Huge problem: I have no more GUI after an update in 12.2. I’m not sure what caused the meltdown, but I was prompted for a reboot after a GUI update (I never should have just clicked the button something in that scroll bar list got past me…terminal updates are much easier for me). Is there anyone that can help? Did a new kernel just roll out for 12.2? How do I roll back a kernel using command line zypper (I can’t seem to find this on the interwebs)?
I am running openSUSE 12.2 (kernel-desktop version: 3.4.33-2.24.1) with an nVidia GTX 560 Ti (driver version: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop 310.44_k3.4.6_2.10-11.1).
On 04/13/2013 06:16 AM, gforce6point0 wrote:
> I was prompted for a reboot
a reboot is prompted mostly because of a new kernel being installed…
and, the lack of a graphical environment is probably because your
nVidia driver was special built to run with the OLD kernel and can’t
run with the newer…
if when you get to the first green screen during boot, press the down
arrow (to stop it from automatically going on and trying to boot) and
type into the boot options line
nomodeset
and then press
enter…and, it should boot up with a non nVidia driver…
That was my exact thought…I’ll give it a shot. I am still curious is there a way to simply downgrade a package via command line in zypper or yast (if yast is a stand-alone program that is)? I’m not concerned with the kernel version…but do care about my graphics driver because this is my 3D art/CAD/coding/gaming computer.
If you installed the gfx driver as rpm from the nvidia repo, it should be made available to the new kernel automatically… (by a symlink)
Also, the latest kernel in the 12.2 update repo is from the 5th of march.
Anyway, to help with your original problem, I would suggest to run yast (it has a text mode interface…;)) and uninstall the nvidia driver. (assuming you did install it from the repo)
Then run yast again and install the nvidia driver again.
After reboot your GUI is back hopefully…
If not (or if you didn’t install the driver via yast in the first place), please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
Ok, so I just decided to do a clean wipe of 12.2 for 12.3. This is definitely an issue between the kernel and nVidia G03 driver. I just have one question…the down arrow doesn’t work when grub boots…the fast boot halt key which I gathered was “shift” from the grub2 wiki doesn’t work either. Holding c seems to work, but I get a prompt that looks like this:
grub>_
and I am not quite sure what to do with it. There is no nomodeset option. Is there a way I can get to a shell only prompt from here so that I can remove the nVidia driver until the problem is fully resolved (it seems like a number of people are having this problem; a few people have seemingly hacked around it already but I am not that awesome)?
Never mind…I just booted into recovery mode, and when things stalled out after the line GUI reached happened I simply used the old Alt+F2 trick. BTW what is the key stroke to get back into the GUI mode after Alt+F2 is pressed (thought it had something to do with the backspace key…?, but I can’t remember).
On 2013-04-14 02:06, gforce6point0 wrote:
> That was my exact thought…I’ll give it a shot. I am still curious is
> there a way to simply downgrade a package via command line in zypper or
> yast (if yast is a stand-alone program that is)? I’m not concerned with
> the kernel version…but do care about my graphics driver because this
> is my 3D art/CAD/coding/gaming computer.
You can configure your system to keep two or more kernels, so that if
the new kernel does not work you can still boot the previous one.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)