I have tried to install 12.1 multiple times on my workstation, but to no avail. Instead of upgrading my previous installed system, I put in new, larger hard drives and going for a clean, fresh install.
I get through the first part of the installation okay. I set up the disks, select packages, etc.
After it installs the packages, it goes to start up a session, and all I get is a white screen where I can see the cursor symbol, but nothing happens. I’ve even let it go four hours to see if something was just being slow, and nothing.
Any ideas? (System is an older system with an Athlon II processes and 768MB of RAM.)
Other than the newer HDs (160 GB each … former were 80GB), I put on a new monitor, hoping that widescreen was now supported.
This is the same card that I’ve had in the system for the last two SuSE distributions that I had installed on this system.
The first half of the install, through the point the packages were installed, displayed just fine. It was once it moved to the next phase of the install (starting up the local copy) that it went haywire.
Am 19.12.2011 22:36, schrieb phoenixangell:
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> The video card is an NVIDIA GForce2 MX-400.
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> This is the same card that I’ve had in the system for the last two SuSE
> distributions that I had installed on this system.
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> The first half of the install, through the point the packages were
> installed, displayed just fine. It was once it moved to the next phase
> of the install (starting up the local copy) that it went haywire.
>
>
Try the nvidia driver 96.43.20 from the nvidia repository it is supposed
to work with that card, did you try the failsafe mode to get into an X
session, if that fails boot into a virtual console session and run
ncurses yast to add the nvidia repo and install the driver.
If your install was not complete due to the graphics problem, run the
text based installation mode.
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
After trying to install utilizing the text-only mode (multiple times), I receive the following error after doing an fsck of each of my raid-1 partitions:
systemd[1]: Failed to enqueue OnFailure= job: Exec format error
The system is a 32-bit system.
This is likely the issue that has prevented me from installing in each instance, and has been repeatable 100% of the time.
Booting into failsafe seemed to get around the systemd issue, and after patching, that problem appears to be resolved.
Cannot bring up X at this point due to issues with the video driver in the distro (Nouveau) and the graphics card [appearing to be of an issue related to the latest x-windows engine].
I now the updated driver from the vendor, but need to figure out how to disable the Nouveau driver to be allowed to install the NVIDIA driver that I need.
It looks like I’m going to have to just wait for 12.2, and hope the Xorg stuff is fixed. Was able to get the video driver updated, but for multiple tries on two installs on my workstation, X took forever to try to get loaded, taking near 100% of the CPU, and then crashed each time.
Loading with 11.4 now, and hoping that is stable enough to have as a workstation until 12.2 comes out.
On 2011-12-22 01:16, phoenixangell wrote:
> gogalthorp;2421157 Wrote:
>> > RAID???
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>> > You should have mentioned that first off.
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> Didn’t realize that would be an issue this time around. I’ve been
> configuring for RAID for about 10 years. Wasn’t an issue before.
There have been raid issues reported.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 12/22/2011 04:46 AM, phoenixangell wrote:
> Loading with 11.4 now, and hoping that is stable enough to have as a
> workstation until 12.2 comes out.
please log your bug, or do not be surprised that 12.2 is exactly the
same! (they can not fix what they do not know about)
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