Some help needed here. I have 13.1 installed on my machine. I rebooted my machine and instead of booting into the kde 4 desktop it went into bottle. I made quite a lot of changes to my system since I rebooted the system the last time, and can’t recall all of them anymore. So far I tried refreshing some of my libraries, removing and reinstalling the nvidia driver and startup repair from Live USB. Is there a possibility to reinstall openSUSE, or another way to access my user again, without loosing all my libraries and dependencies? Any help for my noobish wandering around will be greatly appreciated.
No, it didn’t “went into bottle”. “Bottle” is the code name of the 13.1 release.
Bat apparently the graphical system failed to start and you see the greeting text of text mode “Welcome to openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle)”…
Can you login in text mode?
Also try to login as “root” (password should be the same) and run “init 5”. Does the graphical system appear then?
Is there a possibility to reinstall openSUSE, or another way to access my user again, without loosing all my libraries and dependencies? Any help for my noobish wandering around will be greatly appreciated.
Can you boot to “Recovery Mode”? (Advanced Options in the boot menu)
If yes, we should be able to fix your system.
If not, booting from an installation medium (either the full DVD or the NETinstall CD, you can of course boot it from an USB drive) and choosing “Upgrade an existing installation” might be the easiest way to re-install 13.1 without loosing all your installed packages.
I tried booting with init 5, it just gave me the SUSE startup screen. I can not boot into recovery mode. However, I am in safe mode currently. I can use the repair tool from my live USB.
Hm? What do you mean with “safe mode”?
If you mean “failsafe”, that’s what recovery mode is called in Grub legacy.
But did you boot from your hard disk or the Live USB now?
I can use the repair tool from my live USB.
Which repair tool? Which Live USB?
The first step I would suggest is to have a look at the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that should give a clue why your graphical session does not start.
Please post that if possible.
I tried refreshing my installation with a 13.1 Live USB, it ended up in an infinite regression of installing and rebooting. When I boot now, it gives a black screen after some time.
I can not spot anything suspicious in the logs, though they are probably overwritten by now.
Hm.
Does switching to text mode with Ctrl+Alt+F1 work when you have that black screen?
Maybe try to press ESC before that to see the messages you get.
But as I said, you could use the full DVD or NETinstall CD and select “Upgrade an existing installation” (the Live ISO doesn’t support that).
This should “re-install” your system without loosing anything, and is probably the easiest way to fix it.
You can copy them to an USB drive just the same as the Live-ISO.
TBH, with the information you gave I don’t really know where to start even in trying to fix it.
Switching to text mode did not give any relevant information, in fact no error was shown up to the point of the black screen.
The USB does supply the “Upgrade an existing installation option”, however I will try it with a dvd tomorrow. There really is not a lot of data, nevertheless I suspect that kde is probably not configured correctly, or parts of it are missing.
On 2014-09-30 00:06, DrGrid wrote:
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> Switching to text mode did not give any relevant information, in fact no
> error was shown up to the point of the black screen.
> The USB does supply the “Upgrade an existing installation option”,
You need the 4.7 big full install image. No matter if you put it on a
DVD or into a USB stick.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)