I just upgrade my box from 42.3 to 15. Just one heart-stopping period. I used zypper dup and the good news is that it performed the upgrade apparently successfully and didn't complain about my reiserfs filesystems, which still work. The heart-stopping moment came when I rebooted. I saw the h/w start up, and then grub, and the opensuse stuff* and then it switched to X (or at least an X-style arrow mouse pointer appeared. But it then just sat there with a black screen. Initially it didn't seem I could do anything at all, but after rebooting again with nomodeset I was able to select text-mode tty2. After a lot of faffing around and getting frustrated I started yast in text mode and went to update-alternatives and switched from sddm to lightdm. After I rebooted, everything worked. I have no idea why sddm wasn't working, but then I have no idea why it chose sddm when I was previously using lightdm. * I also have no idea why the stuff I saw at bootup included plymouth, since it wasn't installed before the upgrade. I've deleted and tabooed it. One thing that wasted my time was that during the upgrade I was asked to approve a licence - something about nvidia video. Now my box doesn't have an nvidia hardware; it uses Intel 915 video. So one of the things I tried to fix my problem was to remove some packages with nvidia in their name, on the offchance it was a driver issue. But I couldn't remove them because of lots of dependencies. What's going on there? Why do I need a whole bunch of packages with nvidia in their names even with no nvidia hardware? And why do I have to agree some special licence? I wonder what other gotchas await? Hopefully none. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org