I’ve read a lot about these two problems but none of the fixes worked for me. It might be an own goal. After installing 12.1 I ran a “zypper update” one post says this is a bad idea. “kded4 --version” “returns 4.7.2 release 5”
which seems strange.
Anyway the symptoms.
Root can login to the desktop but users get returned to the login page. Shutdown or logout hangs at a greyed desktop. root and users can login to the console. There are no kde files /home/userdir
Unless anybody has a better idea I think I will uninstall and reinstall KDE but as the installation might be a bit of a dogs dinner I reluctant to use Yast without some reassurance.
On 09/28/2012 02:46 PM, rcrosoer wrote:
>
> I’ve read a lot about these two problems but none of the fixes worked
> for me. It might be an own goal. After installing 12.1 I ran a “zypper
> update” one post says this is a bad idea. “kded4 --version” “returns
> 4.7.2 release 5”
> which seems strange.
>
> Anyway the symptoms.
>
> Root can login to the desktop but users get returned to the login page.
> Shutdown or logout hangs at a greyed desktop. root and users can login
> to the console. There are no kde files /home/userdir
>
>
> Unless anybody has a better idea I think I will uninstall and reinstall
> KDE but as the installation might be a bit of a dogs dinner I reluctant
> to use Yast without some reassurance.
>
>
i don’t know what a dogs dinner is but i do know you should never log
into KDE as root, ever.
having done so, i can be sure if that is the cause of the damage which
are giving you the symptoms you have…but, it could be!
and i also know that no KDE files in the user’s home can only mean a few
things:
you are using a GUI file manager which doesn’t show you the hidden
files (like Dolphin, until you tell it to show hidden files)
or
your system is severely damaged
oops, and i see you have another thread in which you wrote: “upgraded
the machine from 11.3 to 12.1” so, there is no telling what might have
gotten damaged during that process
if you can from a console gather this output of this command and get it
back to us by copy/paste the in/output back to this thread using the
instructions here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr:
df -hlT
or, to make it easy: just tell us if anything is full or very close to
full (look at the percentages…anything over about 90-something is a
problem!