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.


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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)