Comment # 2 on bug 1200516 from Carlos Robinson

I downloaded kernel-default to a directory, added that as repository, tried to
update to it with YaST, then added whatever it seemed to want as dependency. I
ended up with these:

cer@Elesar:~/Downloads/kernel_15.4> ls
kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.22.1.x86_64.rpm                    
kernel-preempt-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64.rpm
kernel-default-base-5.14.21-150400.22.1.150400.22.75.x86_64.rpm  
kernel-preempt-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64.rpm
kernel-default-devel-5.14.21-150400.22.1.x86_64.rpm              
kernel-preempt-extra-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64.rpm
kernel-default-extra-5.14.21-150400.22.1.x86_64.rpm              
kernel-preempt-optional-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64.rpm
cer@Elesar:~/Downloads/kernel_15.4>

in the repository.

On reboot, the letters were big in the verbose boot messages, and X had a too
low resolution, don't know which. I rebooted to the previous kernel, but the
machine seemly locked right as I entered the login. Fortunately I could ssh-in
and remove the last installed packages with rpm command:

Elesar:~ # rpm -qa --last | grep "Wed Jun 22"
kernel-preempt-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64 Wed Jun 22 23:08:30 2022
kernel-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.noarch     Wed Jun 22 23:08:27 2022
kernel-preempt-optional-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64 Wed Jun 22 23:08:11 2022
kernel-preempt-extra-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64 Wed Jun 22 23:08:00 2022
kernel-preempt-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64   Wed Jun 22 23:07:32 2022
kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.22.1.x86_64     Wed Jun 22 23:07:06 2022
filezilla-lang-3.31.0-bp153.1.17.noarch       Wed Jun 22 22:29:18 2022
filezilla-3.31.0-bp153.1.17.x86_64            Wed Jun 22 22:29:17 2022
libpugixml1-1.9-bp153.1.24.x86_64             Wed Jun 22 22:29:15 2022
libfilezilla0-0.12.2-bp153.2.1.x86_64         Wed Jun 22 22:29:15 2022
gpg-pubkey-d38b4796-570c8cd3                  Wed Jun 22 22:24:26 2022
Elesar:~ # rpm --erase kernel-preempt-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64
kernel-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.noarch
kernel-preempt-optional-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64
kernel-preempt-extra-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64
kernel-preempt-5.3.18-150300.59.63.1.x86_64
kernel-default-5.14.21-150400.22.1.x86_64 
Creating initrd: /boot/initrd-5.3.18-150300.59.63-preempt
...

This allowed me to reboot and get a working machine back.

Did I miss some rpms to upgrade? 15.3 has a lot of firmware related packages
that now I do not see. One is nvidia:

cer@Elesar:~/Downloads/kernel_15.4> rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-firmware-i915-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-liquidio-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-mediatek-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-network-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-platform-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-radeon-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-sound-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-usb-network-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ath10k-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-default-extra-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.x86_64
kernel-firmware-bluetooth-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-chelsio-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-qlogic-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.x86_64
kernel-firmware-intel-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-serial-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-marvell-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ueagle-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-macros-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-amdgpu-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-mellanox-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.68.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-atheros-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-nfp-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
purge-kernels-service-0-8.3.1.noarch
kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.68.1.x86_64
kernel-firmware-brcm-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-prestera-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-default-optional-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.x86_64
kernel-firmware-realtek-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-ti-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-default-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.x86_64
kernel-firmware-ath11k-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-devel-5.3.18-150300.59.71.2.noarch
kernel-firmware-bnx2-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-dpaa2-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-iwlwifi-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-media-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-all-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-mwifiex-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
kernel-firmware-nvidia-20210208-150300.4.10.1.noarch
cer@Elesar:~/Downloads/kernel_15.4>