Yesterday I had a couple of updates installed. I switched over to Windows for some work I needed to do there and when I went to load openSUSE again, I was greeted with three Plasma errors in a row (which I reported), no application panel, and an unresponsive desktop (i.e. right-clicking doesn’t load menus or dialogue boxes). I’m in Windows now, as I can’t really do anything in openSUSE. Anyone else have this issue lately?
Can you start up in failsafe mode (via advanced options in grub2 boot menu)?
You could login with IceWM
And work on the problem from there
To add to the above post, when you login to plasma5
if you are able to login, try to press Alt-F2 to see if the
run command will work. Then try to run plasmashell from there.
Yes, I tried both of the advanced options available and both resulted in the same thing.
I’m a real newbie so solving problems using that DE is a challenge. However, I will give that a try if other avenues fail.
I’ll give that a try. May not get back to openSUSE for a bit, though.
Unfortunately, I can’t do anything once logged in, except log back out again. I can launch an xfce session.
I did get a response from one of the bugs I reported. I’m told the following:
Error raised here means there’s something broken with your openGL drivers.
One common cause is NVidia’s libGL installed, but the NVidia kernel module missing.
That being the case, is there a way to fix things without being in the Plasma DE?
So you have xfce installed.
You can use xfce to open the systemsettings for plasma5.
It is under settings-settings manager.
In the plasma5 systemsettings (systemsettings5)
replace your compositor to xrender.
One thing I have to ask you.
Did you by any chance, played with the xfce installed in your machine?
Because in the leap xfce under settings-settings manager-session and startup-application autostart
if you scroll down to the applications, there is a plasma desktop workspace selection, it should be disabled or untick.
It might be the one causing plasma5 to start when you login to plasma5. If it is disabled in your xfce session to
make sure that it will not create a problem, open your /home/user/.config/autostart and see if there is a file called plasma blah–
you have to delete it.
Using a different desktop doesn’t solve the underlying issue.
Do you have an NVIDIA card ( I see you mentioning NVIDIA )? And, if so, did you install the proprietary driver? If you, force a reinstall, you may have been hit by a Mesa- or kernel-update that overwrote bits of the NVIDIA install.
No, when I logged into the xfce DE, it was the first time in there. I’ve done nothing to it. I will give your suggestion a try.
Ah, “yes” and “yes.” I’ll try to get that done using the xfce DE.