After installing a pair of updates and restarting my Login window is gone. CTRL + ALT + F1 brings up the terminal and I can login there, but CTRL + ALT + F7 only shows the default green background with the cursor. No login window.
STARTX is running / XMD, GDM, KDM do nothing
Please spell it out for me, I’m a novice at linux
Ideas?
openSUSE 11.2
Please confirm you did not mistakenly fill up the hard drive ?
Login to the terminal and type:
df -Th
Do you have lots of free space in / and in /home ?
dt -Th
/ Used 25% Free 10GB
/home Used 1% Free 500GB
Another possibility is you had previously installed a proprietary graphic driver, and you updated your kernel or Xorg (where the proprietary driver is not compiled against the newer kernel/X).
Can you check if this is the case ? Ie check as to exactly what graphic driver you have installed and also check if you updated your kernel or X recently (when the problem occured).
On 2011-02-23 15:36, oldcpu wrote:
>
> Another possibility is you had previously installed a proprietary
> graphic driver, and you updated your kernel or Xorg (where the
> proprietary driver is not compiled against the newer kernel/X).
Remember that startx works.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
I used the default when the machine was setup. It is an INTEL SR1530AHLX with an s3000ah board. Steps to check?
Is there anyway to undo the update from Yast in the terminal?
Its good that startx works, but unusual the other methods do not. Needless to say, this should not happen.
My experience from providing support on openSUSE forums for the past 5 years, is such problems typically result from one installing desktop (or other) applications from repositories other than just OSS, Non-OSS, Update and packman. I would lay odds that if the OP were to type:
zypper lr -d
we would find one or more cutting edge repository. And problems from that sort of problem can be difficult to sort.
zypper lr -d results
–±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | download.opensuse.org-php | openSUSE BuildService - PHP | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/server:/php/openSUSE_11.2 |
2 | Index of /repositories/server:/php:/applications/openSUSE_11.2 | Index of /repositories/server:/php:/applications/openSUSE_11.2 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/server:/php:/applications/openSUSE_11.2 |
3 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /debug/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss |
6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes | 99 | NONE | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
8 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2
Have you checked to see what these updates consisted of ?
You can determine that by typing:
rpm -qa --last
and if that scrolls by too fast, then redirect it to a text file:
rpm -qa --last > myrpms.txt
and open ‘myrpmst.txt’ up with a text editor and see if you can figure out which if those pair of updates caused the problem. Once you have a handle on that you could try to roll back.
The last two were:
reload-kmp-desktop-1.1_2.6.31.14_0.6-6.9.39 Tue Feb 22 09:55:42 2011
kernel-desktop-2.6.31.14-0.6.1 Tue Feb 22 09:55:24 2011
Restarted and login was gone.
These packages were installed and the machine was restarted without incident on Monday:
libopenssl-devel-0.9.8k-3.12.1 Mon Feb 21 15:17:34 2011
zlib-devel-1.2.3-140.2 Mon Feb 21 14:39:14 2011
gcc-c+±4.4-4.2 Mon Feb 21 13:55:01 2011
gcc44-c+±4.4.1_20090817-2.3.4 Mon Feb 21 13:55:00 2011
libstdc++44-devel-4.4.1_20090817-2.3.4 Mon Feb 21 13:54:57 2011
make-3.81-130.2 Mon Feb 21 11:47:01 2011
gcc-4.4-4.2 Mon Feb 21 11:42:12 2011
gcc44-4.4.1_20090817-2.3.4 Mon Feb 21 11:42:11 2011
glibc-devel-2.10.1-10.9.1 Mon Feb 21 11:42:07 2011
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.31-3.4 Mon Feb 21 11:42:04 2011
update-alternatives-1.14.19-23.4.1 Mon Feb 21 11:01:28 2011
Well, kernel updates are notorious for breaking one’s Linux capability to boot. The fact that startx still works in such a case (if this is even such a case) is unusual. The 2.6.31.14-0.6.1 kernel-desktop has been out since mid-December. Apparently you only just now decided to install it.
From what I understand you restarted with no problems after Monday 21-Feb updates.
But after the Tuesday 21-Feb installs of kernel-desktop and reload-kmp-desktop you had a problem ? My guess is it is reload-kmp-desktop that could have caused the problem. Could its install have been corrupted ? Can you force a re-install of ‘reload-kmp-desktop’ ?
Also, what can you tell us about your graphic hardware and graphic driver ? Run the following command:
/sbin/lspci -nnk
and look for the line with VGA in it. Then copy that line and the other lines in that section, which will tell us what video hardware you have installed and it might tell us what video driver you have in use.
On 2011-02-23 20:06, jovial73 wrote:
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> zypper lr -d results
Repeat this way, please:
<http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=451526>
Also, log as root in VT-1, type “init 3”, wait, then “init 5”. Go again to
the VT-1, and see if some error was printed there. If not, search in the
logs: messages, xorg, etc.
Did you change security settings?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
/sbin/lspci -nnk
05:04.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 [1002:515e] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:348d]
To clarify, the desktop background comes up, but the box to select a user and enter a password is gone.
No errors on the terminal. I do not know where the logs you refer to exist.
Did you change security settings?
No, but I’m not the only admin, and the other guy knows less then I about openSUSE.
On 2011-02-24 15:36, jovial73 wrote:
> I do not know where the logs you refer to
> exist.
/var/log/*
sort by date, check the latest.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Hmmm … the ES1000 does not have the best of support in Linux
When I look here for the 1002:515e it has no entry for the recommended linux driver:
X.Org PCI Vendor, Device and Driver List
But clearly you have either the fbdev, vesa, radeon or radeonhd driver working with this.
Further to robin_listas suggestion, are there any hints in the /var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log or dmesg ( /var/log/boot.log) files provding a hint as to what the intial error is ?
According to this ubuntu forum thread, both the radeon driver and vesa driver support this graphic hardware, so IMHO this is unlikely to be a graphic driver issue:
[SOLVED] Video Speed with ATI ES1000 - Ubuntu Forums](Ubuntu Forums)
Did you force a re-install of reload-kmp-desktop like I suggested ?
Did you check in YaST > Security and Users to confirm that this is still setup as a configuration ?
Instructions please.
I got into Yast via the terminal and set it to auto login to a local account. After a restart the desktop comes up with the following six windows:
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet."
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet."
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet."
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MainMenu."
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet."
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet."
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
The desktop icons for the account are there, but the task bar and notification area aren’t functional.