On Wednesday 23 January 2008 11:22:48 am D Henson wrote:
The latest mandatory update appears to have killed my server. After running the update, as I have done dozens of times, the server stopped responding to mouse and keyboard input. Ah, xserver problem, thought I. Ctrl-alt-backspace. Now I'm looking at the system console @, I think, runlevel 5. I tried various commands such as xdm, gdm, xserver, etc. (I'm not a CLI guy.) None of the commands did anything useful. Now for the really stupid part. I decided to simulate a power failure. This resulted in a reboot and the reboot attempted to give me a gui logon screen (the little clock icon was running) but it never actually got there. I decided I need some help.
First, be careful when applying this update. Second, does anyone know how I can recover from this upate? I had a very busy day planned so any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
Don Henson
Which 'server', http, ftp, dns, ldap, etc ??? This mornings 'update' was a suggested update for a security reason. Updates are suggested but never 'manditory' as you don't 'have' to update, your choice, I think you can even mark them as 'don't bug me again about this one'.. I read your message after I had done an update, did a reboot for fun and my computer is still running. If your 'server' is critical you should test updates on a similar system before you commit to something so critical. Hope you fix your problem... Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org