Hey guys, I just reinstalled my OpenSuse 11.3 with the GNOME desktop. As soon as I was done installing and I was on a fresh desktop, I installed the Yast updates that were available, rebooted, and now I can’t login to any of my User accounts.
Whenever I try to login, it tells me that it is “Unable to Open Session”.
Do any of you know how I can fix this without having to reinstall all over again? Any help it greatly appreciated!! I gotta get it back up and running ASAP.
I really don’t know what that could be, it might be worth trying a newly created user to make sure that your home accounts didn’t get screwed up somehow. Can you not even log into a shell? If you can you can run “yast2” from the terminal (Edit: you will need superuser privileges, so I guess “su”, enter password, and then “yast2”). and that should let you create a new user, and then maybe try logging into the gui using that.
I think a shell is one of the session options at the graphical login screen, or there is a way to get there during bootup too. I feel like hitting ESC (or well, just generally mashing keys) gets me there while the bootup is going on, and I guess there is also this way: File:Boot-to-run-level-3.jpg - openSUSE Though I haven’t tried it that way.
If that works then you aren’t done yet, but at least you know it is a problem with either the content or permissions of something in the user accounts that is read during the start of an X session, probably a configuration file of some sort.
Malcolm
