Since I would like to to reinstall my PC (currently OS13.1), I wanted to try the Tumbleweed DVD or KDE LiveCD, just to see if everything run wells. Nothing’s well!
I copied the DVD (snapshot 20151022) to a USB key and restarted the PC. The GRUB menu would show up. And I selected the rescue system. The first seconds went well until the three little green dots showed up. A little later I had a black screen with a cursor in the lower left edge. Another few seconds later the PC rebooted.
Second try:
I copied the KDE live CD to the USB key. Re-started the PC. The GRUB menu showed up. I selected to start the live system. Boot messages showed up on the screen. But apparently “Journal Service” failed. And this seems to be something systemd doesn’t like. It would keep trying do get it running…forever
I captured the boot messages (with a photo camera! so it’s a real screen shot) and will try to upload the image somewhere.
I did download the full DVD and burned on a DVD, not USB, since I was having problem with USB and UEFI. After putting the DVD the installation went without problem. Also if you have 12.3 installed you can do an upgrade (zypper dup).
Yes, I have seen it once too and I believe it was with live CD as well. I have not observed it using Live USB with some space for persistent part. You could try if it makes any difference for you.
As proposed in the bug report, I used mksusecd. Input was the TW KDE LiveCD. Size changed slightly. But it did not help. The start errors are still there.
Though I recognized the following (even for the unchanged ISO, i.e. without using mksusecd).
The first screen during boot would show these errors:
Failed to set MokListRT: Not found
Welcome to GRUB!
error: file -/EFI/BOOT/x86_64-efi/linux.mod’ not found.
error: file -/EFI/BOOT/x86_64-efi/ls.mod’ not found.
One more test:
I switched to legacy boot, i.e.no UEFI.
I used the KDE LiveCD (On a USB key). GRUB menu would show up. I selected to start the live system. I got a green background graphics. And the PC stuck… nothing happening anymore.
started from the USB flash drive, choosed Live option in Grub and it is stucked in the “green screen”
I tried the same thing with the Gnome Live and DVD options. Same problem happens with all of them.
Also, I tried in 2 different laptops in order to make sure it is not a hardware related problem:
-Thinkpad X61s (does not has UEFI)
-Lenovo S400u (has UEFI, tried with it disabled and enabled)
I tried safe mode and it stops in the same green screen.
Installation option instead of Live option? I tried, without success.
Same problem in all test variations
PS: I guess the problem has nothing to do with UEFI, because it happens also in the Thinkpad X61s, that does not have it.
Mostly this tyoe of problem is video related but you have tried the iso on several machine
It should not be a EFI problem. Either bad download or video hardware problem
Assuming you boot the iso in an EFI machine in EFI mode press e at boot screen find line starting linux go to end (it wraps) enter a space and a nomodeset
I think that works on an install disk. If booted in legacy mode then there should be options at the bottom of the screen select nokms to use a generic video driver
I have the same problem. Neither Gnome nor KDE live CDs work on PC (two different snapshots I’ve used). That systemd-journal loop…
However, in a VM both work without any problem.
Actually it’s impossible to try Tumbleweed before installing it (on real hardware, no virtualized) , and the only way of installing it is using the netinstall.
To see whether or not it makes a difference for me if I run TW from a USB key or a DVD, I crawled through my apartment searching for some old DVD-Rs. And I found some, hidden in the last corner of a cupboard.
But my DVD burner seems to be broken (it’s AGES ago that I used it for writing). Burning seems to go well. But the DVD is unreadable…
Hence, no progress at the moment. But I will continue.
