13.1 - Freezing

English Install/Boot/Login
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After performing an upgrade from 12.3, I was left without X due to driver incompatibility…No problem download latest nVidia, build and install…all good…X running again. Everything else working ok.

This is where I get stumped, applications start (after a long time) then freeze, you cant click on menus,icons etc…Some work (mostly yast, sysconfig, …) but others Firefox, konqueror just freeze. Then eventually the desktop freezes

Try removing special effects, change renderer, compositing engine, no effect.
Try different windows manager (LXDE) worse froze straight away, conclude with X

Start in recovery mode, more applications work, and the desktop doesn’t just freeze after a while, but still not all apps will run.

Blow away install, and perform completely clean install, same thing…

Any thoughts?

Hardware config:
Gigabyte -GA990F m/b
nVidia GTX560
AMD Phenon X4
8 Gig Ram
SSD 120Gig

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On 2013-11-26 18:16, pblacq wrote:
> After performing an upgrade from 12.3,

How?

Which type of upgrade? Online upgrade (zypper dup) or offline upgrade
(DVD)? Or fresh install on top of the old one?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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And which version of the nvidia driver did you install?

Is it actually used/working?

Please upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log to SUSE Paste and post a link.

And please install the package “Mesa-demo-x” and post the output of:

glxinfo | grep render
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Hi, thanks for response…
Offline using DVD - Checked and verified ok.
1st attempt, perfromed upgrade.
2nd attempt, reformatted, and fresh install.

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Hi Thanks,

Yes this was a happily working system on 12.3
Used nVidia offcial driver 331.20

I will do as you suggest as soon as I can free some space and attempt the install again.

Cheers PaulB

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You have to reinstall the driver after the upgrade of course. Did you do that?

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Hi,

Thanks, and yes I did reinstall the driver

Cheers

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Hello,

What did you reformat , / and /home partition?
/home partion contained the result of your initial upgrade, if you did only / partition as proposed by the system in case of a new install.

Regards, Frans

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On 2013-11-27 14:46, pblacq wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2602301 Wrote:
>> On 2013-11-26 18:16, pblacq wrote:
>>> After performing an upgrade from 12.3,
>>
>> How?
>>
>> Which type of upgrade? Online upgrade (zypper dup) or offline upgrade
>> (DVD)? Or fresh install on top of the old one?

> Offline using DVD - Checked and verified ok.

Are you aware that, as the DVD can not contain every package, you still
need to do certain online operations to complete the offline upgrade?
Till you do, everything can fail.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Hi,

Yup I appreciate the configurations in the home, so I blew away / and home, I run my data in a detach file system one directory deeper than home, so it is easy for me to do.

Cheers

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HI,

Yup I do appreciate that, however it is worth considering on my next attempt, to ensure all on-line updates, post initial install are performed

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It is interesting that the following post has the same issue description as I have, and similar hardware NVidia GT560…pity this thread was not resolved.

https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/492524-problems-after-installing-version-13-1-a.html

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On 2013-11-28 10:16, pblacq wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2602727 Wrote:

>>> Offline using DVD - Checked and verified ok.
>>
>> Are you aware that, as the DVD can not contain every package, you still
>> need to do certain online operations to complete the offline upgrade?
>> Till you do, everything can fail.

> Yup I do appreciate that, however it is worth considering on my next
> attempt, to ensure all on-line updates, post initial install are
> performed

After upgrading with the DVD, you at least need running this sequence:


zypper up
zypper dup
zypper patch

with only the four official repos active.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Hi,

Try reinstlling the kernel and kernel firmware.

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Finslly got around to doing a completely fresh install, and doing as you suggest. Only problem is that since firefox just hangs on startup screen…I am having to bounce the output off another machine.

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2
    GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info, 
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_copy_image, 
    GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object2, GL_NV_path_rendering, 
    GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info, 
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color, GL_NV_copy_image, 
    GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object2, GL_NV_path_rendering,

Here is the url to the output of Xord.log

SUSE Paste

Really hope this helps see the issue…

Much appreciated

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Sorry missed this post first time around, Yes I always detach home from an upgrade…and fresh install is just that, all blown away…no remenece of original system.

Thanks

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Thanks, yes

full online update was perfromed afterwards:
zypper up
zypper dup
zypper patch

No effect :frowning:

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Hi,

Yes done, no improvements…

Cheers

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I have just done a fresh install so wondering how this will help, would I not just end up with the same kernel as I have…and what about the recently built NVidia driver module?

Thanks

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Hi,

Additional information, just thought to try running X as root…hey all works ok’ish still slow to start but Firefox working, and eventually gwenview shows photos.

So seems it is not a driver issue, or deep down kernel misbehaving…it is a rights issue.

But why would this not be more wide spread, as it seems only a few people are suffering this?

Thoughts?