In the process of installing 11.2 over 10.2 everything goes fine until I reach a login screen. There I provide my previously supplied username and password and the result is logon failed.
I have tried the install several times. The result is always the same. Login also does not work from console.
Some surfing has provided the suggestion that the old Grub may still exist on the machine. If so, how do I get rid of it?
Can you log in as root?
Nope. The message has to be 10 character long!
Are you upgrading or doing a clean install?
I highly recommend a clean install too many change between 10.3 and 11.2
This was a clean install from DVD. Before I started I checked the media and the hardware. The media was okay but I got a couple of flags from the hardware check. But, since this would be the third version of Suse for this machine, I decided to ignore them. Suse 10.2 on this machine ran like the OS and computer were made for each other.
Found an error message on the startup screen
Error accessing systemtap module preload trace: Operation not permitted.
This sounds like a bad install did you run a media check?
There should be no problems with grub Suse does not use grub 2 yet,
I got it going. The ISO matched the check sum and the media checked perfect. After maybe 50 failed installs, at the screen where I was asked to supply username and password there are three check boxes: use password for user, use password for mail and use password for root - I left them all blank. A screen I had not seen before popped up asking for the root password. With that, I was in. The previous screen must be broken. If so, this is going to stop all but the most determined installs.