I accidentally installed a Tumbleweed program and the factory repo was added. Then I updated my system with “zypper update” and as you can expect everything is extremely unstable.
Can I restore my system with Snapper or do I have to reinstall? The first snapshot was probably created right after installation. This was a fresh install from a DVD.
Also, only two DEs (Gnome, IceVM) were installed on my system. After installing openSUSE 13.2 I had Gnome, KDE, Xfce, LXDE and IceVM at least.
Can you say if I can upgrade to the latest version of Gnome and how to install Leap’s KDE5 desktop?
I had done that myself before, but I removed the leap repos and added factory repos and did zypper up and zypper dup… after about 50 updates were completed, i stopped terminal and removed factory repos and added back the Leap repos and zypper up / zypper dup’ed quick. So I assume removing the Factory repos and adding Leap’s repos back, along with zypper up and zypper dup should work and get you back to Leap…? What I’ve been doing is move files to USB then to another tower for safe keeping, and only put on usb stick what I want to use or test in Leap etc… And reinstall which ever OS I’d like a fresh install of if I happen to make mistakes or mess things up. I’d move files from USB stick to other tower (Windows 7), format usb stick, and “burn” which ever OS onto the USB each time too.
if you are using btrfs on root snapper is your best choice, if you have the install dvd/usb you do not have to reinstall you can use zypper and do a distribution upgrade to the install dvd
because the DVD/USB URI is hardware related use yast to add and enable your install medium.
Snapper didn’t work because I couldn’t sign in and I wasn’t able to figure out rescue mode. I decided to start over, now I picked KDE desktop because Gnome version is rather old.
I would take disk image backups, but Clonezilla didn’t work with rRAID 0
The freeze happens on KDE desktop. By the way, should I avoid adding online repositories before installation?
This can’t be an user error, unless Brasero failed to burn the image to disk. Before installing that program I had to remove Icedax, does that matter?
Currently my SOP when to add online repos during install is
If the distro is fairly old (ie >1 year since launch), then I add online repos during install to avoid installing and then re-installing the updates after initial install. I include the Update repos for both OSS and non-OSS (which are not checked by default).
If the distro has been released very recently (as of today LEAP) or TW, I do not include online repos because the diff is minimal so I save time during the initial install by using only local source (DVD).
Typically, zypper or yast2 should resolve any incompatibilities. Are you saying that that yast2 or zypper didn’t inform you that Icedax should be removed or were you informed correctly?
As others have mentioned, resolving your initial problem accidentally upgrading to TW partially resulting in instability should ordinarily be resolved either
online by removing the TW repo and executing “zypper dup”
offline by removing the TW repo and running the repair option from your DVD. After a repair, you should doublecheck your repos and immediately execute a “zypper up” to properly restore system integrity because after the repair you’ll have original files which can be very old and inconsistent with any newer files you installed(because LEAP was just released, “zypper up” may not be necessary today but should be SOP).
Definitely not.
icedax is an Audio CD ripping tool, part of cdrkit.
Strange though, if I try to install brasero, icedax is not being removed.
In your case it probably got replaced by the original cdrtools counterpart. cdrkit is an old, now unmaintained, fork of cdrtools made because of supposed license problems back then. cdrtools should work better nowadays though in general, and has many improvements.
