Somehow, after doing the update from 3.11.6-4 to 3.11.10-7, my OpenSUSE system has been badly corrupted. I did the system update yesterday, as I have been doing for months, and all appeared normal last night until I turned the computer off. Today, when I booted into OpenSUSE, the first sign that something was wrong was after I entered my password. For several minutes, nothing happened, then a bunch of text appeared on the screen for each of the services that had been started (bluetooth, CUPS printer service, etc.). After nothing happened for several more minutes, I hard rebooted the system and then received a message that there was no Grub2 menu. I turned off completely, booted into BIOS and tried again. This time I got the Grub menu and booted into Win7 to make sure that was ok...no problems there. I then rebooted and tried to get into OpenSUSE (3.11.10-7 is the first listed). This time, the KDE desktop started, but a variety of strange behaviors confronted me: for example, if I select the kickoff menu, some icons are visible, but most are missing. I can run nothing from the kickoff menu, not even a terminal window. None of the icons on the desktop will start an application. Dolphin, which was open previously and thus had restarted, gave me a bunch of errors about not finding the filesystem (sorry, but did not write these errors down, but in short, no drives could be viewed from Dolphin). The system monitor appears to be working and shows system activity, but the desktop is mostly non-responsive. I used Alt-f2, but nothing will start from there either. I could not even shut the system down from the desktop - had to force it from the power button.
I tried the recovery mode for 3.11.10-7 and tried booting into 3.11.6-4 - in both cases, the behavior of the desktop is similarly broken.
I really have no idea how to proceed. SUSE has been rock-solid since I installed a few months ago, and I was just saying last night how great it was (clearly cursed it...). Any advice about how to debug this would be appreciated. I realize I will probably have to reinstall, but hope to avoid a repeat of this mess.
I tried the recovery mode for 3.11.10-7 and tried booting into 3.11.6-4 - in both cases, the behavior of the desktop is similarly broken.
I really have no idea how to proceed. SUSE has been rock-solid since I installed a few months ago, and I was just saying last night how great it was (clearly cursed it...). Any advice about how to debug this would be appreciated. I realize I will probably have to reinstall, but hope to avoid a repeat of this mess.