Fresh install. Stuck at KDE login

katana85 · January 4, 2016, 9:37pm

Hi,

I just finish installing. On KDE login, I am trying to login but it comes back to the same login page again. Please advise me on what to do?

Note: I am moving from fedora 23 to Opensuse 42.1. So, I am total new for this distro. For this, please guide me.

And thank you.

nrickert · January 4, 2016, 11:01pm

Some things to check:

Can you login to “Icewm”? On the login screen, look where it says “Plasma 5” (or maybe “KDE Plasma desktop”) toward the left. You can select other possible desktops there. And at least “Icewm” should be available.

Can you login to a command line terminal? Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a terminal screen. See if you can login there. If you are unfamiliar with using the terminal, just use the “logout” command when done. And then CTRL-ALT-F7 should get you back to the graphic login screen.

The reason for these tests is to try to narrow down what might be causing your problems.

katana85 · January 5, 2016, 12:16pm

I tried all three GUI’s nothing working. Yes the terminal is working fine. When I returned back to GUI it is stuck with no respond from mouse and keyboard.

I still suspect the graphics driver, I am using Nvidia. If I can add the repos for Nvidia from the command and do the install maybe it will work.

nrickert · January 5, 2016, 1:12pm

You could login as root. Then run “yast”. It will be an “ncurses” version (all ASCII characters), and perhaps a little awkward to use. But, yes, you could add repos and install software that way.

You might prefer to try adding “nomodeset” to the boot command line.

On the boot screen, hit ‘e’. That allows you to edit the command line.
Scroll down until you find a line that begins “linux” (or maybe “linuxefi”).
Hit the END key to get to the end of that line.
Enter " nomodeset".
Resume booting (there will be a message on the screen telling you the keys to use for that.