I used (openoffice, firefox, vlc) my acer 5920g this afternoon without any problem and without making any strange operations.
When I tried to restart it an hour ago it didn’t start correctly: i get a screen full of commands like
These are “standard” boot messages that the system always displays but they are typically hidden by the lizard image with a progress bar (you can force it to come up by pressing the Esc key during booting).
What is not standard is that it stops there - you system should start up graphics (X) and display the Gnome boot manager (in your case).
Do you see a login prompt underneath that “Welcome to openSUSE 11.1” message?
Yes, you are logging into a “standard” terminal - something that most Linux servers only run with. Doesn’t matter, nobody expects you to write documents in that mode (although there are some hardcore folks out there that do that).
If you are saying that your machine was fine and after a reboot you are in this situation, that leads me to believe that a kernel (or other) update has trashed your graphics driver. When you originally installed this machine, did you install a special graphics driver?
To get out of this situation, you are going to have to do some troubleshooting, which, unfortunately, must be done with that command line interface: as you did, log into the terminal and issue the following command:
dmesg | more
Now scan through this output and look for things like “error”, “fatal”, or anything else that may indicate a problem. Press the scrollbar to go to the next page and hit the “q” key to quit.
Another thing that will help is your “X” configuration, but that’ll be a bit much to re-type for you here (since you can’t copy-paste), but try this:
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (4) doesn't match the server's version (5)
(EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) module ABI major version (2) doesn't match the server's version (4)
(EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
(EE) No drivers avaible
Fatal server error:
no screens found
givin up
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
That would explain why there is not graphical login: “nv” is your display driver and it fails to load. I wonder if your kernel update crashed or at least didn’t finish before you rebooted.
Let’s see which kernel you are running, type the following:
#Uncomment the following option to reenable kbd/mouse driver input sections.
#Otherwise evdev driver is used
Driver "kdb"
Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Driver "nv"
Errore durante il download di (curl) per (translation: Error during download from) 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_11.1/repodata/repomd.xml'
Connection failed
Couldn't resolve host 'download.opensuse.org'
If you installed it through Yast…
boot into runlevel 3 (see above)
login with username and password, do
su -c yast
You will now see the “terminal version” of Yast (built on ncurses).
Start the software manager
search for nvidia with only “Name” option checked. Two installed packages should be shown.
Go to Actions - Packages - All packages - update unconditionally.
Reboot
Don’t cry, we have kaffeine and nicotine in the repos, that should help ;), no, serious:
Did you do ‘zypper lr -d’ in a terminal window?
The problem is, that you need to reinstall the nvidia driver. Updates contained a new kernel and a new xorg-server, both of them need a reinstall of the driver. But first open a terminal window and post the complete output of the command.
(although there are some hardcore folks out there that do that).