Please note: When you are told to use a TTY, what they are telling you to do is to press Ctrl-Alt-F1, log in there as root, then run:
zypper dup
Do NOT use the terminal of your desktop.
Personally, my preference is to reboot to a root console, no GUI running at all.
To do that, when you reach the grub menu, hit the e key.
That will open an editor for the highlighted menu entry.
Scroll down to the line that starts with “linux”, hit the END key to get to the end of the line, type a space and the number 3.
Hit F10 to boot. You will get to a CLI boot prompt. Log in as root, then run
If you tell wrong and outdated stuff, someone has to step in and provide correct informations. The experienced users here in the forum need to deal with the issues that was created by bad advice…
Not me, but the last decade of development tells you that telinit is deprecated. Read the docs.
And you should know that you don’t have to type the complete command. Some fancy stuff like bash completion exists also since ages…
Everything seems to start with “grantleetheme”, likely a graphics theme you installed and that might not be compatible (yet) with the new Plasma6.
Can you just uninstall that theme (with all its dependencies if any) before attempting the upgrade again?
Also, do you have extra repositories enabled? Since some of those might not be yet up to date, it is best to temporarily disable them, do the upgrade with the standard repos only using:
zypper dup --allow-vendor-change
and then re-enable what you need and switch packages to the “custom” repositories.
And please follow the advice in the posts above (use a virtual terminal etc.).
We will not really interfere with your way of living. We only interfere when when you propagate your way of living as a good advice to others. In that case we have to warn others when we think that is not a good practice. We are however not interested if you carry on as you did all the time.
The most outspoken example is of course when people show up telling that they do everything as root and have no normal user running on their system. We of course then jump in to explain that that is a big NoNo. Not for the benefit of that user (he probably can’t be converted and why would we bother, it is his system, he can trow it out of the window when he likes so) but to keep newbies, etc. from doing the same.
Haha. You know what? I completely overlooked the ability to switch to the TTY at the login screen! Yes, much more convenient. Thank you for waking me up!
You know what? I completely overlooked the ability to switch to the TTY at the login screen! Yes, much more convenient. Thank you for waking me up!