I’m running 11.1 on my desktop machine. I’ve tried 11.2 on my laptop and love it, just haven’t gotten around to upgrading the desktop, so doing that is my fallback if I can’t fix my problem.
I did “zypper dup” on the desktop thinking it would bring it up to date (I’m new to openSuse and not familiar with zypper)
It downloaded a bunch of packages and now when I start the machine I get to the login screen and after typing my password I get an error message telling me to look at kdm.log
Same problem using the failsafe configuration
Here’s what it contains
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Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages
(i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the
daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which
file(s) it is logged. PAM logs messages related to authentication to authpriv.*.
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X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux alleycat 2.6.27.37-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-10-15 14:56:58 +0200 x86_64
Build Date: 02 July 2009 08:00:37AM
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Nov 25 08:07:52 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
Driver not XRANDR 1.2 capable, ignoring DISPLAYMANAGER_RANDR_MODE_* settings
can anyone tell what the problem is?
Like I said, if I can’t fix it I’ll just backup all my stuff from the command line and start over with a clean install of 11.2, but I figured I may as well try to fix things just as a learning experience
Can I tell zypper to rollback the changes?
I have an nvidia 7800 GT video card and I can’t run nvidia_settings or sax2 from the command line (I get error messages, I’ll capture them and post)
Try logging in at runlevel 3 (type ‘3’ in the box at the boot menu before you select ‘openSUSE’), then logging in as root, and running
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
Then type ‘reboot’, and that should let you get back into SUSE, where you can probably fix things by installing an updated nvidia driver to match your new kernel.
no go with sax2
it gives errors about not being able to find stuff
haven’t quite figured out how to capture them and post here
how do I send the output of a command to a file so I can post it here?
can’t I update the nvidia driver from the command line?
SaX.log in /var/log shows nothing of interest
I downloaded and installed the latest driver from NVidia
no change
I had previously uprgaded from the default kde 4.1 to a newer release, not sure which. wonder if that’s the problem?
ok, I see the error in my ways
I thought zypper dup was going to get me the most current packages for 11.1
apparently it tried to upgrade me to 11.2
operator error:P
I’ll post the output of those commands in a few
First, #11 should be disabled. #9 and #10 should have a priority of 99.
Something doesn’t look right if the output of ‘zypper verify’ only checked the mozilla and packman repos. It should have checked all that you have enabled.
Also, the fact that you have the KDE4/Factory repo enabled could be a problem if you try to update to 11.2. I don’t see how you could have gotten any pkgs for 11.2 from the repos you have enabled.
Looks to me like your graphics are messed up because you updated your kernel and probably xserver as well. Try sax -r (without any other options) and see what happens.
