Hi guys. My tumbleweed installation can’t update Mesa using discovery:
Dependency resolution failed:
the installed Mesa-32bit-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided the installed Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa-dri = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided the installed Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa-gallium = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided
Is this a problem of my particular system? Or some bad dependencies tat OpenSuse will fix with future updates?
I did zypper fresh, and zypper update using Konsole
The following 10 package updates will NOT be installed:
libgbm1 librist4 Mesa Mesa-dri Mesa-gallium Mesa-libEGL1 Mesa-libGL1 MozillaThunderbird MozillaThunderbird-openpgp-librnp vlc-codec-fluidsynth
Nothing to do.
This is interesting, I didn’t even know this existed:
Here the output:
ocalhost:~> sudo zypper ref && sudo zypper dup
Repository ‘Main Repository (NON-OSS)’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Main Repository (OSS)’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Main Update Repository’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Packman’ is up to date.
Repository ‘Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed)’ is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more information about this command.
Computing distribution upgrade…
3 Problems:
Problem: 1: the installed Mesa-32bit-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: Mesa-24.2.6-392.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
Problem: 2: the installed Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa-dri = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided
deleted providers: Mesa-dri-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.3.x86_64
not installable providers: Mesa-dri-24.2.6-392.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
Mesa-dri-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.5.i586[packman]
Problem: 3: the installed Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa-gallium = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided
deleted providers: Mesa-gallium-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.3.x86_64
not installable providers: Mesa-gallium-24.2.6-392.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
Mesa-gallium-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.5.i586[packman]
Problem: 1: the installed Mesa-32bit-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 requires ‘Mesa = 24.2.6’, but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: Mesa-24.2.6-392.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
Solution 1: install Mesa-24.2.6-392.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
replacing Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
Solution 2: deinstallation of Mesa-32bit-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64
Solution 3: install Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.i586 despite the inferior architecture
Solution 4: keep obsolete Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64
Solution 5: break Mesa-32bit-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/3/4/5/s/r/c/d/?] (c):
Some of your packages will be downgraded but this will change in the near future as these packages become maintained by OpenSuse. The reason for the downgrade is for a couple of reasons. 1. You are actively using these packages and so upgrading them via Zypper isn’t possible. 2. The vendor being referenced has an older version of the package in question.
You can check which packages that you are actively using, of which have changed by using:
zypper ps -s
For me, it was these packages:
PID | PPID | UID | User | Command | Service
-----+------+------+-------+------------------------+--------
2004 | 1887 | 1000 | jason | Xwayland
2079 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | ksmserver
2081 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kded6
2173 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | plasmashell
2205 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kactivitymanagerd
2207 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | gmenudbusmenuproxy
2208 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kaccess
2210 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | org_kde_powerdevil
2211 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | xdg-desktop-portal-kde
2212 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | xembedsniproxy
2425 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | xwaylandvideobridge
2436 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | DiscoverNotifier
2438 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kalendarac
2475 | 2474 | 1000 | jason | xdg-dbus-proxy
2478 | 2426 | 1000 | jason | bwrap
2514 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | lact
2726 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kwalletd6
3589 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | plasma-discover
4678 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | firefox
5435 | 1831 | 1000 | jason | kitty
5449 | 5435 | 1000 | jason | bash
I get that Linux can be overwhelming, I used to use it as a software engineer but this is the first time I switched to it full time on my personal PC.
Since you’re new, a word of advice, some people on these forums won’t be super helpful, they would rather tell you what you are doing wrong rather than what to do right. Which can be helpful for learning the hard way but this can also isolate you from the community. Stack Overflow does the same thing.
Thankfully this is a relatively minor issue to run into but when you eventually break your system (like everyone does at least once), be aware that these forums can be brutally combative.
Just as a note, you don’t need to know what all of these commands do, but I highly recommend you take some time to learn the basics of package management, repositories and what they are/how to use them. I also recommend getting used to using the terminal. The Linux Terminal is very powerful and can make or break your system.
Try to build from source whenever possible, install packages manually, and customize to your hearts desire. Stick with it and before you know it, you will be pulling Linux knowledge out of your head like its nothing.
If you need any help, feel free to reach out to me.
This actually broke the system real time. Started uninstalling everything (608 packages) and the system died on me real time and froze.
I am back on windows and it’ll take a while for me to try again. Just too many broken things. I really tried my best and probably should have read more information, but thing is I have 4 kids and little time to fix things.
That’s so nice to say, and unfortunatelly I felt it myself in this very community. Unfortunatelly I need a system that just works for my specific PC configuracion and looks like is mission impossible at the moment. Back to Windows 11 for now.
What is great about OpenSuse and just Linux in general is you can rollback to a previous version. Linux knows when you are about to break something and does a great job of keeping up with your desktop state.
Just restart or hard power off your system and in the boot screen select “Load from a read-only snapshot”. If you do not see this, then try to access a terminal where you can.
After booting into a read-only snapshot, you can open a terminal from there and list your current snapshots using snapper:
sudo snapper list
Then you use the snapshot number to rollback to before things broke. Please make sure you select the right snapshot number.:
sudo snapper rollback <Whatever snapshot you chose here>
for example:
sudo snapper rollback 114
Then of course:
sudo reboot
It happens all the time, sorry you are having so many issues, man.
Also, this is my mistake, I should’ve mentioned this in my previous message but mesa-drivers are important. Uninstalling everything like that at once can cause some issues so you have to be sure that you have conflicting packages already installed before proceeding to remove existing ones. This is a rare occurrence but it can happen.
This was just an optional thing if the previous steps gave you any errors. That was my bad for not doing my due diligence and for that I apologize.
I still recommend sticking with Linux. It can be a headache and takes some time to get used to but if you do not have the time to give, I understand wanting to go back to Windows.
Hey! I must say this is hands down the absolute easiest way to roll back a system. I am really impressed. I have been able to just pick up a snap from yesterday night, and boom. All back to “normal”.
I really appreciate your tenacity on helping me (I really mean it) and thanks to it I am back to OpenSuse
No need to apologize for anything! It is 100% my fault for not reading more documentation and understanding what was I doing. Luckily for me OpenSuse had my back covered with automatic snapshots. Again, I’m still amazed but how easy was to recover the system.
I will now concentrate again on your previous instructions and see if I can fix those mesa update issues.
I should note that you are using Packman, which seems to have jumped the gun and uploaded Mesa 24.2.7 early. This usually makes updates fail until the Tumbleweed repos catch up, which they will when 20241120 releases. Just sit tight until then.
I’m facing the same issue, but it can be resolved if I uninstall Steam apparently.
Resolving dependencies...
Computing distribution upgrade...
The following 50 packages are going to be upgraded:
audit-rules avahi branding-openSUSE emacs-auctex grub2-branding-openSUSE libavahi-client3 libavahi-client3-32bit
libavahi-common3 libavahi-common3-32bit libavahi-core7 libncurses6 libncurses6-32bit libOSMesa8
libreoffice-branding-openSUSE libsignal libsolv-tools-base libvlc5 libvlccore9 libvulkan_intel libvulkan_intel-32bit
libvulkan_radeon libvulkan_radeon-32bit Mesa-vulkan-device-select Mesa-vulkan-device-select-32bit ncurses-devel
ncurses-utils openSUSE-release openSUSE-release-appliance-custom plymouth-branding-openSUSE python311-yt-dlp
ruby-solv signal-desktop signal-libringrtc tack terminfo terminfo-base terminfo-iterm terminfo-screen veracrypt
veracrypt-lang vlc vlc-codec-fluidsynth vlc-codec-gstreamer vlc-codecs vlc-noX vlc-qt vlc-vdpau
wallpaper-branding-openSUSE yast2-qt-branding-openSUSE yt-dlp
The following product is going to be upgraded:
openSUSE Tumbleweed 20241118-0 -> 20241119-0
The following 5 packages are going to be downgraded:
Mesa Mesa-dri Mesa-gallium Mesa-libEGL1 Mesa-libGL1
The following 5 packages are going to change vendor:
Mesa http://packman.links2linux.de -> openSUSE
Mesa-dri http://packman.links2linux.de -> openSUSE
Mesa-gallium http://packman.links2linux.de -> openSUSE
Mesa-libEGL1 http://packman.links2linux.de -> openSUSE
Mesa-libGL1 http://packman.links2linux.de -> openSUSE
The following package is going to be REMOVED:
steam
50 packages to upgrade, 5 to downgrade, 1 to remove, 5 to change vendor.
Package download size: 116,4 MiB
Package install size change:
| 475,2 MiB required by packages that will be installed
-2,8 MiB | - 477,9 MiB released by packages that will be removed
Backend: classic_rpmtrans
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): n
I’m probably just going to wait until it magically resolves itself in the future though.
OpenSUSE is pure open source. Note the name. There are codec (multimedia) that have patents or other encumbrances. Because openSUSE only allows open source in it’s distribution Packman was created to allow anyone that may want or need encumbered things to install them .
Note also the tumbleweed is cutting edge and thus more prone to these little disruptions . If you want more stable use leap. Or, we have now slowroll which updates maybe once per month rather then almost daily.
Hey!