Bug 688015 - X window session does not come up on boot - message is "blogd: cannot read from fd 0: input/output error"
Summary: X window session does not come up on boot - message is "blogd: cannot read fr...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 642289
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Product: openSUSE 11.4
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other openSUSE 11.4
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2011-04-16 22:18 UTC by James PEARSON
Modified: 2011-04-17 00:32 UTC (History)
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Description James PEARSON 2011-04-16 22:18:31 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

The above error happens when booting after a fresh install of v11.4.

The boot process only goes as far as "blogd: cannot read from fd 0: input/output error" and then the command line / consol comes up

Produced using either the
openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso or 
openSUSE-11.4-DVD-i586.iso


Case 1
It happens after a fresh install using the openSUSE-11.4-DVD-i586.iso on a 
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5 (Intel P45 Express) MB and Radeon 4850 video card

Case 2
It happens after a fresh install using the openSUSE-11.4-DVD-x86_64.iso on a 
ASUS M3A78-T MB and Radeon 4850 video card.

Case 3
I managed to do a fresh install using the openSUSE-11.4-DVD-i586.iso on my T60 Thinkpad ok. However when I added tumbleweed and I got the  "blogd: cannot read from fd 0: input/output error" after I did a zypper dup 
 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do a fresh install using  DVD x86_64 or i586 DVD
2. Turn the machine off and  the restart it (or re boot it again) 
3. the Xorg session will not start and the boot console block and ask for a user and password.
Actual Results:  
start the computer
the boot console will display a message like below
blogd: cannot read from fd 0: input/output error"

Expected Results:  
Boot normally :)

Note 1
Added "nomodeset" (see below) to the boot parmeter helped on my Asus card but not every time

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSA2M080G2GC_CVPO037603KN080JGN-part1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS721010CLA332_JP9921HD2SSJLH-part5 splash=silent nomodeset  showopts vga=0x346

Note 2
Someone on the Internet appears to have had the same bottom. See below


As Kubuntu copes better with Medusa's hardware, SuSE isn't my productivity distro right now, so I decided to risk an online upgrade. I mainly followed the SBD instructions on http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade.

I uninstalled OpenOffice in YaST as a precaution (11.4 comes with LibreOffice), disabled all repos (OOO and Mozilla build services, KDE Factory and the basic ones) except Packman, which I replaced by its 11.4 counterpart.
Online update protocol:
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper update
sudo zypper modifyrepo --all --disable
After that, I changed packman in YaST to 11.4 and re-enabled it.
sudo zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/ repo-11.4-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/ repo-11.4-non-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ repo-11.4-update
zypper ref
zypper dup --download "in-advance"
Up to that point, everything went well, so I dared to reboot, which resulted in a powered-off screen shortly after the Grub menu. 

A failsafe boot got me as far as "blogd: cannot read from fd 0: input/output error". I went home, grabbed a DVD, burned the 11.4 ISO and did an upgrade of the upgrade from there, which, thankfully, worked. Still, this is a glorious first: on previous releases, I always ended up with a complete root disk wipe and a new install.


SOURCE 
http://eumenidae.blogspot.com/2011/03/opensuse-114-update-notes.html
openSuSE 11.4 update notes
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2011-04-17 00:32:13 UTC
dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 642289 ***