I have tried installing Leap 42.2 multiple times on the same machine. Every time the OS installs, loads and lets me start working with it. But when I complete the first restart after any install, it hangs before getting to the login screen. All services appear to load, and at the point where the login prompt should come up, it halts. My router still recognizes that it is connected to the network, but it is unresponsive by pinging the IP or attempting to connect to it through the SSH port (this works during the initial run before the first restart).
I’ve tried installing it as it is straight off of the USB stick with no online repositories, straight off the stick and then doing the online updates, and doing the install with the online repositories. All of them have the same result: the system works with no issues until I decide to restart the machine.
I am running it in server mode using only the text shell interface, no GUI, so that would rule out a graphics driver error, I would think.
System specs are as follows:
Intel Atom N455 1.66GHz
1GB DDR3 RAM
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
I understand that this isn’t a highly powerful machine, but it isn’t intended to be. It’s just meant to be a local webserver so I can play around and acquaint myself with how to run a server. I don’t think it can be the hardware as everything works perfectly right until that first restart. It installs properly, restarts, and runs fine until the first restart after the installation.
If anyone has any ideas or advice on how to troubleshoot further, I’d be glad for the help.
Here’s a picture of the most recent restart. It doesn’t happen at the exact same spot every time. Sometimes it’s when the screen blanks out, I’ve seen it when the wireless card initializes as well. Watching the text scroll across the screen I don’t see any warnings or failures when it’s loading. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g89/dyliir/20170616_162240_HDR.jpg
When I use the repair console on the USB installer, I can get to the login from that, but I’m really at a loss of what I can do in there to troubleshoot the problem. How would I get to any logfiles that might help me see what the issue is?
Ok. So I tried installing 42.1 to see what would happen. Exact same thing. Installs fine, starts fine on the first boot after install, and then will not bring up the login prompt afterwards. The one thing I hadn’t tried yet was booting from a read only boot snapshot. It worked. I loaded from the post install snapshot, and it fully booted and loaded into the login prompt. I was able to login using an SSH shell terminal. I went into yast, and of course trying to make any system changes resulted in an error since it sys/etc was read only. I rebooted, and once again the system hung. I went in and loaded from a read only snapshot again (a different one than the install one) and it worked again. Let me get to the login screen, sign in with an SSH session, and use the system. So…what exactly IS the difference between the two boot loaders, and how can I use this to fix the normal bootloader script?
