GUI Won’t Load On Login On EXSI

Hi,

I’m currently using SUSE Linux 11 SP4 on ESXI 6. Currently, when I boot the VM the GUI login screen does not appear.

I did use this thread https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/399193-GUI-problem-with-Suse-Linux to troubleshoot my issue but none of those solved my problem.

Do you have any other suggestions I can try to get the GUI working?

Regards,

William

Hi and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:
What errors do you see in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file?

What graphics is being used;

/sbin/lspci -nnk |grep -A3 VGA

Normally sax2 -r should work, but you must be at runlevel 3, need to be root user;

init 3
sax2 -r
init 5 && exit

Hi Malcolmlewis,

Here is the result of my graphic card

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405]
Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter [15ad:0405]
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI [1000:0030] (rev 01)
Subsystem: VMware LSI Logic Parallel SCSI Controller [15ad:1976]
Kernel driver in use: mptspi

Below is a screenshot of the other commands you asked me to run. Not after running this commands and restarting the VM it still boots in terminal mode.

Hi
So something up with gdm… if at runlevel 5 login as your user and run
the command icewm does this fire up a GUI?


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Hi Malcolmlewis,

This is the response I get when I run the icewm command

hanab1:~ # icewm
IceWM: using /root/.icewm for private configuration files
IceWM: Can’t open display: . X must be running and $DISPLAY set.

Hi
Ok, at runlevel 5, try the command startx. If icewm doesn’t work, try
twm instead.

The system is not set to login a user automatically is it?

Are there other users or a test user you can create and try?

Also check if there are any updates, patches;

zypper ref
zypper lu
zypper lu -t patch


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Hi Malcolmlewis,

When I run startx, it tries to load the GUI. However it stays in a black screen with a mouse cursor.

Running icewm gives the same error as noted in my previous reply.

When I run twm, it display a message “tw: unable to open display”

I get the same issue as above when using another user.

Running zypper ref informs me the repo is up to date.

Running zypper lu -t patch informs me No updates found.

Regards,

William

Hi
You haven’t got third party repos active (eg some openSUSE ones)?

zypper lr

If you add the boot option nomodeset at the grub screen, does the GUI
start?


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