After doing a zypper dup from 11.4 I not longer get a login screen in gnome. gdm seems to launch and the background image loads, but the pointer goes into the spinner and just sits there spinning. I have looked at logs in the virtual console and don’t see any errors, but I am not sure of where to look besides /var/log/messages. Anyone else have a similar issue?
++Greg
If you attempted to upgrade from openSUSE 11.4 to 12.1 but in a VM, what VM was it? Why not download and make a LiveCD or DVD in your HOST and do a full install of openSUSE 12.1 in your VM? It is more likely to work properly in my opinion. I did a clean install from the openSUSE 12.1 DVD using VirtualBox as a VM within a openSUSE 11.4 Host and it worked just fine for me.
Thank You,
On 2011-11-18 02:36, gregaryh wrote:
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> After doing a zypper dup from 11.4
From 11.4 to… what? I’ll assume 12.1.
> I not longer get a login screen in
> gnome. gdm seems to launch and the background image loads, but the
> pointer goes into the spinner and just sits there spinning.
Try booting with initv instead (F5 I think)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
>From 11.4 to… what? I’ll assume 12.1.
Yes, sorry I wasn’t more specific.
>If you attempted to upgrade from openSUSE 11.4 to 12.1 but in a VM, what VM was it?
No VM. This is on a lenovo ws510 dual booting Windows and OpenSuse.
>Try booting with initv instead (F5 I think)
How is this done? Is this on the Grub menu? To be clear, I am able to get to the point where Gnome is loading the background image, but where the login widget usually pops up, it just spins. I don’t see any menus to change to a KDE or icewm session or anything like that either, even though those are installed.
Maybe try switching the window and display manager
But you’ll have to try booting to level 3 and start yast
Boot to Level 3, then Yast and More…
From Yast you need to navigate to /etc/Sysconfig editor
Now try and follow these images to switch to KDE4, which will eliminate the change from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 in 12.1
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Display_window_Manager/displaymanager_12.1_options.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Display_window_Manager/windowmanager_12.1_options.png
On 2011-11-18 04:06, gregaryh wrote:
>> Try booting with initv instead (F5 I think)
> How is this done? Is this on the Grub menu?
Yes, grub. There is a menu at the bottom.
To be clear, I am able to
> get to the point where Gnome is loading the background image, but where
> the login widget usually pops up, it just spins. I don’t see any menus
> to change to a KDE or icewm session or anything like that either, even
> though those are installed.
Then try a new user.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 11/18/2011 02:36 AM, gregaryh wrote:
> After doing a zypper dup from 11.4
by writing “zipper dup” do you mean you followed this path, exactly:
by “exactly” i’m wondering if (for example) you followed all the steps
listed prior to the zipper dup step??
or, maybe you had an error message?
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