I am using OpenSuse 12.3 and since I tried to uninstall libjpeg8 - 32 bit nothing works. I tried to reboot but now the computer is only showing me a black screen with Reached target Graphical Interface .
If it can help, I uninstalled libjpeg8 - 32 bit via Yast
Sadly I need to stay at 12.3 because it is the version my company chose for the production server and my development machine needs to stay at the same version for compatibility reasons.
is there any way I could fix xorg from the command line? I can still access terminal from alt+f1 at boot
I am sorry I am somewhat new to Linux and OpenSuse in general.
Could you please explain to me how to install this repo from yast? And will I lose some data if I proceed?
I am typing via and iPad next to my work computer and it is not very good to browse the web for guides on how to install from CLI…
Will lose nothing if you install from yast but by ripping out that lib you also ripped out things that depend on the lib one at least being X. X being the base of all GUIs. At this point it is very uncertain exactly how much you actually removed. Since GUI’s depend on X and you zapped X it is a very good change you also removed large chunks of any GUi you had. Also it all depends on if the old out of date repos for 12.3 are still at the same URLs. Which I’m not certain of. I’m sure they are around somewhere but personally I don’t know where.
I have no idea what possessed you to remove the lib in the first place if you don’t even know Linux…
Write on the blackboard 100 times “Linux is not Windows”
I went ahead and downloaded the repo hcvv suggested. If i do zypper up it says :
Retrieving repository ‘OpenSuse 12.3 Stable’ metadata… Done
Warning Repository openSuse 12.3 appears to be outdated
Warning Repository openSuse 12.3-update-non-oss appears to be outdated
reading installed packages…
No I pointed towards it in Yast.
I unchecked older repositories in the yast software directory managers and only checked the new one.
Just starded zypper dup.
will keep you guys updated!
thank you very much for the help
And like gogalthorpe says: please tell precise what you did. Do not say “I downloaded the repo” because you didn’t. Say I used this command:… or, I started yast > Software > software repositories and added the repo mentioned above.
We can not look over your shoulders and depend completely on your precise reports.
@gogalthorpe: one can find repos of openSUSE at gwdg.de from many old openSUSE versions. 12.3 is not even categorized under the old ones (because of it being Evergreen). Using the repo I point to above should make the 12.3 software available
But it may be better to change all existing repos on the system (Oss, Non-OSS and update) from what they point to now to the gwdg ones.
Pfff, this is realy not easy to explain from remote
Update! The zypper dup command just finished running (after installing a total of 752 packages!) and I rebooted.
Unfortunately, I am still stuck at OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface
Edit* when I press alt + F1 it is written:
[0.237440] pnp 00:06: can’t evaluate _CRS: 12311
doing fast boot
followed by a bunch of errors looking like:
[0.986525] [drm:i915_write32] ERROR Unclaimed write to a090
No, it is not.
11.4 was Evergreen, and 13.1 is planned to be.
But it may be better to change all existing repos on the system (Oss, Non-OSS and update) from what they point to now to the gwdg ones.
The 12.3 repos still exist in their original locations on download.opensuse.org.
So there has actually not been any need for adding the gwdg.de mirror.
Can you please post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Does recovery mode work? (2nd entry in “Advanced Options” in the boot menu)
If yes, you could boot to that and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old instead.
Alternatively, log in to text mode (Ctrl+Alt+F1) as root, run “startx” and post the messages you get.