Hello I’m running opensuse 11.1 with kde 4.1 desktop and things are going pretty smoothly for the most part except when I’m brought to the login screen,type in my info then the splash screen appears for about 3 minutes then goes to a black screen with just the mouse cursor, and it hangs for about another 5 minutes, then I hear the start up jingle then about another 5 minutes later,all the programs that were up when I logged out appear (still no panel and a black screen) then finally about 10 minutes later everything appears…now I don’t even know where to began on this one (where and what to look for, ect) So any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a very annoying problem thanks
P.S this doesn’t always happen but way more often than not it does.
First step. Boot using Failsafe option. See how it behaves. Watch the text as it scrolls by during boot, you might catch any error messages.
No as far as I can see no errors,but failsafe does the same thing also don’t know if this means anything but when I was rebooting I did see and error “failed to start cleanup” or something to that effect but then again this has to do with ipblocker so it wouldn’t really have any effect on the startup would it?
Let’s try the following
Pause the boot by moving the down arrow, then back up to the default boot. But now press backspace, it should delete any text where you can see VGA=…etc
Remove all text and now type just the number:
3
and hit enter
at the login type your user name and then password
now type:
su
then the root password
now type this:
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
(N.B. the 0 is a zero not a letter)
now reboot: type: reboot
if you don’t get a gui login
login as user at cli and try this at the cli
startx
well ok I get stuck at the username and login it keeps telling me my login is incorrect when I know it is not…the full login name is kurt ashcraft and underneath that it’s kurt and “kurt” is what is stated in the username dialog box so idk what the problem is…and also wouldn’t this all be possible from hitting ctr+alt+F2? thanks
Yes.
Then go to init 3
become su and use the vesa switch I gave you
hi,
I used to have the same problem in KDE 4.1,
but it’s gone after upgrading to KDE 4.2
maybe you should try to upgrade,
it’s a lot more stable than 4.1
well ok I Think I’ve figured it out it seemed that ipblocker was holding everything up with the autostart not “starting” so I shut that off and now suse is fast as hell