I want to bring to your attention this strange problem.
After a lot of work I succeeded in making my Icon 225 Mobile Broadband working under Linux, so I immediately took advantage of this by updating my system.But unfortunately not everything went well.
I have to say something:in Linux when you solved a problem another one pops up. And this is what happened to me.
The first problem was the following error message:
**PackageKit Error repo-not-available: File ‘/repodata/repomd.xml’ not found on medium ‘http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/’
**
It seems that in the Online update system there is a error: or the address is wrong or something is not working as it should be.
Anyway I got over it and the system started to download the updates and so on.
At the end the system asked me to reboot and I did it. Unfortunately a cold shower was waiting me : the KDE interface did not work anymore, the only thing I could see was something like a fog all around the video. The mouse cursor was a dark square.
I was still able to hear the welcome sound so I deduced that only the graphic interface was corrupted.
I rebooted again and when the system show me the booting choices:
- Desktop opensuse 11.3-2.6.34.7-0.3
- Failsafe opensuse 11.3-2.6.34.7-0.3
- windows 1
- windows 2
- Floppy
I chose this time the second one (I think it is like a safe mode)and fortunately it worked but the system looked like having lost brightness (I think this choice change the card driver).
Now I do not know why the KDE inrface got corrupted, because I download everything from the opesuse website, so no strange repository has been installed.
I checked in the little manual supplied with the DVD and I found the following suggestion:
**If the KDE interface got corrupted please try to remove the cache files of the KDE desktop using the following command
rm -rf /tmp/kde-user /tmp/ksocket-user**
I do not know if it is a good advice.
Any idea?
Thank you in advance