On 2024-01-20 16:08, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 1/20/24 13:08, Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2024-01-20 12:57 (UTC-0800):
Note in /boot/ whether the initrds all have today's timestamps, or only just the newest kernel. Reboot selecting the prior kernel from advanced options. What happens? If same problem, and the older kernel's initrd was rebuilt today, try restoring the initrd from your backup for prior kernel, then try booting using it.
The initrds have different timestamps -
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 97142441 Jan 3 15:07 initrd-5.14.21-150500.55.39-default -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 97182349 Jan 20 11:19 initrd-5.14.21-150500.55.44-default
Dropping back to OpenSuSE 15.5 with Linux 5.14.21-150500.55.39-default works fine.
OpenSuSE 15.5. with Linux 5.14.21-150500.55.44-default fails
When you boot into the previous kernel as Felix suggested, the root file system is mounted read-only. This means you cannot make permanent changes to the system at this point. To allow that you must first _rollback_ the system to the old (working) kernel. If your root partition is formatted btrfs, this step is simple: as root, just run snapper rollback and reboot If your root partition is formatted with some other file system, things become more complicated, and I will have to read things in more detail before offering any advice. Perhaps in the meanwhile some suse guru will come along and do the job for me :) However you are able to do it, once you have restored the old kernel as the default kernel, you may then do a system update. Since this will install the new kernel again, you will have to reboot. At this point, if the new kernel still will not boot, roll the system back again, and mark the kernel as "locked" with zypper, or in yast. Then report the problem in the opensuse bugzilla.
If none of that helps. Try init 3 again, then zypper ref, zypper up, to see if the earlier update may not have completed. Umm, going to the 55.44-default version init 3 is no longer allowing me to log in as root for some reason. It asks me for the login name but when I type in "root" it just hangs and doesn't even ask for a password now. I will await for further advice before doing anything further I did multiple PCs' 15.5 updates with new kernels yesterday and Thursday, all smooth, working as expected. Yeah, story of my life LOL, no one else is having troubles when I do... sigh... Marc...
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