Leap 42.1 Clean Instal stuck on Log in with KDE

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hello Everyone,

Just install LEAP 42.1 on my box. I performed a clean install. Format partition and so on.
Nothing special was chosen during install, only defaults and KDE as my default desktop enviroment. OS and swap installed on a 260 GB SSD, and /home on 1TB IDE (all my **** that i keep), I have done previous OpenSUSE installation up until 11.4 and never had such a hard time. During installation my SSD partitions were deleted, created new and formatted. Since default OS file system is Brtfs, a small partition for GRUB-BIOS was created as required. Installation went through without a hitch, but system doesn’t let me to login.
Tried to redo clean install, but using Ext4. The same result - can’t login: after entering password screen just blinks black for a sec and returns to login screen. Tried to redo install again, but with configuring repositories upfront, so packages are downloaded instead of copied from DVD - the same result smooth installation but can’t login.
Enabled Firewall
Enable SSH
When trying to configure the network i set up as DHCP usually that has worked with no problem but now i can connect to any repository nor to my routing i have check the link status and it show well (ok this may be a different issue) so i can get nvidia repo if needed.
Set up a user with password and set the password as admin password

My CPU is a AMD CPU
My video card is a Asus card seems to be using an Nvidia chip is an Asus V1232 i do not know what type of Nvidia chip it uses.

As mentioned install goes pretty smoothly except for the network issue, but when getting to the login screen i can log in.
I have the enter user name/password fields and the option to select the DE i have tired all of them (except for failsafe) and i can’t log in.

Any ideas are appreciated.

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That is likely to be the issue. Plasma 5 does not like the nouveau driver (the opensource driver for nvidia cards).

You should be able to select “Icewm” on the login screen. And login to “Icewm” should be fine.

In “Icewm”, find the file “.config/kwinrc”. It should have a line

OpenGLIsUnsafe=false

Change that “false” to “true”. And, after that, you should be able to login to KDE.

In KDE, go to the system settings menu (or “Configure Desktop”), and from there to “Display and Monitor”. In the “Compositor” settings, change the rendering backend to “XRender”. After that, destop effects should work.

You can then take your time to decide whether to intall the nvidia graphics drivers. Those might work better, and you might be able to go back to using OpenGL.

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No Icewm gives me the same problem

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Then try CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a text console. Login there, and make the change to “.config/kwinrc”.

It’s possible that SDDM is using compositing, and that’s causing problems.

If that doesn’t help, then boot with “nomodeset” on the kernel command line. On the grub menu, hit ‘e’ and then scroll down to find the line that starts “linux” or perhaps “linuxefi”. Append " nomodeset" to the end of the line, then resume booting (there will be a notation on the screen on which key continues). That should at least get you into a usable graphics session, while you decide what to do next. The nvidia drivers will probably work better, but it’s easier to install those once you are in a graphic session.

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ok it seems i am a lot rustier than i thought in Linux

i know how to find the file and i used to use the

vim [filename]

command to edit the file but for the life of me i can’t remember how to save it and get out :open_mouth:
i remember it was something like wq (write quit)
so just be clear i did access the file and changed the false to true. But i can’t save it, i do not remember if any edit are cached or not, tried looking up the vim command and couldn’t get much help.

thanks

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Hi
Press the esc key then shift colon eg <shift>: then wq etc

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Thank you very much malcolmlewis

However now i am stuck on the boot logo you know the suse log with the light-bulb i have waited is has been like that for a few min around (5) min, forced reboot and again stuck at the boot logo

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Hi
Is this after you select booting from grub? If so try failsafe boot and see how that goes.

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when loading i get this options to boot from

Opensuse Leap 42.1
Advanced options for Opensuse Leap 42.1
Start bootloader from read-only snapshot

This is a clean install as a single OS system no dual boot no windows or OSX or other linux distro

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Hi
Select the Advanced options

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i get only one option from there
Opensuse suse Leap 42.1 with Linux 4.1.12-1

stuck on logo also

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Hi
Hmmm, ok, then at the first page, press the e key to edit, the you will see a line with quiet and other options, use the arror keys and before the quiet option enter nomodeset and press the F10 key to boot, see how that goes, when it’s booting if you press the esc key you should see boot options, else if you still get the logo, press ctrl+alt+F1 do you get to a console type login?

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ok after entering nomodeset and pressing F10 i am in what seems to be KDE. I am not sure if it is… i attempted to open a program and get no results, by no result i mean i openend firefox and can’t connect but hte program opens

In the GUI i have waht seems to be the normal KDE options, from bottom to top
Power/Session
Utilities
System
Office
Multimedia
Internet
Graphics
Games
Education
Development

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ok after just playing around with the GUi to make sure things at least work properly, i decided to reboot

On reboot i get back to the log in and again log in back to the same set up.

pressing ctrl+alt+F1 i do get to console login

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Using the e option is NOT permanent. it is one time only. You need to install drivers for you video card.

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Thank you,

I figured it was not permanent, so my first attempt was to try to connect to a repo and see if i can get the drives, and that is when i ran into my second issue, i can’t configure my network, i tried to set it up via yast and shell but i got no luck. The network set up tells me the link is good, set up as DHCP. but trying to connect to my router is a no go. so i am now looking for the drivers and see if can just do it via usb. of course now i have no idea which drivers will be the correct ones, the unix drivers website is rather simplistic.

Do you have any ideas how they are classified?
since i am using a 64 bit AMD CPU

I was looking at this drivers

**Linux x86_64/AMD64/EM64T
**Latest Long Lived Branch version: 367.27
Latest Short Lived Branch version: 364.19
Latest Legacy GPU version (340.xx series): 340.96
Latest Legacy GPU version (304.xx series): 304.131
Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.15
Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.23
Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.39

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Hi
Need to see what video card, please post the output from;


/sbin/lspci -nnk|grep -A3 VGA
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The command report

1:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUStek Computer Inc. Device [1043:84bb]
Kernel module: nouveau
1:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0fbc] (rev a1)
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Hello,

Sorry was out for a few days, i see the drivers that are required, today i attempted to install via shell and and package installer but i keep getting errors on install.

ok so when installing the Drivers i copied them desktop and access runlevel 3
I ran chmod +x to make it executable
then executed (./)

however when trying to complete execution i get this error

ERROR: Unable to find the development tool 'cc' in your path; please make sure that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your system, the please check that 'cc' is in your PATH

When rebooting i get stuck at the opensuse logo screen

Any ideas is welcome

Thank you

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Hi
Yes, to use the run file you need to add the kernel-default-devel kernel-macros make gcc and probably patch