openSUSE crashes at login screen

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

Hi, I recently installed openSUSE Leap 15.2. Due to some random glitch, my system wasn’t able to shut down. Clicking the shut down wouldn’t do anything, so I hard-rebooted the system by pressing the restart button on the CPU cabinet.

Now whenever I boot and enter my password and try to log in, my system would just crash and splash a welcome message and then come back to the login screen.

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/VID_20201001_202144_HSR_240_exported_2624_1601564182267.jpg

Is there any way I can fix the installation?

#2

can you login as “root”? and type in your super user password (what you would type in as your password after typing in su).

#3

Mind sharing how I can login as ROOT? I didn’t find any option in the login screen.

#4

Where it says

localhost login :

type in root

localhost login : root
#5

Sorry, that is not command prompt. As I said, when I type my password and click enter on the login screen, it would crash and show that welcome message (that screenshot) for split a second and then will come back to the login screen.

#6

Sorry, I cannot type there. As I said, when I type my password and click enter on the login screen, it would crash and show me that welcome message (that screenshot) for split a second and then will come back to the login screen.

#7

You mean you can not type in the screen you show in post #1 above?

Then do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and tell what you get.

#8

Okay I misunderstood.

When you get to login, can you try to boot in text mode? I think it should be Ctrl + Shift + F2 or Ctrl + Shift + F3 by default, and then login as your user?

#9

I was able to login to as “root” by Ctrl+Alt+F1. What should I do from here?

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/IMG_20201001_224914.jpg

#10

try typing in

startx

and tell us what happens.

#11

Sorry, accidentally previous post got deleted and I could log in to root mode by Ctrl+Alt+F1. Typing startx takes me to the the desktop. All my apps are there.

#12

Okay, then do this process again with your regular username instead of logging in as root and tell us what happens.

#13

Is this how I should do it?

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/IMG_20201001_230716.jpg

#14

The home directory of ya_sg seems not to exist.
Please post

ls -l /home
#15

It shows the folders I have on the partition 1 of my HDD. i have an SSD and a HDD. I’m dual booting Linux with Windows 10 and both are installed on the SSD with seperate partitions.

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/IMG_20201001_231450.jpg

#16

Show us the entries of your fstab.

cat /etc/fstab

I think your home partition failed to mount.

#17

Also it seems that something happened to your user folder because all of the entries that should be in

/home/ya_sg

seems to be actually at

/home

a fix can be as simple as renaming your /home as /home/ya_sg but only if there is nothing wrong with file system.

#18

This is what I get:

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/IMG_20201001_234016.jpg

(gonna continue this thread tomorrow since it’s already too late here in my location)

#19

your /home is mountd NTFS but the permissions are not set to be able to read/write properly. Do you have emacs installed?

#20

Like @SJLPHI says, it looks as if everything that should be in /home/ya_sg is now in /home. That is very strange.

I doubt however that the solution to simply rename /home in /home/ya_sg will help much. It maybe that something goes, but there might be too many other places that refer to /home as /home :(.

One more thing. I see that your /home file system is NOT a native Linux file system, but NTFS. That is a very bad idea in the first place.

And it may point to where your problem comes from. Did you use this file system on a non-Linux operating system? It maybe that you borked it there.