12.2 won't boot after zypper up

Default install of 12.2 rc2, no additional repos. I first ran zypper patch, then did a zypper dup. Now at boot, I can’t pause grub to edit anything and grub appears to be working fine, so I think this is an X problem?

It goes to plymouth and beyond, and plymouth seems to be working better than before, the whole boot process seems smother, but then it gets to a certain point and all input seems to be locked, I can no longer switch the plymouth splash on/off using escape and it ‘freezes’ at the image about half way, if I hit esc and watch the output eventually the screen turns black and remains black. At this point hitting anything on the keyboard is useless, no FN keys work, no caps lock, etc.

I did a chroot into / from the live cd and I was able to see that xorg.conf was removed and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf has been changed as well, as I had the amd binary blob 12.2 legacy installed, and I know xorg existed, and I know the 50-device file had been changed from radeon to fglrx in devices section.

I can live by reinstalling, but I’d like to try to do some troubleshooting for the sake of development if anything.

I just notived 50-fglrx.conf was also removed which only had one line to blacklist radeon so I’m trying to restore that as well, then I will try unblacklisting radeon and removing all fglrx files.

Ok this was related to fglrx afterall and after removing eveything using a couple commands found on these forums, I was able to get input working again and ran to runlevel 3 and reinstalled 12.6 legacy, after reinstalling I guess everything went right this time, as it booted without a hassel.

I guess something was updated that interfered somehow, but I have no clue what it could be since looking over logs as well as the results of the original update didn’t indicate anything bad, while the boot logs did help discover that radeon was attempting to load which it shouldn’t have been. 12.2 rc2 with all updates running smoothly though :slight_smile:

On 08/13/2012 12:06 AM, l300lvl wrote:
> Default install of 12.2 rc2

please, do not post 12.2 questions/comments outside of the correct
pre-release forum <http://tinyurl.com/2du7r4s> until after it has been
released.


dd

Seems to be solved, but wil be moved to the Pre-release/Beta forum nevertheless.

Please do not post until moved.

Moved, open for bussiness again.