Marc Chamberlin composed on 2024-01-20 14:08 (UTC-0800):
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 Be sure this one is preserved until solution is employed, either via backup, or immutability, or both.
-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
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 Use 55.39 boot to try zypper ref, zypper up. If anything is found to apply, boot 55.44. If still fubar, boot 55.39 to regenerate 55.44 and try it again. 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
On 1/20/24 14:27, Felix Miata wrote: the zypper up command again?
You haven't indicated the hardware involved. If often makes a difference in reproducibility by others. All mine yesterday and the day before were with Intel CPUs and either AMD or Intel graphics. I have more yet to do, some with NVidia graphics, none with dual graphics, and a trivial few with AMD CPUs.
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 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 933 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 3000 MHz keyboard: /dev/input/event0 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard /dev/tty7 serial console mouse: /dev/input/mice Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse /dev/input/mice PS/2 Generic Mouse /dev/input/mice ELAN900C:00 04F3:2D25 /dev/input/mice VEN_04F3:00 04F3:32AA Mouse /dev/input/mice VEN_04F3:00 04F3:32AA Touchpad monitor: 1D20G 156XG01 LCD Monitor graphics card: nVidia 3D controller Intel VGA compatible controller sound: Intel Multimedia audio controller storage: Intel RAID bus controller Samsung Electronics NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO network: wlan0 Intel WLAN controller eth4 ASIX Electronics AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet network interface: wlan0 WLAN network interface eth4 Ethernet network interface lo Loopback network interface disk: /dev/nvme0n1 Samsung Electronics NVMe SSD Controller PM9A1/PM9A3/980PRO partition: /dev/nvme0n1p1 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p2 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p3 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p4 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p5 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p6 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p7 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p8 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p9 Partition /dev/nvme0n1p10 Partition usb controller: Intel USB Controller Intel USB Controller Intel USB Controller bios: BIOS bridge: Intel PCI bridge Intel ISA bridge Intel PCI bridge Intel PCI bridge Intel PCI bridge Intel Host bridge Intel PCI bridge hub: Genesys Logic Hub VIA USB3.0 Hub Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Genesys Logic USB3.1 Hub VIA USB2.0 Hub Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Terminus USB 2.0 Hub Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub memory: Main Memory bluetooth: Intel Bluetooth Device unknown: FPU DMA controller PIC Keyboard controller PS/2 Controller Intel System peripheral Intel Serial bus controller Intel Serial bus controller Intel Signal processing controller Realtek RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader Intel Communication controller Intel Serial bus controller Intel Serial controller Intel Serial bus controller Intel System peripheral Intel RAM memory Intel SMBus Intel Signal processing controller Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd Goodix USB2.0 MISC VIA USB Billboard Device -- --... ...-- .----. ... -.. . .-- .- --... .--. -..- .-- -- .- .-. -.-. <b>Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc.<br> His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications.<br> To boldly go where no Marc has gone before!<br></b>