Re: [SLE] PLEASE HELP

From: Johan (johansche_at_absamail.co.za)
Date: 11/30/03

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    To: "Suse[SLE]" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
    Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:22:59 +0200
    
    

    Suggest...
    1- When bootup choose memtest and run for at least 1 hour.
    2- Pop in cd 1 and boot.
    Choose install - then repair system - then auto repair

    Last week my system refused to boot for no reason???
    I did the above and it is still running
    Might help.
    Johan
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Alex Angerhofer" <alex@chem.ufl.edu>
    To: "SuSE Linux List" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
    Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:37 PM
    Subject: Re: [SLE] PLEASE HELP

    > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Jason Tesser wrote:
    >
    > > I have download suse 9.0 I gave had to install twice now. Here is what
    is happening. I get everything
    > > up and going. I get into KDE update Suse and play around for a while.
    everthing seems fine and then all of
    > > a sudden something happens that causes me to reboot. This last time
    Konqueror was not responding.
    > > When I reboot the login screen is all gray with a concole log window in
    the corner and when I log in I don't
    > > goto KDE I have an all gray screen. The login screen doesn't have any
    options and I don't know what
    > > happened.
    > >
    > > Is it something with X?? I did download and install the latest Nvidia
    driver for Linux which seemed to work
    > > fine. I installed that so I could enable 3d acceleration. But if it was
    that how come it worked for hours
    > > after I restarted. I played games and browsed and stuff np.
    > >
    > > Very frusterated :-s
    > >
    >
    > Hard to tell what went wrong without further info. Can you go to a console
    > and log on as root, run top and see what processes are running? Did you
    > look into your various log files under /var/log for clues? How much swap
    > did you assign and how much memory does the box have? Perhaps you are
    > running out of memory or you have a bad memory stick? Running too many
    > apps and having too little memory used to be a problem for me on my laptop
    > with SuSE 8.2 on my laptop.
    > As far as problems with X are concerned, you might want to set your
    > default runlevel after booting to 3 rather than 5 as that makes it easier
    > to trouble-shoot a misconfigured X environment. From a regular virtual
    > console you can of course run sax2 to reconfigure your X set-up. You could
    > also log in to the box from your other RH boxes and invoked yast2 to
    > reconfigure things, or use regular yast from the console.
    >
    > Best regards and good luck, Alex.
    >
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