After i login system a few minutes later mouse,keyboard and i think also screen stop working. When i look system clock it shows same time ,no advance .Something like that desktop freezes. No click , no type anything and i shut down from power button the system . I’m using openSuse 10.2 .
Please help .
Is it KDE/GNOME/XFCE? Is it a fresh install - if not, what was the last update? Is it a laptop? etc, etc.
> Please help .
TRY this:
when you FIRST see the freeze do NOTHING…don’t touch the keyboard or
mouse again for (say) 15 minutes (go make a cup of tea, coffee,
whatever…just WAIT)…
then, after 15 minutes if it is still ‘frozen’ then press the “Caps
Lock” key a few times and see if the keyboard’s LED goes on and off
with the presses…
and, also press several times the “Num Lock” key while watching for
it’s LED to go on/off…
then, press down and hold the “Ctrl” and “Alt” keys and then press the
backspace-delete key (right about the big enter key on most standard
keyboard)…
maybe it will cause the XWindow system to shut down and give you a
log-in screen…maybe not…
whatever it does come back here and report what happens…because if
just WAITING fixes the problem i have an idea what the problem is (it
a dog)…
and like the OP asked, when you come back tell us about your machine:
laptop? desktop? how much RAM, and CPU, etc…
are you using KDE3, KDE4, GNOME, desktop effects?
is this something that JUST started happening after running 10.2 for
months and months with no problem…OR did you just install 10.2 and
this happened right away…
NOTE: updating 10.2 is a real problem as it is no longer supported
with updates and patches…you REALLY need to move to 10.3 which is
supported for another six months or so (i can’t recommend 11.x, unless
you AVOID KDE4)
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heartless_bot
Firstly sorry for late reply due to the unexcepted stuff and bad english 
Actually i installed opensuse 11.1 with kde4 (fresh install)and the problem occurred , then i suspect the kde and also 11.1 and installed 10.2 with gnome and same problem goes on.
After the freezing started i waited 15 minutes like heartless_bot said and nothing happened. no caps lock or numlock key leds goes on or off.
Last time i started the 10.2 ,freeezing started after gnome started and couldn’t see desktop.
My system is a desktop pc with 2 gb ram , p4 3.0 and geforce 6200.
heartless_bot suggested that after 15 minutes press several times your Caps Lock/NumPad button to see is the system completely unresponsive or just your video card messing. This would be very useful information. If you are installing 11.1 install Gnome instead of KDE.
Good luck.
yes i tried after 15 minutes pressing capslock several times and no response.
By the way i was using 10.3 before installing 11.1 and there was no problem.Then i formatted the disk for some reasons and decided to install 11.1.And problem occurred and installed 10.2 . now i want to install 10.3 but not have enough disk space. Because i am using also xp in this machine and installed 11.1(however i couldn’t see it , it is something where in disk) and then 10.2 . If i can’t solve this problem , i want to delete all 11.1 and 10.2 partitions and to install 10.3 but how , i don’t know :(. Please help.
Have you tried to boot up 11.1 in safe mode?
After i have installed the 10.2 , 11.1 options disappeared in grub bootloader so i can’t choose 11.1. But i tried 10.2 with safe mode it didn’t started desktop enviroment only can log in console. And tried to change some settings(mouse,keyboard etc.) with sax2 -r command. And the problem couldn’t solve.
Before you boot(not the safe mode) add this boot parameter:
runlevel 3
.
This will bring up for you the console login. So log in with your user and type that following:
su
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa // 0 - zero. this will start the X server in a few seconds, do not terminate!
.
This should bring up the Sax2 configuration dialog. If you see it, hit OK and reboot with normal options.
thanks ram88 it worked now i can use 10.2 without freezing problems but some slow loading problems. i tried to install graphic driver but gave some errors.
Anyway like said before 11.1 installed in the somewhere in disk. and i want to boot 11.1 and try same solution for 11.1 and delete 10.2 .
fdisk -l command output is ;
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2912 23382607 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6528 9518 24025207+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 9519 14592 40756905 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda4 * 2912 5523 20972827 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 9519 11216 13631152 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 11216 11408 1550241 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 11409 12787 11076786 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 12788 14592 14498631 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Thanks again for your concern , it will be very good for me if i solve this problem too.
Now you have 2 installed systems. Why don’t you start the installation from the beginning and delete you Linux partitions in the partition manager, and install again 11.1?
Of course after the installation make the same workaround to get your system working.
I think this would be the simplest way - from my point of view.
Good luck.
Hi i installed 11.1 again , i couldn’t partitioning in installation(afraid of doing something wrong).I think it installed over existing 11.1 installation. Now i can see 10.2 in grub menu . Now i want to delete 10.2 from partitioner in 11.1 but how i don’t know and do not want to do something wrong . There are many partitions and i m confused . sda7 partition is unused i think and 10.2 installed in that partition ,if choose delete that partition what will happen that partition , i want to add that space to the 11.1 space which is sda4 i think.
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000109af
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2912 23382607 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6528 9518 24025207+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 * 9519 14592 40756905 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 2912 5523 20972827 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 9519 11216 13631152 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 11216 11408 1550241 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 11409 12787 11076786 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 12788 14592 14498631 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Please help …
Don’t be confused. In the partition manager delete all partitions where the System is Linux (leave the swap unchanged). This will delete you both 10.2 and 11.1.
Now you have free space to create a new partition.
After you finish the partitioning YaST will tell you one more time which partitions will be formatted - make sure that the right partitions are marked for formatting, and there are no windows partition marked for formatting. Install.
Good luck.
ok now i dont want to install again and do some settings(drivers,update etc. ) for 11.1 .Actually i faced 5 times installation process last week and its very annoying me to install again
There must be a way doing this thing from 11.1 partitioner , if there is it will be very useful for me but if there is not i do not think install again.
Thanks .
So why I suggested to start with a new installation?
You can boot into 11.1. After finding out which is your 10.2 partition you should delete it and merge with the existing 11.1 partition. I don’t know how to do that - or is it possible. I can’t help you in that, sorry. 
Good luck.
I know where is 10.2 partition in. sda7 partition is for 10.2 . In partitioner it shows unused part which is sda7 and also in grub bootscreen menu shows like this ; opensuse 10.2(sda7) .
Is this information,option may help to solve my question ?
…
, i want to add that space to the 11.1 space which is sda4 i think.
…
You can delete the 10.2 partitions without any problem. Nothing will happen (the entry in grub should be disappear but I’m not 100% in this). But this won’t solve your problem. I don’t know that after is it possible to merge these partitions into one. Let assume that it’s possible:
in this case you may need to download additional software, learn it (or at least google for some documentation). This way is more complicated then deleting all your linux partitions in the 11.1 installation menu and recreating them as one.