Hi guys! I’ve updated my opensuse 11.4 yesterday, but didn’t reboot and today when I came to work I discovered that it couldn’t start Xorg and stays in boot-up terminal. When I try to startx it says that it could not move /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and shortly after that it suggests to me that I edit /etc/permissions.local to give Xorg some permissions and so I did… but with no luck. After that I’ve downgraded Xorg and Xorg-server to the version from my installation and then I was able to startx and write this topic 
However, I have no idea why it does not start by its self and where the heck is kdm Any ideas?
Actually, I noticed that my apache2 and mysql are not running by default also. This makes think that a whole runlevel has been skipped for some reason… If this can be a hint… this may be the reason why xdm did not start… but why 
You could at least explain what sort of “update” you did. Just a security update as offered by the Update repo?
I saw KPackageKit wanted to update something yesterday and I let it… Runlevel 5 does not do what it should according to configuration… neither alsasound, apache2, mysql, xdm or anything else starts… I haven’t done any custom configuration changes, Its all out of the box and up to date… Any ideas why does this happen and how could I prevent/fix it?
su -l
chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg
The reason Xorg didn’t have permissions to allow startx manually was because of the commented line in /etc/permissions.local. This is perfectly normal I guess, because its ment to use a Desktop Manager (xdm). I uncommented this line to be able to startx manually, but the remaining issue is that NON of the scripts set to runlevel 5 actually executes… I can work it around to execute them from rc.local, but it’s a nasty hack that I don’t want to do in my brand new clean and fresh installation of openSUSE 11.4… I just want to figure out why runlevel 5 does not execute…
There was an xorg-X11 and xorg-X11-someother package update that I noted last night (for openSUSE-11.4).
My experience over the years, is those updates have about a 25% chance of breaking one’s proprietary graphic driver build. Hence ensure you check that it was not your driver interface to X that was broken by such an update.
I use my pc perfectly normal, after boot I log-in, run whatever I feel useful in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and at the end I run /etc/rc.d/xdm start… my desktop effects work, no resolution problems or etc. Everything seems fine, except the automatic execution of runlevel 5… My boot sequence finishes with “Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been: reached” and then… instead of more services starting I get prompted for login…
I experienced no problems at all after the update
nvidia from the repos, wasn’t re-installed.
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:36:03 +0530, oldcpu
<oldcpu@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> There was an xorg-X11 and xorg-X11-someother package update that I noted
> last night (for openSUSE-11.4).
>
> My experience over the years, is those updates have about a 25% chance
> of breaking one’s proprietary graphic driver build. Hence ensure you
> check that it was not your driver interface to X that was broken by such
> an update.
>
as a general rule, i re-compile my prop. nvidia driver whenever there’s an
update to these packages. takes only 5 min, after all, and i’m sure it
will work w/o problems.
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phani.
On 2011-04-07 13:06, SoundreameR wrote:
> Any ideas why does this happen and how could I
> prevent/fix it?
Try setting parallel boot to “no”.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
SoundreameR wrote:
>
> I saw KPackageKit wanted to update something yesterday and I let it…
> Runlevel 5 does not do what it should according to configuration…
> neither alsasound, apache2, mysql, xdm or anything else starts… I
> haven’t done any custom configuration changes, Its all out of the box
> and up to date… Any ideas why does this happen and how could I
> prevent/fix it?
Check and see if it didn’t re-install something you thought was removed (or
never installed). I tried to install the VBox 4.04 PUEL rpm and wound up
with a long list of stuff I had intentionally removed being re-installed
(pulseaudio, the nouveau driver, etc.) which made a mess of what I had just
managed to get the way I wanted it. Never saw that before and now I’m
really leary of letting Kpackagekit touch ANYTHING until I figure out how
this happened.
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Will Honea
Yes, this fixed the problem, thank you! I guess that setting some extra services starting in runlevel 5 made it some how deadlocked.
On 2011-04-11 08:06, SoundreameR wrote:
> Yes, this fixed the problem, thank you! I guess that setting some extra
> services starting in runlevel 5 made it some how deadlocked.
It is a known bug. There is a report about this, but I don’t know the
number. It would be good if all people with this problem added a “me too”
to the bugzilla. If it can not be found, then add a new bugzilla, let them
solve as duplicate.
run_parallel is important, it makes booting much faster.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)