Re: startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. Check your installation.

Marc Chamberlin composed on 2022-06-19 11:03 (UTC-0700):

> Hi -I am running OpenSuSE Leap 15.3 x64 on one of my systems, and it is 
> failing to start the desktop at the end of booting up. All I get is an 
> XMessage box on a black screen with the error message "startkde: Could 
> not start kdeinit5. Check your installation." Looking in the messages 
> log file I see this message -

> messages:2022-06-04T13:45:32.942306-07:00 nova startplasma-x11[2747]: 
> "/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit_wrapper" ("--kded", 
> "+kcminit_startup") exited with code 127

> I don't grok this message and Google shows lots of old complaints about 
> this problem but nothing current or seemingly relevant. Can some kind 
> guru(s) help me to get this poor computer run and show my KDE desktop? I 
> did use zypper up to make sure my computer has all the latest updates, 
> but that gave no joy solving this problem.

Probably something failed to upgrade or install. Run

	zypper ve

to confirm all dependencies are met.
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