On 31/10/2020 20.49, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-10-30 21:21:00 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 31/10/2020 02.09, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 10/30/20 8:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 31/10/2020 00.31, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On a different computer, I installed leap, just to see what it offered. It got very little use, but was left in sleep mode until I tried to bring it up today. It came up, but it was unhappy-- things in the GUI didn't work. Rebooted. Came up black screen with mouse cursor in center. Long story short, nothing I tried, including rescue mode (or whatever it's called) brought back normal operation. Finally put install disk in and tried rescue, but it asks for login: and password:
Rescue from install disk should be "root". But you will not be able to do anything with it.
You're right. I don't want to make a project out of this. What should rescue do--doug
Rescue in in the installation DVD is just a tiny tiny Linux system. To do something with it you need to know what is wrong, how to diagnose things, and how to repair them. There is nothing automatic on it, there is no help at all. Not even manuals.
Yes, it always seemed to me that the rescue system disk is more of a cruel joke than a helpful tool.
There is a dedicated ISO image to install on USB stick, that becomes writable after booting it (you can even install new packages to it) that is called the "rescue" stick. This is a full XFCE desktop, and I have used it successfully more than once to solve problems. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.2/live/openSUSE-Leap-15.2-... Still, the administrator has to diagnose the problem and solve it himself, there is no automatics. Long ago there was an automated "rescue" system in the DVD, that managed to solve some problems but failed too much, was difficult to maintain, and was finally removed from the distribution. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)