Re: [opensuse] Basic 11.3 questions
On Thursday 30 September 2010 00:29:09 David C. Rankin wrote:
That sounds like yast2 totally screwed the pooch there. Save the log files as a bug report is probably needed. There have been many changes in yast2 over the past 3 releases, grub has changed to. Also, I presume when you say device mappers you mean (/boot/grub/device.map) and not dmraid (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxxxxxxpYY). (because there have been big dmraid changes over the past year)
Isn't the partitioner "global"? The same for any SuSE OS on the computer? The others used it "globally" invoking all of the "labels" and "fstab" entries.
Should be.
The following output would help:
cat /proc/partitions df -h mount
Set me straight on this. I'm afraid to correct the partitioner in
11.3 for fear of screwing up the other OS's.
Hope somebody can set me straight on the basics.
Bob,
I usually do the grub setup by hand when I run into issues. I have some pretty strange grub setups on some boxes (Arch Linux, SuSE 11.0, SuSE 11.3, and Windows) spinning on multiple raid sets that chainload bootloaders from array to array, etc..
I have only installed 11.3 on my laptop with an upgrade, but yast got the install and simple partitioning for that 1 disk 3 partitions 11.3/vista setup right. What I would do is compare the menu.lst and device.map files and piece together a working copy. One big area you will need to check is how the 11.3 grub wants to reference your devices in menu.lst E.g.:
23:15 zephyr:~> ls -1 /dev/disk/ by-id by-label by-path by-uuid
Make sure your entries are consistent and that your device.map files use the correct nomenclature. E.g.:
23:16 zephyr:~> sudo cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1031GAS_84V31141S
or with multiple dmraid arrays:
You can also switch between by-(methods) as long as you are consistent.
Your X issues probably stem from mismatched 11.2 and 11.3 repositories when you did the upgrade. Check that all your repos are pointing to 11.3 repos:
grep base /etc/zypp/repos.d/* | sed -e 's/^.*s[.]d\///'
Also try the nvidia driver instead of the nouveau driver and see if you luck improves. You can (1) just mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav and let X choose its defaults. And ... make sure you haven't specified a non-existing desktop in ~/.xinitrc (if you made changes).
Lastly post /var/log/Xorg.0.log which will help the list help you with the X issue.
Dave Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions. Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords. Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave
Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions.
Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords.
Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall.
Bob S
can you boot single and use root password there? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 30 September 2010 22:11:15 Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
Dave
Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions.
Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords.
Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall.
Bob S
can you boot single and use root password there?
Didn't think of that. Yes I can. I'll see what I can do with Dave's suggestions from the inside. Thanks Michael, BobS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/30/2010 09:03 PM, Bob S wrote:
Dave
Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions.
Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords.
Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall.
Bob S
Bob, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I'm sure your system is still there. Sounds to me like you have a grub menu.lst error that is booting bits and pieces of your system. If you can get to it, then give us: cat /proc/partitions mount df -h Also, you can boot with your install cd and then chroot your actual system and fix it that way. Just boot the install cd into repair mode and get to a bash prompt. Then as root, create a mount point '/mnt' works fine, then do the following: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys mount /dev/(whatever your root is) /mnt mount /dev/(whatever your home is) /mnt/home (mount any other partitions you have separate (/var /boot /srv etc...) Then cd /mnt chroot /mnt You will then have your system (your normal real system) chrooted (in whatever shape it may be in) and you can access all your files (menu.lst, fstab, etc.), use yast -- whatever to fix the problem. If you get into the chroot -- then post the requested output above... When your done, just type exit to exit the chroot and reboot and test. If that goes south, then I would just start fresh and reinstall 11.3, it should be that difficult :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/30/2010 10:12 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Bob, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I'm sure your system is still there. Sounds to me like you have a grub menu.lst error that is booting bits and pieces of your system.
or fstab mistakes like ext3/ext4 mismatches that are blocking mounts during boot. Go over that again as well to make sure everything is actually getting mounted where you want. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 30 September 2010 23:12:06 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 09/30/2010 09:03 PM, Bob S wrote:
Dave
Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions.
Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords.
Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall.
Bob S
Bob, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I'm sure your system is still there. Sounds to me like you have a grub menu.lst error that is booting bits and pieces of your system.
If you can get to it, then give us:
cat /proc/partitions mount df -h
David. As Michael suggested I was able to get in with an init 1 and then do a startx. I was able to do all of your suggested commands in Konsole and they are posted below except for the /var/log/Xorg.0.log which is pretty big. (55kb) to post on the list. I can send it privately or post it somewhere. Before that though, I have noticed two things. At the booting sequence, just before the login command. it says "Welcome to SuSE 11.2-Emerald". Wrong, this is supposed to be 11.3. Once I am inside I get a message that "Policy Kit has failed". The fstab is correct and all of the partitions are mounting correctly. The menu.lst also seems to be correct. Another thing that I have noticed is that the partitioner has misidentified the hd's so I modified the device.map in Grub to represent what the partitioner thinks. No change. Same boot problem. I have no idea what the device.map is supposed to do. One primary thing, although I'm not sure it is pertinent. At the very first initial stage when the grub graphical menu comes up, if I make it show the plain text menu, there is a lot of old stupid stuff in"high memory". OS's that have been long deleted. Don't know what that is about. Anyway, here is what you asked for. Hope you can make some sense of it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 16 78150744 sdb 8 17 5116671 sdb1 8 18 26218080 sdb2 8 19 26218080 sdb3 8 20 1 sdb4 8 21 10490413 sdb5 8 22 5245191 sdb6 8 23 4851598 sdb7 8 0 244198584 sda 8 1 10490413 sda1 8 2 15735667 sda2 8 3 2104515 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 5245191 sda5 8 6 5245191 sda6 8 7 10490413 sda7 8 8 15727603 sda8 8 9 20972826 sda9 8 10 10482381 sda10 8 11 10482381 sda11 8 12 10482381 sda12 8 13 10490413 sda13 8 14 10490413 sda14 8 32 156290904 sdc 8 33 10490413 sdc1 8 34 15735667 sdc2 8 35 2104515 sdc3 8 36 1 sdc4 --------------------------------------------- linux:~ # mount /dev/sdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,mode=1777) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/sda9 on /11.3home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda10 on /11.3tmp type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda11 on /11.3usr type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda12 on /11.3var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc2 on /11.0home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc3 on /11.0var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc5 on /11.0tmp type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda1 on /10.2 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /10.2home type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda6 on /10.2tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda5 on /10.2var type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdb3 on /datastorage type ext3 (rw) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) ---------------------------------------------------------- linux:~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 15G 3.6G 11G 26% / devtmpfs 971M 300K 971M 1% /dev tmpfs 972M 1.1M 971M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda9 20G 3.0G 16G 16% /11.3home /dev/sda10 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /11.3tmp /dev/sda11 9.9G 3.3G 6.2G 35% /11.3usr /dev/sda12 9.9G 531M 8.9G 6% /11.3var /dev/sdc2 15G 166M 14G 2% /11.0home /dev/sdc3 2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /11.0var /dev/sdc5 2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /11.0tmp /dev/sda1 9.9G 4.0G 5.4G 43% /10.2 /dev/sda2 15G 6.5G 7.6G 47% /10.2home /dev/sda6 5.0G 139M 4.6G 3% /10.2tmp /dev/sda5 5.0G 1.4G 3.3G 30% /10.2var /dev/sdb3 25G 15G 8.7G 64% /datastorage ------------------------------------------------------------ linux:~ # grep base /etc/zypp/repos.d/* | sed -e 's/^.*s[.]d\///' openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82.repo:baseurl=cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 repo-debug.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-non-oss.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/ repo-oss.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-source.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-update.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for trying to hlpout. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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