Tumbleweed stops booting

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Hello together,

I’ve been using Tumbleweed with KDE for roughly 2 months now and constantly kept my system up-to-date. Today, when starting my system it stopped booting shortly after I successfully entered my disk encryption password. It merely shows an underscore in the top left corner, does not accept keyboard input and, oddly enough, already displays the mouse cursor.

After restarting the device and booting into recovery mode, it stopped roughly at the same point. I made photo of the boot log as far as it was displayed at that moment, see below.

http://i.imgur.com/pkoR8Ni.jpg

The last thing I was doing before the restart during which the error first occurred was installing matlab, which failed because of a probably unrelated issue (some file downloaded during setup wasn’t an archive or whatever).

If there is any further info I can provide you with, just say the word.
I hope there’s someone here that can help me with this.

Best regards,
deemel

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Okay, since apparently I cannot edit my post (really?), I’m posting here again.
Turns out, apparently the Matlab setup is the problem after all. Although I explicitly passed a separate download directory for the files to be downloaded during the setup, it appears the installer downloaded the files to my root directory (which is on my SSD with farely little space left on it).
In the process of it, the remaining space on that drive got used up and now the system seems not to be booting, because systemd does not like the disk lacking space - understandably so.

Any suggestions how I can fix this? I’m in a command line session currently, trying to find where the installer put those files.

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How big is root??

Using BTRFS and have Snapper turn on?

Best guess is that you have a small (sub 40Gig) root and have not optimized snapper for the smaller partition. Did I get it right???

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:36:01 +0000, deemel wrote:

> (really?)

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14 GB, worked without problems on other distributions in the last 4 years

No and I am not aware of having interacted with Snapper in any way after installation.

Apparently that’s the situation.

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Snapper is btrfs’s tool. So, if you’'re not using btrfs there’s no need to investigate snapper options.

The system does boot ( see your pic ), but it hangs. In GRUB2 boot menu pick Advanced Options … This menu allows you to boot previous kernels.

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Ctlrl+Alt+F2 > login

df -H

df -i
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If you used defaults on install you have BTRFS but with that small a root snapper should be off

I therefore guess you installed EXT4 file system?? But you do have to choose that.

Can’t say why you want us to guess what you have???

14 Gig is pretty small for a modern system I use up 10 gig and not have a lot of extra programs installed. A couple or 3 big programs could eat up that space pretty fast.

Also not certain at what size root snapper gets disabled??? If running it will certainly run you out of space.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Snapper

If you used EXT4 then snapper is not a problem it is not used there.