Today I was upgrading my system from the version 12.2 to the 12.3, following the steps I have used in the past upgrades successfully.During the upgrading I did not receive any error message of whatsoever, but when I reboot the system, I got the following booting messages:
[OK] Started Network Manager
Starting Network Manager Wait Online
[FAILED] Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online
see ‘systemctl status Network Manager-Wait-Online service’ for details
[OK] Reached Target Network
Starting Command Scheduler…
[OK] Started Command Scheduler
Starting LSB : NFS client services…
[OK] Reached Target Host and Network Name Lookups.
Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent…
Starting /etc/init.d/boot.local Compatibility…
[OK] Started /etc/init.d/boot.local Compatibility
Started LSB : NFS client services.
Starting LSB : Import remote SMB /CIFS (MS Windows) file systems…
[OK] Started LSB : Import remote SMB /CIFS (MS Windows) file systems…
[OK] Reached target Remote File Systems (Pre)
[OK] Started Postfix Mail Transport Agent
[OK] Reached target Multi-User
[OK] Reached target Graphical Interface
And I got stuck here !!! I am not able to go further this point.
So I tried to boot in failsafe mode, and I was able to overcome the booting process (no errors have been seen) but at the end , after the initial graphical introductory screen , the screen itself became black and the only thing I could see was only the mouse pointer and nothing else.
Furthermore I verified I was able to boot the system without graphic interface (init 3) but unfortunately I realized that my Linux knowledge was good enough to solve the issue.
It seems to me that there is a graphic interface issue.
Please do you have any idea ? Did I make a mistake somewhere ?
Yes.
What graphics card do you have?
Did you use a proprietary driver on 12.2? (nvidia maybe?)
You would have to reinstall that.
If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf that tries to load that driver, the graphical system would fail to load, like in your case, so try to remove/rename that if it exists.
Pity that not even failsafe mode is working, that would make it much easier.
You said you get a black screen with mouse pointer? What Desktop Environment are you using?
Does pressing Alt+F2 give you a command run window?
Try to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice, this should get you to the login screen.
Does it work when you select a different Desktop session there? (IceWM f.e., that should be installed by default)
You could at least work in graphical mode then for further diagnostics.
I was able to launch the Dolphin file manager through the failsafe mode using ALT+F2 and I checked in /etc/X11/ and there is no xorg.conf file. So no attemptive to load the fglrx driver was done.
I am able to launch Firefox perfectly and to update the system through internet normally. But I still see the desktop completely black. Only the mouse cursor is visible
As far as the update is concern, I did it in the following way:
I added the version 12.3 repositories. I added the Packman as well but I have lowered its priority to the bottom, so the other repositories got updated first.
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In a console terminal I ran the command : zypper -ref, and every repository was fine
I ran the command zypper dup, I accepted the license and the update begun smoothly.
I use the shutdown -r now command and the system restarted unfortunately with some issue.
On 2014-03-20 01:06, FabrizioS wrote:
> Sorry if I sound silly , but you know I do not want to make further
> mistakes :beat-up:
Just create a new user, and try with that user first. If the new user
works, doesn’t have the problem, then you can consider what to do with
your normal user.
This way you run no risks.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
OK, then apparently plasma-desktop is crashing on startup.
As has been mentioned already, try to remove/rename its configuration.
You shouldn’t have to remove/rename the whole ~/.kde4/ though, ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc should be enough.
Or try to create a new user (in YaST->Security and Users->User and Group Management) and login as that, as mentioned. (if you have auto-login enabled, then press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice to get to the login screen)
If that doesn’t work as well, please start konsole (via Alt+F2) and type in “plasma-desktop”.
Does it start?
If not, please post the output you get. The last lines should suffice.
As far as the update is concern, I did it in the following way:
I added the version 12.3 repositories. I added the Packman as well but I have lowered its priority to the bottom, so the other repositories got updated first.
n
In a console terminal I ran the command : zypper -ref, and every repository was fine
I ran the command zypper dup, I accepted the license and the update begun smoothly.
I use the shutdown -r now command and the system restarted unfortunately with some issue.
That sounds ok. But did you remove all other repos before upgrading?
Then remove/rename ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc for your standard user and it should work again. You will lose your plasmoid setup though.
Maybe you added some plasmoid that causes the crash (but did work on 12.2)?
You could post the output when starting plasma-desktop manually in konsole (when it is crashing), maybe it would provide a clue.
The strange is that it looks a bit shabby like I was in failsafe mode unless with the 12.3 version the ATI HD 3650 is not supported like before.
Please post /var/log/Xorg.0.log (upload it to http://susepaste.org/ and post a link)
Yes I did and I have verified it, but strangely things did not go well
Your plasma crash might not be related to the upgrade procedure.
I have deleted the file you told me ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc , and when I rebooted I could see Plasma perfectly working but still shabby.
For this reason I copied and pasted the /var/log/Xorg.0.log
“nomodeset” effectively prevents the use of the radeon driver.
So please enter YaST->System->Boot Loader->Boot Loader Options, and remove “nomodeset” from the “Optional Kernel Parameter” line. (for grub2)
If you’re still using grub1, you should edit the menu entry accordingly (also in YaST->System->Boot Loader).
It worked perfectly in 12.1
Maybe you used the fglrx driver back then?
This one would still work with “nomodeset”, but the legacy driver doesn’t work in openSUSE 12.3 anymore, and the latest version doesn’t support your card.
So you cannot go down that road.
I did not get any error message during the booting process
Yes, but you should have gotten one when running plasma-desktop in konsole.
Anyway, too late now…
Doesn’t matter anyway if you’re fine with configuring plasma from scratch.
The only thing I got was to see all dots and lines once rebooted, even the mouse pointer was a huge square full of dots. I had to force the reboot manually and start in failsafe mode. I remember now that in one of my first post in this forum, people suggested me that the issue was caused by the fact that the “nomodeset” was not present.
Unless I am mistaken there should be the possibility to set the graphic card from the file:
No. That’s the configuration for the failsafe mode. Leave that as it is!
OK, we’re in a bit of a dilemma here.
Apparently the “radeon” driver shipped with openSUSE 12.3 doesn’t work well with your card. OTOH, the vesa driver (which you get when you specify “nomodeset”) gives you a bad resolution.
Why do you have that “devfs=mount,dall” there?
You should remove that.
There’s this error in your Xorg.0.log:
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
Maybe this is caused by that “devfs” option? It prevents the fbdev driver from being used which should give you a better resolution.
If that helps, you might try again to remove the “nomodeset” option, maybe the radeon driver had problems because of that as well.
But in the end, a working radeon driver would really be the best thing for you. It has improved a lot (especially for newer cards) since 12.3 got released, so you might want to try to update it to a newer version.
Either upgrade to 13.1 (much similar to how you upgraded to 12.3), or install the latest X/Mesa/radeon from the [noparse]X11:XOrg[/noparse] repo.
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3/ X11:XOrg
sudo zypper dup --from X11:XOrg
Since part of the radeon driver is in the kernel, you should update your kernel as well:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ Kernel:standard
sudo zypper in kernel-desktop-3.13.6
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_12.3/ X11:XOrg
sudo zypper dup --from X11:XOrg
And
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ Kernel:standard
sudo zypper in kernel-desktop-3.13.6
Things didn’t change at as far as the graphics is concerned, but I lost the audio and even the possibility to connect to internet !!!
What happened is that notwithstanding I see the speaker symbol no sound is emitted. Furthermore even the Networkmanager seems to work I cannot setup any wireless connection because a window pops out stating a KDE error.
On top of that in the bootloader two new line has been added : the ones related with the new 3.13.6 kernel (Desktop and Failsafe).
Booting in Failsafe mode did not seem to help: same situation.
You should still be able to select the older 3.11 kernel in the boot menu (if you use grub2, it’s hidden below “Advanced Options”).
No idea why the latest kernel would give you problems.
But have you tried to remove that “devfs” option already? As I said, this might interfere with the /dev directory and cause all sorts of problems.
This definitely is not needed, I never saw that one before TBH.
