Howto enter failsafe after reboot / bootloader time set to "0" acidently

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I acidently set time on bootloader to 0, now i canot chose failsafe after reboot

My system (openSUSE 12.2 - Kernel 3.4.11.2.16-desktop) was working fine until till today, now i cannot startx annmore.

Before login screen i see “Started Postfix Mail Transport Agent” and the system hangs…
I can acces terminal but, have no knowledge howto proceed.
So either i get help from annyone to set bootloader to more than 0 or maybe someone experienced same problem??

I i type startx i get:

hostname: name or service not known
xauth: file/home/user/.serverauth.2610 does not exist

fatal server error:
cannot move old log file "/var/log/xorg.0.log! to " /var/log/xorg.0.log.old

please consult the x.org foundation support at X.Org Wiki - Home for help

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to x server: connection refused
xinit: server error

xinit failed. /usr/bin/xorg is not setuid, maybe that0s the reason?
if so either use a display mannager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local

Please help, thanky you in advance!!!

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You can use a live CD to access your system files or take control of your installed system
https://forums.opensuse.org/content/146-using-livecd-take-over-repair-installed-system.html

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on my way :slight_smile: will keep you posted, thanks for the starting tip

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So, reinstalled /root and it was ok, releave for a second… updates installed, system hangs again, i get fatal errors and cannot acces gui neither in normal boot mode or failsafe mode.

is there command for terminal that can exclude, restrict or unninstall last updates?

This could be a problem for me as i need my computer for graphic manipulation daily…

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My system (openSUSE 12.2 - Kernel 3.4.11.2.16-desktop) was working fine until till today,
I wonder what changed? And how long had it been running fine…?

You can undo updates by disabling the updated repo and running

zypper dup
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my system was working excelent from release of 12.2 till yesterday, first crash… then fresh instal, updates today, reboot and crash again, wait , will type your stuff :slight_smile:

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What’s the videocard? Did you install a driver?

If you wait, does the boot continue? Are you getting a login prompt anyway?

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ATI mobility RADEON 2700

my machine is Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 2550:

Fujitsu AMILO Xi 2550 Reviews, Price Quotes, Problems, Support | Spiceworks

it has 4gb of RAM, other is the same

Boot continues, NO login prompt, i can acess terminal with ALT+F2 tough.

Hellow, untill i think openSUSE 11.1 i installed drivers from ati regulary and if anny crashes i simply restored with aticonfig --initial -f and it was fine

From 12.1 i use only implemented drivers of openSUSE 12.1 and later on from openSUSE 12.2

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ALLRIGHT, MY SYSTEM IS RUNNING AGAIN :slight_smile:

my graphical programs are all ok as there are third party, this is great,

Now a question, is there anny posbibility that if i change / customize login pictures in:

/usr/share/background/lightrays

could that impacted login?

I AM REALLY INTERESTED what went wrong, which log can i check in /var/log?

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Congrats.
You can tail the syslog, eg the following retrieves the last 100 lines


# tail -n 100 /var/log/messages

HTH,
TSU

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Hej everybody! Now the hartest and exiting part is to find out what caused the hang :slight_smile:

@ tsu2

“# tail -n 100 /var/log/messages” command didnt realy get all the way back, even if i increased the numbers, so i checked machine log personaly
and copy / pasted it to my web page in one of my indexes for easy viewing.

Cenik_porocna_ponudba

You can freely check it out, i would apreciate if annyone finds a meaning in that and tells me what went wrong, because i am still learning Linux even after years of use but am still too short to understand this logs :slight_smile:

If updates are fault can i find out whic update was the cause of it all?

Greeting, looking forward for some answer, debates