My system wont boot after kernel install

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hello everyone yesterday I was installing the kernel-pae, in the middle of the installation it said it couldn’t resolve some dependencies. it ask me to ignore or cancel I chose to cancel there after my system froze. Now I cant boot any more I get the following:

Init: cannot execute “/bin/bash”
Init: cannot execute “/bin/bash”
Init: cannot execute “/bin/bash”
Init: cannot execute “/bin/bash”
and
Init id “2” respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
Init id “2” respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
Init id “2” respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
Init id “2” respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes

can any one help me get back in.

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Reinstall, import mountpoints, format “/”. From what I see, you were in the middle of a kernel install. I have my doubts what that was all about but a kernel install should not stop half way moaning about deps. The dependencies are tested before install.

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Oh ****, I want to make sure I understand I need to run the installer again, import the mount points and only format root. correct?

Also would the import mounts keep my /home data?

Thanks…

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I tried to format the / partition but the system couldn’t get a lock on /var. Then I tried the installation formating /var /tmp /opt well everything except /home and /use now I get a white screen after I log in. ???

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Any one ???

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hmm how partitions do you have? Normally you would only have root home and swap. I think you should explain your setup and maybe why???

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If we’re talking about openSUSE setup, you can mount and format or mount without formating a partition. So if you mount /home and do not explicitely format it, it won’t touch your data.

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Start the install. At partitioning, don’t just accept, edit it. Tick the disk in the left panel, click import mount points. Then edit the “/”, set it to format the partition. Take a very close look, you should have “swap”, “/”, and “/home” as mountpoints at least.
Let the installer do it’s job, perform an update etc. When finished, your /home is untouched.

Mind, if you picked another username, your old data will be in /home/YOUROLDUSERNAMEHERE.

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Sorry here are my partitions:


Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             9.9G  440M  9.0G   5% /
udev                 1002M  184K 1002M   1% /dev
/dev/sda10             29G   19G  8.3G  70% /home
/dev/sda8             3.0G   69M  2.8G   3% /tmp
/dev/sda6              20G   12G  6.9G  64% /usr
/dev/sda7             3.0G  232M  2.6G   9% /var
/dev/sr0              3.8G  3.8G     0 100% /media/SUSE_SLED-11-0-0.001

Im actually now logged into iceWM but I cant still log in to gnome after I put my user name and password it shows me the desktop for a second then the screen turns white. :frowning:

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OK good news I was able to log in as root and get my GUI, I guess there is something wrong with my user.

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Try creating a new user. It is NOT GOOD to log into a GUI as root. Try to avoid it.

If that works delete or rename the ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 directories. That will get you back to day one in gnome. you will need to reconfigure the desktop.

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Hi
Sounds like the metacity issue the user had here;
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/432151-gnome-wont-boot-non-root-user.html

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 18 days 3:03, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.06
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Yes thank you so much I did create another user and it worked. So I had to remove my old user and its home directory and recreated it. Im back in thank you so much the only downer is that I lost all the applications I had install but I can just reload them thanks again everyone.

Best Regards…