OpenSuse 11.1 & Nvidia doesn't launch KDM. (startx works)

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Hi,

I recently upgraded from 10.3 to 11.1

Unfortuantely after installing the nvidia binary driver the system doesn’t boot into kdm anymore.

I found folowing errors :

Dec 23 17:03:15 yoda kdm_config[27301]: Multiple occurrences of key ‘UseTheme’ in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc
Dec 23 17:03:15 yoda kdm[27319]: X server “-accel” cannot be executed
Dec 23 17:03:15 yoda kdm[27299]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled
Dec 23 17:03:17 yoda kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 177.82 Tue Nov 4 16:50:05 PST 2008

Xorg.0.log (or any other) don’t report any errors.
Also, when I login manually and do a startx, I login to a kde3 session.

The weird thing is that when I do the one-click install (http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp) an then do init 2 | init 5 the x-server boots fine and I see the kdm and can login to kde4 without any problems.

I also tried the folowing walkthrough : Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users but that doesn’t make any difference.

But when I reboot (or do an init 2 ; init 5 sequence) the kdm doesn’t start anymore.

Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this ?

Thanks in advance !

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Try: init 3 and run sax2 as su from a terminal. Once sax configures the display, exit sax and run init 5. (Worked for me after installing ati drivers.)

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Thanks, but that didn’t solve it.

The nvidia module loads fine.

It’s kdm that seems to bail-out on the -accel option.

I tried disabling 3D acceleration in sax2 but that didn’t help.

Maybe it’s something specific to the 64bit OpenSuse 11.1 ?

Btw, forgot to post my uname :

Linux yoda 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Doubt if it’s a 64 bit problem as it works on my box.
Try running nvidia-xconfig in a console as su.

You could also have a read here

Geoff

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Disable early loading of kdm. xdmearly or whatever it’s called needs to NOT run during boot =]

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Running nvidia-xconfig didn’t make a difference, same story.

Also disabled early xdm, but that didn’t help either.

Other ideas ?

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Same problem here, but on 32-bits architecture. I’m also narrowed problem to kdm. Uninstalled NVidia and now everything works fine, although slow-ish.

I’m willing to help chasing out this bug, so please let me know if you have any ideas.

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As a tests I removed de -accel options from DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig and did an init again.

The difference is that kdm now complains about the ‘-br’ option that cannot be executed.

Maybe it’s a bug in a startup script somewhere somehow ?

To be continued…

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Didn’t found a fix yet.

Nobody else having this problem ?
Any ideas to fix this ?

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I ran into the same problem after upgrading from 10.3 to 11.1
Message log shows:
>>>kdm[2952]: X server “-br” cannot be executed<<<

Any idea?

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I hade same problems tried everything even installed Nvidia beta drivers but no luck and computer ran really slow >:( dropped back to 11.0 and now running up to speed know :slight_smile:

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Hi,

I managed to ‘fix’ it by re-installing OpenSuse 11.1.

The difference is that I chose install/Reinstall instead of upgrade.

I guess there’s something wrong with OpenSuse’s upgrade procedure.

Thanks for all the replies !

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I “solved” the problem by (re-)installing the correct
nvidia-packages. For some reason all nvidia packages
(gfx, gfxG01, gfxG02) for any kernel (default, pae, trace) were partially(?) installed. yast marked them as “—”
As the problem is gone now I cannot give more details.

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I have got exactly the same problem with both 32 and 64 architectures (on the same machine)

As a workaround, as kdm is just a login mgr, I have used gdm instead and it works.

To set it up
su -
/sbin/yast2 sysconfig &
there, select the key DISPLAYMANAGER under Desktop, Display manager

change the value to gdm.

The problem is that you can no longer shutdown the machine from kde, only close the session.