Linux suse 10.2 will not boot

**eod_2480** · 03-20-2008

Hello everybody, I installed linux suse 10.2 4 months ago and I got everything running but yesterday when I tried to use my pc there was a log in command line so I rebooted my pc but after the splash screen it goes to the same log in command line any suggestion how I can fix this problem??

**devils casper** · 03-20-2008

Hi and Welcome !

Have you installed any Update recently? Which Graphics Card do you have? What the output of startx command?

**eod_2480** · 03-20-2008

Thanks.

no I did not install any updates
my computer is a dell gx270 with integrated video card
and I don't really know much about linux so I will run startx when I get home and let you know what the output is.
any help will be appreciated

**eod_2480** · 03-20-2008

Hello, I am in my house now and I ran startx and everything seems to be working but if I restart my pc it reboots to a conman line, can someone help me to solve this problem??
plus if I type startx under the windows I only have the choice to end session not to restart my pc.

**Jonathan183** · 03-20-2008

Originally Posted by eod_2480

Hello, I am in my house now and I ran startx and everything seems to be working but if I restart my pc it reboots to a conman line, can someone help me to solve this problem??
plus if I type startx under the windows I only have the choice to end session not to restart my pc.

Restart the system and when the grub menu appears press escape to exit the menu. Select the normal boot option, then e to edit and add a space and 5 to the kernel line, then enter, then b to boot. Does the GUI start?

The kernel line should look something like this ...

Code:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts 5

**eod_2480** · 03-20-2008

yes it does but the computer stops and give me the command line after this message

failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd) [ /usr/sbin/nscd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext3 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=100 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=0x303 RUNLEVEL=3 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG= PREVLEVEL=N LINES=37 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 splash=silent SPLASH=no ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/hda2 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
Starting Name Service Cache Daemondone
Starting ZENworks Management Daemondone
Master Resource Control: runlevel 3 has been reached
Failed services in runlevel 3: network
Skipped services in runlevel 3: irq_balancer splash
<notice>killproc: kill(2389,3)

any idea what to do??

thanks

**Jonathan183** · 03-20-2008

Try as before but also remove the text splash=silent or splash=quiet text from kernel line. Does the system boot to GUI now?

**eod_2480** · 03-20-2008

thank you jonathan It worked

I did what you told me and it worked thank you verymuch

**Jonathan183** · 03-21-2008

OK it looks like splash is screwing things up. It may be worth you just going back over the previous instructions and just remove splash=silent or splash=quiet (eg don't add 5 to the end of the line) and check it still boots to GUI.

Once you are convinced its splash thats causing the problem you can update the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with the changes. Post back if you need more help with this.

glad things are working again.

**devils casper** · 03-21-2008

I would suggest you not to edit menu.lst file. Just edit /etc/inittab file and set 5 as default runlevel.
Open /etc/inittab file and replace this line

Code:

 
id:3:initdefault:

with this :

Code:

id:5:initdefault:

Save file and reboot machine.

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