I have a machine with OpenSuse Tumbleweed 13.2. Everything was working fine until yesterday 03/25/2016 when I applied the latest updates. The screen went black after the updates were applied, even before reboot. Now during the boot process, after I see the Tubleweed logo with the three dot progress meter, it flashes a text login prompt, and then goes to a black screen with a hyphen in the upper left hand corner. It goes nowhere from there. This machine does have an nvidia video card, but no proprietary drivers are in use. Could someone give me a step by step on how to repair this installation. We have been using Opensuse for a couple years, and until now we have not had any problems like this that were show stoppers. Unfortunately, I am not a command line wizard yet and I could really use some guidance that would enable me to get this box operational ASAP. This could not have happened at a worse time. Any help or advice that someone could give would really be a blessing.
Thanking you in advance,
Regards,
Tony
There’s no such thing. There’s opensuse Tumbleweed, but it is not associated with 13.2
That makes me wonder about your repos. Perhaps you have some that are incompatible.
From your black screen, try CTRL-ALT-F1 – that will probably get you to a command line login. Then use
zypper lr -d
to list the repos. Save the output to a file (you can redirect to a file). Then post that here using code tags.
Sorry for the confusion. It’s Tumbleweed. I installed it from a January snapshot and have been keeping it up to date. is there a special login and password that I need to use? I tried the Ctrl-Alt-F1 thing last night and when I try to login with my username or with root it says “module not found” and then re-prompts for login.
Which Desktop and display manager? If Gnome and GDM, maybe adding “iomem=relaxed” at the boot command line might help.
That’s a workaround to a known problem of Kernel 4.5.x and GDM not running with root permission.
I experienced the same result as the OP reported after updating Tumbleweed on a laptop (AMD 4 CPU with embedded ATI video) with KDE. I can boot into the system be selecting the previous kernel under “Advanced Startup options.” I will wait for the next kernel update and try again. I did update an older desktop system (with KDE) with a Matrox video card successfully. Maybe there is something awry with the 4.5 kernel’s laptop power management module?
Using KDE Plasma. Everything is default from install.
I had the same problem with those updates, but mine actually rebooted and then hung on the updates at 44% for an hour or 2, then I just rebooted it.
Black screen after that. I tried an earlier kernel but had the same result.
So I’m grabbing the latest Tumbleweed DVD right now and I’ll try an upgrade if I can’t resolve otherwise.
and that worked for me. Grabbed the latest snapshot and selected upgrading. I’m up and posting from OpenSuse.