I installed 11.3 first as update from 11.2. The later described error occured.
My first approach was to install 11.3 as full install from scratch, the following error did not disappear.
System boots fine when doing boot option “confirm” and answer “no” to haldaemon service. Subsequently no usb devices are recognized by the system.
If i do not skip the haldaemon, either in normal as in failsafe mode,
haldaemon reports a “NULL Pointer dereference”, which is repeated very often.
The system finally stops booting, the screen is full with the following three lines, which seemed to be repeated for about a minute.
"BUG: Cannot handle NULL Pointer dereference at 000000049.
IP: <c02250bc>] no_context+0x6c/0x150
*pde = 000000000
i removed old unused hardware, as i read in a older thread, that this was the cause for a boot up failure with the haldaemon, but nothing changed.
I installed 11.3 first as update from 11.2. The later described error occured.
My first approach was to install 11.3 as full install from scratch, the following error did not disappear.
System boots fine when doing boot option “confirm” and answer “no” to haldaemon service. Subsequently no usb devices are recognized by the system.
If i do not skip the haldaemon, either in normal as in failsafe mode,
haldaemon reports a “NULL Pointer dereference”, which is repeated very often.
The system finally stops booting, the screen is full with the following three lines, which seemed to be repeated for about a minute.
"BUG: Cannot handle NULL Pointer dereference at 000000049.
IP: <c02250bc>] no_context+0x6c/0x150
*pde = 000000000
i removed old unused hardware, as i read in a older thread, that this was the cause for a boot up failure with the haldaemon, but nothing changed.
I have no idea, what to do next, can anyone help.
Best Regards
Frank
So Frank, was openSUSE 11.2 working OK for you and it was not until you tried to upgrade and then later did a new install of openSUSE 11.3 that you started to have a problem starting openSUSE 11.3? How long did you use openSUSE 11.2 successfully? You indicate that neither the standard startup of openSUSE or the Failsafe startup of openSUSE 11.3 works properly, is that correct? How are you getting onto the Internet right now, can you tell us how?
i used 11.2 since it was downloadable without any problems.
I then tried upgrading to 11.3 because it seemed to be the faster and easier option.
With the 11.3 version from 11.2 the aboved mention error occured.
I then did a full install 11.3 with formatting partitions, the error is the same.
Yes, both options “failsafe” and “standard” do not work, i added acpi=off in both cases.
I use my windows laptop to send this reports, but the linux desktop is connected via ethernet, i updated everything, which was recommended by yast (i remember one hal update), but the error does not disappear.
i used 11.2 since it was downloadable without any problems.
I then tried upgrading to 11.3 because it seemed to be the faster and easier option.
With the 11.3 version from 11.2 the aboved mention error occured.
I then did a full install 11.3 with formatting partitions, the error is the same.
Yes, both options “failsafe” and “standard” do not work, i added acpi=off in both cases.
I use my windows laptop to send this reports, but the linux desktop is connected via ethernet, i updated everything, which was recommended by yast (i remember one hal update), but the error does not disappear.
Best Regards
Frank
Frank the primary difference between openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 was the change in the video setup. The application sax2 was removed from 11.3 and you no longer require the configuration file Xorg.conf for your video to work. I would try the standard run of openSUSE (not failsafe) but type in the single command:
nomodeset
Just before you press the enter key to select the standard kernel run for openSUSE 11.3. If this does not work and the Failsafe load does not work, I am not sure I would try anything else. I would either reload openSUSE 11.2 or wait for openSUSE 11.4 which comes out in just 17 days. In fact, you can try the openSUSE 11.4 RC1 version right now since your present version is not working, but try the single kernel command nomodeset first, just to see if that works. Also, if you know, tell us more about your graphic setup on this computer that openSUSE 11.3 is not working on.
i tried with nomodeset. Behaviour is unchanged.
Why do you think nomodeset could have helped, i didn’t use any proprietary nvidia drivers on my system.
Could you please help me with a shell command, which shows the required information about my graphic setup.
What i know is, that i use a screen resolution of 1600x1200. But changing to text mode does not even change anything to the haldaemon behaviour.
Is there a online repository of 11.4 RC1, so that i can do a network via http install.
I would prefer that instead of downloading the iso.
I did so, and with 11.4 RC1 everything works fine.
I wonder why ?
Anyone likes to explain the difference between 11.3 and 11.4 RC1 regarding hal ?
If, not this can be closed from my point of view.
Best Regards
Frank
openSUSE 11.4 is sporting kernel version 2.6.37 as opposed to 2.6.34 that came with openSUSE 11.3. The difference is like night and day and basically is adding way newer hardware support for video and everything else you could imagine. Of course, all known problems are also being fixed and so you may never know why for sure, but it is good to hear that openSUSE 11.4 RC1 is working well for you. As for Hal, the more recent versions are of Linux are moving over to udev for hardware detection while Hal is slowly being depreciated, it is just the way things go as out with the old and in with the new.
without any problems.
without any problems.