[opensuse-factory] kdm gives no desktop in 11.4M2
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Op 03-10-10 00:47, Roman Bysh schreef:
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
Thanks for your reply. But what do you mean by 'priority drivers'? For as far I know, the nouveau driver was used in both M1 and M2. And, of course, I would have to reinstall M1 - as a new install, I suppose - to start the work flow you describe. regards, Jogchum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 10/03/2010 04:03 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
Op 03-10-10 00:47, Roman Bysh schreef:
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
Thanks for your reply. But what do you mean by 'priority drivers'? For as far I know, the nouveau driver was used in both M1 and M2. And, of course, I would have to reinstall M1 - as a new install, I suppose - to start the work flow you describe.
regards, Jogchum You are correct. Install M1 first, install the proprietary drivers, update the installation. You will get a notice that a link to nvidia is missing.
This is when you reinstall the drivers. And, voila!. You can boot to M2. Here's what I did. So, in my case I have an Nvidia graphics card. So I first blacklisted "nouveau" using the command echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf Next I down the latest driver from nvidia.com. This is followed by shutdown and reboot to init 3 Install the driver and reboot. Now I would be able to use all of the effects, 3D etc. Run the update using the M2 DVD and then install the drivers again. Good Luck! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
* Roman Bysh <rbtc1@rogers.com> [10-03-10 19:40]:
So, in my case I have an Nvidia graphics card. So I first blacklisted "nouveau" using the command
echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
Next I down the latest driver from nvidia.com. This is followed by shutdown and reboot to init 3
Install the driver and reboot. Now I would be able to use all of the effects, 3D etc.
The "reboot" is unnecessary, just start X. ps: Please consider trimming your quotes. It will be appreciated. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 10/03/2010 07:58 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
The "reboot" is unnecessary, just start X.
ps: Please consider trimming your quotes. It will be appreciated.
Hi Patrick, How about this? Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 03 October 2010 18:58:21 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
The "reboot" is unnecessary, just start X.
With all preload stuff during the boot one can't be sure that restarting X will do the trick. At least I'm not sure with my humble knowledge of new stuff that pops up in a distro with every release. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Op 04-10-10 01:38, Roman Bysh schreef:
Thanks for your reply. But what do you mean by 'priority drivers'? For as far I know, the nouveau driver was used in both M1 and M2. And, of course, I would have to reinstall M1 - as a new install, I suppose - to start the work flow you describe.
regards, Jogchum
You are correct. Install M1 first, install the proprietary drivers, update the installation. You will get a notice that a link to nvidia is missing.
This is when you reinstall the drivers. And, voila!. You can boot to M2.
Here's what I did.
So, in my case I have an Nvidia graphics card. So I first blacklisted "nouveau" using the command
echo "blacklist nouveau">> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
Next I down the latest driver from nvidia.com. This is followed by shutdown and reboot to init 3
Install the driver and reboot. Now I would be able to use all of the effects, 3D etc.
Run the update using the M2 DVD and then install the drivers again.
Good Luck!
Roman
Hmm, I don't like the idea of using the NVidia driver here very much. Especially in this test course, I think it's better to use the oss nouveau driver, so that this driver can be improved (if the fault lies in the driver, which is uncertain I understand). But thanks for your thinking with me! regards, Jogchum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 10/04/2010 01:35 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
Hmm, I don't like the idea of using the NVidia driver here very much. Especially in this test course, I think it's better to use the oss nouveau driver, so that this driver can be improved (if the fault lies in the driver, which is uncertain I understand).
But thanks for your thinking with me!
regards, Jogchum
The reason I provided this information was for you to be able to log in to KDE4 so that you can review it. Unless you want to review GNOME. Good Luck! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Op 04-10-10 20:51, Roman Bysh schreef:
On 10/04/2010 01:35 PM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
Hmm, I don't like the idea of using the NVidia driver here very much. Especially in this test course, I think it's better to use the oss nouveau driver, so that this driver can be improved (if the fault lies in the driver, which is uncertain I understand).
But thanks for your thinking with me!
regards, Jogchum
The reason I provided this information was for you to be able to log in to KDE4 so that you can review it. Unless you want to review GNOME.
Good Luck!
Roman
Aha, I understand, I had overlooked that possibility... apologies! Indeed I want to review KDE, because that's what I use on a daily basis. So if nothing else comes up, I think I should follow your advice. I'll just wait a few days. regards, Jogchum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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