Suse 12.3: Lost kde at startup

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#1

Hello All,

I just update my system to Suse 12.3 and KDE 4.10.
During the upgrading I made a mistake, I had the nVidia repository deactivated, so after the first run the system didn’t start correctly.
I had to boot in console mode, activate the nVidia repository and update it.
Now, when I start the computer, it starts in console mode, and so I have to give the startkde command each time to run KDE. After that, the system works fine.

I tried to see if there was something wrong in the /etc/conf/displaymanager, but it looks right to me, here below the relevant lines:



DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="yes"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN="user"
DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_AD_INTEGRATION="no"
DISPLAYMANAGER_SHUTDOWN="auto"
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_VGA=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_I=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_D=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_DVI_A=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Compsite=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_S_Video=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Component=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_LFP=""
#DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_Proprietary=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_auto="1024x768_60 64.11 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 795 -HSync +Vsync"
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=Xorg
KDM_USERS=""
KDM_GREETSTRING=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_LOCALARGS=""
DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME="openSUSE"
DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_LOCAL="yes"

Any idea on how to have KDE starting automatically at boot again?

#2

I opened YaST and sysconfig editor and i see the following . Probably displaymanager should be kdm4. Then again i might be wrong

File:  /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
Possible Values:  kdm, kdm3, kdm4, xdm, gdm, wdm, entrance, console or any value
Default Value:  
Description: 

Here you can set the default Display manager (kdm/xdm/gdm/wdm/entrance/console).
all changes in this file require a restart of the displaymanager
#3

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that, but it didn’t work.

#4

Login as root using the following steps:

Type in: su - systemctl isolate runlevel5.target

or

Type in: su - systemctl isolate multi-user.target

BTW the display manager is kdm.
And select DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=yourusername which can be found in /etc/sysconfig/Desktop/Display manager/DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=yourusername

#5

Hope this is also set correctly

File:  /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager
Possible Values:  gnome, kde4, kde, lxde, xfce, twm, icewm or any value
Default Value:  kde4
#6

The command “su - systemctl isolate runlevel5.target” (without the quotes) is used to get to the gui desktop.

If it doesn’t work and if it’s a fresh install including the /home partition use “rm -rf .kde4” (without quote) to delete it.

Reboot your computer. During start up a new .kde4 will be regenerated.

#7

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Thank you in advance.

#8

Sorry for the late response, but yes, the method suggested by Romanator actually worked.

Thanks to everybody for suggestions!