Graphical login screen does not start after new install.

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#1

Hello. Today i installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed from net installation cd “20170424”. Choosed Gnome desktop environment. All boot process goes well, except final stage - graphical login screen does not start. I can login using terminal. Because it is new installation and via network, it should contain latest updates. What problem and solution could be?
It is somehow similar to https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/524401-Last-update-sent-login-screen-to-infinite-loop , except that in my case, there is no infinite loop.

#2

Hi
More than likely your graphics card… not dual graphics system?

Do you know the graphics card/driver in use?

If not, login as your user and switch to root user and run;


hwinfo --gfxcard

Can you post the output?

#3

Output of “hwinfo --gfxcard”:

22: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.378]
  Unique ID: VCu0.aIc0DTRsA6A
  Parent ID: vSkL.olnrX2ofNH0
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia G96 [GeForce 9500 GT]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0640 "G96 [GeForce 9500 GT]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1458 "Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd"
  SubDevice: pci 0x3498 
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nouveau"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xe2000000-0xe2ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe1ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xc000-0xcfff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 27 (4638 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000640sv00001458sd00003498bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nouveau is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #20 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #22

Maybe i should try to start graphical login manager with command from console? Before many years it given me information about reasons on other linux system. I do not know what login manager opensuse uses when installed with gnome. (during installation options i set auto login to off).

#4

…try the xf86-video-nouveau described by kkrill on the last page of this here

https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/524401-Last-update-sent-login-screen-to-infinite-loop

Really nobody out there to take the fu*ed up driver from the servers to not kill further users machines?

#5

Hi
Gnome shell uses gdm, have you installed the package called xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.15 from X11:XOrg (as per the infinite loop thread)?
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=X11:XOrg&package=xf86-video-nouveau

#6

About gdm output. It produces one empty, black line on terminal and nothing happens. Terminated it with “ctrl+z”.
About xf86-video-nouveau. Have not installed yet, because new version was not in repositories when tried to do that. Current version is “1.0.14-2.1”.

#7

Hi
Run the following command;


zypper in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/x86_64/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.15-34.1.x86_64.rpm

And accept no key etc, then on the next update it should switch back…

#8

The problem is xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.14-2.1
Install with a January iso without enabling the repository when finished go to rpm xf86-video-nouveau and block the update, then zypper dup and update it all hello