On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:02:19 +0530, Basil Chupin
Yesterday I installed 12.1 (KDE) from the DVD onto a brand new x86_64 system. Got everything working correctly - and was at peace with myself.
Then I decided to upgrade KDE to v4.8.2 - which I had successfully done on the 32-bit system - using this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/
I used "zypper dup --from <x>" - and the upgrade went thru OK.
But then I rebooted the system - and the damn wheels fell off! :'( .
My user password, and the root's, was unrecognised - or put another way, every time I entered the password the login screen would reappear.
Rebooting the system and typing "init 3" at the Grub menu, and then logging in as either user or as root, both the passwords WERE recognised.
As root, and using yast, I reset the user's password but this, again, was not recognised at the login menu (after getting past Grub that is).
Does anyone know why this should have occurred? and how to solve this problem should it happen again?
(I just finished re-installing 12.1 which was the only way I knew how to get my system back.)
for situations like this, i always have more than one (usable) DE or WM installed (no, i don't consider tvm 'usable.') either XFCE, one or both versions of enlightenment, or, like at the moment, awesome. something goes wrong, there's an alternative to re-installing straight away. what you describe sounds like a video driver problem to me. since you used a fresh install of 12.1, did you install any prop. video drivers yet? if not, or even if yes, adding "nomodeset" to the kernel line might have helped. i've also read about cases (recently) where none of the desktop sessions were selected after a KDE upgrade, and fixing was as easy as choosing "KDE plasma workspace" (or whatever it's called these days). if it was the video driver's fault, there should have been something in Xorg.0.log, or perhaps messages. hard to figure out now, since you've reinstalled. are you up for another try? i'm sure this can be solved, probably relatively easy, but if you keep bolting at the first sign of trouble... another thing to try since 12.1 is starting with sysvinit instead of systemd (<F5> in grub), even though this doesn't sound like a systemd issue, but you never know. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org