GUI Won’t Load On Login On EXSI

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Install-Boot
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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

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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
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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.

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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.

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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

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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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