Thanks to Marcus Meissner, who pointed me in the right direction to fix this problem.
Problem: 1. Opensuse updates caused login to KDE to break. Openssl updates caused apparent password failure Updates in question were libopenssl-devel 4476-0 libopenssl-devel 4560-0 2. X11 server update froze the mouse pointer and I wasn't able to enter a password. (This happened a few days after problem 1) Updates in question were xorg-x11-server 4595-0 Solution: 1. To enable me to login to KDE, * I used ctrl-alt-f1to get me to a console * Log in as root * Mount the opensuse 10.3 dvd mount /dev/sr1 /mnt * Change directory to /mnt/suse/i586 * Run the following command rpm --oldpackage -Uvh openssl-0.9.8e-45.i586.rpm libopenssl0_9_8-0.9.8e-45.i586.rpm openssl-certs-0.9.8e-45.i586.rpm libopenssl-devel-0.9.8e-45.i586.rpm 2. Same steps as step 1, but use the following rpm command. rpm --oldpackage -Uvh xorg-x11-server-7.2-143.i586.rpm 3. Once I was able to log in to KDE * I disabled the FACTORY repositories * Restarted the opensuse updater * Installed all the updates with opensuse updater * Logged out, logged back in, no problems. Rebooted and logged back in to be sure. The root cause of the problem, operator error. Me. :-( Cheers, Barrie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
