Bernhard M. Wiedemann composed on 2024-07-02 21:37 (UTC+0200):

Larry Len Rainey wrote:

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I just did a zypper dup.

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I just checked and saw this - it was vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.9.7-1-default :

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slowroll:~ # ll /boot | tail -5 ; date lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 Jul  2 10:02 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.9.3-1-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jul  2 10:02 vmlinuz-6.9.3-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.3-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jun 15 06:55 vmlinuz-6.9.4-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.4-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jun 20 06:41 vmlinuz-6.9.5-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.5-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       42 Jul  1 06:46 vmlinuz-6.9.7-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.9.7-1-default/vmlinuz Tue Jul  2 17:42:33 CDT 202

Looking at the timestamps, the 6.9.3 kernel was installed after the 6.9.7 one. Maybe some dependency issues with kmps could have pulled it in from repo-oss.

Maybe try to uninstall kernel-default-6.9.3 to see if it wants to remove something else along it.

If that does not provide more insight, /var/log/zypp* could give enlightement.

Also, /boot/'s symlinks aren't necessarily reporting what you want to know, e.g.: # ls -lgG /boot/vmlinuz-6* /usr/lib/modules/*/vmlinuz && ls -lgGd /usr/lib/modules/* lrwxrwxrwx 1 42 Jun 28 2023 /boot/vmlinuz-6.3.9-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.3.9-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 43 Oct 8 2023 /boot/vmlinuz-6.4.12-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.4.12-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 42 Nov 16 2023 /boot/vmlinuz-6.5.9-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.5.9-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 43 Jan 30 23:36 /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.11-1-default -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.6.11-1-default/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 44 Apr 17 16:06 /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.25-1-longterm -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.6.25-1-longterm/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 44 May 27 00:02 /boot/vmlinuz-6.6.31-1-longterm -> ../usr/lib/modules/6.6.31-1-longterm/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14155088 Jun 24 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.3.9-1-default/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14287840 Aug 24 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.4.12-1-default/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14115440 Oct 31 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.5.9-1-default/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14209680 Jan 12 20:16 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.11-1-default/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14236016 Apr 7 09:31 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.25-1-longterm/vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 14248304 May 17 16:19 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.31-1-longterm/vmlinuz drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 Jun 28 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.3.9-1-default drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 Oct 8 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.4.12-1-default drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 Nov 16 2023 /usr/lib/modules/6.5.9-1-default drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 Jan 30 23:36 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.11-1-default drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 Apr 17 16:06 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.25-1-longterm drwxr-xr-x 3 1024 May 27 00:02 /usr/lib/modules/6.6.31-1-longterm # -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata