Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Roman Bysh <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 On 10/02/2010 02:45 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> On a system which ran 11.4M1 without problems I upgraded with zypper
> up to M2. I got some peculiar results (not all represented in the
> subject of this post).
>
> Installation itself went flawlessly, but not so first boot. Grub
> presented the boot menu fine, but after choosing the regular M2 I got
> nothing but a black screen, and a lot of processor activity, to judge
> from the increasing fan speed. So I rebooted and chose the fail safe
> version, which booted all right and presented the kdm login screen.
> But a few seconds after giving user name and password, the login
> screen is presented again.
>
> Rebooting again, I tried the regular version again, and this time it
> booted OK. Which it has done ever since, so I cannot reproduce the
> initial failure. But the kdm login problem is persistent.
>
> From the messages I find, two seem irregular to me:
>
>    kdm[1987]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
>
> which seems rather obvious in this case, and
>
>    startpar: forward read: Input/output error
>
> of which I don't know if it has anything to do with the X-problem
>
> By the way, the system on which this is running has also a disk set
> containing 11.3 final, which runs without problems, so I would not
> think of hardware failure.
>
> I did not find this bug in bugzilla (M2 is even no possibility there...)
>
> Any clues?
>
> I have submitted bug 643362 for it.
>
> regards, Jogchum

I believe kwin is crashing Xorg. The only way  around this problem is to
install priority drivers after installing openSUSE M1.
Next, update to M2, and reinstall the drivers again - due to the kernel
update.

In my case I am using an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card.
 

Cheers!

Roman

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