Downloaded openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build1034-x86_64.iso, burned it, checked the installation media and tried to boot. The graphic display was useless, so I rebooted to level three and invoked startx. The resulting error report turns out to be a 36 Kbyte text file which I won’t include, but the first few lines read…
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.4211 does not exist
xauth: (stdin):2: unknown command “58732ffca1be7a511d687bfede15d589”
X.Org X Server 1.9.3
Release Date: 2010-12-13
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux linux.site 2.6.37-20-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-01-22 00:41:44 +0100 x86_64
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd,10240768.spl ramdisk_size=512000 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 splash=silent quiet preloadlog=/dev/null vga=0x317 3
Build Date: 12 January 2011 08:16:48AM
I am not really keen on getting 11.4 up and running, just curious. Should I post the error file somewhere? Is it going to help anyone?
xauth: file /root/.serverauth.4211 does not exist
xauth: (stdin):2: unknown command “58732ffca1be7a511d687bfede15d589”
This has just got to be a bug when you try to use startx from R3. If you reboot and X will start automatically, it does not happen, at least for me. But, if I go to R3 and then try to use startx, I get the same kind of error. I loaded the nVIDIA driver which does work, just not using startx from R3.
Thanks for the confirmation. I think I’ll wait and download the full install iso as soon as it fits on a standard DVD. That has usually solved any problems I ran into in the past.
This could be a bad burn even if it passed the installation media check. Did you burn to a high quality media (not to a +RW but rather to -R or +R) at lowest speed your burner allows?
You did not mention the graphic hardware. Did you try booting with the ‘nomodeset’ boot code in the liveCD grub menu ?
Edit: I have successfully booted with both 32-bit and 64-bit KDE 11.4 M6 liveCDs.
On 01/29/2011 11:06 AM, oldcpu wrote:
>
> ionmich;2283796 Wrote:
>> I am not really keen on getting 11.4 up and running, just curious.
>> Should I post the error file somewhere? Is it going to help anyone?
>
> This could be a bad burn even if it passed the installation media
> check. Did you burn to a high quality media (not to a +RW but rather to
> -R or +R) at lowest speed your burner allows?
>
> You did not mention the graphic hardware. Did you try booting with the
> ‘nomodeset’ boot code in the liveCD grub menu ?
>
> Edit: I have successfully booted with both 32-bit and 64-bit KDE 11.4
> M6 liveCDs.
One of my test boxes has an nVidia C61 (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430) VGA graphics
adapter built into the motherboard. The PCI ID is 10de:03d0. On that box, the
nouveau driver yields a garbled screen. Everything seems to be present, but it
appears that the line length is wrong with the picture sheared in the horizontal
direction. Obviously that is a kernel bug in 2.6.37 and will be reported on both
Novell and kernel Bugzillas. The main point for this thread is tha adding
“nomodeset” to the boot command allows it to work properly using the framebuffer
driver.
GeForce 6150SE. Tried ‘nomodeset’ from the start menu and could read the display although the background was streaked. I am going to install from this and see if I can work around it.