Cant start GUI

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Somehow, i cant get the GUI login screen working after a reboot.
This is on openSUSE 12.1 64 bits.

The message im getting after doing “startx” as root is :

startkde:ERROR: could not locate lnusertemp in /usr/bin/startkde : line 266 : no order found
startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed /temporary directories full?) Check your installation
xinit: connection to X server lost

Any help if welcome!

This started happening after a reboot. I already downgraded the updates to KDE i did, from 4.8.3 to the 4.7 series, so i dont think the problem is there.
Also, theres plenty of free room in the hardrives!

Thanks

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Hi,

I found call to lnusertemp faild (opensuse 11.1 kde 4.2 ) • KDE Community Forums and Answer : cure for error meaages: call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). check your installation. and http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/451186-call-lnusertemp-failed.html
I hope it helps. I didn’t have the problem, but it seems that it has sthg to do with the downgrade.

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On 09/04/12 04:36, assas1n wrote:
>
> Somehow, i cant get the GUI login screen working after a reboot.
> This is on openSUSE 12.1 64 bits.
>
> The message im getting after doing “startx” as root is :
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> startkde:ERROR: could not locate lnusertemp in /usr/bin/startkde : line 266 : no order found
> startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed /temporary directories full?) Check your installation
> xinit: connection to X server lost
> --------------------
>
>
> Any help if welcome!
>
> This started happening after a reboot. I already downgraded the updates
> to KDE i did, from 4.8.3 to the 4.7 series, so i dont think the problem
> is there.
> Also, theres plenty of free room in the hardrives!
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
You mention kde4.8.3?
Where were you getting that?

Logging in as root? why?

Boot to level 3 and create a new user and test it.

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On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:40:42 +0530, caf4926
<caf4926@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> You mention kde4.8.3?
> Where were you getting that?

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/ – if not
already available, it’ll be there soon. but this certainly isn’t somehing
that’s supposed to work, except for developers who know exactly what
they’re doing.

–
phani.

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phanisvara das wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:40:42 +0530, caf4926
> <caf4926@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>> You mention kde4.8.3?
>> Where were you getting that?
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/ – if
not
> already available, it’ll be there soon. but this certainly isn’t
somehing
> that’s supposed to work, except for developers who know exactly what
> they’re doing.
>

:smiley:
I did actually know that

I actually wondered if the OP made a typo
And was meaning 4.8.2
But if not, then they ought to expect this kind of result and know the
way to solve it.

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Yes im sorry, i meant 4.8.2

Before rebooting, i booted into runlevel 3, needed to test something, and the only way of getting to the GUI was doing startx as root. Doing it as a user gave some kind of error.
Oh, and i downgraded to 4.7 series after i couldnt get to the GUI login screen, as a way to be sure the update wasnt the one causing the problem.

Thanks!

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*Tried the “chmod 1777 /tmp and chmod 1777 /var/tmp”, with no results.
*df -l shows plenty of space on all partitions.
*Tried with different kernel versions (3.3.1, 3.1.6, etc)
*Tried “chown user user /home”

8

Did you test a new user?

9

From shooting in the dark like this, an unstable sysatem is a definite result. My 2 cents: perform a fresh install.

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I doubt its due to instability, this PC has been running Folding@Home for nearly 2 years non stop.

But anyway, would changing repos to tumbleweed and doing “zypper dup” count as a clean install?

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On 2012-04-09 21:46, assas1n wrote:
> *Tried “chown user user /home”

The entire home, all users? Broken, then.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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On 2012-04-09 16:26, assas1n wrote:
> and the only way of getting to the GUI was doing startx as root. Doing
> it as a user gave some kind of error.

What error?

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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What I did was "chown user user /Home/user (exchange user with my name :smiley: )

Error after doing startx as a normal user is:

File /home/user/.serverauth.1692 does not exist

Fatal server error:
Cannot move old log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

Tried creating a new user, but its no good. I dont even get to the login screen where you choose KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.

After the lizard with the moving eye, i get dropped to CLI

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On 2012-04-09 22:36, assas1n wrote:
>
> What I did was "chown user user /Home/user (exchange user with my name
> :smiley: )

Ah, better.

> Error after doing startx as a normal user is:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> File /home/user/.serverauth.1692 does not exist
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot move old log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> --------------------

Did you do what /etc/permissions.local says?

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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What about uncommenting this line in /etc/permissions.local to allow normal users to use startx:

/usr/bin/Xorg                      root:root                   4711

and running

/sbin/SuSEconfig --module permissions

afterwards?

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Just so i dont make a huge mess, by uncommenting, you mean deleting that line?

17

No! I mean deleting the comment character: “#” in order to “uncomment” this line, which is commented out (and therefore disabled) by default.

You have:

#/usr/bin/Xorg                      root:root                   4711

You need:

/usr/bin/Xorg                      root:root                   4711
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Ok, tried it, but i get the same error after doing startx, lnusertemp.

I can see some more warning/errors, they dont seem serious though, a couple of them are like so:

kde4-config: error while loading shared libraries libfam.so.0 no such file or directory

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On 2012-04-10 01:36, assas1n wrote:
>
> Ok, tried it, but i get the same error after doing startx, lnusertemp.

I don’t believe you. :slight_smile:

Did you run the command he said you should run after the modification?
Then try to run startx as user.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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I don’t know if you got the same error, but you’re not reporting the same problem. Being able to use startx as user is one thing. Having a broken KDE is a different thing (which is very unlikely to be solved by using startx rather than a login manager).