Hi,
perhaps you can help me:
I’ve installed Suse Linux 11.1 on a Standalone-Server.
I logged out in a normal session, and after a while I tried to relogin. Now, a black screen appears showing just the cursor.
Using Putty I can normally login remotely.
In the last working session I tried to install Tivoli Storage Manager, deleting older versions with rpm -q -a | grep TIV and rm -r /opt/tivoli
Can anybody help me?
As for X, make sure you have no services running in runlevel 5, then login as root (putty or console) and run
init 3
init 5
to see if that brings back the GUI.
Uwe
Mmh, I think I wasn’t exactly enough:
The Login on the X Window System appears.
Then: After you passed user name, password and confirmed, you see the black screen, and the cursor appears.
The init 3 , init 5 combo brings back the login screen, but the problem remains.
The console with Putty works fine.
I just found out, that is just the root which doesn’t work. The other accounts can login. Is it possible that I deleted something wrong with the rpm command?
can’t imagine what it should be. Do you see a .xsessionerrors in root’s home?
Anyway, you should never run the X server as root, for security reasons. I’d leave it this way if I were you.
Uwe
Ok. Thanks.
There is an .xsession-errors file containing:
/etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started.
/etc/X11/xim: user environment variable LANG=POSIX
/etc/X11/xim: user environment variable LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8/
But IMHO these are no errors.
Just ignore it. As I said before, you shouldn’t start the GUI as root anyways.
Uwe