I have had a couple of goes at installing KDE4.5 on my openSuse 11.3
and with both RC2 and RC3 all I get is ‘cannot start ksmserver’ and it
goes back to the login screen. I have an Nvidia with the binary driver
Is there something else I need to do.
Ta
M
Please open a terminal and provide the output of:
zypper lr -d
Take Care,
Ian
Tried it again on another machine ( also with nvidia but a later and better one )
| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
–±------------------------------------±------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Updates for openSUSE 11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
2 | http-download.opensuse.org-fb6bcf61 | http-download.opensuse.org-fb6bcf61 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.3 |
3 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 |
4 | openSUSE:11.3:Update | openSUSE:11.3:Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.3 |
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.3-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss |
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.3-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.3/repo/oss |
8 | repo-source
best wishes
Mal
It looks like you have the right repository for the update. Have you tried removing your current .kde4 folder? It’s located at /home/yourusername/.kde4
You can do this without logging in by hitting ctrl+alt+f1 and logging in with your username and password. Then type:
rm -r /home/yourusername/.kde4
Make sure to include the .kde4 part or else it will erase your home directory.
Once you’ve done that, logout by typing exit. Then press ctrl+alt+f7 to get back to the login screen and try to login.
Take Care,
Ian
I’m always tentative about using ‘rm’ anywhere in the forum.
Perhaps ‘mv’ would be safer
And you should already be logged in as user so all you need do is:
mv .kde4 .kde4-old
It happens to all users including root
Mal
And you are logging in as root - why?
You know - before you venture in to the realms of development packaging, you should make sure you know how to negotiate messy situations like this. Perhaps if you login at the command line, become su - and do:
zypper dup
To see what happened !! Besides the second machine I tried doesn’t have any local users except root
if my server isn’t running ( which it wasn’t today )
I’m not sure I understand what the comment about ‘venturing into the realms of development packaging’ means
-are you saying I should stop asking stupid questions ? 
Mal
I’m not sure I understand what the comment about ‘venturing into the realms of development packaging’ means
-are you saying I should stop asking stupid questions ?
No I mean we are telling you some pretty basic stuff. Perhaps you are a little out of your depth using development.
No offence was intended and I apologise.
My apologies too, it’s been a long week and I shouldn’t have got the hump !
Incidentally, before I posted here I did a lot of searching and there are lots of posts all over about KSMServer not starting and no (sensible) answers
Besides if I don’t try things I’ll never learn anything new. … and you will be pleased to know zypper dup worked 
best wishes
Mal
Good news then.
Well done.
If you really want to go wild, get yourself a spare machine or use Virtual Box