OES2SP1 Upgrade gone slightly sour - Problems with X+Yast

[Christopher Mangiarelli]

Awesome, reseting X using the sax2 command worked and I'm in the process of
running the second phase now.  Wish me luck...

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Joe Doupnik <joe.doupnik at oucs.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

>        X11 problems. To avoid the GUI at startup use runlevel 3 and modify
> /boot/grub/menu.lst  to use phrase   vga=normal    (or even  vga=ask  if
> you
> wish to change things interactively at boot time). "normal" means 80x25
> text mode,
> no frame buffer, no probing the video adapter for nuances. GRUB is rather
> poor
> about this section as well.
>        Stubborn video can often be coecered into action by running text
> mode
> script  xorgconfig  and answering questions manually. But first try to use
> VESA
> mode:  sax2 -r -m 0=vesa   (reset, make top (0) menu choice be vesa).
> Really bad
> cases, which still happen here, require me to visit /etc/X11 and try the
> backup
> copies of xorg.conf until one is found which works. A few trips into single
> user
> mode may be required to get all this right.
>        A surmise is your video adapter is not what X11 thinks it is,
> detailed
> commands sent to it cause blackouts and much frustration. Happens here, the
> deeper
> cause is usually the wrong X11 binary engine and I resort to the above.
>        The o/s update process does proceed in the usual two phases, and you
> were caught in between. SLES is rather good about picking up where it left
> off
> even after repeated reboots like you did.
>        Joe D.
>
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Christopher Mangiarelli
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