System boots to shell

Brand new installation of LEAP 15 went without an issue.

FIrst boot up … threw quite a number of ERROR message to the console … ACPI method parse failure … or something like that … however it finally reaches the GUI and i can log on … everything fine … my first job was to find the nVidia repo and install the drivers for my card … that was not hard using YaST … chose the same drivers i was using under 42.3 … all good. But then when reboot the system simply boots to the terminal as below:

http://files.zimpics.org/forum/suse/OS15nVidia.png

I have tried the various boot options in grub menu but nothing will get me past here.

I clearly need some help. :slight_smile:

Thanks!

when i read the end of the file Xorg.0.log it says


Screens found but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
2119.121 (EE) no screens fouind (EE)
Please consult The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help

We need to see more of that log to be able to help. Please use the susepaste command (‘sudo zypper install susepaste’ if necessary) to upload Xorg.0.log and provide the URL here.

Xorg.0.log
https://pastebin.com/gUgEM3SE

Xorg.0.log.old
https://pastebin.com/HMFnXySP

Xorg.1.log
https://pastebin.com/1Hnje7dS

Xorg.1.org.old
https://pastebin.com/quBU1Fy5

Thanks for looking at these mrmazda. :slight_smile:

Prevous post had links to incorrect files … my apoligies

Xorg.0.log

Xorg.0.log.old

… and further

warn

messages
http://files.zimpics.org/forum/suse/OS15_messages

Two things I see in the logs:
1-X is using nouveau (FOSS driver), not nvidia (proprietary driver that you say you installed)
2-sddm is crashing

Were you able to use all 4 displays before you tried installing the NVidia drivers?

Which NVidia GPU do you have (execute ‘inxi -U; inxi -Gxx’; you may need to install inxi first, preferably run it from an Xterm or Konsole if you can get into X at all, maybe by trying an IceWM session with ‘WINDOWMANAGER=icewm startx – :1’)?

Does the NVidia driver you installed require KMS be disabled? None of the logs I opened indicated nomodeset or anything else I saw to block KMS.

During installation i specifically chose NOT to use nouveau … as the question is put with a warning against using it!!

2-sddm is crashing
Were you able to use all 4 displays before you tried installing the NVidia drivers?

Yes … before installing nVida drivers (followed instructions to a T) the system behaved normally … although clearly there was some config work ahead of me. However, after adding nVid repo via Community tab i selected the same drivers that are installed under my 42.3 system … i thought that was the reasonable thing to do. After that i rebooted and this where it is at.

Which NVidia GPU do you have (execute ‘inxi -U; inxi -Gxx’; you may need to install inxi first, preferably run it from an Xterm or Konsole if you can get into X at all, maybe by trying an IceWM session with ‘WINDOWMANAGER=icewm startx – :1’)?


Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:11c6 
  Display: server: X.org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau FAILED: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv tty: 80x25 
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing. 

WINDOWMANAGER=icewm startx – :1 returns:


xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that's the reason?
If so either use a display manager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local
and run "chkstart --system --set" adterwards.

Does the NVidia driver you installed require KMS be disabled? None of the logs I opened indicated nomodeset or anything else I saw to block KMS.

I do not know.

It might be quicker just to reinstall from ISO again … i must have done something wrong initially … it only takes about an hour or so to go through.

Watch this space :brb:

Accept the nouveau driver the warning is just a warning it is a beta it will be disabled when you install the NVIDIA driver.

I have no idea why the warning. Neither nouveau nor nvidia is necessarily needed for a login greeter or X. I have an old $30 GeForce that works fine with the default X driver and two displays:

# rpm -qa | egrep 'xf86-video|idia'
xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0-lp150.1.1.x86_64
xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4-lp150.1.7.x86_64

# inxi -V | head -n1; inxi -Gxx
inxi 3.0.28-00 (2018-11-28)
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0a65
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz, 1680x1050~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes

# uname -a
Linux big31 4.12.14-lp150.12.22-default #1 SMP Sat Oct 13 05:05:16 UTC 2018 (09415e8) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.0"

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NV"
        Driver  "modesetting"
        Option  "monitor-VGA-1"         "analog"        # modeset/nouveau VGA
        Option  "monitor-DVI-I-1"       "ddvi"          # modeset/nouveau DVI
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "ddvi"
        Option          "Primary"       "true"
        Option          "DPMS"  "off"
        Option          "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "analog"
        Option          "DPMS"  "off"
        Option          "above"       "ddvi"
        Option          "PreferredMode" "1680x1050"
        DisplaySize     406     476     # 120 DPI @ 1920x2250
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "ScreenLower"
        Device          "NV"
        Monitor         "ddvi"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "ScreenUpper"
        Device          "NV"
        Monitor         "analog"
EndSection

# xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
VGA-1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 474mm x 296mm
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 2250, maximum 8192 x 8192
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+1050 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
   1920x1200     59.95*+
   1680x1050     59.97*+  74.89    59.95    59.88

Xorg.conf wasn’t technically required, but it’s how I configured position over/under, primary/secondary, and DPI.

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti] vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A 
  bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:11c6 
  Display: server: X.org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau FAILED: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nv tty: 80x25 
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.

Here you see the nouveau X driver is loaded and the nvidia X driver failed to load.

WINDOWMANAGER=icewm startx – :1 returns:

xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that's the reason?
If so either use a display manager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local
and run "chkstart --system --set" adterwards.

Two ways around this:
1-with superuser permission: ‘chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg’, then run as normal user; or
2-start icewm logged in as root (it’s just a brief test)

Too late :'(::\ … shall i start the reinstall again? Currently just downloading updates after finishing the installation.

No need. Simply try what you have first. Next do:

zypper rm xf86-video-nouveau

and try X again. Only then might it be time enough to install non-FOSS software.

Unsure about ‘try what you have to first’!

Would i first install the nVidia repo and drivers before zypper rm nouveau??

#AFTERTHOUGHT#
Since it is quite a lengthy software update, perhaps last time i neglected to re-boot (as is suggested prior to the update) before installing the nVidia drivers , could that have done the damage??

#MORE
On rebooting i notice a RED flag line saying “FAILED to setup Virtual Console”?? …

What you installed from DVD and standard repos, box-stock 15.0. No one should ever buy or install something and not try it to make sure it’s OK before changing it and voiding the warranty. Break it in first, get used to it, like with a new car, laptop, pair of shoes or wife. :slight_smile:

Would i first install the nVidia repo and drivers before zypper rm nouveau??
No! You wouldn’t be trying the default driver that WFM if you did. The default driver is already installed if you installed X. The default driver is called “modesetting”. It’s not a separate package. With nouveau installed, nouveau gets used instead. It’s likely the reason for that warning that we don’t know why you saw.

Maybe. The more things you change, the harder it is to figure out why or what broke what when something breaks.

#MORE
On rebooting i notice a RED flag line saying “FAILED to setup Virtual Console”?? …
Virtually everybody gets those, like those useless ACPI warnings, just something else to distract from important things.

Okay … success! Everything seems to have settled down now with vNvidia installed … so its onward and upward from here.

As a closer MrMazda … what are all these ‘snapshots’ about? Do you have a link and/or advice on how to get the most out of them. I am assuming they take system images? … Up until now i just use Clonezilla as i see the need.

Thanks for you help by the way … you guys really are life-savers!! :slight_smile:

Cheers.

What ‘snapshots’?

YaST > Miscellaneous > Snapper

Snapper is not the same as backup. It does not protect against hardware failure!!! It allows you to reverse system changes on root only.