I thought it might be a good idea to migrate my Terra laptop from Leap 156 to Tumbleweed (bringing my laptop into line with my desktop.
The on-line update took about 5 hours with my 50 Mbps internet connection. However, the subsequent system reboot of the laptop did not reach the login step.
Recovery mode allows me to work in user and root accounts, but starting gnome results in a core dump with the message: No session bus running! Cannot continue.
What should I do now?
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250513#c2
The forum is full of the topics discussing it in the past couple of weeks.
Looks like it might be relevant to my case, but it’s waaaaay over my head. All I need just now is a workaround to get me running again until it is fixed permanently.
The link I provided describes workaround.
You mean the last entry? What editor should I use?
Assuming you have no special nsswitch.conf configuration, login as root, then issue:
mv /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf_backup
reboot
When you are in your usual graphical session you can still look at /etc/nsswitch.conf_backup to see if there is something special there or if you can simply delete it.
Anyway you can keep the backup there just in case you need it in the future.
Great. Thanks. That works in part. One problem with that is now I cannot switch user to root. My configuration has 2 other nsswitch.conf files. Is that a problem for your suggestion?
What are you trying to do? If you need root access just issue su -in a terminal, or switch to a VT via CTRL+ALT+Fn; “switching to root” in a graphical session is a bad idea.
You are right. I don’t usually go to root from a graphical session. I mistakenly thought I might need root privileges to read the nsswitch files quickly from the convenience of nautilus, and possibly edit a file as per workaround suggestion from the above bug discussion.
No, you can read it, even edit it, then on file save you will be asked for the root password and that’s all.