The only way I can no use my computer is to select the Advanced options from grub2 and select rescue mode.
This boots me right to my normal desktop but the graphics driver is disabled, but it works.
The normal boot option starts plymouth (green gecko on right of screen) then some lines of text fly by ending with the network startup at top of screen.
Then I am sitting at a text based login console.
So far I have checked the dmesg logs and everything looks normal. The /var/log/messages looks normal too although it is 35000 lines long?? I also checked /var/log/zypp/history and there were no updates recently that should have screwed anything up.
It is almost like kdm is not starting, if that is possible.
One thing I do remember is accidentally turning the power off while it was asleep, I though I was turning it on but it was only asleep and I powered it off by accident.
What should I check next or do next?
This is opensuse 13.1 with KDE and latest updates.
The kernel was updated to version 3.11.10 on 6 February. Have you installed the proprietary driver since then? If not, and your kernel has been updated, you will need to.
The box was working fine on 4/20 and broken when started on 4/21, there were no updates except for some vlc stuff from pacman repo.
I have been running the 3.11.10 kernel since it came out and at that time I updated the AMD drivers. Just for giggles I just re-installed the AMD drivers and I have the same issue.
I just boot into a console session unless I choose recovery mode. Its like KDM is not getting triggered to start or something.
There are no errors on boot that I can see, everything works in console mode as well.
Could there be some setting that is now telling plymouth to start in console mode for the default user?
No.
You should fall back to the login screen if something was wrong with your user account.
And the vlc update should not cause something like this either.
Please do a normal boot, and after it fails reboot to recovery mode and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old.
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Hmmm, what to do?
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The segfault could just possibly be memory/register corruption on the graphics card. On the basis of trying the easy remedy before thinking too hard, try powering the machine off, and disconnecting it from the mains supply (Switch it off at the wall). If it is a laptop, remove the battery. Wait a minute or two for any large capacitors to drain (have a coffee/tea or something). Then reconnect and power on. See what happens.
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Note. On most modern machines switching off without physically disconnecting leaves the motherboard powered and the graphics, network subsystems etc. do not get a hard reset.
Ok, I was thinking the same sort of thing. I took the machine offline took it to the workbench and proceeded to clean out all the dust and crud (there was a bunch in there) and then started again, same problem.
It is starting to make me think it is some kind of hardware issue.
Would recovery work good if the graphics card was going bad?
I just re-installed the AMD drivers from Sebastian’s script and still have the same errors in Xorg.
I hate to flail about with out any direction but this is my work box and I am kinda stuck till I get it fixed.
I am going to wait for some feedback but my next thought is to take the card out and try and run on the intel graphics but I am not sure how successful that would be.
I wish I had another AMD card to swap in the slot but I do not.
TO go back to Intel make sure that any /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is renamed Also may check the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to be sure no driver is specified there
Great advise thank you, I just switched the MB over to boot Intel (as I discovered the mei module was being loaded anyway) but it did fail because Xorg is still looking for flgrx.
Ok, I am back to full resolution finally. :good: The Intel graphics and now my pc seem to be working normally again. Thanks to all that took the time to help.
Off topic now but wow do the fonts look different under Intel graphics card, not sure how to describe it. Maybe the fonts get changed when Xorg changes, its like the fonts went on a huge diet.
Had an older NVIDIA laying about and used that. The card that went was a newer very cheap NVIDIA the older 5+ years card as about the same specs LOL. I prefer NVIDIA but to each his own.
I have NVIDIA in another box and like it. It is crazy what the differences are between graphics cards though. For example, I just started VirtualBox to see how it would work under Intel and when I passed my mouse over the main settings they were highlighted, that never happened under my AMD card, weird.
What I will look for in this machine is a silent card with loads of memory, what ever manufacture provides those specs will get my money.
I wanted to follow up on this thread in case it helps someone else.
It turns out the conclusions about a dead video card were not warranted and the video card is working fine.
I found a good way to test the card was to boot an openSUSE live dvd and check out the desktop effects in KDE to see if they are working and running in openGL. This helped me figure out the hardware was working fine.
I would then suggest using a something like http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage to check your memory, harddrives etc…
All the hardware in my system checked out fine and so I came to the conclusion that it was some software glitch.
Story follows:
To add to the oddity of the OS booting problems in my OP I ended up with a completely non-bootable system. This happened after I pulled out a memory stick to write down the specs ( I was going to buy more memory at the same time I was going to purchase a new video card, this never happened).
So after I pulled the memory to look at it there was a boot loop after the system hit plymouth, the gecko would appear for a split second and then a reboot. I re-seated the memory chip and various other things but still boot loop.
I finally started up with the live DVD and everything worked good and hence my conclusion that it was some software glitch.
After some long consideration, I decided to move to a new linux distro that will hopefully not fall down as much as openSUSE did for me. As I reflected back I realized that I had already re-built my system several (3) over the last 1.5 years all for the same reason, booting problems. This is just too much work and so I am trying some other KDE based linux with the hopes it will work out better.
