I updated an openSUSE11.1 system to openSUSE13.2 - via the full DVD.
After the process completed, I returned to find a blank screen - but was able to ssh into the
updated system… I then rebooted the system to find that it rebooted fine, the console
log messages scrolled by… the psychedelic splash screen came up…
But - when it was time to get to the KDE/GNOME/whatever login, all I have is a blank screen…
I went thru all of the VTs (via ctrl-alt-FN1, ctrl-alt-FN2, etc…) but nothing appears
on any of them.
I’m a UNIX/BSD guy from way back, so the newer stuff is a black-box to me… can someone
give me some pointers on how to disable the graphical login and get just a plain (tty) console login?
Or - perhaps someone can point me to how to figure out what is going missing?
I checked the Xorg log - it only complains about missing font directories, no particular other issues.
It believes the Xorg server is running…, from the ps command:
$ ps -eaf | grep X
root 1516 1509 0 16:13 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -background none -noreset -verbose 3 -logfile /dev/null -auth /run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-4KQnUj/database -seat seat0 -nolisten tcp vt7
root 2596 2026 0 16:47 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto **X
**I’m not seeing anything particular in /var/log/messages to indicate any errors. Just
staring at a blank screen.
- Thanks -
- Dave Rivers -