The second issue I have is that after logging in, I am only able to use my mouse. The KDE desktop or window manager never launches it seems. Thinking this could be user profile related, I created a second user, rebooted, but I get the same result. I am able to use my console logins via F1, F2, etc. to manage the system, just no GUI after logging in.
For which serious reason should they be related ??
This seems to be a network problem.
Could that be caused by the wrong or a damaged WLAN hardware, or an unreliable WLAN connection ?
This sounds like an issue with the graphics card.
How did you install ?
I.e., did you use DVD or live system ?
Did you format your hard disk beforehand ?
What kind of system was installed beforehand ?
Did you install a 32 or 64 bit openSUSE ?
It may not be me who may have a solution,
but you should have told a bit more about your system and it’s history.
None that I can think of. It’s definitely two different issues; however, both of these happened after a restart. I just wasn’t sure if some corruption or software issue with Network Manager would cause an issue with initializing KDE desktop.
I have never plugged into the wire, I setup my wireless connection in Network Manager. Are the WiFi settings not per user? I would think this would be configured or started after login? Maybe not. FWIW, my E3000 wifi setup is working perfectly for many devices here at home and was working perfect on the laptop until today.
The graphics were working fine and I had been using the laptop for several days, with sleeping and a few reboots in between use. I did try to enable Desktop Effects, perhaps that is causing some sort of issue, but again I would think that was per user.
I downloaded the 13.1 32-bit ISO from the site and made it bootable with the Windows utility. I then installed alongside Windows 8.1 on my laptop by booting the DVD and running the installation wizard. GRUB bootloader with opensuse the default load. Both environments were working fine individually.
I had installed ownCloud, the LAMP stack, and a few other software packages that I cannot remember at the moment. I also setup an OpenVPN client connection profile, all of which had seen reboots in-between.
If this is a graphics card issue for some reason, advice on how to identify it or get around it? I would think a graphics card issue would just provide a black blank screen, but in my case it is just wallpaper and the mouse does move.
Any ideas or further info I can provide would be appreciated.
On 2014-01-04 02:16, zishbu wrote:
> None that I can think of. It’s definitely two different issues; however,
> both of these happened after a restart. I just wasn’t sure if some
> corruption or software issue with Network Manager would cause an issue
> with initializing KDE desktop.
I have seen some similar reports. Sometimes it seems related, yes. No idea why.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))
If some applet on the desktop hangs, the desktop never starts up. So if an applet can’t cope with a missing network connection, this can be related.
Yes, a wireless connection is user-specific unless you configure it as “system connection” for which you would need the root password.
The connection is established at login time then, which means when the desktop is started no connection is available yet.
I just now found out in a thread in the german forum that the “Remember The Milk” plasmoid has grave bugs which cause exactly this when there’s no network available at startup. (it busy-loops until it gets a reply from the server which never happens)
So are you using that plasmoid maybe?
Try to reset your desktop to the default settings by renaming or removing ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc .
Btw, you should be able to get a KRunner window where you can run stuff (dolphin f.e.) by pressing Alt+F2.
Some thing you could try if the desktop is indeed hanging because of the not yet ready network connection: press Alt+F2, click on the symbol for the System-Monitor and kill plasma-desktop, then run “plasma-desktop” in that dialog.
If the hang is caused by the not-working network, it should start up fine then.
The graphics were working fine and I had been using the laptop for several days, with sleeping and a few reboots in between use. I did try to enable Desktop Effects, perhaps that is causing some sort of issue, but again I would think that was per user.
If this is a graphics card issue for some reason, advice on how to identify it or get around it? I would think a graphics card issue would just provide a black blank screen, but in my case it is just wallpaper and the mouse does move.
I also don’t think this is a graphics issue, if you see the desktop wallpaper. And yes, the desktop effects setting are per user.
But you could try to boot to “Recovery mode” (see “Advanced Options” in the boot menu) to rule this out.