On Thursday 30 September 2010 23:12:06 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 09/30/2010 09:03 PM, Bob S wrote:
Dave
Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions.
Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords.
Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall.
Bob S
Bob, don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I'm sure your system is still there. Sounds to me like you have a grub menu.lst error that is booting bits and pieces of your system.
If you can get to it, then give us:
cat /proc/partitions mount df -h
David. As Michael suggested I was able to get in with an init 1 and then do a startx. I was able to do all of your suggested commands in Konsole and they are posted below except for the /var/log/Xorg.0.log which is pretty big. (55kb) to post on the list. I can send it privately or post it somewhere. Before that though, I have noticed two things. At the booting sequence, just before the login command. it says "Welcome to SuSE 11.2-Emerald". Wrong, this is supposed to be 11.3. Once I am inside I get a message that "Policy Kit has failed". The fstab is correct and all of the partitions are mounting correctly. The menu.lst also seems to be correct. Another thing that I have noticed is that the partitioner has misidentified the hd's so I modified the device.map in Grub to represent what the partitioner thinks. No change. Same boot problem. I have no idea what the device.map is supposed to do. One primary thing, although I'm not sure it is pertinent. At the very first initial stage when the grub graphical menu comes up, if I make it show the plain text menu, there is a lot of old stupid stuff in"high memory". OS's that have been long deleted. Don't know what that is about. Anyway, here is what you asked for. Hope you can make some sense of it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 16 78150744 sdb 8 17 5116671 sdb1 8 18 26218080 sdb2 8 19 26218080 sdb3 8 20 1 sdb4 8 21 10490413 sdb5 8 22 5245191 sdb6 8 23 4851598 sdb7 8 0 244198584 sda 8 1 10490413 sda1 8 2 15735667 sda2 8 3 2104515 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 5245191 sda5 8 6 5245191 sda6 8 7 10490413 sda7 8 8 15727603 sda8 8 9 20972826 sda9 8 10 10482381 sda10 8 11 10482381 sda11 8 12 10482381 sda12 8 13 10490413 sda13 8 14 10490413 sda14 8 32 156290904 sdc 8 33 10490413 sdc1 8 34 15735667 sdc2 8 35 2104515 sdc3 8 36 1 sdc4 --------------------------------------------- linux:~ # mount /dev/sdc1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,mode=1777) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/sda9 on /11.3home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda10 on /11.3tmp type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda11 on /11.3usr type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda12 on /11.3var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc2 on /11.0home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc3 on /11.0var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sdc5 on /11.0tmp type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/sda1 on /10.2 type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda2 on /10.2home type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda6 on /10.2tmp type ext3 (rw) /dev/sda5 on /10.2var type ext3 (rw) /dev/sdb3 on /datastorage type ext3 (rw) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) ---------------------------------------------------------- linux:~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 15G 3.6G 11G 26% / devtmpfs 971M 300K 971M 1% /dev tmpfs 972M 1.1M 971M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda9 20G 3.0G 16G 16% /11.3home /dev/sda10 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /11.3tmp /dev/sda11 9.9G 3.3G 6.2G 35% /11.3usr /dev/sda12 9.9G 531M 8.9G 6% /11.3var /dev/sdc2 15G 166M 14G 2% /11.0home /dev/sdc3 2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /11.0var /dev/sdc5 2.0G 68M 1.9G 4% /11.0tmp /dev/sda1 9.9G 4.0G 5.4G 43% /10.2 /dev/sda2 15G 6.5G 7.6G 47% /10.2home /dev/sda6 5.0G 139M 4.6G 3% /10.2tmp /dev/sda5 5.0G 1.4G 3.3G 30% /10.2var /dev/sdb3 25G 15G 8.7G 64% /datastorage ------------------------------------------------------------ linux:~ # grep base /etc/zypp/repos.d/* | sed -e 's/^.*s[.]d\///' openSUSE-11.3 11.3-1.82.repo:baseurl=cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0 repo-debug.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-non-oss.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/non-oss/ repo-oss.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-source.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.3/repo/oss/ repo-update.repo:baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for trying to hlpout. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org