On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
Op maandag 18 maart 2024 18:11:47 CET schreef Darryl Gregorash:
> Btrfs has nothing to do with this, except perhaps that Roger would not
> have got into this mess if he didn't have snapshots available.
>
> Of course, he could also have avoided it by first learning how to
> properly do a rollback.
I fully agree. The problem would not have existed if the sysadmin had not
decided to remove the snapshots.
Sorry Roger, but this is entirely a PEBKAC thing.

Yeah. In hindsight (and after getting more information from others who had the kde6 zypper dup fail as mine did), I see that the rollback that I did was not needed. Still, why it exhibited the behavior I saw is not clear.
 
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Roger Oberholtzer