For $WORK, I was asked to install a new VPN software (Zscaler). Like many such things, the "linux support" is a mixed bag - it seems to assume that one is running certain systemd things, and a gnome desktop (which I am not). Suffice it to say, the "expected behavior" didn't happen, so I went digging in /var/log, and found the install log... which showed that a) the installer was clever enough to zypper install a bunch of packages b) it called dracut to re-write an initrd. This seems more than a little "rude" to do on a system. I uninstalled the package, but I see that the initrd symlink in /boot/ still points to the same (new) initrd. total 79792 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 efi -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1725 Aug 26 2020 boot.readme -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13881401 Nov 25 2020 vmlinux-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228245 Nov 25 2020 config-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4605329 Nov 25 2020 System.map-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 484 Nov 25 2020 sysctl.conf-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 432948 Nov 25 2020 symvers-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9015160 Nov 25 2020 vmlinuz-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228385 Dec 5 2020 config-5.3.18-lp152.57-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4605295 Dec 5 2020 System.map-5.3.18-lp152.57-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 484 Dec 5 2020 sysctl.conf-5.3.18-lp152.57-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 432948 Dec 5 2020 symvers-5.3.18-lp152.57-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13883322 Dec 5 2020 vmlinux-5.3.18-lp152.57-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9035952 Dec 5 2020 vmlinuz-5.3.18-lp152.57-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Dec 18 2020 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 18 2020 initrd -> initrd-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw------- 1 root root 12654088 Mar 22 09:48 initrd-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default -rw------- 1 root root 12647860 Mar 22 09:48 initrd-5.3.18-lp152.57-default drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 22 10:18 grub2 FWIW, I see $ uname -a Linux concorde 5.3.18-lp152.57-default #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 07:27:58 UTC 2020 (7be5551) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux though the vmlinuz-5.3.18-lp152.1.g0adb0e0-default shows 'Nov 25 2020' as the date. (yeah, this is a 15.2 system... not in a rush to update). I haven't tried a reboot yet, but IF it fails, my notion is to boot into the "rescue" (vmlinuz-5.3.18-lp152.57-default) kernel, and redo the initrd. If I have to go that route, could someone detail the appropriate commands to do such? Many TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net