[Nottingham] My Suse 10.2 is broke

[David Bottrill]

Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 12:39 +0100, Martin wrote:
>> Next is to find out why the graphical login manager broke and what the
>> fix for that is...
>
> If you can get the machine into single-user mode, you might be able to
> poke at the logfile generated by X per user (at least, on RH based
> distros it does):
>
> ~user/.xsession-errors
>
> I'd hazard a guess that you switched on some fancy widget (Beryl,
> Compiz, something like that) and a recent package update has b0rked it.
>
> If you can get a console session (as Martin suggested) while all the
> graphical wobbling is going on, you could watch the file in real time.
>
Are you running the closed-source NVIDIA graphics driver? has there been a
kernel update recently? if so try re-installing the NVIDIA driver. It will
need linking against the updated kernel source. Alternatively you could
always try running sax2 and re-configuring your X server. Make sure you
are in runlevel 3 first: init 3 then once you have got it working with
sax2 init 5 will bring up your graphical logon window.

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