I ran susewatch yesterday and after the installation, i begun to have som gfx problems. Red and green squares about 5x5mm turned up here and there. I'm running KDE 3.5. The installation was an update for kdelibs. Since the soundcard hung after the installation, I rebooted the computer. Now the problem got worse.

Suse boots perfectly. No warnings or errors. I have the redmond login theeme, and during login I can see all the different actions performed by KDE. But after the "restore session" the screen turns black. No desktop at all. First time after reboot firefox was started cause I had it running when I restarted the computer. I could only see the first quadrant of the program. Ctrl + Esc = nothing, Ctrl + Alt + Del = nothing, Alt + F1 = nothing.

By pressing Alt + F4 i could get a prompt to reboot the machine. I changed runlevel to 3 so I can login as root.

And now I'm stuck...

Running startx from the promt will result in same problem (gray x screen). And 'kdm' will result in same behaviour (black screen)...

I read through the logs yesterday and couldn't find anything special there.

Any ideas? Which logs do you need to help me?


Best regards!

The problem could be that SUSE comes with KDE 3.4 and so do all the YOU (SUSE Watcher) updates. But if you run 3.5, the update has downgraded your KDE package to 3.4. I would try and install the newer package again.

I downloaded the latest KDE rpm:s from a mirror. But when I try to install i get the errorcode: "python-qt 3.5.0-7 is needed by xxx".

python-qt 3.5.0-8 were on the server together with all the other KDE files. I searched the net for the error, and some people have experienced the same problem. But I could not find any soulution, and I cannot find python-qt 3.5.0-7

Which package does require python-qt? Meanwhile, the version is 3.5.0-16 (on ftp.gwdg.de). I would guess that this is a studid dependency that you could safely ignore.

The easy way is to log into the session Windows Manager run YaST install back from the KDE Supplementary Repository.

How do I run yast from the console? I've heard it has a console interface, but I have never seen/tried it.

You can do:

yast

Which will bring you a "terminal" based YaST program, or if you change your sessions and log into Window Maker (something like that) you can run yast2 sw_single & which will bring you up the YaST 2 Window you are more comfortable with.

The problem is solved. I ignored the dependency of python-qt an ran: "rpm -F --nodeps *.rpm" and then i started kde - now I'm back again.

Thanks for the help guys.