
> Installed OpenSuse 11 and booted into the desktop. That was as far as I
> could get. None of the menu options except ‘Leave’ worked. None of the
> desktop icons worked either. I tried changing the permissions on the
> icons but that didn’t seem to help.
>
> I re-booted using the safe mode and everything works. Is this something
> that someone else has seen or is it just that I haven’t searched enough
> or with the right search words? Please point me in the right direction.
that is the strangest thing i’ve heard today…let me GUESS you
installed KDE 4…and, i’ll also guess that something went terribly
wrong in the install process…
did you do and md5sum AND media check prior to installing? if not, start
over!
in how many places during install did you not select the default? [if
you don’t KNOW exactly what you are doing and why…(except for keyboard
and location/language) please make the first install using the DEFAULTS
recommended by the install routine–it is pretty much foolproof…]
in fact, your install sounds so broken i’d begin again AND make sure i
have good install media AND i’d load KDE 3-something or gnome [KDE 4 is
KNOWN unstable, not ready and unable…if you are NEW to the game, avoid
it!!]…
and, since you say “New to OpenSuse and still learning my way around in
Linux” don’t let the FIRST thing you do when you run into a problem be
to hop to root and start changing permissions stuff…[hint: if YOUR
desktop’s icons don’t have the permission needed to launch YOUR programs
you got LOTS more problems than just the icon’s permissions…]
> One other question. I keep having to give my sign in id and password it
> seems everytime I go to a differnt page. Is this normal?
no…there is a problem with the server and it seems the folks to work
on it won’t be back at work until monday!! </sigh>
Hi Harold – just want to WELCOME you here!
And to reinforce what DenverD said - be aware the KDE4 is (for all practical purposes) experimental. Use KDE3.5 or Gnome. We try to warn in a sticky thread to this forum but it’s very hard to see. Good luck.
that is the strangest thing i’ve heard today…let me GUESS you
installed KDE 4…and, i’ll also guess that something went terribly
wrong in the install process…
No nothing went wrong as far as I saw.
did you do and md5sum AND media check prior to installing?
Did both and both checked out.
in how many places during install did you not select the default?
Not sure. I am multibooting with 4 linux distros and XP so I chose what partitions were to be used for OpenSuse to use.
[KDE 4 is KNOWN unstable, not ready and unable…if you are NEW to the game, avoid it!!]…
be aware the KDE4 is (for all practical purposes) experimental. Use KDE3.5 or Gnome.
I prefer the kde apps over those with gnome. So do I need to go back and download a different iso file or can I just install or choose kde 3.5? Not sure will look around while waiting on a reply.
Thanks
I just realized that when I booted and logged in today that I used the regular menu item and not the safe mode and everything worked. I had downloaded some updates. Maybe that fixed things. After the origninal install instead of re-booting without the live cd, I shut down the pc because I had to leave. When I came back a booted for the first time after the install was thru was when I incurred the problem of the menu and icons not responding. Looks like I can mark this as solved but I would like some pointers on how to fall back to kde 3.5 from 4.0.
> I prefer the kde apps over those with gnome. So do I need to go back
> and download a different iso file or can I just install or choose kde
> 3.5? Not sure will look around while waiting on a reply.
i THINK you can install KDE3.x via YaST (i say i think because i’m not
ready to jump into the tar baby called version 11.0…
HOWEVER, remember i said that i think YOUR install is BADLY
broken…since you have so little time involved in it at this point,
rather than trying to figure out how to repair it, i’d recommend you do
a NEW install…and, pick the mature/stable version of KDE this time…