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

Marc Chamberlin composed on 2022-06-19 14:34 (UTC-0700):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> What happens when you try a normal boot now?

> Felix - I still get the same error - startkde: Could not start kdeinit5. 
> Check your installation.

>> If Plasma won't start, try IceWM, or whatever other session type your login
>> manager offers.

> Um, I am gonna need some help I think. The system was set up to 
> automatically log me in, so I don't get the login manager screen. 
> Without the GUI I don't know how to reset this.

I don't remember the official way to disable it when you cannot get
into an X session, but if you rename your greeter's config file that
should allow all the defaults, and let you start a session. Try
/etc/sddm.conf or whatever /etc/sddm.cond.d/ contains, or the
equivalents if using GDM or LightDM. YaST ought to be able to do it,
but if not, you could try changing to a different DM:

	update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager

>> Once that's done, let's see output of the following command:

>> 	zypper se -si | grep 'tem Pac' | grep -v plication

> OK, here you go, kinda long and wraps every line, sorry!
 
In SeaMonkey Mail, which TB was forked from, and now supplies patches
that SM Mail uses to continue, I am able to toggle line wrapping
on/off in the current composition. Can't you add the Toggle Worg Wrap
extension to TB?

I don't recognize anything amongst those oldies that should impact
starting up a Plasma session. Let's work first on getting any X session
to start, by disabling auto-login.

I cut your System Packages output down to manageable groups:

> i+ | awesfx                         | package | 0.5.2-lp153.117.1                  
> i+ | clementine                     | package | 1.3.99.20210609-lp153.151.3        
> i+ | curl                           | package | 7.83.1-lp153.324.1                 
> i+ | libcurl4                       | package | 7.83.1-lp153.324.1                 
> i+ | libdvdcss2                     | package | 1.4.2-lp153.2.1                    
> i+ | libgnutls30                    | package | 3.7.6-lp153.72.9                   
> i+ | libhogweed6                    | package | 3.7.3-lp153.27.1                   
> i+ | libnettle8                     | package | 3.7.3-lp153.27.1                   
> i+ | libopenssl-1_1-devel           | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1                 
> i+ | libopenssl-devel               | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.1.1
> i+ | libopenssl1_1                  | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1                 
> i+ | libprojectM3                   | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1                  
> i+ | libsuil-0-0                    | package | 0.10.10-lp153.33.1                 
> i+ | libtasn1-6                     | package | 4.18.0-lp153.18.3                  
> i+ | libtasn1-tools                 | package | 4.18.0-lp153.18.3                  
> i+ | libzvbi0                       | package | 0.2.35-lp153.52.1                  
> i+ | openssl                        | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.1.1
> i+ | openssl-1_1                    | package | 1.1.1o-lp153.123.1                 
> i+ | perl-Class-Std-Fast            | package | 0.0.8-lp153.4.1                    
> i+ | perl-Number-Bytes-Human        | package | 0.11-lp153.5.1
> i+ | perl-SOAP-WSDL                 | package | 3.004-lp153.2.1                    
> i+ | perl-Sys-MemInfo               | package | 0.99-lp153.5.1                     
> i+ | perl-Sys-Mmap                  | package | 0.20-lp153.3.1                     
> i+ | projectM                       | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1                  
> i+ | projectM-data                  | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1                  
> i+ | projectM-devel                 | package | 3.1.12-lp153.49.1                  
> i  | python3-zm_database_init       | package | 3.3.3-lp153.5.1
> i+ | snapd                          | package | 2.56-lp153.1.1                     
> i+ | vorbis-tools                   | package | 1.4.2-lp153.273.2                  
> i+ | vorbis-tools-lang              | package | 1.4.2-lp153.273.2
> i+ | ZoneMinder                     | package | 1.36.18-lp153.5.1                  

> i+ | bacula-client                  | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1                   
> i+ | bacula-common                  | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1                   
> i+ | bacula-console                 | package | 11.0.6-lp152.1.1                   
> i+ | hw-probe                       | package | 1.5-lp152.6.1
> i+ | libbind9-160                   | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libdns169                      | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libirs160                      | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libisc166                      | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libisccc160                    | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libisccfg160                   | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | liblwres160                    | package | 9.11.2-lp152.13.6                  
> i+ | libply-boot-client4            | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4
> i+ | libply-splash-core4            | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4
> i+ | libply-splash-graphics4        | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4
> i+ | libply4                        | package | 0.9.4+git20190304.ed9f201-lp152.4.4
> i+ | libwireshark13                 | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1                  
> i+ | libwiretap10                   | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1                  
> i+ | libwsutil11                    | package | 3.2.8-lp152.2.9.1                  
> i+ | libyui-ncurses11               | package | 2.54.5-lp152.1.3                   
> i+ | libyui-qt-graph11              | package | 2.46.3-lp152.1.1                   
> i+ | libyui-qt11                    | package | 2.52.4-lp152.1.1                   
> i+ | libyui11                       | package | 3.9.3-lp152.1.3                    
> i+ | patterns-desktop-multimedia_opt| package | 20170319-lp152.5.3                 
> i+ | python2-iniconfig              | package | 1.1.1-lp152.2.3

Some of these I would have expected to be upgraded by a zypper dup,
but the rest are from your optional repos.
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