Am I really the only person having problems with kernel 4.5.0-1.1 ?
This was installed by automatic upgrades on March 18 into my current version of Tumbleweed. I am unable to boot into a graphical desktop with this kernel, although the earlier one (4.4.3-1.1) works fine.
I downloaded Tumbleweed release 20160320, made a completely new install, and am still unable to boot. Since a new release has only one kernel, I have no older one to fall back to.
Is there a solution, and have others had this problem ?
If you are able to boot to a terminal, you can invoke yast in ncurses(text) mode or use zypper to explore other kernels which might be available in your configured repos
Kernel 4.5.0-1.1 should work, even on 32bit systems (the kernel was broken on 32bit for a while now, that prevented Tumbleweed from being updated at all, but it has been fixed recently and snapshot 20160320 been released).
Could you please be a bit more specific than that you cannot boot to the graphical desktop?
So the system boots to text mode, right? Or does it not boot at all?
What graphics card/driver are you using?
If it’s a proprietary one (nvidia, fglrx), you might have to reinstall it after a kernel update, or it might not support the new kernel at all yet.
I installed Tumbleweed 64-bit last night on a HP G7 laptop with Linux Mint 17.3 as the first OS. I let the automatic update install the new kernel, and then could not boot at all. Selecting the previous kernel from the boot menu, however, works and Tumbleweed starts up normally.
Sorry, I am a complete idiot! My Suse is indeed running in VirtualBox, and I have been told that support for the new 4.5.* kernel will be available in the next release of VBox. Thanks to all for your replies.