The weekend before last I did zypper dup on my wife’s pc. It was uneventful except conflicts with 4 Packman repos which I took option 1 to use openSUSE repos.
On reboot I got a brick with no internet connection, no ribbon bars or application menu. After a mild panic I found I could use keyboard shortcut to access a terminal and backup home. I then tried to zypper with the other options which was probably a mistake as it has corrupted my snapshots. Attempting to rollback gave me internet but no ribbon bars or application menu and now no terminal. I downloaded snapshot 20241125 to a USB from another computer and booted from it and tried to do an upgrade which produced the same result with repos enabled but installed without repos enabled. However I still don’t have a desktop or internet access.
Everything seems to be failing on Dbus, snapper status returns –no -dbus and journal reports dbus.socket:Socket service dbus.service not loaded,refusing.
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The folks who know much more than I do will probably be along shortly to help. In the meantime, here are a few things you can try.
To verify there is no terminal, have you tried CTRL+ALT+F4?
Normally, this opens a console window where you can login and run usual commands. Sometimes useful to just run top and see what is running and what is not. q quits top. If you can’t reach a console window using that type of shortcut, then yes, indeed, something is definitely broken worse.
You have a snapshot already and you’ve backed up your /home, so for drastic measures, you could also try a fresh install of latest Tumbleweed on top of the former root partition. I’ve done this successfully in the past. Having separate partitions for root & home is helpful here, since you can overwrite the root partition and be able to mount home just as if nothing ever happened. If you don’t have separate partitions, then you will restore home from your backup.
Thanks, I used to be set up with a separate home partition back with 11.4 but that was part of the reason the rolling release of Tumbleweed was so attractive.
Seems dbus-daemon got replaced by dbus-broker but the service was not enabled. After enabling with systemctl, network and all dependencies now start on my machine.