on my opensuse 12.3 after the last update I found a black screen with two green strips.
I rebooted and pressed Esc stroke and I obtain a console screen, no login, many lines, and these are the last four lines:
[OK] Started LSB X Display Manager
[OK] Started Postfix Mail Transport Agent
[OK] Reached Target Multi-User
[OK] Reached Target Graphical Interface
and hung there
How can I solve and have my usual graphic login???
Thank you, ciao, Pier 
What video driver/card? Are you using a proprietary driver? if so you may need to reinstall it.
my card is NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M
my kernel is the opensuse 12.3 standard kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop
I was using nvidia driver but don’t remember the version, but was from the 12.3 standard opensuse nvidia repository
I tried tu uninstall and with nouveau it works
I tried to install nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop (I supposed it was right becouse my kernel is 3.7.10-1.1-desktop, also becouse if I try to install a -default yast want to install a -default kernel…) but the green strips at startup becomes blue and the login was at bad resolution, so I did a console login and tried to install nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop, uninstalling the nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, but tha result was blue strips and bad resolution again…
:)but, what the heck is now the new nvidia driver??? all these packages??? and no more automagic selection of driver like in the past??
what do you think I have to install among these??
# Status Package | Summary | Installed (Available) | Size
[Do Not Install] nvidia-computeG02 | NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | (304.88-25.1) | 27.9 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-computeG03 | NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | (310.44-11.1) | 28.1 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfx-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (96.43.23_k3.7.10_1.1-18.1) | 16.7 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (96.43.23_k3.7.10_1.1-18.1) | 16.7 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfx-kmp-pae | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (96.43.23_k3.7.10_1.1-18.1) | 11.5 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (173.14.37_k3.7.10_1.1-19.1) | 21.7 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-desktop | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (173.14.37_k3.7.10_1.1-19.1) | 21.7 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-pae | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (173.14.37_k3.7.10_1.1-19.1) | 16.4 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (304.88_k3.7.10_1.1-24.1) | 33.4 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (304.88_k3.7.10_1.1-24.1) | 33.4 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-pae | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (304.88_k3.7.10_1.1-24.1) | 25.3 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (310.44_k3.7.10_1.1-11.1) | 28.3 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (310.44_k3.7.10_1.1-11.1) | 28.4 MiB
[Do Not Install] nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-pae | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module ... | (310.44_k3.7.10_1.1-11.1) | 21.4 MiB
[Do Not Install] x11-video-nvidia | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce4 GPUs | (96.43.23-19.1) | 37.1 MiB
[Do Not Install] x11-video-nvidiaG01 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForceFX ... | (173.14.37-20.1) | 53.1 MiB
[Do Not Install] x11-video-nvidiaG02 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 6x... | (304.88-25.1) | 152.0 MiB
[Do Not Install] x11-video-nvidiaG03 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 8x... | (310.44-11.1) | 155.4 MiB
thanx, ciao, pier
It is confusing it would be nice to have a chart of cards/drivers
But I’d say you want G03 you also want the the corresponding comput and driver rpm
but not sure where a .NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M falls
As I recall the last update may have updated the driver so you may try dropping back a version
In yast search for nvidia and highlight installed driver then check the version tab (bottom left)
It may show earlier drivers and you can drop back
If you have to drop back then you should report the problem to NVIDIA
You need the G02 driver, see here:
NVIDIA DRIVERS 304.88Certified
Under “Supported Products” your card is listed (nearly at the end)
**NVS Notebook Series:
**NVS 5100M, NVS 3100M, NVS 2100M
So, you have to install the following packages:
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop
x11-video-nvidiaG02
nvidia-computeG02
And don’t forget to add your user to the video group!
As root run: (substitute $USER with your user name)
usermod -a -G video $USER
Thank you, it worked…:), it’s becoming always more complicated to use proprietary drivers…, I’ll end up to use nouveau …
thanks, made by yast… but why this news???
It was removed because it’s not needed normally. Only the proprietary nvidia driver still needs this, and that fact was overlooked during development of 12.3…
See openSUSE 12.3 Release Notes
An online update to fix this is already in the queue and should be released soon, so you maybe wouldn’t have really needed to do that, but it shouldn’t hurt anyway…
Had a similar problem on openSUSE 13.2(Harlequin) after i did a zypper update, Guess it messed my kdm.Here is what i found out
during that moment the system hanged i was able to login to tty1 and cheked on my kdm status by doing “rckdm status”(without the quotes) and guess what!! it had failed!
with an err message:“Failed to conact accountsservice:Error calling startaerviceByname…” so i manually started kdm by doing"rckdm start"(again with no quotes) which immediately took me to KDE environment…This is not a permanent solution though guys but sure it will get you going as you find a parmanent one.Cheers guys;)