Attempting to install LEAP 15.3 wreaked havoc on my installation. I reached for my trusted LEAP 15.2 DVD to reinstall version 15.2 yet it miserably failed. It doesn’t seem to like overwriting the newer 15.3 on the hard disk and installing the old repositories. Unfortunately rollback is not an option since ext4 was employed previously. I can boot the system in text mode, but plymouth shows errors. I may be a trifle thick at times, hence any hints how to recover are appreciated.
regards
Thomas
It is rather unclear what you exactly tried to do.
You have a 15.2 DVD, thus I assume you had 15.2 running somewhere. Apparently not on the system you are talking about, because you say tried to install 15.3 and not that you tried to upgrade from 15.2 to 15.3.
That installation of 15.3 “wreaked havoc” but you do not tell what you mean with this untechnical expression, nor do you seem to asked for help with that situation here on the forums. So do not expect much comment on that.
Then you tried to install 15.2 on that system. Again you have run into problems you do not specify.
There is some talking about rollback and ext4, I again can not understand.
So, unless you can present us with a more detailed description about at least the situation you are now, I assume trying to help you from a distance where we can not look over your shoulder (and we can not read minds) will be very difficult.
Sorry if my message was not clear enough. I’ll try again:
I had a working LEAP 15.2 installation and updated to 15.3. There were packages for update with conflicts to existing packages. I consented to some of the measures suggested. Then numerous packages were removed from the system and finally the process stalled. I think this is a known bug already being adressed. I tried to boot again and it defaulted to text mode login, which was successful.
Eventually I took my 15.2 DVD and tried to reinstall. Yet when the system reboots from the hard disk the 15.3 pops up again and I can’t see the 15.2
It seems to boil down to the question: “How do I manage to reinstall the 15.2 with the 15.3 already present ?”
regards
Thomas
During the Leap 15.2 installation, you’ll have to re-initialise the System Partition – the partition mounted as “/” …
[HR][/HR]Before you begin:
[INDENT=2]You’ll need it to reinstall all Packages you had on the Leap 15.2 system …[/INDENT]
[INDENT=3]rpm --query --all --dbpath «Directory where the RPM Database backup is located» …[/INDENT]
[HR][/HR]I’m assuming that, you backed up all the User Directories before you began with the upgrade to Leap 15.3 …
Thank you very much indeed - I’m back in business !
A romp in the Expert Partitioner - as you suggested - did the trick.
an utterly happy
Thomas
Sometimes is is easier to do a clean install.
Only format “/” , mount to “/”, select snapshots if btfrs selected as file format system, mount other parts “swap”, “/home” but do not format. install.