The login screen cannot display

Last week, after install successful OpenSUSE 11.1 from the KDE4 LiveCD,
I install the kde4-amarok-2.0 with yast2. The installation was fail and
after that I cant login to desktop through the login screen. After the
green boot screen finished loading, this message error box appeared:
> “No greeter widget plugin loaded.”
After I click the “OK” button of the message box, the screen returned
to the console login screen.
I must login with this then use startx to start the X.

I also cant shutdown, restart or lock my laptop. I can only logout to
the console screen and then shutdown my laptop here.

Thanks for read and… Any ideas?

More infos:

  • I’m use HP6530s laptop
    > linux-ogso:~ # uname -a
    > Linux linux-ogso 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100
    > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


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Boot failsafe and at the login prompt, login with your username and
password, then
do this:

mv /home/*usernme/.kde4 .kde4old

(*username = replace with your username, and notice the period . )

when done reboot

see if that helps, it will create a totally new .kde4 folder


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Thanks for reply. But there is no change. I still have to use startx to
start KDE.


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Post your

/boot/grub/menu.lst


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caf4926;1914721 Wrote:
> Post your
>
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
My English is not good, so perharps u haven’t understood me. This is my
problem:

  • The login screen doesn’t appear, and there is a dialog with the
    content: “No greeter widget plugin loaded. Check the configuration” and
    an OK button.
  • When I click the OK button, I am brought back to the console login
    screen (lv3 login).
  • I can connect to the X server and start KDE with the command startx.
  • I cannot lock, shutdown or restart my laptop. When I click Lock
    button to lock my session, a dialog appears. And this is its content:
    > Will not lock the session, as unlocking would be impossible:
    > No appropriate greeter plugin confifured.

Anyway, this is my menu.lst:
> # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 19 00:13:42 ICT 2008
> default 0
> timeout 8
> gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
> ##YaST - activate
>
> ###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
> linux###
> title openSUSE 11.1
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHZ2120BH_G2_K615T872G0L1-part2
> resume=/dev/sda4 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default
>
> ###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows
> 1###
> title Win Vista
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
>
> ###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name:
> failsafe###
> title Failsafe – openSUSE 11.1
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default
> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MHZ2120BH_G2_K615T872G0L1-part2
> showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off
> powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 x11failsafe
> vga=0x317
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default


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Hi thangola

This is a strange one. I found a similar thread ‘here’
(http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-01/msg02722.html).

As you can see they were missing kde4-kdm package. Check with

rpm -qa |grep kde4-kdm

For reference, I get

> rpm -qa |grep kde4-kdm
> kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE-11.0-81.48
> kde4-kdm-branding-upstream-4.1.3-152.6
> kde4-kdm-4.1.3-152.6

Hopefully its something as simple as this. :slight_smile:


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Thanks for reply, deano_ferrari ^^.
It seems this is my problem. When I check my packages:

Code:

rpm -qa |grep kde4-kdm
kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE-11.1-66.4
kde4-kdm-4.1.3-10.1

I don’t have a package kde4-kdm-branding-upstream installed. When I
choose to install this package with yast, there is a conflict:

Code:

kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE-11.1-66.4.i586 conflicts with namespace:otherproviders(kde4-kdm-branding) provided by kde4-kdm-branding-upstream-4.1.85-8.1.i586

What should I do now?


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Login to a CLI as user
go su

then do

zypper in kde4-kdm-branding

(I think)

‘Zypper/Usage/11.1 - openSUSE’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Usage)

you might just try
zypper up


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Lenovo R61e | 1GB RAM

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If you have further problems, we may also need to see list of repos you
have enabled. To get this info:

zypper lr


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caf4926;1915372 Wrote:
> Login to a CLI as user
> go su
>
> then do
>
> zypper in kde4-kdm-branding
>
>
The result (^o^)/

Code:

“kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE” providing “kde4-kdm-branding” is already installed… Nothing to do


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deano_ferrari;1915373 Wrote:
> If you have further problems, we may also need to see list of repos you
> have enabled. To get this info:
>
> zypper lr
This is my repo list. I hope that can help.

Code:

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh

–±--------------------------±--------------------------±--------±-------
1 | GNOME:Factory | GNOME:Factory | Yes | Yes
2 | KDE:KDE4:Community | KDE:KDE4:Community | Yes | Yes
3 | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | Yes | Yes
4 | openSUSE:11.1 | openSUSE:11.1 | No | Yes
5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | Yes | Yes
6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | No
7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | No
8 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | Yes | Yes
9 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | No


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login to CLI

go su

zypper refresh

zypper dup


Box: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2 x86_64 | OS 11.0 | (KDE4.1.85) “3.1” | M2N4-SLI
| AMD 64 X2 5200+ | nVidia 8500GT | 2GB RAM
Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
Lenovo R61e | 1GB RAM

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caf4926;1916126 Wrote:
> login to CLI
>
> go su
>
> zypper refresh
>
> zypper dup
After doing these commands, there is still no change. What should I do
now?

Code:

rpm -qa |grep kde4-kdm

kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE-11.1-66.4
kde4-kdm-4.1.3-10.1

zypper in kde4-kdm-branding

“kde4-kdm-branding-openSUSE” providing “kde4-kdm-branding” is already installed… Nothing to do


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Try

zypper ref
zypper up -t package

See how that goes…

I note you have KDE4 unstable repo enabled. This may introduce risks to
working desktop.

@caf4926: Can you take a look at his repo list? What KDE4 repos do you
recommend?


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thangola;1916088 Wrote:
> This is my repo list. I hope that it can help.
> >
Code:

> > # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh
> --±--------------------------±--------------------------±--------±-------
> 1 | GNOME:Factory | GNOME:Factory | Yes | Yes
> 2 | KDE:KDE4:Community | KDE:KDE4:Community | Yes | Yes
> 3 | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop | Yes | Yes
> 4 | openSUSE:11.1 | openSUSE:11.1 | No | Yes
> 5 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | Yes | Yes
> 6 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | No
> 7 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | No
> 8 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | Yes | Yes
> 9 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | No

> >

If using the Unstable 4.2 beta the repos are:

‘Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1’
(http://tinyurl.com/668yyh)

‘Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1’
(http://tinyurl.com/6kct4x)

‘Index of
/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop’
(http://tinyurl.com/6rfa58)

‘Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_11.1’
(http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_11.1/)

I_would_question_the_necessity_of_the_these:

I just wonder why Packman is not there:
‘Index of /pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.1’
(http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/11.1/)

And even VLC, although I would expect it to be disabled.
‘Index of /pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/’
(http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1)


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http://tinyurl.com/985fp2

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