This is the first time I’m posting to the forum so please forgive me if I’m repeating a post I had missed in my search. I am currently using version 11.4 of OpenSuse and accepted some updates yesterday and restarted. Since then, I have been unable to login to my computer. I get a grey login screen that asks for my username and password but keeps cycling and never actually lets me login. Here are the error messages I get in the bottom left hand corner of my grey login screen:
audispd: No plugins found, exiting
mcelog: failed to prefill DIMM database from DMI data
I am able to login to failsafe but the odd thing is it claims to be running on OpenSuSe 12.2 … so 1) I’m confused by that bit but am really more concerned with the fact that I can’t login to my computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any ideas or things you would like to check out, please tell me what the command is I need to write and I’ll do my best to get you the results asap.
I’d say you now have a mix of 11.4 and 12.2 that my be as a practical matter impossible to fix. Since you have now run some 12.2 apps that have changed their config files to newer versions so even if you removed the 12.2 repos and did a zypper dup you probably will have config problems.
So you have a choice reinstall 11.4 or go a head and really install 12.2. Maybe some one else as a better idea.
Sorry I tried posting in the code tags but will have to look at the links you sent me in a bit. I will try to comment out the part from my terminal but as previously stated i cannot directly copy and paste from that machine since I cannot access the internet on my linux machine.
After doing zypper lr --details, the first four columns are the same, here are the last three:
A friend suggested burning the dvd of openSUSE 12.2, running it on my computer and using an option in recovery mode to return openSUSE to the default settings. Does this sound possible / a good idea?
On 2012-10-09 01:26, gmagnotti wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Sorry I tried posting in the code tags but will have to look at the
> links you sent me in a bit. I will try to comment out the part from my
> terminal but as previously stated i cannot directly copy and paste from
> that machine since I cannot access the internet on my linux machine.
Mmmm.
>
> After doing zypper lr --details, the first four columns are the same,
> here are the last three:
I much prefer the unedited output, and inside code tags. It is more work for me this way.
> # | Type | URI | Service
> # yast2 | 'Index of /distribution/12.2/repo/oss' (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.2/repo/oss)
> # NONE | 'Index of /debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss' (http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss)
> # NONE | 'Index of /debug/update/11.4' (http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4)
> # yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo-non-oss/
> # yast2 | 'Index of /distribution/11.4/repo/oss' (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/)
> # NONE | 'Index of /source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss' (http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss)
> # rpm-md | 'Index of /update/11.4' (http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4)
> # rpm-md | 'Index of /update/12.2-non-oss' (http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.2-non-oss)
So, you have added some 12.2 repositories, and then performed an update. You are the second one
I see today. Well, you have destroyed your system beyond repair. Did you read somewhere that
this is a valid procedure for something?
Solutions?
Install fresh 11.4 or 12.2 - and no, you can not use this system for anything.
Or you might be able to do an offline upgrade to 12.2, too. Perhaps.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 10/09/2012 01:26 AM, gmagnotti wrote:
> A friend suggested burning the dvd of openSUSE 12.2, running it on my
> computer and using an option in recovery mode to return openSUSE to the
> default settings. Does this sound possible / a good idea?
no.
is this the same friend who advised you to change some repo’s to 12.2
and (what?) run zypper dup?
these are the suggested, tested and supported ways to move from 11.4 to
12.2:
-these two say you must go from 11.4 to 12.1 and run in all updates,
then go from the updated 12.1 to 12.2 using the stated procedures and it may work for you, it may not: http://tinyurl.com/35p966c http://tinyurl.com/93uemsr
each of those state what the other helpers in this thread have stated:
if the upgrade goes bad, the fix is a fresh format install…
use the backup of your data which you took by following the guide, in
preparation for the upgrade…
if you don’t have that backup i’d say your next job is to download a
live CD and use that to save to an off machine location all your files,
pix, movies, sounds, documents, emails etc etc etc before you follow
your friend’s advice again…no, not your friends advice, instead the
advice of those above…(and the documentation cited above)
Am 09.10.2012 03:33, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> Or you might be able to do an offline upgrade to 12.2, too. Perhaps.
I would not say it is beyond repair, it is a partially upgraded system
and there is a good chance to repair it by going the full way and
upgrade it completely.
I second the offline upgrade with the 12.2 DVD.
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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.5 | GeForce GT 420
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Thanks for your help. So I have backed up all necessary files onto an external hd and have burned the iso of OpenSUSE 12.2 onto a dvd. I get the startup options window and do not see how to boot from the cd/dvd. Im not sure if there is simply a command I need to put in from the Linux other - Boot Options command line or if I need to do some configuring of the bios. I’ve tried looking through the forums but have had no luck.
Any advice or forums you could point me to would be great!
On 2012-10-09 17:06, gmagnotti wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for your help. So I have backed up all necessary files onto an
> external hd and have burned the iso of OpenSUSE 12.2 onto a dvd. I get
> the startup options window and do not see how to boot from the cd/dvd.
> Im not sure if there is simply a command I need to put in from the Linux
> other - Boot Options command line or if I need to do some configuring of
> the bios. I’ve tried looking through the forums but have had no luck.
>
> Any advice or forums you could point me to would be great!
How to boot your DVD depends on your BIOS.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
ie, “zypper lr --details”, and posted inside code tags.