On Saturday 27 March 2004 00.07, ns@nickselby.com wrote:
Hi, I have a PIII/800Mhz 256MB RAM HP notebook, which has ben running Suse 8.2 for some time and 8.0 for sometime before that. I was upgrading from 8.2 to 9.
/dev/hda1 is swap, /dev/hda2 is boot, /dev/hda3 is home.
After (**SLOW**) installation from the DVD, got a success message and rebooted. KDE's log in window appeared. I logged in as a user and whil the login prompts disappeared, leaving the KDE Welcome wallpaper,nothing hapened. I opened a terminal window and logged in as a user. Got prompted for the password, entered it, got told, You have mail in ... and then the cursor gflashed but did not give me a nick@machine prompt. Just flashed at me. Opened another terminal window and logged in as root - same thing.
Called Suse installation support. No help. But they did have me make a log in with the rescue function of the install dvd and make a floppy of the boot messages and hwinfo (below).
Then they went home for the weekend. Meanwhile my machine still completely down.
Please, please can anyone be of help?
Nick
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 99 795186 82 Linux swap /dev/hda2 * 100 3363 26218080 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3364 5974 20972857+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 5975 7296 10618965 83 Linux
What is supposed to be on those partitions? Can you mount them at all? Say, for example, that hda2 is /, then does mkdir tmp mount /dev/hda2 tmp work? What, then, do you see in tmp/var/log/messages from your failed (flashing cursor) attempted login? Next try would be cd tmp chroot . Any interesting error messages? The boot log you posted looks like it's from the rescue system. It doesn't tell us anything interesting from what I can see. My guess is that the problem is something to do with packages that didn't get updated properly. If this is indeed the problem, then you may have to be sneaky in correcting it