Gnome 3 Opensuse wont start upon boot.

Hello Everyone. I love linux as a whole, and used ubuntu before. I have switched from 4. Yes, four- Operating systems, due to the lack of support, rude staff, or the operating system just doesn’t fit my style.

Thats the thing I love about linux. You have so many choices from operating systems to desktop layouts. And it is all community driven. It is amazing completely that more people don’t look into this.

Lately though, my Linux problem has been a nightmare. First, I download Linux Mint. However, I am more of a customizable person, so I switched on over to Pinguy OS. However, that didn’t turn out as planned. Then, I switched over to Fedora, and I loved the Environment that it has with its Gnome layout. However, the staff was rude when I had this exact problem with OpenSuse. I refuse to go to them because they called me computer illiterate for not spelling someones name right. Fedora is now a thing of the past, so I am stuck here. I love the Gnome layout. It isn’t as nice as Fedora’s, but it is still great. Now I come into this one problem I cannot seem to fix.

After the fresh install, I partition the Root drive (/) 30GB And Swap (2GB), and no home drive, as I don’t see a point in it really. But, the installation goes fine, same with starting it up upon choosing windows 7 or 8, I hit Opensuse, and the green screen with the mouse pointer comes up. However, the taskbar, and operating system won’t even load. I have let it sit there for a LONG time too, probably around 15 minutes. I have done several installs, and even re-downloading windows. And still nothing. If someone could please help me for peats-sake? I would love it. I really would like this problem resolved. I want to start using linux instead of downloading it.

At the login screen
Try selecting the session ‘IceWM’
See if you can login with that? You should have autologin disabled… It’s setting choice during install that you need to make (default is to autologin)
If you didn’t change that, then changing that setting is probably as time consuming as re-installing

FYI 30GB for the entire system is OK if it’s just for testing

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/12.2_liveCD_Install/11_Login_User.jpeg

If this is how the screen looks then you already are into GNOME 3.4.2. :slight_smile:
yes it is kind of minimalistic. Take your mouse and point it at the “Activities” at the top left
http://i.imgur.com/MqMdmNEl.jpg](Imgur: The magic of the Internet)
Also read through this :- Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet - GNOME Wiki!

Hey Caf and Vaz.

Thanks for the Response. But there isn’t even a login screen or task bar (Activites) Tab. All I see is the mouse pointer with the green desktop wallpaper that is on Vaz’s image. I don’t know how I would be able to fix this.

Do you see command launcher if you press key combination Alt+F2 ?
Refer:- Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet - GNOME Wiki!

On 01/25/2013 06:16 AM, envyforme wrote:
> After the fresh install, I partition the Root drive (/) 30GB And Swap
> (2GB), and no home drive, as I don’t see a point in it really.

you must have a /home!

it does not have to be on its own partition or drive, but it must
exist…if not, you can’t log in, because there is no place for you to
log into.

your /home will contain all of your email, your movies, your music, your
photos, the documents you create, everything (other than openSUSE itself
and application) you download and keep…

AND it contains the choices you make on how you wish your desktop to
look, function, react, behave…so that every time you log in you see
your desktop…without a /home three is no place for the way your
desktop looks, and you don’t exist.

suggestion: in the beginning don’t get too fancy with changing stuff
around…especially stuff you don’t understand (like the installer
wanting to make a root directory AND a swap directory AND a home
directory…

put in a pretty plain openSUSE install: do NOT select any of LVM, btrfs
or RAID…just let the installer decide the harddisk layout…

other than that, do some self-study:
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/424611-new-users-opensuse-pre-install-general-please-read.html

https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/477124-new-users-opensuse-12-2-pre-installation-please-read.html

https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/new-user-how-faq-read-only/407184-multi-media-restricted-format-installation-guide.html

http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/part.basics.html


dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
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Note though you need not define a home partition. It is better if you do particularly if you change upgrade or otherwise mess with things. With a separate home you have the option of saving all your personnel stuff when adding a new OS or upgrading etc. You simply tell the installer not to format that partition and mount it as home.

Well, thanks everyone for the responses, but still no luck. I was not able to Press Alt+F2 in the window, and nothing popped up. As well as /Home partition as well. I did a fresh re-boot too. :expressionless:

Any other ideas?

Did you try IceWM

I will try that out next. Thanks caf.

On Fri 25 Jan 2013 08:46:01 PM CST, envyforme wrote:

Well, thanks everyone for the responses, but still no luck. I was not
able to Press Alt+F2 in the window, and nothing popped up. As well as
/Home partition as well. I did a fresh re-boot too. :expressionless:

Any other ideas?

Hi
Have you tried a live cd in the system, rather than install?

When you get to the desktop (aka green nothingness), if you press
ctrl+alt+F2 do you get to a console session?

If so can you login?


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Caf,

I just tried what you said to do, and nothing happened. Still the same issue.

Yes! I was able to finally get the console session using ctrl+Alt+F2. I am pretty happy, now what do i put in it?

If you are logged in with your username and password, next do the following. This assumes you have a wired connection and if you installed using the DVD you also have that in the DVD drive or USB (if you used a USB DVD)

su -
zypper patch

Once it’s done with that. Do it AGAIN
No need for the su -

zypper patch

Once that is done. Reboot.

*Can I just add though.
That you couldn’t login with IceWM is very strange. It’s about as basic UI as there is

Thank you so much man! It worked perfectly and it is running smooth. As we speak I am typing on Opensuse.
I hope you guys fix this problem for future installation! It really shouldn’t be like this! Oh well. Its working now! rotfl!

Thanks again! Ill be sticking around the community!
Cheers!
Envy

Your installation media might have been faulty and so the install.
A full update will usually fix broken packages
Hence the result…

Welcome to openSUSE

I an wondering whether any md5sum was done against the downloaded ISO.
Also i would prefer USB based installtion than the low quailty CDs/DVDs any day. Sometimes any accidental touch of the surface will spoil the disk.
They should have protected surface of dvd and cds like floppy disk using a case. unfortunately that is not the case.