On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 15:32 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 30/04/12 15:05, phanisvara das wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:02:19 +0530, Basil Chupin
wrote: Yesterday I installed 12.1 (KDE) from the DVD onto a brand new x86_64 system. Got everything working correctly - and was at peace with myself.
Then I decided to upgrade KDE to v4.8.2 - which I had successfully done on the 32-bit system - using this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/
I used "zypper dup --from <x>" - and the upgrade went thru OK.
But then I rebooted the system - and the damn wheels fell off! :'( .
My user password, and the root's, was unrecognised - or put another way, every time I entered the password the login screen would reappear.
Rebooting the system and typing "init 3" at the Grub menu, and then logging in as either user or as root, both the passwords WERE recognised.
As root, and using yast, I reset the user's password but this, again, was not recognised at the login menu (after getting past Grub that is).
Does anyone know why this should have occurred? and how to solve this problem should it happen again?
(I just finished re-installing 12.1 which was the only way I knew how to get my system back.)
for situations like this, i always have more than one (usable) DE or WM installed (no, i don't consider tvm 'usable.') either XFCE, one or both versions of enlightenment, or, like at the moment, awesome. something goes wrong, there's an alternative to re-installing straight away.
An excellent idea! I'll install another DE as a precaution.
what you describe sounds like a video driver problem to me. since you used a fresh install of 12.1, did you install any prop. video drivers yet? if not, or even if yes, adding "nomodeset" to the kernel line might have helped.
As I mentioned, I had everything working OK which included installing the nVidia 295.40 driver to give me 1920x1080p resolution.
But nothing would work at the start without first typing "nomodeset" at the beginning of the installation process :-( . Cannot check the media, cannot do memtest - nothing, zilch, until one types in "nomodeset".
It is really stupid (to have to type this "nomodeset") to get openSUSE going when both Fedora and Kubuntu simply "get going" without this "nomodeset" nonsense. What's so damn special about openSUSE?! (Stubborn people?)
i've also read about cases (recently) where none of the desktop sessions were selected after a KDE upgrade, and fixing was as easy as choosing "KDE plasma workspace" (or whatever it's called these days).
Which is what Robin suggested a post back. If I strike the problem again I'll try this one out.
if it was the video driver's fault, there should have been something in Xorg.0.log, or perhaps messages. hard to figure out now, since you've reinstalled. are you up for another try?
I shall never be daunted by some stupid piece of software! (famous last words) :-D
Yes, I do intend to try it again - but I may just use YaST this time instead of zypper (which I successfully used on the 32-bit system).
i'm sure this can be solved, probably relatively easy, but if you keep bolting at the first sign of trouble...
"I shall not be overcome...."
another thing to try since 12.1 is starting with sysvinit instead of systemd (<F5> in grub), even though this doesn't sound like a systemd issue, but you never know.
I tried this before I re-installed. Didn't solve my problem.
BC
-- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill
Hi, I had this problem after doing a zypper dup and solved it by doing the following. I logged in to IceWM instead of KDE. I started yast > software management > kernel. I downgraded my kernel and rebooted. I selected KDE at the login screen and KDE started right up. Once I was back in KDE, I started yast > software management > kernel and upgraded the kernel. Then I rebooted into the new kernel and KDE without problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org