I tried that and it complained that the --ambit option was not recognized. I will try again when I next have access to the computer. On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2024-03-19 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM Darryl Gregorash <...> wrote: On 2024-03-18 04:20, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > I am booted into it. snapper rollback says: > > Ambit is transactional. > Active snapshot is already default snapshot. > > snapper ls puts a star after the snapshot number. > > For some reason, this is the only snapshot that exists (a pre/post pair > made by zypper) after the one from the initial install (#0) . All > previous ones have been purged. > Maybe because you removed all the rest, as per your initial post?
> Sigh. I don't want to do a reinstall. All the software is set exactly as I want. It's one of (not the only) systems on which I develop software. Oh well. Time to extract all the needed information from it!
Why are you talking about this now? Andrei and I have been making suggestions of what you can try now, but all you have done is run commands Andrei suggested so we can get an idea what your system looks like right now. Doing a reinstall is the very last resort, and we are nowhere near there yet.
The suggestion was to try the rollback. I did that and reported that it did not succeed. Did I miss another suggestion that was not perhaps going to totally mess up the filesystem? I also want to be sure I have collected all useful information off the system before trying a possibly destructive command. I've not had a chance to do that yet. Day job and all that.
Andrei suggested "sudo snapper --ambit=classic rollback" and showed an example on his machine.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
-- Roger Oberholtzer