OpenSUSE 13.2 X11crashes in 13.1 home directory. Wrong Installed OpenSUSE bit SIze (32/64 bits?)

Hallo all,
Since a new installation of OpenSuSE 13.2 and reuse of an existing 13.1 home directory
I had severe problems to use my old account directory.
I have a 64 bit Machine with an ASUS P9X79 motherboard.

It might be that I installed the 32 bit version on the 64 bit machine by fault!
Where/How can I check the uses Version of OpenSuSE? 32bnits or: 64 bits?

Yours,

  • Frank

Should not matter but maybe tell use what happens and when and what desktop and what video card and what drivers.

It is confusing that you installed 322 bit and previously had 64 or now 64 and then 32 ???:stuck_out_tongue:

When you use YaST > Software > Software Management and e.g. Search for the kernel-desktop package, you can see with the Version tab (lower right) what version (32 or 64) bit is installed. Same for most other packages, but looking atthe kernel will be enough.

But I agree with gogalthorpe. When you have a problem, better to ask about that problem here (with a good deswcription on what you do, whhat you expect to happen and what happens instead) and not about some tiny step you think is in the correct path (but that might not be the case) to a solution. The way you ask it now, it will be very difficult to help you.

Hallo all,
it looks like, it is no x64_86 64 bit kernel

see Konflikt: libc.so.6()(64bit)

willy@alice:~> uname --all
Linux alice 3.16.7-21-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 14 07:11:37 UTC 2015 (93c1539) i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

kernel-desktop - Kernel optimized for the desktop
Alternative Version Installierte Version
Version: 3.16.7-24.1 3.16.7-21.1
Erstellt am: Fr 07 Aug 2015 15:36:12 CEST Di 14 Apr 2015 19:00:35 CEST
Installiert am: So 12 Jul 2015 02:16:45 CEST
Paketgruppe: System/Kernel System/Kernel
Lizenz: GPL-2.0 GPL-2.0
Installierte Größe: 161,6 MiB 161,6 MiB
Downloadgröße: 45,0 MiB 0 B
Distribution: openSUSE 13.2
Anbieter: openSUSE openSUSE
Paketersteller: http://bugs.opensuse.org http://bugs.opensuse.org
Architektur: i686 i686
Erzeugt auf:
URL: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.kernel.org/
Quellpaket kernel-desktop-3.16.7-24.1 kernel-desktop-3.16.7-21.1
Medium Nr.:
Autoren:

YAST->SW-Manegement->DEPENDENCIES looks like this:

kernel-desktop - Kernel optimized for the desktop
Alternative Version Installierte Version
Version: 3.16.7-24.1 3.16.7-21.1
Bietet: kernel-desktop = 3.16.7-24.1
kernel-desktop = 3.16.7-24
kernel-desktop(x86-32) = 3.16.7-24.1
kernel-desktop_i686 = 3.16.7-24.1 kernel-desktop = 3.16.7-21
kernel-desktop = 3.16.7-21.1
kernel-desktop(x86-32) = 3.16.7-21.1
kernel-desktop_i686 = 3.16.7-21.1
kvm-kmp-desktop = 78.2.6.30.1_3
msi-wmi-kmp-desktop = 1.0_3
ocfs2-kmp-desktop = 1.6_4
perfmon-kmp-desktop = 2_3
quickcam-kmp-desktop = 0.6.7
realtek-r8192ce_pci-kmp-desktop = 2.6.0005_3
realtek-r8192se_pci-kmp-desktop = 2.6.0019.1207.2010_3
rt3090-kmp-desktop = 2.4.0.4_3
rt3592-kmp-desktop = 2.4.1.1_3
rt5390-kmp-desktop = 2.4.0.4_3
uvcvideo-kmp-desktop = r200_3
wacom-kmp-desktop = 0.8.1_3
Setzt voraus: /bin/sh
coreutils
modutils
awk
suse-module-tools
distribution-release
perl-Bootloader >= 0.4.15
mkinitrd >= 2.7.1 /bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
coreutils
awk
modutils
suse-module-tools
distribution-release
mkinitrd >= 2.7.1
perl-Bootloader >= 0.4.15
Benötigt: /bin/sh
coreutils
modutils
awk
suse-module-tools
distribution-release
perl-Bootloader >= 0.4.15
mkinitrd >= 2.7.1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1
rpmlib(PartialHardlinkSets) <= 4.0.4-1
kernel-uname-r = 3.16.7-21-desktop
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
coreutils
awk
modutils
suse-module-tools
distribution-release
mkinitrd >= 2.7.1
perl-Bootloader >= 0.4.15
Konflikt: libc.so.6()(64bit)
sysfsutils < 2.0
apparmor-profiles <= 2.1
apparmor-parser < 2.3
udev < 118
lvm2 < 2.02.33
hyper-v < 4 libc.so.6()(64bit)
sysfsutils < 2.0
apparmor-profiles <= 2.1
apparmor-parser < 2.3
udev < 118
lvm2 < 2.02.33
hyper-v < 4
Ersetzt: microcode_ctl
firewire <= 3.0
compat-ath9k <= 3.0
ath3k-firmware <= 1.0
kernel-desktop-base <= 2.6.31
iwlwifi-kmp-desktop <= 1.3.27_3
ipw3945-kmp-desktop <= 1.2.2_3
uvcvideo-kmp-desktop <= r200_3
enic-kmp-desktop <= 0.0.1_3
fnic-kmp-desktop <= 1.0.0_3
brocade-bfa-kmp-desktop <= 1.1.0.2_3
kvm-kmp-desktop <= 78.2.6.30.1_3
perfmon-kmp-desktop <= 2_3
iwlagn-2-6-27-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3
msi-wmi-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3
ocfs2-kmp-desktop <= 1.6_4
quickcam-kmp-desktop <= 0.6.7
wacom-kmp-desktop <= 0.8.1_3
btrfs-kmp-desktop <= 0_3
brocade-bna-kmp-desktop <= 2.1.0.0_3
hyper-v-kmp-desktop <= 0_3
intel-e1000e-kmp-desktop <= 2.2.14
drm-kmp-desktop <= 3.7_3.1
firewire-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
iwlagn-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
compat-ath9k-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
realtek-r8192ce_pci-kmp-desktop <= 2.6.0005_3
realtek-r8192se_pci-kmp-desktop <= 2.6.0019.1207.2010_3
rt3090-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.0.4_3
rt3592-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.1.1_3
rt5390-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.0.4_3
ath3k-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3 microcode_ctl
firewire <= 3.0
compat-ath9k <= 3.0
ath3k-firmware <= 1.0
kernel-desktop-base <= 2.6.31
iwlwifi-kmp-desktop <= 1.3.27_3
ipw3945-kmp-desktop <= 1.2.2_3
uvcvideo-kmp-desktop <= r200_3
enic-kmp-desktop <= 0.0.1_3
fnic-kmp-desktop <= 1.0.0_3
brocade-bfa-kmp-desktop <= 1.1.0.2_3
kvm-kmp-desktop <= 78.2.6.30.1_3
perfmon-kmp-desktop <= 2_3
iwlagn-2-6-27-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3
msi-wmi-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3
ocfs2-kmp-desktop <= 1.6_4
quickcam-kmp-desktop <= 0.6.7
wacom-kmp-desktop <= 0.8.1_3
btrfs-kmp-desktop <= 0_3
brocade-bna-kmp-desktop <= 2.1.0.0_3
hyper-v-kmp-desktop <= 0_3
intel-e1000e-kmp-desktop <= 2.2.14
drm-kmp-desktop <= 3.7_3.1
firewire-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
iwlagn-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
compat-ath9k-kmp-desktop <= 3.0
realtek-r8192ce_pci-kmp-desktop <= 2.6.0005_3
realtek-r8192se_pci-kmp-desktop <= 2.6.0019.1207.2010_3
rt3090-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.0.4_3
rt3592-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.1.1_3
rt5390-kmp-desktop <= 2.4.0.4_3
ath3k-kmp-desktop <= 1.0_3

As a general rule it should not mater to your home in as the config files that are normally there are just text so are architecturally agnostic. But you may have some binary files that are dependent.

Hallo All,

So that is the trouble:

my PC is a ASUS P9X79 Motherboard. IT IS a x64_86 64 bit SYSTEM.

I had a OpenSUSE 13.1 64 bit installed. earlier
I have a separate home partition that stores the HOME DIRS.

So with OpenSUSE 13.2 , I seem to have taken the wrong DOWNLOADed ISO file
(A DVD with 32 bits Computer)

after the installation I had to recompile all of my own binaries.
(because the 32 bit OpenSUSE OS denied to start with 64 bit ELF bins?)

HOMEDir : /home/alice/usr1 // 64bit OpenSUSE 13.1
HOMEDir: /home/alice/usr2 // 32bit OpenSUSE 13.2

With this constellation,
The system (probably 32 bit) crashes when logging into the (former 64 bit) account “usr1”

What is to do?
Reinstall OpenSUSE 13.2 from 64bit DVD Media?
Yours,
Willy

@hcvv sorry for the inconvenience: I will try to improve

The problem is, that is not a simple problem
I expect that it is possible to login my old account.
But it crashes with an always different behaviour!!!

please have a look at:

KDE Desktop freezes with OpenSuse 13.2 in NVIDIA - Install/Boot/Login - openSUSE Forums

that is on the same machine. Might have the same reason!

Only way to really fix is to reinstall with the correct version it will have 64 in its name… If you did an upgrade rather then a clean install it can cause many problems since the root is not cleared. But I would think the installer might complain about that. You should do a clean install (ie format root) for any change in architecture