I installed openSUSE 11.2 on my Compaq 2170US laptop. When I select it from the grub menu, everything acts normally until the login screen, which freezes immediately (i.e. before I can select my user account or type in my password).
I installed from the full openSUSE DVD and chose the GNOME desktop. Before installing, I took openSUSE for a test drive with the GNOME LiveCD and everything seemed to work fine.
Any clues?
Thanks,
David
Hi,
could you try to boot into runlevel 3 and see whether you can login from there?
To boot into runlevel three, just type 3 at the grub prompt. You will then not boot into the graphical login screen, but wil get a command line. Type in your username + password. Does that work?
What kind of graphics card do you have?
Lenwolf
lenwolf wrote:
> What kind of graphics card do you have?
and, to add a little: it might be a problem with your install disk,
did you
if you answered “no” (or “don’t know”) to any of those then see the
following cites before you start over:
http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help
http://tinyurl.com/yhf65pv
http://tinyurl.com/ycly3eg
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Hello, and thank you for your responses.
Here’s a little background on my situation:
I’ve been searching for a stable Linux distro since my aging hardware is having trouble with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. So far, the front-runner is Linux Mint 9 but I’m still having some issues with kernel panic (a long-running problem). The program crashes I was having under Ubuntu have all but disappeared.
I’m now running Linux Mint 9, OpenSUSE 11.2 and Fedora 13 on three partitions of my hard drive; that’s in addition to Windows XP.
For a bootloader, I’m using Grub2 and using the Linux Mint recovery mode to update the list whenever I install a new distro on one of the spare partitions (that is, I’m not installing a bootloader on any newly installed Linux distros).
This is where I’m at now:
could you try to boot into runlevel 3 and see whether you can login from there?
I wasn’t successful following your instructions for booting into runlevel 3. This may be because I’m using Grub2. Also, when I update Grub, the automagic kernel list doesn’t include a recovery mode for anything other than Linux Mint, so I can’t boot into a command-line only session for OpenSUSE (or Fedora). I haven’t dug into Grub2 yet to learn how to manually edit the menu.lst. It’s something I have to work out when I have time.
The good news is that I’ve got a bootable OpenSUSE partition after reinstalling using the GNOME LiveCD.
and, to add a little: it might be a problem with your install disk,
Thanks, DenverD. I ran all of the tests and everything came out good. I think it was a problem with the video setup, since I had selected the packages for desktop effects with the first installation (full version). When I booted the LiveCD, I noticed that I could not enable desktop effects (something Ubuntu and derivatives have had worked out for a few versions now) for my card.
What kind of graphics card do you have?
~ $ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
Desktop effects have worked “out of the box” for several versions of some other Linux distributions now. I realize that it may still require tweaking for OpenSUSE. I’m probably going to wait a few weeks until 11.3 is released and see how it agrees with my hardware. BTW, my goal is not to have everything work right away, but rather to not experience program crashes and kernel panic once I’ve got things set up optimally.
New questions: since successfully logging in after the new install, I seem to be having some problems with file permissions. All of my data is kept on an ntfs partition and I simlink the various folders to my /home folder by doing
ln -s [target] [directory]
Viewing the links within my home folder, I see the “link” emblem, but also the “locked” emblem. When I investigate using Nautilus, I learn that “root” is still the owner of all the files on my data partition. Then I do
sudo chown -R david /home/data/david
but nautilus still tells me that the owner of my data folder is “root.”
What might cause this behavior? I’m sure I’ve overlooked something (after 2+ years as a Linux user [primarily Ubuntu] I still consider myself a novice).
Thanks,
David
Hi,
It appears that you can’t change ntfs permissions on the fly :
This is what I found:
"
For NTFS, ownership and permissions are set at the time of mount
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdxx /mount/point -o uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007
Or by editing fstab
/dev/sdxx /mount/point ntfs-3g uid=100,gid=1000,umask=007 0 2
"
Hope this helps.
Lenwolf