I just followed the steps mentioned here: SDB:System upgrade - openSUSE to upgrade my opensuse 12.3 to 13.1
after everything is done, the first time I log in to desktop environment failed. It just stuck there after I entered password, and could not get into KDE or other DE.
Meanwhile, the mouse does not work either.
I switched to command line interface, and I could log in, but I could not connect to internet and use zypper to manage my packages now…
What can I do to fix this problem?
On 2013-12-04 23:56, Turbocid wrote:
> What can I do to fix this problem?
Check your network first. Read the release notes, you may have two
network interfaces, one old and not working, one new and not configured.
Delete the first, configure the second.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
What sort of mouse? Bluetooth maybe??
Thanks for your reply.
Just a stupid question: how can I do this under command line?
(btw, I am using a wireless card on my desktop machine)
USB. should be plug and play mouse… :\
On 2013-12-05 04:06, Turbocid wrote:
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> robin_listas;2605331 Wrote:
>> On 2013-12-04 23:56, Turbocid wrote:
>>
>>> What can I do to fix this problem?
>>
>> Check your network first. Read the release notes, you may have two
>> network interfaces, one old and not working, one new and not configured.
>> Delete the first, configure the second.
>>
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Just a stupid question: how can I do this under command line?
> (btw, I am using a wireless card on my desktop machine)
Use yast. It runs in text mode as well.
Guessing. Maybe you were using network manager before, and you have to
reconfigure it - which is impossible with no desktop. So change to ifup
for the moment.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I have a similar problem except mine gets to where the lizard and branch show up on the right hand side and then the screen just fades away then it shows a blank blue screen. I have no clue how to fix this at all.
The command startx got the gui to work. I rebooted and didn’t seem to actually fix anything but as long as it runs till I can get some help lol.
Does “Recovery Mode” work? (“Advanced Options” in the boot menu)
What graphics card do you have? Maybe installing a driver would fix your problem…
Oh, and what display manager are you actually using? (apparently that fails to start, as you say “startx” works)
If it’s LightDM, that’s a known problem (seems to be some race condition, so it does work sometimes/for some people, but sometimes not/not at all for other people).
Set something else in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager in that case (xdm should be already installed, but you could also install and set one of kdm, gdm, lxdm, …, as well of course).
Recovery mode goes through a very long list of scrolling text followed by the blank blue screen.
Built in Intel graphics. Nothing fancy, just a little laptop.
I’m using whatever the default is with KDE because I don’t know how to change it. That being said, once I get into the text login how do I go about setting the display manager?
On 2013-12-07 19:36, quadrunner750 wrote:
> I’m using whatever the default is with KDE because I don’t know how to
> change it. That being said, once I get into the text login how do I go
> about setting the display manager?
Edit “/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager”, entry “DISPLAYMANAGER=…”. You
can use “joe” as editor, has help.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I downloaded and burned a 13.1 DVD.
is it possible that I could use this DVD to boot and maybe recover the system?
how can I do this?
On 2013-12-09 00:46, Turbocid wrote:
>
> I downloaded and burned a 13.1 DVD.
> is it possible that I could use this DVD to boot and maybe recover the
> system?
> how can I do this?
What do you want to do with it?
Because I told you to try something, and you have not reported on it
yet; and that you can not do with a rescue DVD.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I tried this and got xdm to work. I have to say I really like kdm or whatever it came with much better. I’m also not seeing a way to switch to my enlightenment window manager?
Thanks for the help.
I just tried to change it to a different one to see if I could find one I liked better and it won’t let me change it again saying I don’t have permission or I’m out of room on hard-drive.
On 2013-12-09 01:56, quadrunner750 wrote:
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> quadrunner750;2606502 Wrote:
>> I tried this and got xdm to work. I have to say I really like kdm or
>> whatever it came with much better. I’m also not seeing a way to switch
>> to my enlightenment window manager?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>
> I just tried to change it to a different one to see if I could find one
> I liked better and it won’t let me change it again saying I don’t have
> permission or I’m out of room on hard-drive.
Which one? It is important.
If you are out of room you have to find why, because you will not be
able to run KDE or GNOME.
You can use plain “du” to find out disk usage:
du -hcsx /*
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I got the xdm manager to work by following your directions. If there’s more then one kind then I don’t know and I’ll have to figure it out. All I can tell you is that it’s gray, unattractive, very simplistic and an xconsole seems to accompany my logins now.
I promise you I’m not out of room (there’s almost nothing on this machine) so I’m leaning towards a permission problem which is odd because this machine only has one login. I attempted to reboot and change it. After a reboot I could at least change the file so hopefully that will work.
You could be out of room on the root which can cause problems because of huge log files. so you should check. It could be the immediate source of the problem If you have low space because of logs we need to deermine why but you could get things running again just by clearing out some of those files.