Re: [opensuse] Upgrade to 11.2 and now can't log in

auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx said the following on 22/07/2010 8:38 AM:
On Thursday 22 of July 2010, Anton J Aylward wrote:
I upgraded last night b the 'change repositories' method just as I did
for 11.2 -> 11.2. All went well.

Assuming you mean 11.2->11.3,

I upgraded 11.2 -> 11.3 JUST AS I DID FOR 11.1 -> 11.2

However when X comes up and the KDM login dialogue box appears I
cannot log in with it. It looks OK and the pull-down shows all my
installed desktops, KDE, E .... and offers shutdown and console as it
should, but when I try typing a password nothing echoes.

If I type my password 'blind', ignoring the no-echo, I still can't log in.

I can log in at the console with all available IDS so its not a
/etc/passwd problem

This seems a problem localized to KDM

I've looked at my /use/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc and its the old
one. No changes there.

I don't see anything in /etc/pam.d for KDM, but even so, why would
that affect the password echo?

Suggestions as to what else to investigate ...

Is HAL installed and running?

Yes.
That's a potential pending problem as it says /dev/sr0 is disabled, but its running ...

hald --daemon=yes
hald-runner
hald-addon-input
hald-addon-leds
hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch
hald-addon-storage ..... claims /dev/sr0 is disabled
hald-addon-acpi


The KDM dialog box is not accepting input in ANY field.
If I go to the 'remote' part of the dialog that won't accept input either.

Has this something to do with how X is dealing with the keyboard?
Most likely.
There is no xorg.conf but the log file says that there is no input driver specified but is ignoring that, and then it says 'Rules returned no components ... failed to compile keymap'

So, I thought the new xorg.conf-less X was smart.
Or is there something wrong with the install?
Is another repository needed?
Or do I need to flutz around with a new xorg.conf like in days of old?

/a
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