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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Login password(s) not accepted
From:       Mark Misulich <munguanaweza () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-04-30 14:43:30
Message-ID: 1335797010.4005.2.camel () linux-alur ! site
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On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 21:00 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 30/04/12 20:38, Mark Misulich wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 20:09 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >> On 30/04/12 19:49, Mark Misulich wrote:
> >>
> >> [.........]
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I had this problem after doing a zypper dup and solved it by doing the
> >>> following.
> >>>
> >>> I logged in to IceWM instead of KDE.  I started yast>   software
> >>> management>   kernel.  I downgraded my kernel and rebooted.  I selected
> >>> KDE at the login screen and KDE started right up.
> >>>
> >>> Once I was back in KDE, I started yast>   software management>   kernel
> >>> and upgraded the kernel. Then I rebooted into the new kernel and KDE
> >>> without problem.
> >> The use of another DE is most interesting and something which was
> >> already suggested Phanisvara. It sounds like a very good idea to have a
> >> standby DE available.
> >>
> >> But you don't say which kernel you were running at the time and to which
> >> kernel you downgraded. I am only using the kernel which was installed by
> >> default and have not upgraded it (like I did do when running the 32-bit
> >> version where I was running version 3.3.x of the kernel). So, which
> >> version did you downgrade to when you came across this problem?
> >>
> >> BC
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> The wise man does at once what a fool does finally.
> >>                Niccolo Machiavelli
> >>
> > The kernel that was originally installed was the kernel that was
> > installed in a fresh install.  I think the kernel that  yast upgraded to
> > in the first system update was 3.1.10 something.  I downgraded to the
> > next lower kernel in the versions list, whatever it was, maybe 3.1.9.
> > Once KDE was back up and running, I went back to the highest version
> > available, maybe 3.1.10.
> 
> OK, I didn't pay attention to what was originally installed but the 
> present kernel is 3.1.10.
> 
> > I think the problem may be that the software updates aren't installing
> > correctly to the kernel, but installing the kernel to the updates works.
> > Hence, the kernel version isn't so important as installing the kernel to
> > the updates.
> 
> WHOA! to the that last statement :-) . That is what YaST is supposed to 
> do and what zypper is supposed to do - install the correct versions to 
> fit what is being used on the system. The whole thing is called 
> "dependency" thing :-) . I don't ever recall doing an 
> installation/update/upgrade of anything which used the parameter "force".
> 
> OK, so I am about ready to try to install KDE 4.8.2 once again - after 
> doing some backups of the ~/.mozilla and /.thunderbird directories.
> 
> Here goes nothing.........
> 
> BC
> 
> -- 
The particular zypper dup that I did that gave me the problem was to try
to install kde 4.8 to a fresh OS12.1 install.  The method that I
detailed above fixed it and got the whole thing working again with kde
4.8.  I hope and expect that it will work for you too.
> 


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