On this last /dup/, did you run it within a Bourne compatible shell as follows?

--8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<--

export ZYPP_MEDIANETWORK=1 export ZYPP_SINGLE_RPMTRANS=1 zypper dup -l

--8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<---8-<--

Please note that /zypper dup/ will run a /refresh/ when needed.

Also, I'm not sure if your email client is doing it but it keeps adding my name to the Subject (and I keep removing it. :) You might want to investigate why it's doing it.

Cheers,

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@Pablo: So the list enforcer already came after me with the cat o' 9 tails about the subject line name thing. I'm in digest mode so when I reply I have to copy/paste the subject line, which I was copying the whole line to "flag" the participants in the convo. And, hopefully this email is once again in plain text . . . multiple infractions in only a few posts. Since I'm an underposter I got to slack a lackin on the minutiae . . . . So, back on topic, running the zypper dup in Gecko rolling was informative, I was previously waiting for that to go through before I posted back, but it kept going and getting bogged down . . . so very similar to the TW experience. I think in this case the Gecko is running in an HDD compared to TW in an SSD. Gecko ran "343 packages" with some 6.2 kernel updates and "broadcom" updates in 1.39 hours; so more than 2x the packages, but in not radically different time to wend through them all. Once again, the ref and download was done in a couple of mins and the first 151 packages were ripped through in roughly ten mins, but then it showed down on several of the kernel upgrade packages. Where it really bogged was around #330 which is where possibly an nvidia-gfxG05 package was installing and there was literally a 15 - 20 min time period where many lines of "depmod: ERROR- ("nvidia" package names) no such file or directory" were listed and then the cursor was just blinking until much later it moved to #131 . . . with many, many "dracut" lines until finally returning to the # . . . . There were recent problems in Leap & TW installing an nvidia G06 package that caused problems with "X"??? In today's Gecko upgrade it seems like the "failure to revive from suspend" problem has once again returned--likely relating to an nvidia issue, or a kernel issue. In answer to your "bourne shell" question, do you mean a TTY shell?? I'm usually "in a hurry" and I do my system maintenance in the morning before going to work . . . in a GUI console. I didn't quite understand your suggested commands, thinking that was for some script to run the dup, but now I'm figuring that is to simply make a copy of the dup process??? My **expectation** this morning was that Gecko was going to rip through the package installation process, similar to the relatively fast Leap times . . . but that didn't happen. I have an Nvidia 780 card, but I run "default" video driver, which I previously thought there was "nothing proprietary used" . . . but it seems like even running "default" that some nvidia packages are used . . . but . . . then "not used" or "not found" with time spent "looking"?? The "broadcom-wl" package also seemed to use 5 minutes to run through. Seems to use up a lot of time . . . and that might be the same case in TW?? I'll have to check that when I get back to TW / and boot it up. Might be a few days before I get back to TW, other stuff going on. F