Re: Gremlins in 11.0

Godzilla wrote:

This morning, I attempted my usual bootup in openSUSE 11.0, and it got
as far as the green screen with the horizontal progress bar. The bar
went about a quarter of the way and then it froze. I did a hot
re-boot and tried again. Same result. Then, I inserted the openSUSE
11.0 DVD and attempted to do a repair. Same result, even when
operating from the DVD!

What was left to try? For want of a better inspiration, I put it in
memory test from the DVD and let it cook for an hour and a half while
I prepared breakfast. After that, I did another hot re-boot and
decided to try Fail-safe. This worked and put me into what looked
like the normal desktop. To see what would happen if I switched it
off and tried again, I did so and then went into the normal KDE 3.5

Everything is back to normal, but I have no idea what was wrong or
really how I got everything back right. ;-)

Puzzled,

Godzilla

Assuming you did not do this: Press the ESC key while the green loading
screen in on.

You may have the drives being scanned, it does it automatically (during
boot) if scan has not run in more than 62 days, and it can take some time
with large or multiple partitions - 260G or larger drives amay require an
extra 5 minutes or more.

Aorry, I don't remember the correct spelling of the disk scan utility.

John
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