-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2021-12-30 at 10:20 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:

Hi my problem was caused by a system that was only half updated from 15.2 to 15.3. I was eventually able to chroot into my hard drives root from a tty console in the installation system after I had failed to update for the third time. Then I was able to do a zypper dup, force reinstall the kernel and I was able to boot by boot installed system and hunt down the remaining Leap 15.2 packages.

Question. The first time you upgraded from 15.2 to 15.3 did you do it by "zypper dup" done _once_? You have to do it _twice_ without rebooting in the middle, for 15.3 only. And this is not written in the docs, AFAIK. The reason is that the first dup adds the SLE repositories, so a second dup recalculates the dup and adds/replaces packages coming from SLE. Or, my recommended procedure, which is: zypper ar -f -n "Update repository of openSUSE Backports" "http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/backports/" "repo-backports-update" zypper ar -f -n "Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15" "http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.3/sle/" "repo-sle-update" zypper --releasever=15.3 refresh zypper --releasever=15.3 dup --download-in-advance - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYc15qRwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVxdEAmQHjvTnyDXybY6w8jZhV KVwF2jvMAJ9CIyE4KrzOtVAs7zaDKG19UtZ08Q== =5kIV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----