Thank you to everyone who has helped me get past the problem. I appreciate all of your help. This was how I solved it: Downlaoded and burned 15.4 onto DVD. Used gpartd to clone my 15.3 installation onto the SSD. Removed the HDD. Ugraded 15.3 --> 15.4. I now have a fully functional and working system again. Again....thanks to everyone. Mark On Thursday, August 4, 2022 4:14:27 PM EDT mark neidorff wrote:
Quick review: Got a message about updates need to be installed. Installed the. On the next reboot the system is extremely unstable--will only run for, perhaps a minute or two before a no keyboard or mouse response hang. Was able to boot into text and used YAST to manually rollback the set of updates. Rebooted, but the system still hangs within a minute or two. It takes either powering off or <ALT>-<SYSREQ> r....e...i...s...u...b to shut the system down. As I see it, I have three choices now. (1) reinstall 15.3 or (2) upgrade to 15.4 (3) go back into current broken system Recent addition to this system: The current 15.3 system is on a "spinning" HDD. I just bought a new SSD. to replace the HDD. Today I tried installing 15.4. The only thing the installer would allow me to do is to replace the 15.3 installation with 15.4. I selected the new drive, but the installer wouldn't proceed with the installation. I can upgrade the current system, but, that leaves the system on the HDD. So, I carefully unselected all the choices, and backed out of the installation without making any changes to the existing system (beyond putting the new drive in). I think (am reasonably sure) that if I unplug the HDD, I will be able to install on the SSD. So, rollback didn't fix. Do you have suggestions other than: unplug the HDD and install 15.4 on the SSD? (migrating my data will not be a major chore, if need be) Thank you for all the help.
Mark
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