when i start my opensuse 13.2 it is booting up but then it suddently goes to a terminal which asks for login name
I can’t acess the graphical login screen or any other gui programs
I think i switched my user status from standard to administrator in the last login when it was working fine…
Any help???/
please
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Re-install.
… and Do Not switch your status from a “standard user” to “administrator” (root). Your system can be messed up quickly and terribly by doing that.
so the only option is to re-install
On 2/24/2015 11:46 PM, titanjith wrote:
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> Fraser_Bell;2696782 Wrote:
>> Re-install.
>>
>> … and -Do Not- switch your status from a “standard
>> user” to “administrator” (root). Your system can be messed up quickly
>> and terribly by doing that.
>
> so the only option is to re-install
>
>
You could try to create a new user and see if you can login with the GUI with that users. Login to the CLI with your
user. Then create a new user using YaST. YaST will run from the CLI in ncurses mode. Navigate with the Tab key and
Arrow keys.
su -
YaST
Mind the spelling of YaST. Linux is case sensitive. If you are lucky you only damaged your user directory and a new
user would let you avoid a reinstall. However there could be other damage that is best solved with a reinstall.
In the future NEVER log in as root. Learn to use su, kdesu, gnomesu, YaST and File Manager-Super User Mode
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P.V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you” Red Green
And how exactly did you do that?
There is no “user status” that you could “switch from standard to administrator” in Linux that I am aware of…
To your problem: it seems Xorg is unable to start.
What graphics card/driver are you using?
Try to select “Recovery Mode” in “Advanced Options” in the boot menu. Does this work?
If yes, please post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old.
Login as root in text mode and run “startx”. Does the GUI come up?
If not, please post the messages you get.
And check whether your hard disk is full:
df -h
Normally this should be fixable without a re-install. But that depends on what is broken and how much effort you want to spend.
I am with wolfie
i switched my user status from standard to administrator
is a very vague statement and others here may have assumed you did something terribly wrong. I must admit that what you say sounds horrible and also not very Linux like. So first please a detailed description of what you did.
nope…not from recovery mode even…
ok
here is the complete detail…
i am real newbie to this opensuse
i had tried ubuntu in the past but not opensuse
i am using gnome as my desktop environment.
i opened user settings and i clicked on the unlock button on top
it asked for my root password and entered it and i saw a option as account type
and it was in standard mode
and i changed it into administrator in it
i had done that out of curiosity
but what i can see after that is i can’t go back to my standard account type again
nothing happened at that time
but when i rebooted my os
i was directly going to screen similar to the one u get when u press ctrl+alt+f1
nothing else
i can do all type of terminal commands there but no graphical support
Ok, that’s a GNOME specific thing, and I’m not sure what it does exactly.
But it shouldn’t prevent the login manager from loading, unless it messes up the system permissions (which I would call a severe bug).
but when i rebooted my os
i was directly going to screen similar to the one u get when u press ctrl+alt+f1
nothing else
i can do all type of terminal commands there but no graphical support
Please post the output of “sudo systemctl status display-manager” when in text mode.
Try to run “sudo systemctl start display-manager” in text mode.
Try to run “sudo startx” in text mode, and post the output if it doesn’t start a graphical session.
Try to set DISPLAYMANAGER=“xdm” in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager with a text editor and reboot.
Do you get a (simple) login screen then?
i am sorry wolfie…
since my submission text file for an assignment is in my opensuse and i want it badly i tried reinstalling opensuse
and it worked by removing my my old opensuse.
But i can acess my home folder with no problems…
I can even get my assignment folder and it contents with no problem…
sorry guys
Well, no need to be sorry if it works now… 
Hey, if you have what you need, now, there is nothing to be sorry about. Good to see.