Hi Christian! On 11/25/20 1:20 PM, Christian Mahr wrote:
Well... wayland works for me, and does a better job on scaling programs on a high density screen. So I keep it.
It never worked reliable enough for me, unfortunately. Both on Debian unstable and openSUSE Tumbleweed, I've been trying to switch for years but I always ended up with the desktop either crashing or things like the clipboard not working properly.
The other effect I observed is that when screen was frozen in x11: I still could switch to a console (Alt-F1) and restart the whole X11 by killing the process "startplasma-x11". Of course, the session is gone then... I also tried to identify some root cause in the /var/log/messages or other places but was not successful.
I haven't seen any log messages either. It just freezes for a second or sometimes longer, I can't type or move the mouse. Sound playback continues, so it's just X that locks up.
keeping old kernel versions: if you still have them on disk you can advise zypper not to purge it: add the kernel version explicitly tp the list in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf "multiversion.kernels = latest, latest-1,running"
Ok, thanks. I know now for the next time.
So if you happen to have an 5.8 kernel on an older btrfs-snapshot, you might want to roll back and ask zypper to keep the 5.8 kernel, then zypper dup again?
I unfortunately don't use btrfs as I stopped using the filesystem when I ran into serious balancing issues a few years ago. So I don't have the possibility to switch to an older snapshot. I think I have asked that before, but does openSUSE have something like snapshot.debian.org which keeps copies of older package versions or do I have to build a custom kernel now? Adrian