On Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:36:06 CET Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have been running Tumbleweed on a iMac and it had been going great. The other day I was doing an update. When I checked progress, I saw that the power was off! It is not a laptop. I have no idea how the power could have been off.
I have to boot with a previous kernel. And I do not get wlan. So I thought I would undo the changes with snapper. The new kernel stops when it accesses the initrd.
Unfortunately, it complains that there are no configs. I have never seen an openSUSE install not set up snapper. Could this have happened?
Yes, can happen. If the root device is too small the installer suggests to not use snapshots and therefore no snapper config is created.
Or could it be that it lost the config info when things went bad?
I doubt this would happen.
I really would like to recover this install. (Do I have a backup? Umm.... It is just a home system used as a convenience.No data to protect. But, yeah, I know...)
Is there any way that I can determine if snapper was in fact set up, but that the config just lost? Or anything else I might do?
I recommend a rescue system, try to mount the existing partitions, chroot into the existing installation and check if everything that is expected is there, e.g. in /boot/ the kernel and initrd. You might be able to call `zypper dup` within the chroot to repair some missing packages in case the upgrade got interrupted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org