I cannot log in to my computer after updating to KDE 4.8.2

[terwarf]

To do so, press ctrl+shift+f1 to get to system console, login as root
open yast, switch to system -> editor for /etc/sysconfig
select Desktop->Displaymanager->Displaymanger and change value to gdm

after that i had to reboot with ‘init 6’

(you need to have gnome installed for this to work!)
you should be able to install gdm with ‘zypper in gdm’ from console

The only hint of what’s going wrong i could find was this line in /var/log/warn:
checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 1920!
but grepping for this term in /var/log/warn shows this multiple times also in the past, so i’m not sure this is the real problem…

Hope this helps

[knurpht]

@terwarf

To do so, press ctrl+shift+f1 to get to system console, login as root
open yast, switch to system -> editor for /etc/sysconfig
select Desktop->Displaymanager->Displaymanger and change value to gdm

after that i had to reboot with ‘init 6’

(you need to have gnome installed for this to work!)
you should be able to install gdm with ‘zypper in gdm’ from console

The only hint of what’s going wrong i could find was this line in /var/log/warn:
checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 1920!
but grepping for this term in /var/log/warn shows this multiple times also in the past, so i’m not sure this is the real problem…

Hope this helps

Installing gdm is not a solution to the problem. One thing I didn’t see mentioned yet: is the correct session selected at login? In the login screen, left bottom corner, select KDE Plasma Workspace
Otherwise, force the crash, hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, login with username and password, and do

tail -20 .xsession-errors | more

that should show something about what went wrong. You may have to raise the number of lines (20 -> 100), the “more” lets you watch screen by screen

[terwarf]

@Knurpht

Installing gdm is not a solution to the problem. One thing I didn’t see mentioned yet: is the correct session selected at login? In the login screen, left bottom corner, select KDE Plasma Workspace

Ouch, (re-)selecting KDE session was all i needed to do (head->table) :shame:

Thanks a lot for your quick response…

[GJElde]

@terwarf

Ouch, (re-)selecting KDE session was all i needed to do (head->table) :shame:

Thanks a lot for your quick response…

Strange, same here…
If you don’t now that … :\

[andypotter]

@terwarf

Ouch, (re-)selecting KDE session was all i needed to do (head->table) :shame:

Thanks a lot for your quick response…

I discovered this also, after several hours of panic.

[moulta]

Hi,
I updated using zypper --from KR48 and got lots of upgrades but I still get a blank screen at login
What I see is a grey screen with a log in prompt box and a console log
When I type in my username and password the screen flickers and the same screen (grey with login box) appears.
I have used YAST to change the window manager to ICEWM which now gives me a GUI but not as nice to look at as the KDE one.
So having got a GUI how can I get KDE desktop back?
Cheers,
Bill

[caf4926]

@moulta

Sounds like you need to look in Yast software management and do this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/kde48_switch.jpeg

Might be worth re-marking the kde-pattern
Open this in VLC or SMPlayer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/pattern-update-all.mkv

[moulta]

Thank you for all your time and patience helping me.
I now have a shiny new KDE desktop!
The pattern update all worked a treat.
Thanks again,
Bill

[caf4926]

@moulta

Thank you for all your time and patience helping me.
I now have a shiny new KDE desktop!
The pattern update all worked a treat.
Thanks again,
Bill

Happy to hear that

[robin_listas]

On 2012-05-07 11:16, caf4926 wrote:
> Happy to hear that

There has been an interesting post in the factory mail list that explains
the cause of the problem:

+++···················
Hello,

after recent update to KDE 4.8.3, users of OpenSuSE 12.1 may have
problem with starting a KDE4 session. The reason is that package
kdebase4-session doesn’t contain symbolic link

/usr/share/xsessions/kde4.desktop -> kde-plasma.desktop

present in previous version. If you can’t start a default KDE4 session
from KDM, either create the link or change variable DEFAULT_WM in
/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager to “kde-plasma”.

Hopefully this saves someone the investigative work.

Michal Kubeček
···················+±

–
Cheers / Saludos,

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

[alexsmit]

@moulta

Hi,
I am running Opensuse 21.1 on a desktop
I wanted to update to the KDE 4.8 from 4.7.
I used zypper up okular.
Zypper then suggested I update the other KDE desktop suite which I did.
It said to restart which I did.
I can not log in at boot. My usual username and password do not work and neither does root and its password.
It does not tell me that they are incorrect they just do not move on.
There is a slew of messages in a window on the bottom left hand side screen saying things like cannot access DNS server etc
I have Opensuse 12.1 Gnome on another hard disc on the same machine.
How can I log back into the KDE system?
Thanks

Yes, the solution is simple - on the login screen you have to select “KDE plasma desktop”. Also please make sure you have updated ALL 4.7.x packages to 4.8.x.

There are some potential conflicts:

1. k3b should be used entirely from Packman if you want mp3 codecs.
2. all gstreamer packages you would like to have from Packman as well for quite similar reason.