First of all I hate to bother you folk with a 12.2 problem while you’re in the middle of a 12.3 upgrade. But any assistance is sincerely appreciated at your convenience.
Yesterday(March 13) I did an Apper upgrade on my system. There was an openSuse kernel update as part of the updates that required a reboot (the kernel update itself may have nothing to do with my problem, by the way) . The update was done from user account rdflynn. Upon reboot and logging in, the progress bar appears and as it completes, the screen goes black with only a visible cursor. The user session ‘sounds’ like a successful reboot due to wav that plays upon a successful login, yet screen remains black.
In attempting to power the system down, I am able to connect very successfully to the two other accounts on the system (via switch user), namely root and guest. Everything appears to be normal and operating on both of those user accounts. And as nice as the root and guest accounts are, my main account, rdflynn, is still unavailable (or more likely unviewable).
A very old thread suggested disabling [Compositing] in kwinconfig and doing a alt-f2 ‘plasma-desktop’ which I attempted but to no avail.
Below is some system information, plus a portion of the /var/log/messages log that occur during an attempt at switching user to rdflynn. I’m more than happy to provide any additional info at your request.
And thank you all in advance.
CPU Information
Processor (CPU): Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 430 @ 1.80GHz
Speed: 1,795.54 MHz
Memory Information
Total memory (RAM): 984.4 MiB
Free memory: 130.1 MiB (+ 224.1 MiB Caches)
Free swap: 1.8 GiB
OS Information
OS: Linux 3.4.33-2.24-desktop i686
System: openSUSE 12.2 (i586)
KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) “release 2”
Display Info
Vendor: Intel Corporation
Model: G33
2D driver: intel
3D driver: Unknown Gallium (9.1)
Section of /var/log/messages:
Mar 14 04:29:58 linux-utrd acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 14 04:30:05 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: New session 11 of user rdflynn.
Mar 14 04:30:06 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X2 to /run/user/rdflynn/X11-display.
Mar 14 04:30:07 linux-utrd checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 6404!
Mar 14 04:30:12 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 04:30:12 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 04:30:12 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 04:30:12 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: no kernel backlight interface found
Mar 14 04:30:12 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 04:30:34 linux-utrd polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session5 (system bus name
:1.154 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 14 04:30:43 linux-utrd pulseaudio[7286]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 14 04:30:48 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Mar 14 04:31:10 linux-utrd polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session5 (system bus na
me :1.154, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 14 04:31:18 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: Removed session 11.
Mar 14 04:31:19 linux-utrd kernel: 2264.083446] mtrr: no MTRR for d0000000,7f0000 found
Mar 14 04:31:23 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Mar 14 04:31:24 linux-utrd acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 14 04:41:11 linux-utrd acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 14 04:41:20 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: New session 12 of user rdflynn.
Mar 14 04:41:21 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X2 to /run/user/rdflynn/X11-display.
Mar 14 04:41:22 linux-utrd checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 7139!
Mar 14 04:41:26 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 04:41:26 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: no kernel backlight interface found
Mar 14 04:41:26 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 04:41:26 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 04:41:27 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 04:41:47 linux-utrd polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus name
:1.188 [/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1], object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 14 04:41:53 linux-utrd pulseaudio[7858]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Mar 14 04:41:56 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Mar 14 04:44:58 linux-utrd polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session6 (system bus na
me :1.188, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Mar 14 04:45:02 linux-utrd systemd-logind[489]: Removed session 12.
Mar 14 04:45:05 linux-utrd kernel: 3089.976638] mtrr: no MTRR for d0000000,7f0000 found
Mar 14 04:45:05 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Mar 14 04:45:06 linux-utrd acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 14 04:54:50 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/s
da
Mar 14 04:54:51 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: helper(pid 8259): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda
Mar 14 04:54:51 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: helper(pid 8259): completed with exit code 0
Mar 14 04:54:51 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Mar 14 05:10:17 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:10:17 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: no kernel backlight interface found
Mar 14 05:10:17 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:10:17 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 05:10:17 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 05:23:30 linux-utrd polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authoriza
tion for action org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.brightness for unix-process:5219:25086 [kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]] (owned by unix-user:guest2)
Mar 14 05:24:03 linux-utrd acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 14 05:24:04 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:24:04 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:24:04 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: no kernel backlight interface found
Mar 14 05:24:04 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 05:24:04 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 05:24:50 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/s
da
Mar 14 05:24:50 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: helper(pid 8565): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda
Mar 14 05:24:50 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: helper(pid 8565): completed with exit code 0
Mar 14 05:24:51 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Mar 14 05:26:13 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.freedesktop.PackageKit’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:26:14 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.freedesktop.PackageKit’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:26:14 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.freedesktop.PackageKit’
Mar 14 05:26:14 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.freedesktop.PackageKit’
Mar 14 05:29:03 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:29:03 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Activating service name=‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’ (using servicehelper)
Mar 14 05:29:03 linux-utrd dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’
Mar 14 05:29:03 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: no kernel backlight interface found
Mar 14 05:29:03 linux-utrd dbus-daemon[530]: dbus[530]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper’