On Tuesday 03 January 2012 23:51:19 Bob S wrote:
This is crazinesws. Am I the only one with this problem? Please help me out here guys, Ideas, theories, acepted. Thanks for replyng Felis, Greg. Lars
Felix Miata replied
Before doing the above, save /var/log/boot.msg to share here on the list. Maybe there's something apparent in there to make kdm fail to show the greeter when init completes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So before I do anything I am posting the last 50 or 60 lines of boot.msg as Felis suggested. Maybe one of you sharp eyed people can see the problem: --------------------------------------------------------- Starting service kdm
service mcelog done startproc: execve (/opt/kde3/bin/kdm) [ /opt/kde3/bin/kdm ], [ DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.89 DO_BLOGD=yes KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=normal DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 QT_SYSTEM_DIR=/usr/share/desktop-data HOME=/ SHLVL=2 XCURSOR_THEME=DMZ DO_FORCEFSCK=no WINDOWMANAGER=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde splash=verbose SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/root _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/opt/kde3/bin/kdm ] done service xdm done 3 Jan 18:54:22 sntp[2484]: Started sntp 2012-01-03 18:54:22.598128 (+0500) +17999.848959 +/- 0.017288 secs 2012-01-03 23:54:22.491362 (+0500) -0.000504 +/- 0.020004 secs 3 Jan 23:54:32 sntp[2484]: Received no useable packet from 71.6.217.53! Time synchronized with 1.opensuse.pool.ntp.org Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD) startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/ntpd) [ /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf ], [ DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.89 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=normal DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=verbose SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/root _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ntpd ] done service ntp done service nscd start service postfix start startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd) [ /usr/sbin/nscd ], [ DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.89 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=normal DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=verbose SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/root _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ] Starting Name Service Cache Daemon service nscd done done Starting mail service (Postfix)done service postfix done service cron start service smartd start startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron) [ /usr/sbin/cron ], [ DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.89 DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=normal DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= DO_QUIET=no PREVLEVEL=N LINES=25 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no splash=verbose SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/root _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ] Starting CRON daemondone Starting smartd service cron done service smartd done done Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/after.local doneMaster Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Skipped services in runlevel 5: cpufreq killproc: kill(398,3) Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Tue Jan 3 23:55:23 2012 Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: 5, switching to runlevel: 3 Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/before.local done
service xdm stop Shutting down service kdm killproc: kill(2443,15) done service xdm done Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/after.local doneMaster Resource Control: runlevel 3 has been reached killproc: kill(2790,3) Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Tue Jan 3 23:55:45 2012 Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: 3, switching to runlevel: 5 Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/before.local done
service xdm start Starting service kdm startproc: execve (/opt/kde3/bin/kdm) [ /opt/kde3/bin/kdm ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.89 KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=80 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=normal RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PREVLEVEL=3 LINES=25 QT_SYSTEM_DIR=/usr/share/desktop-data HOME=/ SHLVL=2 XCURSOR_THEME=DMZ WINDOWMANAGER=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde splash=verbose SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/root _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/opt/kde3/bin/kdm ] done service xdm done Master Resource Control: Running /etc/init.d/after.local doneMaster Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached killproc: kill(2829,3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob S Do you have a proprietary video driver? It could be you need to rebuild
On 01/03/2012 09:37 PM, Bob S wrote: the video driver. I had to do this whenever gdm fails to come up. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org