On 1/20/24 13:08, 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 -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 I did multiple PCs' 15.5 updates with new kernels yesterday and Thursday, all smooth, working as expected. Yeah, story of my life LOL, no one else is having troubles when I do... sigh... Marc...
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