Login and Shutdown bug?

It happens like 50% of my Suse 11.2 startups, when I type in my password at login screen and hit enter, Gnome do not start, i can only see the green blank screen,or sometimes it start to show only my custom wallpaper and nothing more, when i try ctrl+alt+backspacex2 and login again everything seems to work fine, but what could be wrong ? is it a hardware issue ? Moreover, sometimes when I want to shutdown my laptop and click the shutdown button, suse do logout, but instead of turning off the laptop , it brings me to login screen, clicking the shutdown button at login screen makes my hdd lamp blink and thats all, nothing happens, again i’m puzzled. what can be done to fix these issues? thank you.

Gnome or KDE??

gogalthorp wrote:
> Gnome or KDE??

he said Gnome, so go ahead…


palladium

Same problem here… Here’s my post from Jan 8 - never got any reply :cry: :

Hello,

I have a strange problem that may be related to the ATI graphics card driver, and I would appreciate any pointers on what to look for.

My configuration : 11.2, gnome.

When I turn on my computer, the desktop sometimes fails to load completely, and I am left with the green wallpaper from GNOME and nothing else (no mouse cursor, no toolbar at the bottom, no icons…). If I reboot, things are usually ok, but it can take several reboots for the desktop to finally load (??).

Also, and possibly related to the same problem, it did happen a few times that at shutdown, instead of directly shutting down as it is supposed to do, a panel popped up with my name and three options (Suspend/Restart/Shutdown). Clicking on shutdown or restart didn’t do anything. Only suspend seemed to shutdown the computer (??).

Any idea what’s that all about?.. Thanks!

>> Any idea what’s that all about?.. Thanks!

have either of you entered a bug into the system? or, looked to see if
one has been entered already, and then add your comments, experiences?

see: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports


palladium

Hi
It’s the metacity bug (numerous posts in the fora here!) 555027

Read this thread;
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/431506-help-my-suse11-2-login-gnome-only-show-wallpaper.html


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> It’s the metacity bug (numerous posts in the fora here!) 555027

good you hooked that together (i didn’t see them as connected)…thx!


palladium