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

* Felix Miata <[email protected]> [06-19-22 19:03]:
> 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
> 

as root
systemctl isolate multi-user

<ctrl><alt><f1>

log in as <your user name>
startx /usr/bin/icewm-session-default  -- :1

will open an iceWM session for you.


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