12.1 will not boot to th GUI. Hangs, then switches to failsafe mode.

History:

I ran out of space on my /home directory and could no longer boot to a GUI in 11.4

Deleted a bunch of stuff out of /home that I did not need.

Installed 12.1

Keep getting to about halfway through the boot and the splash screen times out into failsafe mode. I never make it to the GUI.

X seems to be working. I verified my Intel driver is in use.

Possible clues:
If I type: startx
I get: Fatal server error, cannot move old log file “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” to “/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old”

xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe thats the reason

I have run out of ideas.

What version of openSUSE were you using before? And what desktop (kde or gnome)

Are we correct in thinking /home was not formatted when you installed 12.1?

I was using 11.4, KDE, /home was not formatted. I was trying to preserve /home

But can you login from the command line?

Yes, I can login from the command line.

First thing to try:
Booting the Failsafe option from the grub menu
If it get you to a desktop. Tell us.
If not try the next:

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So login

Now switch to su -

and type: yast

In this basic yast, configure a new user login and also make sure auto login is disabled.
Reboot
Try logging in with old and new account

Try to empty /tmp?

First I apologize for taking so long to reply. I just got home from 9 days on the road so my replies should come a bit quicker.

I chose failsafe mode and that took me to a command line prompt for login and password. I entered both and successfully logged in, but only to a command line prompt.

Configured a new user in Yast with autologin disabled. Booted normally and each time ended up at the command line. Logged in with the new user name with no luck getting to the Desktop, Logged in with the Original name, and also never made it to the Desktop.

Additional note: Just to avoid confusion, when I power up I get a normal opensuse screen with green background and graphics, but when I choose the mode I want to boot, I just end up at the command line. I never make it to the normal KDE desktop. So I just wanted to make sure you knew I was seeing a graphic menu and not a typical black background with a cmd prompt. I just end up at a command prompt.

I also deleted /tmp and rebooted with no luck.

Sounds like you may need to backup what you can and start again from scratch.