When I tried to install the upgrade mentioned in the summary it breaks and
hangs during the bootup process for the new system and badly hangs requiring me
to power cycle my laptop. I have frozen and locked my laptop at
vmlinuz-5.14.21-150500.55.39-default for now, but that means I can no longer
install any kernel patches or upgrades.

I am not sure of the cause of the hang up but have narrowed it down to probably
??? either an inability to properly query my network interfaces (it sometimes
stalls out when trying to get an IP address from my DHCP server) for their
identity and capabilities) or perhaps something is wrong with the nVidia
drivers.

I have a relatively new Dell laptop as described here -

 # inxi -CGMSnaz
System:
  Kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.39-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 7.5.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150500.55.39-default
    root=UUID=ce027c75-c647-4b4b-8c6a-e5fb48f41513 splash=silent preempt=full
    mitigations=auto quiet security=apparmor
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM
    Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.5
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: XPS 15 9530 v: N/A serial: <filter>
    Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GY0F9 v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.7.0
    date: 08/14/2023
CPU:
  Info: model: 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900H socket: U3E1 bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 13 level: v3 note: check
    built: 2022+ process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xBA (186)
    stepping: 2 microcode: 0x411C
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
    cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
    L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 540 high: 682 min/max: 400/5200:5400:4100
    base/boost: 4851/5400 scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave
    volts: 1.3 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 440 2: 473 3: 404 4: 587 5: 544
    6: 680 7: 468 8: 682 9: 564 10: 662 11: 443 12: 583 13: 624 14: 459
    15: 532 16: 489 17: 488 18: 553 19: 580 20: 546 bogomips: 119807
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB:
    conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a7a0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Dell
    driver: N/A alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia non-free: N/A
    status: unknown device ID bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28a0
    class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-6:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6a22 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.5
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    alternate: intel dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 507x285mm (19.96x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: Samsung 0x414d built: 2020 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    dpi: 145 gamma: 1.2 size: 336x210mm (13.23x8.27") diag: 396mm (15.6")
    ratio: 16:10 modes: 3456x2160
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.5 renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RPL-P)
    direct render: Yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f1 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet type: USB driver: ax88179_178a
    bus-ID: 2-1.3.2:4 chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>

Please refer to the thread on users@lists.opensuse.org titled "Yikes! Looks
like an update has screwed up my laptop" to see a discussion I had with the
user community about this issue, for some additional information. They advised
me to submit this bug report.

I will be happy to provide any additional information requested, and I will see
if I can capture a boot log file and add it in a followup comment.