opensuse 12.2 KDM issue: KDM does not launch Cannot login

Prad_viking · September 18, 2012, 1:53pm

Hi,

Last night I upgraded a few packages in opensuse 12.2(not much ` 20MB). Then shut down the system

Today when I tried to login the system comes till the new boot animation where there are fuzzy things revolving and converge to form a single dot and hangs instead of showing me the login options.

I booted from the command prompt and saw the message “/etc/X11/xorg.conf.install is no longer available. either copy xorg.conf.install(if it exists) or copy xorg.conf to xorg.conf.install” something like that.

I copied xorg.conf to xorg.conf.install and rebooted but still the same issue. The system does not proceed to the login screen.

Can anyone suggest what I should do ?

Regards,
Prad

gogalthorp · September 18, 2012, 8:15pm

Video card??

knurpht · September 18, 2012, 8:40pm

Where did you get the xorg.conf from? It should not be there. Remove it, and let the system do the job.

Prad_viking · September 19, 2012, 7:41pm

@gogalthorp,

I have a ATI Radeon 3670 video card. Currently running Catalyst 12.6, installed using ATI upgrade script.

@Knurpht,

I have no idea where the xorg.conf came from. The system was running well till the problem occured. I deleted the xorg.conf file but the system still hangs and does not proceed to start KDM.

Any other ideas to recover my system?

Thanks.

knurpht · September 19, 2012, 10:31pm

OK. The xorg.conf was probably created during/after the Catalyst install. Did you already try to reinstall? The X-server was in the updates, it may have replaced some symlinks created by the driver by it’s own files.

Prad_viking · September 19, 2012, 10:35pm

I haven’t re-installed.

will a reinstallation of the graphics driver fix the issue or might there be any other way?

gogalthorp · September 20, 2012, 2:39am

most likely way to fix it.

Prad_viking · September 20, 2012, 6:12pm

FIXED.

Re-installed the ATI drivers. was a pain as “atiupgrade” did not work(it works only in interactive mode for the current catalyst drivers as informed by please_try_again).

Added the ATI repo, and tried to install from command line. but for some weird reason zypper was trying to search the drivers in KDE:Extra repo rather than the ATI one.

In the end Yast came to the rescue. thank the developers for Yast in ncurses mode.