Installation of Slowroll DVD ISO fails to launch Yast Installer GUI on ASUS ProArt P16 laptop. I’m left with a blank black screen but otherwise responding system.
Steps to reproduce:
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I downloaded the latest Slowroll ISO openSUSE-Slowroll-DVD-x86_64-Build27.7-Media.iso from https://download.opensuse.org/slowroll/iso/openSUSE-Slowroll-DVD-x86_64-Build27.7-Media.iso (from 2025-01-08)
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Flashed the ISO to 64 GB USB stick with Opensuse’s own Imagewriter.
I also tried Rufus, DD mode and hybrid mode, all with the same results. -
Restarted my laptop.
Booted to that USB stick. -
Selected “Installation” in the Grub menu
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OS booting went seemingly well for a while (kernel, udev, ) until it was about to start the GUI installer (Yast Installer under IceVM)
It switched to a new virtual terminal, as if to start GUI, and there when the GUI/Installer hung and I was left staring at the completely blank screen. The OS is still responsive. I can switch terminals and use the command line.
On one of the terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F3), I can see an error, as one of the last lines:
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error 37: Couldn’t open file /var/adm/mount/driverupdate`
There are couple more of similar errors, but they got “ignored”. Please, see the screen photo.
In another terminal I can use shell. If I do ps -ax I can see:
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icewm -c preferences.yast2 -t yast2
/usr/bin/ruby.ruby3.3 … /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2start installation --arg initial qt …
This laptops is a still relatively new hardware.
AMD based. It has two GPUs, integrated AMD and Nvidia RTX 4070.
Any thoughts?
