On 2024-01-21 18:08, Felix Miata wrote:
Darryl Gregorash composed on 2024-01-21 17:42 (UTC-0600):
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...
Did Marc state anywhere in this thread, or elsewhere you are privy to, what his root filesystem is? Without rollbacks enabled, booting prior kernel does not result in ro /, not here at least, where ext4 is used for /, and btrfs is not. The opensuse default is now / formatted btrfs with rollbacks enabled. My message intended in part to get him to reveal this information to us. You also neglect to note the second part, where I said that things get more difficult, if his root system is not formatted btrfs, in which case I have to review a lot more to be able to provide assistance. Your responses have so far assumed that his system is NOT formatted btrfs, etc -- which is perhaps a rather big assumption. At least I do not assume anything about that, but rather state clearly that there are 2 possible routes to him to recover a bootable system, depending on how his system actually is formatted. The method you posted may work for you, but clearly it did not work for him -- after he boots into the old kernel, zypper up tells him there is no work to do.