https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c Frank Ansari changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P1 - Urgent -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c1 Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P1 - Urgent |P5 - None CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org --- Comment #1 from Dominique Leuenberger 2012-10-14 14:05:44 UTC --- Can you please give a list of your repositories: zypper lr -u And also, any idea what got updated these days? I only see a kernel patch that went out to the public. (please attach /var/log/zypp/history) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c2 --- Comment #2 from Dominique Leuenberger 2012-10-14 14:12:22 UTC --- The gdm logs seem not to show anything in particular. You mention the "desktop fails to start": Does that mean GDM comes up completely and you can login, but the the user session does not work? Any error messages? Or how does this behave? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c4 --- Comment #4 from Frank Ansari 2012-10-14 14:23:00 UTC --- Some days ago I installed "VirtualBox". But the system worked even after this. Yesterday I was watching "Tagesschau" from ARD Mediathek and then the system prompted me for updating and I agreed to this. After this my system was booting but it remained at the boot logo (I use grub2 and I have the graphical logo of SUSE). It does not come the the X Window. I don't get the login prompt. Only thing I can still do is press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login and try my luck to do some fix. I checked with "ps ax" whether gdm or xdm are running in this situation but they don't. Doing "systemctl start xdm.servie" is hanging and does not return to the prompt. Sometime the gdm came up after several minutes. Running gdm from the command line fires up gdm immediately and gives me the login prompt for Gnome. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c6 David Liang changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dliang@suse.com --- Comment #6 from David Liang 2012-10-15 08:01:40 UTC --- Does your system start with init 3? What is the default init level in /etc/inittab? Or in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, does DISPLAYMANAGER set to 'gdm'. (In reply to comment #0)

Created an attachment (id=509473) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509473) [details] gdm logfiles

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After I got the latest updates on 13.10.2012 the desktop fails to start after booting. This did not happen before with this version.

I have no idea what is going on: the only "fix" so far was to put /usr/sbin/gdm in /etc/init.d/after.local which is a very crude workaround of course.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c8 --- Comment #8 from Frank Ansari 2012-10-15 17:59:46 UTC --- This it looks like after I start the system: xdm.service - LSB: X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm) Active: inactive (dead) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/xdm.service Oct 14 14:47:50 bat xdm[2568]: DEBUG Oct 14 14:47:50 bat xdm[2568]: Shutting down service gdm..done Oct 14 14:53:53 bat xdm[2351]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 14:54:32 bat xdm[2586]: Shutting down service gdm..done Oct 14 15:25:25 bat xdm[2773]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 15:32:57 bat xdm[2696]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 15:43:03 bat xdm[2640]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 14 21:21:35 bat xdm[2423]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 15 19:42:49 bat gdm-simple-slave[2103]: WARNING: Child process 2263 was .... When I get it started it looks like this: dm.service - LSB: X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xdm) Active: active (running) since Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:53:51 +0200; 2min 49s ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/xdm.service ├ 2313 /usr/sbin/gdm ├ 2817 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 ├ 2819 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-dd6bZ6/database -nolisten tcp vt7 └ 2895 gdm-session-worker [pam/gdm] Oct 15 19:53:51 bat xdm[2302]: Starting service gdm..done Oct 15 19:54:01 bat gdm-simple-slave[2315]: WARNING: Child process 2371 was already dead. Oct 15 19:56:11 bat gdm-simple-slave[2817]: WARNING: Child process 2851 was already dead. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784998#c10 --- Comment #10 from Frank Ansari 2012-11-01 08:52:56 UTC --- Sorry, it is too late now. I have wiped my HDD and installed Fedora 17. This is working fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.