Hello
I have installed 11.2 on my son’s computer. All seems like it installed fine, except when it starts up it goes through verbose mode and then at the bottom of the screen the last line is Login: Next line is Password: I can put my son’s name in and his password. It then says when he last logged in followed by the line “Have Fun”. How do I get it to boot into the GUI automatic. Barring that, how do I start KDE from this verbose login?
Thanks for your help
Harpo1
what happens if you type: gdm or kdm (whatever is installed) from there ?
It says there was an error loading shared libraries libxpmcp.so.6. It then says the pids were reused and “we are confused”. It then just sits there with a blinking cursor. Sorry the file is libxdmcp, and it says no such file or directory.
OK. What happens if you type ‘startx’ then ?
It says no startx installed. Huh?
I tried startkde as well. It says $display not set or cannot connect to the x server.
On 2010-08-30 04:06, Harpo1 wrote:
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> It says there was an error loading shared libraries libxpmcp.so.6. It
> then says the pids were reused and “we are confused”. It then just sits
> there with a blinking cursor. Sorry the file is libxdmcp, and it says
> no such file or directory.
Log in as root (text mode) and issue the command:
rpm -qa | grep -i libxdmcp
You should have at least “xorg-x11-libXdmcp-7.4…rpm”. Then run:
rpm --verify xorg-x11-libXdmcp
Another question: when you installed the system, did it complain about some package, and you said
“ignore”, per chance?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
On 2010-08-30 04:36, Harpo1 wrote:
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> It says no startx installed. Huh?
rpm -qa | grep -i xorg
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Harpo1,
It looks like a bunch of stuff is missing. Would it be a big deal to check the CD/DVD you have and maybe just reinstall ?
Another question : Do you have a good reason to install 11.2 rather than the latest release (11.3) ?
On 2010-08-30 05:06, Harpo1 wrote:
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> I tried startkde as well. It says $display not set or cannot connect to
> the x server.
Please answer the three questions I asked of you.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
Carlos
When I type rpm -qa|grep -i libXdmcp, it gives me xorg-x11-libXdmcp=7.4…rpm as you had said it would. When I rpm --verify xorg-x11-libXdmcp, it says that the file is not installed. No, it did not complain about any packages not installed. Coincidently, I had tried 11.1 on this machine as well, and had the same verbose login. I am going to try to reinstall 11.2. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try 11.3 in it.
Harpo1
Coincidently, I had tried 11.1 on this machine as well, and had the same verbose login. I am going to try to reinstall 11.2. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try 11.3 in it.
What video hardware?
I have installed 11.2 on my son’s computer. All seems like it installed fine, except when it starts up it goes through verbose mode and then at the bottom of the screen the last line is Login: Next line is Password: I can put my son’s name in and his password. It then says when he last logged in followed by the line “Have Fun”. How do I get it to boot into the GUI automatic. Barring that, how do I start KDE from this verbose login?
Has this machine booted to KDE (or other desktop, or window manager), from openSUSE (or any Linux) previously?
On 2010-08-30 15:36, Harpo1 wrote:
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> Carlos
>
> When I type rpm -qa|grep -i libXdmcp, it gives me
> xorg-x11-libXdmcp=7.4…rpm as you had said it would. When I rpm
> --verify xorg-x11-libXdmcp, it says that the file is not installed.
I would prefer you had pasted the exact commands and responses.
> No,
> it did not complain about any packages not installed. Coincidently, I
> had tried 11.1 on this machine as well, and had the same verbose login.
> I am going to try to reinstall 11.2. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try
> 11.3 in it.
No, don’t try 11.3. Not yet.
Reinstalling without knowing what you did and how it happened is futile - and 11.3 has its own
problems, 11.2 is far more stable for you.
My guess is that you did not install a graphic pattern, or that you had a bad DVD. I would simply
fire up YaST and force reinstall everything related to X. Or, as you haven’t done anything yet with
this machine, first verify the md5sum of the DVD against the published value, then boot the dvd as
if you were going to install 11.2, but choose “upgrade” to the same 11.2. This should overwrite
everything.
I think this works, but I can’t guarantee it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))
deleted - wrong recommendation
I tried reinstalling 11.2 but got the same result. I tried 11.3 and all is well.
Thanks to all that helped. I really appreciate it.
Harpo1
Did you tell us what graphic adapter you have ?
lspci | grep -i vga
Have you ever been able to boot (any) Linux live CD on that machine ?
Why not trying that and see if you can get a GUI ?