I'm running OpenSUSE 12.3. Yesterday, I uninstalled/reinstalled GCC via YaST. One of the updates removed some plasma packages (so I couldn't add a calendar/terminal shortcut to my toolbar), so I reinstalled plasma for KDE, finished my work, and shut down for the day. Today, I'm confronted with a new login screen (it's bland and gray and boooriiing!) and, though it acknowledges my correct username/password combo, I cannot get past this screen into my KDE. Does anyone have some ideas how to fix?

OH! I can start a terminal, log in as me or root or my "guest", and maneuver and make files and directories and such, so it's just the GUI?

Anywho, thanks for any help you can give.

Did you restart the kdm daemon

I tried startkde, but I got Typing startx nets

Reinstall X

I can't connect to the internet now via that computer. ifconfig shows wlan0 as up, but neither can I ping nor zypper anything for install/upgrade.

I still get a login screen, albeit not one I'm used to seeing.

i am guessing it is the TEXT login

you did set up a separate root account ? right !

read the log and reinstall them
login as root
use "nano" (it should be installed by default ) to read the zypper log and reinstall the missing tools
now as to
? why ?
the older 12.3 has gcc 4.7 installed as the default from the suse repo
now gcc 3.3 to 4.9 ARE in the OBS gcc:dev repo

Hmmm, I'm not certain what the text login is, but what I see certainly not my terminal/command prompt login. It's actually a full screen/graphic. I type in my username - or root for S&Gs - and password. The screen acknowledges my correct login, "blinks," and returns to the login screen. Cuz, you know, why not, right?

How do I know which tools are missing?

It kept throwing errors that two packages were missing even after I installed them via YaST, so I uninstalled and re-installed from a different source so I could compile my homework.

please see your post on the novell opensuse forum
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthre...g-into-KDE-GUI