Please help me if you can. I am new to suse not working right.

English Install/Boot/Login
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Having downloaded 11.4 Gnome, finding it did not install I bought it on DVD from ebay, when trying DVD installation my PC is displaying: There is a problem with the configuration server (/usr/lib/Gconf-sanity- check - 2 exited with status 256, I would like to install this rather then just run it off disk, does anyone know where I might be going wrong?

Many Thanks!

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Do I understand you right: you did manage to install openSUSE, but this message appears when booting? Or does it appear when doing the initial install?

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I’ve seen this message a couple times at Gnome Login - not sure about the error code though. But it’s usually not fatal. It could be a wrong path in /etc/gconf/2 or any misconfiguration in the GConf system or user config sources. I would try to logout, remove ~/.gconf and login again.

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From OpenSuse 11.1 to 11.4, updating or doing an install of Gnome to latest version I get this problem, I have downloaded a ‘live installer’ which runs off the disk but does not complete the install, I have not tried any of the other os from the 11.4 dvd disk, can you recomend any of them that are fairly easy to use?

Thanks!

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This is not surprising.

You mean other desktop environnements (the OS is Linux, the distribution openSUSE, Gnome, KDE, etc being the “desktop environments” ). Any should be fine if you do a fresh install. Updating from 11.1 to 11.4 is not guaranteed to work (as you might have noticed).

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It’s pretty unlikely to work even.

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Well after doing some tests, I think it’s the hardware.

Therefore I need a new PC, thanks for your advice!

Case Closed

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You didn’t tell us about your hardware.

Limited RAM might prevent a install form a Live CD, but it should still be OK to use the DVD.

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No my system is ide, old, 2gig of ram, athlon 64 about 2.2gig, about 3 to 4 years old, I have been running it on the Suse disk, I like Suse lots!

So running it on disk is it, or buying, hmm, saving pennies, loans, I don’t know.

Thanks!

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That sounds like my system and it runs fine here.

Things to check:

  1. make sure the download checksum matches the published one. Instruction on download page
  2. once you burn at the slowest speed run the media check to be sure you have a good burn
  3. tell use what video card/chip you have

There is not reason that OpenSUSE would not run on your machine.

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On 06/20/2011 10:36 PM, PastyPete wrote:
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> No my system is ide, old, 2gig of ram, athlon 64 about 2.2gig, about 3
> to 4 years old, I have been running it on the Suse disk, I like Suse
> lots!

sounds like a better/stronger system than my 6 year old AMD 64 with 1 GB
RAM which ran 11.3 great (until the motherboard died)

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My machine is old too, runs openSuse 11.4 no problems at all, OP, do not rush out and spend $$$$$ just for this issue…