Boot freeze

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Hi all

I installed a new Leap 15 on my PC. This worked only after switching off UEFI in the BIOS. Three attempts with UEFI failed.
After that I could install quite normal and it run exactly one time. It made updates and after reboot it freeze every time with the last message

‘started locale service’

So I can’t login any more

The PC is a Asus B85-Plus board with Intel i5-4440@3,1 GHz CPU and a NVIDIA GF119 (GeForce GT610) graphic device.

I could save several log files of this event with an older Suse version :slight_smile: if necessary.

Is there any idea what is the problem?

Thank you in advance
Joerg

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If it happened today maybe you were affected by this bug https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104121
If that is the case, try booting an older kernel until the problem is solved by a new update.

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All my laptops with NVidia chips failed with 4.12.14-lp150.12.10 that worked fine with earlier kernels- it appears that they added nouveau support into the kernel this is not compatible with my chipset and probably yours too. No laptop with only Intel graphics had a problem.

I added the nouveau.modest=0 on my linux line in front of the splash= and that fixed the problem - your line might be different than mine as /dev/sda2 is my swap file and I want to see what loads so I changed the silent to verbose.

I fixed this in /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“resume=/dev/sda2 nouveau.modest=0 splash=verbose showopts”

and ran this as root to fix the problem

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

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Thank you for the advice.
I modified as suggested but nothing changed. It still freeze at the same point.

But the kernel 4.12.14-lp150.11 still works.

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with the latest update the new kernel works too :slight_smile:

Thank you for your help

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Tried the nouveau.modst-0 at the install. Declined to accept the license for the nouveau drive.
Install seemed to proceed; logged in; used YaST2 to install some additional s/w.
When the screen saver turned off the screen, it couldn’t come back on with keyboard input or mouse movement.
On a previous install (maybe #6 of 15), declining the nouveau license still resulted in it being installed.
I knew when I bought this computer (HP Omen) that the nvidia chip would be a pain, but this is excruciating.
Any more suggestions?

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1-Install using the detailed package selection option and taboo xf86-video-nouveau. Depending on which NVidia chip you actually have, the default Xorg driver might well work better anyway. There is nothing you can do about the nouveau support built into the kernel.

2-Append plymouth.enable=0 to the installation kernel cmdline.