Hello every one 
I have a problem that I can not join openSUSE11.2 with KDE.
the problem accour after i try to abort a software then I restarted the system.
I get the following message:
Could not start Kdeinit4. Check your installation.
I also try to repair the system file from the DVD without any success 
your help will be very appreciated
Respectfully,
Al-nobani.
Is this immediately after install, or have you been running and using KDE4 and now it stopped with this error?
One cause could be that your /tmp folder is full, or/and your root filesystem. To find out, boot into runlevel 3 (add a “3” on the boot options line), login as normal user and do:
df -h
post output here.
yes, it was work correctly and I like it.
I have been working on it for a week.
At booting option I type 3 on the line, a black page contain the following lines appears:
Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2)
Master resource control: runlevel 3 has been
Skipped services in runlevel 3:
Welcome to openSUSE 11.2 "Emerald" - Kernal 2.6.31.12-0.2-default (tty1)
after that I type
df -h
and ask me the password, I try to type my root password but the system give me the following massage:
Login incorrect
I try this for many times without success.
hope i say in good way
yes, I have been using it for a while, and I like it.
after typing the command I get the folloing:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mount on
/dev/sda9 30G 8.5G 20G 31% /
udev 1.5G 2.5M 1,5G 1% /dev
/dev/sda9 48G 5.4G 41G 12% /data
Cheers,
I see it: you were updating KDE4, and aborted the installer. It looks like you’re posting from a linux desktop, is this another machine, or can you run another desktop on the one with the broken KDE?
I post these massages from another machine ,
note that I can run the windows only. I try to run the xen and have the same massage problem
Also I aborted when I try to install a software called Mplayer.
I try to repair the system file using my DVD inside:
repair -> custom -> repair file system
I do not do extra things
How can /dev/sda9 be 30G in one line and 48G in another? How can it be mounted twice?
Please show the output of
fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/fstab
and
mount
Sorry, I was type it by hand not copy past :shame:
Again:
~> df -h
Filesystem Size used avail use% Mountedon
/dev/sda8 30G 8.5G 20G 31% /
udev 1.5G 444k 1.5G 1% /dev
/dev/sda9 48G 5.4G 41G 12% /data
/dev/sda1 80G 31G 50G 38% /windows/c
/dev/sda5 30G 4G 26G 14% /windows/d
/dev/sda6 80G 8.1G 72G 11% /windows/E
and
~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x651a8bae
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10443 83883366 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 10444 38913 228685275 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 10444 14261 30660052 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 20887 31329 83883366 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 14261 14523 2112516 82 Linux swap/Solaris
/dev/sda8 31330 35245 31455238+ 83 Linix
/dev/sda9 14524 20886 51110766 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
and
~> sudo cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part7 swap swap default 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part8 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part9 /data ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part1 /windows/c ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,local=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part5 /windows/D vfat users.gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3252GSX_48QHF83JS-part6 /windows/E vfat users.gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernal/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs naauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620.gid=5 0 0
and
~> mount
/dev/sda8 on / type ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernal/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5
/dev/sda9 on /data type ext4 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/sda1 on /windows/C type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda5 on /windows/D type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true)
/dev/sda6 on /windows/E type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,utf8=true)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernal/security type securityfs (rw)
I am sorry for delay, but I type it by hand
Cheers,
Al-nobani
Now you have explained the strange df -h, I do not know if the other output is needed, but it is there.
In any case you do not have a full /tmp (in other words a full /).
You say you can not “join with KDE”. I assume you mean you can not login in the GUI. But can you login in the CLI? Use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to the logical console. Log in with your normal uername and password ((during typing of the password nothing will be echoed).
When that succeeds then try
sudo zypper ref
sudo zupper up
it may repair your half finished update.
I follow exactly that steps:
first command tell me that every thing is up todate, the second one installes about 4.5 MB backages.
but the problem still as it at reboot time and have the same message:
Could not start Kdeinit4. Check your installation.
note that the
df -h
command gives the same results, also the others command.
I wonder is it good to make an update directly from my DVD? or even repair?
Hm, we do not give up that soon.
Can we have the output of
zyper lr -d
to see which repositories you have?
Hi,
since it could be a full file system what about having a shower? Type as root
du -shx /
be patient since this will take a while and paste the result here.
bye
Erik
Edit: Oops, slash missing after the command.
As the
df -h
output in the posts above allready show that there is no full file system, there is no need imho to go and search for unexpected big directories/files as you want to do with du.
I will type it now by hand because i have a connection refused port 22 when i try to use ssh, by the way:
~> zypper lr -d
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URl | Service
--+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+------------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | Emulators:Wine | Emulators:Wine | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.2/ |
2 | KDE:KDE3 | KDE:KDE3 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:KDE3/openSUSE_11.2/ |
3 | KDE:KDE4:Community | KDE:KDE4:Community | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop/ |
4 | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2/ |
5 | KDE:Qt46 | KDE:Qt46 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt46/openSUSE_11.2/ |
6 | X11:lxde | X11:lxde | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/lxde/openSUSE_11.2/ |
7 | X11:xfce | X11:xfce | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.2/ |
8 | X11:xfce:nilda | X11:xfce:nilda | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.2/ |
9 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stablei386 |
10 | home:broumbroum23 | home:broumbroum23 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.2_non-oss/
|
11 | http-download.opensuse.org-39a142af | http-download.opensuse.org-39a142af | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11%3a/xfce/openSUSE_11.2/
|
12 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:///
|
13 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.2/
|
14| repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ |
15 | rebo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ |
16 | rebo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ |
17 | rebo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ |
18 | rebo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ |
Hi,
Sorry, I missed this.
Bye
Erik
With such a repositories list, with all of them enabled, you may not be surprised that you have problems. I see KDE 3 and KDE 4 community and Unstable. Why are you amazed that your system is unstable?
Apparently you missed all the good advice to be found on a lot of places on these forums to have only
. OSS
. nonOSS
. Update
. Packman (which you do not have, thus you have no proper sound, which is of course at your discretion)
enabled.
When you are sure about what you are doing you can use other repos for certain software (e.g. one-click installs) and you should disable them until you feel a need to use them again.
Now it is up to you. My advice is to disable (or even remove when you think you will not need them) all except OSS, nonOSS and Update. Then do
zypper ref
zypper dup
(mind the dup not up)
And let us see if you can log in then. After that you can try to add some of the software you seem to need, but in a more organised way. First things first.
Thanks for a good advice
now I have 3 enable repositories :
. OSS
. nonOSS
. Update
and 2 disabled:
. KDE:KDE4:Community
. CD
the
Could not start Kdeinit4. Check your installation.
massage does no appear now , but the problem is that the system ask me to enter the user’s passowrd, and when i try to type it, the system asked me again and so on. I can not login in the GUI
When I understand you correct, you get the normal login screen, you type your username and password in the boxes. Then you click the login button (or type Return) and then the login screen stays there. Is there some error message like “login failed” or not?
No, there is no any massage, its only back to the login page without any error, and ask me again to type the password
But you can still login into the console with that same username password?