Cannot get into KDE after update

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#1

Hello

Two days ago my system (11.3) was running fine with KDE 4.5.1. I received an update notification from the applet and installed the change (it was only one package, but I dont remember its name…it wasnt a kernel though). When I tried to boot yesterday, I can only login to the console.

I dont have any special repositories installed next to KDE 4.5 and Packman.

I did had trouble with duplicate kernels last week when I installed the latest ati-driver. I had default and desktop kernels installed. After removing default everything worked fine…until the update mentioned above.

Any ideas on that? In which log should I take a look for example?

Thanks

#2

Are sure Ati driver and kernel-flavour are still matching?
Maybe you can find something out if you look into your Xorg*.log.

#3

I will look into this, thanks for the hint.

I also just did a zypper up and it updated 200 packages (mostly kde) but it didnt help.

I will also try to uninstall the display-driver and reinstall it. But its kind of weird because the configuration was working smoothly for a week now.

#4

find /lib/modules -name "fglrx.ko"

#5
  • If you have this file here /lib/modules/2.6.34.7-0.2-desktop/extra/fglrx.ko, try to add the option ‘nomodeset’ in the entry booting kernel-desktop in /boot/grub/menu.lst, as in that example:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-0.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e764236e-b759-41ea-b927-ae33523b3916 splash=silent quiet showopts nomodeset vga=0x345

However you shouldn’t need that with fglrx (with radeonhd you would).

#6

the above recommendations should work. if not, you can find out what update caused this problem by looking it up in /var/log/zypp/history (the one before your last 200-package-update).

–
phani.

#7

Thanks for all the hints.

I fixed it by uninstalling the display-driver and reinstalling it.

I am using this neat script (German): openSUSE 11.3 – proprietären Grafik-Treiber ATI Catalyst 10.9 als RPM installieren

which has some nice options as well (like uninstalling).

Obviously one the updates last week did some kernel update which I didnt realize, thus I needed to rebuild fglrx.