I'm having an issue w/ starting KDE. The boot process goes fine, and then KDE displays the 5 startup icons.. It gets to the globe and pauses for about a minute! Then it gets to the K symbol, and pauses for another 30 seconds. It used to go through all 5 in just a second.
What changed? I noticed I had a lot of packages that are installed were not showing up in yast software management.. I had done a dup from 12.2 to 12.3 months ago, whenever 12.3 came out.. So, I noticed nothing was selected under "patterns" in software management and I selected KDE desktop. That put a check next to a bunch of packages that were already installed, but YAST apparently didn't know about.. It downloaded and installed everything, rebooted, and it's slow to start.
I figured out if I disable power management in the KDE Desktop Config services, it boots fast again, but then power saving is disabled and my screen never shuts off.
I have tried logging in with a new account and have the same trouble.
Could anyone help me troubleshoot this? Or, is there a way to re-install KDE, w/out retaining my existing broken install? (I'd like to save my home folder, but completely reinstall the system partition components)
-I should add, things other than booting are slow now, too. Opening programs for the first time lags.. Starting krdc, for instance, lags for about 20 seconds the first time I open it after booting. Same thing when I shut down, it takes a while for the little shutdown window to pop up, and all that was instant before I made the change to my software.
thank you,
Scott
What changed? I noticed I had a lot of packages that are installed were not showing up in yast software management.. I had done a dup from 12.2 to 12.3 months ago, whenever 12.3 came out.. So, I noticed nothing was selected under "patterns" in software management and I selected KDE desktop. That put a check next to a bunch of packages that were already installed, but YAST apparently didn't know about.. It downloaded and installed everything, rebooted, and it's slow to start.
I figured out if I disable power management in the KDE Desktop Config services, it boots fast again, but then power saving is disabled and my screen never shuts off.
I have tried logging in with a new account and have the same trouble.
Could anyone help me troubleshoot this? Or, is there a way to re-install KDE, w/out retaining my existing broken install? (I'd like to save my home folder, but completely reinstall the system partition components)
-I should add, things other than booting are slow now, too. Opening programs for the first time lags.. Starting krdc, for instance, lags for about 20 seconds the first time I open it after booting. Same thing when I shut down, it takes a while for the little shutdown window to pop up, and all that was instant before I made the change to my software.
thank you,
Scott