How to switch from Wayland to X

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Something weird happen when I did the last update and I had to select “Wayland” to be able to boot in and continue the update.

Anyhow I see weird rending issues and OBS stop working and I just want to switch back to X, how can I do this?

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Do this at your login screen. Select the required session.

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Were u kicked out of the session when u were doing the update ?

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@oneman yes, It did a reboot, then I was presented with some error it could not find some file and each time I tired to login it would just reboot. Then I noticed at the top left corner some dropdown, so I selected Wayland and this allowed me to login. First time around, all I got was a complete black screen, no launchbar at the bottom. However my hotkeys continue to work and I could open the terminal and brower, zypper was not available.

So I then had to reinstall zypper using a RPM download, what a hot mess. After this I continue with the update process a few times more.

This is the 2nd time in 2 week zypper had pooched the update process and deleted itself, this is unacceptable.

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Thanks @deano_ferrari was able to login using X, I didn’t see the option at first. OBS is working again! :smiley:

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Thanks for the update. Glad to read of your success with this.

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Do you use a VT (also known as TTY) session to do your upgrades as recommended?
Please see:
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/heads-up-please-upgrade-tumbleweed-to-20240311-via-zypper-dup-in-a-tty/173121
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

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Yes I have been doing all my upgrades like this from the terminal since day 1, there is no excuse for deleting zypper during an upgrade.

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If this would really be the case, a bugreport would be needed. With logs and such…

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@devguy also what snapshot release where you upgrading from, recent, old?

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libzypp was apparently updated with snapshot 20240309, just after the virtiofs problem in snapshot 20240308, so this seems an aftershock similar to
https://forums.opensuse.org/t/zypper-not-working-anymore-this-is-related-to-the-virtiofsd-bug/172950

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@OrsoBruno yes, if one is going to skip snapshots, best to check what has been done between X and Y via the announcements (and forum posts) as to what you may hit, likewise, I would download first, switch to a VT, isolate the graphical target and then zypper dup

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@malcolmlewis from recent update, I usually dup every few days. I already did the fix for virtiofs which you help me with here :smiley:

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