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From: anand on 25 Jan 2008 22:37
hi
I had opensuse 10.2 running on my box. was working perfectly fine then i
thought to upgrade 10.3. so i did a full installation (from formatting the
hdd). The system crashed as soon as i log on to the unit.

please help me i cannot get into unit now. I am thinking of going back to
10.2

ignatius







From: Rajko M. on 26 Jan 2008 04:21
anand wrote:

> hi
> I had opensuse 10.2 running on my box. was working perfectly fine then i
> thought to upgrade 10.3. so i did a full installation (from formatting
> the hdd). The system crashed as soon as i log on to the unit.
>
> please help me i cannot get into unit now. I am thinking of going back to
> 10.2
>
> ignatius

Crashed?
What exactly happened.
Did you tried to log in text mode?
On boot screen type:
3
and press Enter.
There will be no graphic login, just text:
Login:
Here you give user name, and press Enter.
Next will be:
Password:
Where you should give user password.

After above try to type in:
startx
and see error messages. Post them as precise as possible.

If you are not comfortable with text mode, than on word
Login:
type root as user name, and when it asks:
Password:
type in root password.

When you are in run:
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-save
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This will give you some graphic, not fast and nice, but working, so that you
can post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old where it should be some clue why GUI
doesn't work.

--
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
From: houghi on 26 Jan 2008 04:55
Rajko M. wrote:
> If you are not comfortable with text mode, than on word
> Login:
> type root as user name, and when it asks:
> Password:
> type in root password.
>
> When you are in run:
> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-save
> cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> This will give you some graphic, not fast and nice, but working, so that you
> can post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old where it should be some clue why GUI
> doesn't work.

Or you can run `sax2` and try to configure the GUI.

houghi
--
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tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free
because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
From: Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 :) on 26 Jan 2008 12:35
anand wrote:
> hi
> I had opensuse 10.2 running on my box. was working perfectly fine then i
> thought to upgrade 10.3. so i did a full installation (from formatting the
> hdd). The system crashed as soon as i log on to the unit.
>
> please help me i cannot get into unit now. I am thinking of going back to
> 10.2
>
> ignatius
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
It's not 10.3. Either your copy is corrupt or hardware is flakey. Try it
again.

--
Blattus Slafaly ? 3 :) 7/8
From: Rajko M. on 27 Jan 2008 21:15
houghi wrote:

> Or you can run `sax2` and try to configure the GUI.
>

I can't recommend sax2 as I don't use it much anymore.

SUSE 10.0 sax2 was smarter than other tools.

With 10.1 the same hardware, just another partition, had problem to setup
dual screen. Xorg bug was main reason. Minor reason sax2 was able to find
only card that was used to boot computer.

In 10.2 they dropped support for different hardware (video adapters and
monitors) in dual screen. I had to create 2 xorg.conf and merge them
manually.

In 10.3 all attempts to use sax2 failed, it worked with 'X -configure' and
minor tweaking.

Last attempt with recent xorg problem where update overwrote nvidia driver
files was solved after compilation of nvidia driver. By openSUSE provided
one made thing stable but without GUI ;-) SaX2 failed twice. Nvidia
compilation fixed all.

Now, there is always Bugzilla, and with 10.1 I was very enthusiastic, 10.2
not so much, now I don't care.

--
Regards, Rajko.
See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
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