Suse 12.3 cannot boot after a forced shutdown

Posted by David Dai on Super User See other posts from Super User or by David Dai
Published on 2012-11-19T04:02:52Z Indexed on 2012/11/19 5:06 UTC
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I was doing a system update using

zypper update

After a while the screen was filled with this message

failed to start system logging service.

and the system was not responding. I had to shutdown it by holding the power button.

then I started the machine again, and selected to boot suse.

Then I saw the fancy boot animation(some shiny big dots gathering to the center of the screen), then the screen just turned black and the monitor sayed "no signal".

then I tried to boot into suse failsafe mode, which was fine.

how can I investigate into this problem?

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