Hi guys
Some help required if possible please. I have an AMD Athlon64 3200+, with 2GB DDR2 RAM and 250GB Maxtor SATA hard drive.
I’ve installed OpenSuSE 11.0 64-bit from DVD no problem with an LVM setup that I’m comfortable with (I’ve done Linux before but I’m far from brilliant at it!)
After installation is complete and the system boots into runlevel 5, I’m presented with the Gnome login box. If I try and login as the root user, no problem, I’m logged in and we’re fine.
If I login as myself (non-root), the login starts, the panel for Gnome comes up about initialising components, disappears after about 5 seconds and the whole system completely hangs. I cannot get to an ASCII tty, no caps lock on/off, nothing - the whole hardware locks up.
I’ve tried logging in in failsafe mode. Snap, no difference.
I remember when I tried OpenSuSE 10.3 a while back in a 64bit VM I had problems and reverted to 32bit. So I tried the same. Scrubbed the install and installed OpenSuSE 11.0 32-bit from DVD, same LVM setup, etc.
Exactly the same problem.
If when the Gnome login box comes up, I switch to an ASCII tty, I can login fine and do commands no problem.
I’ve run two lengthy memory checkers over the system, and no problem. It’s previously run Windows 2003 Server without an issue (and flat out packed with VMs) so I don’t think that’s an issue. It’s an Asus A8V-VM motherboard, and I’ve turned off all the built-in hardware bar GFX, PATA and SATA controllers.
Getting a bit annoyed with it now, probably because I don’t know where to look or even to start.
Could someone give me some guidance on things to check please and any possible solutions to my problem??
I have tried searching for system hangs and gnome login problems, but haven’t managed to find anything matching my problem - so a bit baffled!
Many thanks
Chris B.
PS - I think I’ve covered everything, hope so!!
