Marc Chamberlin composed on 2024-01-20 16:53 (UTC-0800):
Thanks again Felix for helping me, but still no joy getting 55.44 to work. I booted 55.39 and ran zypper ref which reported all repositories were up to date. I then ran zypper up and it reported that there was nothing to do. Tried 55.44 and got the same problems that I reported before. So still fubared. I don't grok your second sentence however, how do I "regenerate" 55.44? Do I delete it from the /boot dir and then do the zypper up command again?
Regenerate = make a new one to replace the old one. Commands mkinitrd and dracut can both do this. You'll have to visit the man page of your choice to get the applicable syntax for building one that is not currently booted or in process of being installed. <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book-reference/cha-boot.html> provides a dracut procedure outline. Google didn't find me any SDB: covering this subject. :p The forums and mailing list archives should have copious examples if you find the man pages too terse.
I am working on a Dell XPS 15 9530 laptop. hwinfo --short gives the following info, hths!
wa7pxw:/home/marc/Documents # hwinfo --short cpu: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz ... graphics card: nVidia 3D controller Intel VGA compatible controller
The combination of CPU newness (Q1'23) and NVidia suggests you may be using an NVidia proprietary driver, in which case this may be a problem of a kernel change that requires an update to the proprietary driver that isn't yet available. Alternatively, that less than year old CPU may be exhibiting a new bug as a result of a kernel patch in the newer version of a kernel that originally predated your CPU measured in years. If initrd regeneration fails to solve the problem, I suggest you just keep your 55.39 kernel protected and report a bug on 55.44: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_kernel https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports Inxi, which you may need to install, does a better job of providing concise summary of hardware and software configuration: basics: inxi -bz expanded basics: inxi -Fz extensive detail: inxi -Faz details of what's more possibly relevant according to your issue: inxi -CGMSnaz -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata