pwatson wrote:
> If nothing can be done, I might give Ubuntu a spin
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what happens if you, at the first green screen select something
other than the default, like maybe “failsafe” or one of the
non-default kernels?
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what happens if you, at the first green screen type 3 (which will
appear then on the line for kernel parameters) and then press the
“enter” key? it should dump you at a command line in runlevel 3 (no X
running anywhere), where you might be able to log in, issue a init 5
and be presented with a GUI login screen…
or, at the runlevel 3 screen log in as yourself and give startx (what
happens?)
now, we all know that mommy’s vase didn’t jump off of the table by
itself while while little Paula was not touching it…so, tell us
what all happened between (post one’s) “System has been working well
for many months.” and “Today I boot and…”
that is, what config files might have been changed? what updates were
applied? what was installed? what was ‘tuned’, ‘improved’,
‘customized’ and/or etc? who else had access and could be the one who
“didn’t do nothing” it just jumped off the table?
do you know the date of your “Today” in post one of this thread? can
you search /var/log/messages (and others) for evidence that somewhere
between “many months” and “Today” someone did something as root,
somewhere??
and, once know how the error was introduced into the system: is it
possible to back out, and get back to the workig system?
if not, why not just go ahead and restore the system from the backup
nearest the date of “Today”?
or maybe it did jump off the table by itself: that is, maybe you
have some corrupt RAM that wrote a mistake to your hard drive and THAT
is the change that occurred! or, maybe your hard disk is flaky and a
few bits in exactly the wrong place flopped from one to zero, or vice
versa…
in any event, since there are hundreds of thousands of openSUSE users
who have not had your unusual problem, you will get no relief by
switching to Ubuntu…because there you will find the same hardware
problem and the same keyboard operator not doing nothing to cause
problems…
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