How to update Tumbleweed?

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I switched to Tumbleweed from Leap in October and have never managed to update it. Every time I try I just get a black screen with a flashing cursor in the top left corner.

I thought it was because I’ve got nvidia drivers installed so I uninstalled them and I still get the black screen/flashing cursor.

I tried a few days ago (with the nvidia drivers installed) and I managed to get to a command line… I think I disabled the TPM and used nomodeset but when I was there I couldn’t get into a GUI. It would throw up cluttered (lines of text all over the place) text about xserver not loading.

I’m still convinced it’s the nvidia drivers… maybe I didn’t uninstall them properly when I tried that.

Than you for any help!

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How do you try to update it? What method, or what command, do you use? Do you try in a terminal while TW is running? Or … ???

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… just the usual ‘zypper dup’.

My preferred way would be with --no-recommends so things like Gimp doesn’t get installed but at this point anything will do!

I’ve also tried ‘zypper update’ but it’s the same result. I think I tried the Gnome software method once too but it’s something I never normally use, and it failed.

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That is wrong for Tumbleweed.

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Run in a virtual terminal ( CTRL+ALT+F1 for instance) or from within a GUI (which can leave you with a broken system at times)?

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Are you running the command as your regular user account?

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I doubt that very much because:

henk@boven:~> zypper dup
Root privileges are required to run this command.
henk@boven:~>
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I’ve worked it out… only took half a dozen attempts over 4 months!

Onboard graphics were enabled in BIOS. I disabled that and dup worked without any hiccups at all. I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me earlier… in the 9 years I’ve had this motherboard it’s never caused an issue!

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Good. Because, the next question I was about to ask was about your CMOS settings.

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