Opensuse 12.1 freezes at login after switching to Gnome 3.4

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi all,

I just installed 12.1 with Gnome 3.2 and all went well, then I decided to upgrade to Gnome 3.4 and now it freezes at the login stage. What I mean by freezes, is that it appears to boot ok, but when it gets to the point where the login dialog should appear, it just sits there with the mouse pointer showing busy. I upgraded Gnome via the Gnome 3.4 stable repository by switching the packages in Yast. Also booting in safe mode allows me to login with Gnome reverting to fallback mode. If anyone has some suggestions it would be much appreciated.

David

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Hi
You need to use zypper dup --from not YaST;


zypper dup --from <name_of _your_3.4_repository>

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop
up 1 day 18:16, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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Thanks for the reply Malcolm, however this just returned “nothing to do”.
Any other suggestions?

David

4

Hi
What graphics card do you have? Could try booting with nomodeset in the
grub options. Is autologin enabled, if not try enabling a user to
autologin?

The other option is to try fallbackmode via the command
line.


gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback'

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop
up 1 day 21:03, 3 users, load average: 5.40, 4.36, 3.15
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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I have a NVIDIA GTX 460 for which I have the 295.49-17.1 driver installed from the NVIDIA repository. I tried your suggestions and I can log into the desktop in fallback mode now, however both the auto-login and fallback mode have to be set. Without either one it still won’t start the desktop.

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You may have had a upgrade of X try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

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Thanks for the suggestion gogalthorp, however I’ve tried this a few times now and no change.

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Hi
AFAIK, you need to run the nouveau driver for 3.4 at present.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.10-1.9-desktop
up 2 days 23:56, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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I have finally solved this problem by installing the latest NVIDIA 302.07beta driver.

Therefore it appears the NVIDIA 295.49 driver from the repository ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/ is conflicting with a component of Gnome 3.4, but not Gnome 3.2.