Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:42, B Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Did an upgrade with apt on my 10.0 last night.... Rebooted and it won't
boot.
Hi Bob,
There was a thread here in the last day on this exact problem... apparently there was a mixup causing a 10.1 component to be inadvertently installed during the update. From that thread:
"... It has to do with the file /etc/init.d/earlykdm, installed by the new kdebase3 rpms, build -27. You can edit that file with the changes I'll indicate below to put things right using the -27 build rpms.
Replace this:
if test -z "$DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN"; then /sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm else /usr/bin/ionice -n2 /sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kdm.auto /usr/bin/ionice -n6 /sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/kde & echo $! > /var/run/preload-session.pid fi
With this:
if test -z "$DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN"; then /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/kdm.preload else /usr/bin/ionice -n2 /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/kdm.auto.preload /usr/bin/ionice -n6 /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/kde.preload & echo $! > /var/run/preload-session.pid fi
If I were you, I'd boot into rescue mode, mount the partition and check this file out. If it matches the first section try editing it as indicated. BTW, the post I've quoted was Lee's (BandiPat's).
hth & regards,
Carl,
Well I finally remembered how to mount the system from the rescue mode. If that was something you should have seen all that old grey-matter churning while using VI.
Anyway after many hours I finally got it done and all is well again. You are all the greatest bunch of people I have ever run across with your help and suggestions. Bob S. PS How does stuff like this happen ??? All human and make mistakes like I always do, I guess