Can't install Leap 15.6. screen blanks after calling udev on startup

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trying to upgrade from Leap 15.5 → 15.6 using media openSUSE-Leap-15.6-DVD-x86_64-Build710.3-Media.iso. I have tried it using Ventoy, putting it on a stand alone thumb drive using dd, and burning it onto a DVD. All behave the same: it starts to boot up and at “starting udev…” the screen blanks and never returns. This behavior occurs when selecting install, upgrade or more->check media.

I tried to include the output of hwinfo, but the system wouldn’t let me attach .txt, nor paste more than 35k characters.
Please advise on best way to provide this data.

TIA,
ron

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Do not use Ventoy.

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Using dd or cp copy to the device NOT a partition on the device!!!
Do not us Ventoy!!!
:scream_cat:

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Completely irrelevant red herrings.
Both thumb drives tried booting, got as far as “starting udev…” and failed. Precisely the same behavior as noted for the optical media.

The only issue using Ventoy is that the openSUSE installer can’t figure out that the target drive for the installation or upgrade should probably be the grub root, so the user will need to provide a different grub.cfg (and perhaps even a new initrd) to successfully boot the new system. I’ve been successfully upgrading with Ventoy since LEAP 15.2.
A system won’t boot past grub if the .iso is written to a partition instead of the base drive as grub won’t be able to find grub.cfg, nor the kernel and initrd.

You completely ignored the fact that optical media was used as well. Possibly so you could waste space with irrelevancies.

If you respond to a request for assistance, please try to be helpful. no need to waste time and resources.

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The responses are more than helpfull. If you would care you would know that Ventoy alters your installation media. This is widely known and users here in the forum try to warn others like you from using it. There are countless threads which explains and show that Ventoy makes your system unbootable or act in unpredictable ways as it adds random boot parameters. This is even documented in the openSUSE wiki.

Additionally there are several threads which links to an potential Ventoy security issue, as it contains a high amount of undocumented blobs. The dev does not care about this issue.

As soon as it gets known that you are using Ventoy, bugs get closed as Ventoy is completey unsupported by openSUSE.

So the answers regarding Ventoy are a warning (as it alters your system in unknown ways) and information (as openSUSE doesn’t support it).

So if you consider answers which try to warn you from a potentialy insecure and unsuported tool as unhelpful, even if it is not directly related to your issue, well, good luck.

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Is there a reason why you have choosen the offline upgrade method? If the offline upgrade method won’t work the next step could be to test the documented online upgrade method. Thiseiliminates the need of a physical upgrade media (usb pen drive, DVD, …).

If you need to provide a bigger amount of terminal output, https://paste.opensuse.org/ is the tool of choice.

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Common problem is video drivers. Try with nomodeset.

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I’d be very interested in reviewing documented changes in the installation media. Douyou have any links? How is this accomplished when the media checks return the same hashes when on the Ventoy thumb drive?

I concur that undocumented binary blobs are at least mildly concerning from a security standpoint, but again, I’d be interested in perusing anything more than speculation on nefarious behavior.

Interesting that 2 supposedly supported upgrade methodologies get ignored because an unsupported methodology exhibiting the same behavior was mentioned.

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That was the magic incantation. Unfortunately, the issue persists after the upgrade is complete.
I wasn’t expecting that as I didn’t have this problem with 15.5. Apparently the Radeon driver shipped with 15.6 no longer supports the Radeon RX570.

I guess I’ll revert to 15.5 until 15.6 has a working driver.

# lspci -s 07:00.0 -vvxxx
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Tul Corporation / PowerColor Radeon RX 570 4G [Red Dragon]
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 255
        Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Region 2: Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
        Region 4: I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256]
        Region 5: Memory at fcf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Expansion ROM at fcf40000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
                        ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ Unsupported+
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <1us
                        ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp+
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
                DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF Not Supported
                         AtomicOpsCap: 32bit+ 64bit+ 128bitCAS-
                DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR+, OBFF Disabled
                         AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn-
                LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 8GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis-
                         Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS-
                         Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB
                LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete+, EqualizationPhase1+
                         EqualizationPhase2+, EqualizationPhase3+, LinkEqualizationRequest-
        Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
        Capabilities: [150 v2] Advanced Error Reporting
                UESta:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UEMsk:  DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol-
                CESta:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
                CEMsk:  RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- NonFatalErr+
                AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap+ ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap+ ECRCChkEn-
                        MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap-
                HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
        Capabilities: [200 v1] #15
        Capabilities: [270 v1] #19
        Capabilities: [2b0 v1] Address Translation Service (ATS)
                ATSCap: Invalidate Queue Depth: 00
                ATSCtl: Enable+, Smallest Translation Unit: 00
        Capabilities: [2c0 v1] Page Request Interface (PRI)
                PRICtl: Enable+ Reset-
                PRISta: RF- UPRGI- Stopped+
                Page Request Capacity: 00000020, Page Request Allocation: 00000020
        Capabilities: [2d0 v1] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
                PASIDCap: Exec+ Priv+, Max PASID Width: 10
                PASIDCtl: Enable- Exec- Priv-
        Capabilities: [320 v1] Latency Tolerance Reporting
                Max snoop latency: 1048576ns
                Max no snoop latency: 1048576ns
        Capabilities: [328 v1] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
                ARICap: MFVC- ACS-, Next Function: 1
                ARICtl: MFVC- ACS-, Function Group: 0
        Capabilities: [370 v1] L1 PM Substates
                L1SubCap: PCI-PM_L1.2+ PCI-PM_L1.1+ ASPM_L1.2+ ASPM_L1.1+ L1_PM_Substates+
                          PortCommonModeRestoreTime=0us PortTPowerOnTime=170us
                L1SubCtl1: PCI-PM_L1.2- PCI-PM_L1.1- ASPM_L1.2- ASPM_L1.1-
                           T_CommonMode=0us LTR1.2_Threshold=32768ns
                L1SubCtl2: T_PwrOn=170us
        Kernel modules: amdgpu
00: 02 10 df 67 06 00 10 00 ef 00 00 03 10 00 80 00
10: 0c 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 e0 00 00 00 00
20: 01 e0 00 00 00 00 f0 fc 00 00 00 00 8c 14 79 23
30: 00 00 f4 fc 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 01 00 00
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 50 08 00 8c 14 79 23
50: 01 58 03 f6 08 00 00 00 10 a0 12 00 a1 8f 2c 01
60: 3f 29 09 00 03 09 44 00 40 00 03 11 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 09 70 00
80: 00 04 00 00 0e 00 00 00 03 00 1f 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 05 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Thanks,
ron

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I was planning to upgrade several machines and I live in an area where the best bandwidth I can get is 25Mbps down/3Mbps up with a bonded pair of DSL lines. While downloading the full DVD is painfully slow, so is a network install of multiple machines

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