Boot hangs on 1st boot after install of Leap 16 Beta when Gnome is selected. Hangs at:
Started Gnome display manager
Started Cups Scheduler
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Reinstalled…same selections, same thing.
If KDE Plasma is selected instead of Gnome, install completes and boots fine.
Hello sdrake,
Which Installer did you use, net-install or offline-install?
What was your software selection beside Gnome?
Which hardware do you use? Do you have AMD or Nvidia video hardware?
I’m running Leap 16-beta with Gnome on a notebook and it is working fine. I used the net-installer.
I used offline install - from the 4gb iso.
Only software added was Gnome. One time I also selected File Server.
I’m installing in VM Workstation 17 - select Version as “SLES 15 SP6” so I can select UEFI in Advanced properties. If I select OpenSUSE, only BIOS is available. Hardware is HP Zbook with nvidia
FWIW, I’ve seen this with both the net installer and the offline installer, installing in a VMware virtual machine (both BIOS and UEFI machine types - I use “Other Linux” as my OS type).
Upgrading from Leap 16.0 Alpha works, so it’s probably something in the installation set.
This should be reported per the instructions at openSUSE:Known bugs 16.0 - openSUSE Wiki (I haven’t had a chance to do so yet, so go ahead and report it and provide the bug number here so I can track it).
Bugzilla – Bug 1243079
Gnome desktop starts if use ‘nomodeset’ kernel boot parameter…but resolution is max at 1024x768. Can’t get to myrlyn buttons at bottom of screen. Nothing in Extensions. Desktop icons don’t work (again).
@sdrake you need to select an appropriate vmware video driver… @hendersj should be able to advise. Or maybe set the resolution in the bootloader…
The driver should be OK with a default installation, as KDE starts and runs OK. I’ll have to check and see if the open-vm-tools package is installed with a default install with GNOME (I don’t recall for certain, but that may include a virtual video driver - I think it does, because without it, the auto-resize functionality doesn’t work; but I’ve just woken up for the day, so I’m still dealing with some ‘brain fog’. 
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In the VM config, is HW acelleration enabled?
I tried both settings (enabled/disabled), didn’t seem to make a difference. Right now it is enabled.
@sdrake any hardware configuration is done during the virtual machine setup. So what setting do you have for the video device in the virtual machine for Plasma vs GNOME.
@sdrake that is the display, not the VGA adapter to use… I don’t use VMware… hopefully @hendersj can suggest more. There must be a harware option to add a graphics adapter?
vmwgfx loaded for kde, not for gnome
Installed Leap16 Beta on real hardware (HPE DL380 Gen10 server with Intel Xeon processor) and selected Gnome (Wayland…as this is only choice). On first boot after install, Display was 1028x764 but display settings allowed for a selection of 1680x1050. This works. But seems to be missing lots of software: no myrlyn, no Gnome Extensions, no gnome-terminal. I would expect these to be included in base install. But basic usability is missing - no Application Menu, no Desktop Icons - maybe have to install the Gnome X11 Pattern?
VMware doesn’t provide a hardware selection for the adapter itself - it’s always the “virtual VGA” hardware.
The vmwgfx module is part of kernel-default, so it should at least be on the system. On my test VM, it is loaded, but GNOME still isn’t starting up. I thought maybe selinux was interfering, so I set it to permissive mode, but that didn’t seem to do anything to help either.
Looks like the issue was identified and resolved (from a dev comment on the bug yesterday), and we’re just waiting now for the fix to be included in a build.
