Stuck at splash screen at boot

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi all,

I recently upgraded my LEAP 42.3 to LEAP 15.
When booting up I get the splash screen and nothing happens. If I try to access tty1/6 the only string that I can see is

radeon 0000:01:00.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0xffff

There is no other text, no request for login.

Usually restarting after getting stuck the first time fixes it, I get past the splash screen and I am asked for login on tty7 and tty1/6.
I am not entirely sure that the radeon message is related, even when it works fine I get that error. I am using a 280x AMD video card if that can help.

I cannot understand what is causing the problem, any tips on how to investigate this problem further?

Thanks

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Typically when a graphic is displayed during boot,
You can hit ESC to see what kind of activity is happening.

It’d be important to know if the system is just busy and taking longer to boot than you expected or if the boot process has actually frozen.
If the boot process has frozen, maybe you’d even see the last 10 or more entries of what last completed successfully and what the system was attempting when the boot stopped.

Post (by text or camera image) what you see if you think it could be helpful for understanding your problem.

Also,
If you’re able to successfully boot, you can retrieve the boot log of any previous boots successful or not, for instance the following displays the previous (not current) boot

journalctl -b -1

TSU

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Hi Tsu2, thanks for your answer

there are no logs related to the failed boot, listing them with

journactl --list-boots

and going to the end I don’t see the failed log attemp from this morning, just the successful one afterwards


 -2 45692b479e0a4b58aad65a65258e1cf1 Thu 2018-06-07 16:21:21 BST—Thu 2018-06-07 17:22:06 BST
  -1 8e8efb4afd0b4b31b733e5ed844e07e9 Sat 2018-06-09 10:59:40 BST—Sat 2018-06-09 18:17:56 BST
   0 bc24fbab8786449183ec983bb68cf850 Sat 2018-06-09 18:17:56 BST—Sat 2018-06-09 18:36:06 BST

I don’t remember if I tried to press ESC during the splash screen, only thing that I remember working was CTRL+ALT+F1/F6 to switch terminals, CTRL+ALT+F7 to go back to the splash screen and CTRL+ALT+CANC to reset the pc.