I’m fairly new at opensuse. I did a DVD upgrade of 13.1 to 13.2. Now I get this screen. Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
I’m useing a Nvidia 9600GTX. From what I can gather it might be drivers. I would just like to get to any desktop. I could figure it out there.
CPU is Intel 6600 duo
That is a gnome error. try any other desktop. It is indeed a problem with the NVIDIA driver. Did you reinstall it after the upgrade? Boot to a terminal and use yast yo update the NVIDIA driver
Every so often I can get to the green layered looking screen but no cursor or sub menu selection. Like I said I’m still new how do I initaite Yast in terminal?
How do I boot to a terminal. If I put a “3” behind Linux line dosen’t do it. 
Thanks for your help and patience everyone.
Entering a space and 3 on linux line does not boot to terminal?? It should. Be sure you are at the real end of line, it wraps. Press the end key to get to true end of line. Log in as root then type yast. note there is no mouse so navigate with tabs and arrow keys
Ok got to Yast. Did update with existing repositories. 13.2 opensuse were all listed. But no nvidia link. Rebooted still get the new green intro screen for about 3 minutes then white screen with 
face. I’m at a loss. Any help appreciated. Thanks all.
Just to add if I do startx it goes right back to frouny face.
This sucks! How to switch and login to another desktop other than gnome?
Okay, relax. There is plenty of help for you here, and all will not suck in the end.
The first problem you are facing is Gnome’s problem with the nvidia driver, and you will probably have a slightly different, but similar problem with another desktop until the nvidia driver is installed properly.
So let’s start this and do things one step at a time.
First, I would like you to try this:
When you start your boot and reach the Grub menu screen, choose the line that says "Advanced Options … "
In there, choose the first line with “Recovery” at the end.
Can you now get to the desktop?
Let us know, then we will guide you from there.
Ok cool thanks bad week coupled with coffee. Sorry I’m calm now. :-). Ok started as requested first desktop with recovery mode 3.16.6-2 I think. Went by fast. Ok it shows programming running then it stops at a prompt that says A start job is running for udev. Count down 2mins 57 secs then runs through more programming prompts then "oh no! Something has gone wrong.
Let me add this is weird if I try to log on to my windows partition it starts the Microsoft music then gives me the oh no something has gone wrong too. Interesting??
Okay, now that is strange, to me. I will need to think about this a bit, will get back as soon as I can. With luck, maybe someone with more experience with the Gnome desktop will jump in here, but if you are getting that from MS, as well,
… uhh, I think something has gone wrong.
Back as quick as I can…
Must be something with a timer in grub. Got into windows so I can type better there than on my phone.
AHHHHH, much better in windows than typing on my phone. Any way is there a way to log on to another GUI enviroment from promt I know enlightenment and I usually use KDE. I also use XCFE for my flight sim. If I could get to another GUI I believe I could update the drivers from there. The funny thing is if I check the <systemctl> command everything is active. I think “X” is working its just held up by a misconfiguration. :\
Okay, sorry for taking so long. I see you are in USA, what time zone?
I am in Pacific, so as I write this, it is 17:10, just so I know what time frames we are working in.
First, I would like you to cold boot to the Grub screen, press “e”, go down to the front of the line that starts with “Linux”, hit the END key to make certain you are at the end of the line, add a space, then the numeral 3.
This will take you to a command line log-in.
Log in as root.
I would like you to start by issuing the command:
zypper up
When that completes, issue:
shutdown now
Try booting again, see what happens.
I will wait for you to respond.
Ok I’m OK so we’re good. On time. I did zypper up. It said 647 updates will not be loaded at this time. Listed them all in a large group. I issued shutdown now. The machine cut off.
It said they would NOT be loaded. ie you got no updatets???
BTW to switch to another Desktop you must not have auto login set.
You can correct this in Yast so you can choose the desktop
I think you can just edit your user profile to turn auto off
I used the update last night it downloaded and updated around 2975 files. I followed the opensuse website to the t! Yes it said that will not be updated. Just now. I’m going to turn auto login off. I thought it was off anyway because I had to log in with 13.1.
Question will it matter. Even with startx takes me to oh no page.
startx no longer work for users only root
Ok I suspect the packages that are not updated came from packman thus require a vendor change forget it you can deal with that later
In Yast add the nvidia repos then install the NVIDIA driver. Not that is 5 packages 2 require a match to your kernel flavor which unless you changed it should be desktop. I don’t believe you ever said which NVIDIA card you have but if a newer one then you want the GO3 flavor for the other 3 files.
Note that you should check to see if an older version of NVIDIA is disentangled and uninstall it before adding the new
I guess I should add that at the end of supper up it says nothing to do. Ok I’ve added the nvidia repo. It updated how do I install from yast. My card is a 9800 GTX pro. Just because the repo was added does that mean the drivers have been loaded?
You are using Yast from the root commandline, correct?