On 2024-05-19 01:59, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 00:18:10 +0200
On 2024-05-18 19:58, Bob Rogers wrote:
> After "zypper dup" and extensive subsequent updates, I tried it anyway > (thanks, Andrei, Marcus), and it seemed to work temporarily, but then > failed again. (I would be happy keeping "secure boot" permanently off > in the BIOS, but part of the immediate problem is that the battery is > thoroughly dead, so the BIOS keeps forgetting. I am getting a new > battery today, but it would be nice to kill this useless pseudo-security > rigmarole once and for all.)
I have not read the entire thread, but I noticed this part. If the battery is dead, and the BIOS clock dies, a computer hits security problems as soon as it hits things dated today. Specifically, security certificates fail. Web browsing and downloading things become a pain.
The clock kept resetting to 8-Jan-24, which was annoying, but nothing failed quite so catastrophically as the problems you mention. (When the power went off because the cord jiggled, emacs refused to recover something from its autosave file because it thought the autosave was too old, but that was easily worked around.) And the new battery has arrived, so this will soon cease to be an issue, but thanks for the warning.
Jan-24 is not that bad - when I had that kind of problem there was a time difference of a decade. Ok, good that you have the battery problem solved, one thing less to look at. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)