I used the zypper dup --download “in-advance” option. It pulled down around 1900 packages and installed them.
Now when I restarted the machine I saw the option of Desktop with the latest 3.4 kernel. I selected it and it ran some checks and stopped after dislaying the following message : “Started LSB: SuSEfirewall2 phase 2”.
At this screen if I use Ctrl+Alt+F1, I am shown a terminal prompt through which I can login but not through the X.
I also have the same problem. I would thought it has to do with Nvidia but Xorg.0.log wrote the module have been loaded.
Strange the I couldn’t find any info when I googled the problem.
Anyone else had the same/similar problem?
EDIT: I wrote this post on a Live Gnome CD of 12.2 64bit. HTH.
I, too, thought it was an Nvidia issue. But, I used that method to upgrade an old test box and when I installed the Nvidia driver the “hard way” everything worked fine. So, I decided to upgrade my regular computer but couldn’t find the page you reference a second time. Instead, I burned a Net Install CD and tried that. It failed with the error you list. After reboots and re-installs and getting different errors and plain lock-ups, I gave up and burned a Live-CD. That ran well but gave me other errors. After a dozens tries at fixes, I did an install instead of an update. Still had problems. I finally installed the Nvidia driver the hard way and got things working. However, I still get that text grub screen. Since everything else is working, I plan to leave well enough alone.
I wonder if I got the same problem as you had or have. My 12.2 system (I did not perform an upgrade, but a clean install ) is unbootable at the moment after I installed an openSUSE patch which replaced openSUSE KDM and other KDE branding from the 4.9 repo to openSUSE 12.2 oss update repo (if I recall correctly). Files where replaced with KDE branding files.
In GRUB2 I switched off the splash to see what was happening and everything stops after this last message:
starting LSB: SUSEfirewall112 phase 2 ...
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Did you resolve your issue?
I’m on a openSUSE 12.2 system with kernel 3.4 and KDE 4.9 .
Hi, I’ve encountered this same problem with a clean install of 12.2. I’ve followed the instructions for nvidia drivers the hard way including adjustments to blacklisting nouveau in grub2. However, after rebooting, I’m still hanging at susefirewall2 phase 2 during boot. Can’t get to the kde login, can only login to the terminal. Did I miss something, or was there another adjustment for 12.2?