I had OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit and KDE 3.5 (active) and KDE 4.1.3 (not
used). After KDE 4.2 have been released, I have installed it (from
factory repo). However, my KDM login screen have gone, and I cannot
switch session to KDE 4.2. Oddly enough, after KDM fails, I can still
start KDE 3.5 with “startx”.
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> I had OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit and KDE 3.5 (active) and KDE 4.1.3 (not
> used). After KDE 4.2 have been released, I have installed it (from
> factory repo). However, my KDM login screen have gone, and I cannot
> switch session to KDE 4.2. Oddly enough, after KDM fails, I can still
> start KDE 3.5 with “startx”.
>
> Anyone have a clue what might go wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
>
>
Not seen this here but you can have a look in Yast>System>/etc/sysconfig
editor and see what is set for the window manager, should be:
Thanks a lot for reply! I have sysconfig values DISPLAYMANAGER -> kdm4
and DEFAULT_WM -> kde. But the problem is not that I cannot start x.org
or KDE, but broken KDM. KDM is unable to present list of login users and
list of WMs at startup.
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> I have checked kdm.log messages and found these error alerts:
>
> /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib64/libkdeui.so.5: undefined symbol:
> _ZN7QTabBar9hideEventEP10QHideEvent
>
> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/read_sysconfig.sh: line 75: pam-config:
> command not found
> --------------------------
> rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libkdeui.so.5
> libkde4-4.2.0-83.1
>
> rpm -qf /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/read_sysconfig.sh
> kde4-kdm-4.2.0-183.3
>
> Both packages have been reinstalled, nothing changed. pam-config RPM
> package IS installed.
>
>
There was a post on the groups a while ago about a similar prob, the
answer was to re-install the kde-session and the kde libraries only
but that was for KDE4.1.3 IIRC
I dont know if I’m facing the same problem…but I installed KDE 4.2
through Stephan Binner’s Live CD on kde.org. I get a KDM which looks the
same as for KDE3. I’ve checked my KDM packages and they’re all KDE4 and
not KDE3.
I tried looking for the packages, the previous poster, had
mentioned…but couldn’t find any. Any help?
I’ve face the same problem due to upgrading from KDE 4.1.3 to KDE 4.2.x,
but the command startx worked flawlessly. I’ve managed to solve the
issue by issuing two commands:
Renaming .kde4 to .kde4-old.
As root Changing directory to /tmp and Deleting KDE and Xorg and
ICEWM related stuff.
I’ve told to my installation to clear the /tmp directory upon every
reboot.