Hello,
I’ve decided to give openSUSE a try. I did a fresh install in VM to try it out. During installation I chose the GNOME DE. After the installation process was done and reboot, the boot gets stuck on Reached target Graphical Interface. However sometimes it freezes on “Removed slice user-1000.slice” or “Deleting old kernels” (or something along the lines).
The OS boots fine if I selected minimal graphic install (iceWM). I tried installing the VM Guest Additions, but it did not help. Using ‘init 3’ or ‘init 5’ does nothing. Using ‘startx’ gets me to the desktop GUI. After I restart, stuck in boot again.
I’m fairly new to linux so I’d love to ask you that if you suggest something, please include the steps necessary if possible.
Thank you.
A VM? so which one and what is the host? You probably should take this to the VM section of the forum.
I apologize. I’ve missed the Virtualization forum. Is it possible to move this there?
On topic: I use VirtualBox 5.0.4 with Windows 7 being the host OS.
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Moved and re-opened.
You need to describe which version openSUSE you are installing.
Also,
When you boot your openSUSE, after you select your GRUB boot option, you can click the ESC key to display the boot process until you encounter your problem.
I have not seen an openSUSE stop at the point you describe in a VM, but it happened often in older versions (12.1 ?) in a non-virtualized environment due to video driver problems. If you’re installing a relatively current version of openSUSE in a virtualized environment you should not be having a video driver problem… It’s one of the benefits and feature of virtualization that you won’t be affected by hardware issues.
TSU
This is embarrassing. I was under the impression I downloaded and installed the openSUSE 12.3 version. I even selected the 12.3 version when creating the topic. Fortunately it hadn’t displayed and you asked.
So after double-checking I’ve found out I’ve downloaded the ‘Developer release 42.1’ by accident. I’ve downloded and installed now the correct 12.3 version and it’s working as intended, successful boot.
I apologize and thank you for your help.
On 2015-09-15 02:56, Rumburak wrote:
> This is embarrassing. I was under the impression I downloaded and
> installed the openSUSE 12.3 version. I even selected the 12.3 version
> when creating the topic. Fortunately it hadn’t displayed and you asked.
> So after double-checking I’ve found out I’ve downloaded the ‘Developer
> release 42.1’ by accident. I’ve downloded and installed now the correct
> 12.3 version and it’s working as intended, successful boot.
> I apologize and thank you for your help.
:-))
Welcome :-))
Don’t worry.
It would be interesting to know why 42.1 failed for you, though.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Well, at least that has been reported:
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945329
I am confused.
You original thread was started with you choosing openSUSE 13.2 as the version (Please @TSU2, since some time this is obligatory added to all threads in he technical forums and can bee seen e.g. at the very top of the thread in the line that starts with the smaal “house”).
Now you say that you choose 12.3. There is something unclear at that moment already. Even before you found out that you installed a test version.
Surprisingly I managed to screw up even more than I thought. All 12.3’s in the quoted post should’ve been 13.2.
In all seriousness, sorry that my faux pax resulted in an inadvertent solution…
TSU