Hi,
I ran opensuse 13.1 with XFCE on an older 32bit laptop (a samsung x20). Since there is no 32bit leap I tried tumbleweed.
Whenever I turn it on (now), the laptop suspends once when the tumbleweed bootsplash appears (the infinity logo with the three dots) then once it tries to login into xfce (should be lightdm greeter, but i guess i forgot to turn auto-login off) and then when I enter the password to unlock the screenlock from the previous suspend. It didn’t do any of that on 13.1, so I suspect no hardware issue (might be a big fat coincidence though).
I could not find anyone else with that problem by searching. So, any ideas what to check?
Btw. I tried an upgrade to tumbleweed first; when that issue manifested I did a clean install instead, it still persists.
Today, it got worse: I cannot login at all anymore, xfce freezes once I enter the password to unlock light-locker (no keyboard & no mouse, no C-M-F1). So, I cannot just really quickly get to any log files. I guess I could try booting into recovery mode and copy the rc log, or i guess systemd log (not really familiar with those kinds of shananigans). Stay tuned…but in the mean time: has anyone had at least a similar experience?
why do I have to type the verification nonsense every time I post?
I switched to tty1 before the xfce stuff happens and I learned a few things:
The suspend will just happen about every 3-4 seconds regardless of what is happening, it can be mid-typing. It is also not enough time for me to enter any command:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb-hdd
systemd-journal --system >> /mnt/usb-hdd
is more than I can enter until the system suspends. So, I cannot get any meaningful logs. Also: after the suspend action the usb-hdd is unmounted again and /mnt/usb-hdd is empty.
I did download the i586 DVD (http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-i586-Current.iso) and the installer also helpfully warns when you put in the wrong disk. Btw, I also did the SHA-256 check after the download and brasero did a hash check after burning it. So, I am pretty confident with regard to the disk, unless I misunderstand your question. Is there a link to 13.1 somewhere? Maybe I should just go back and then find an alternative to opensuse.
nevermind, it’s much worse: a systemd bug. Nothing specifically suse related. I can reproduce it with fedora 23. I’ll do a last test using an openrc live cd.