I performed the upgrade from Leap 15.6 on the 13th of October 2025 – after the Leap 16.0 Packman repository became available.
On this (current) system:
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 16.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.0-160000.5-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (29.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics
Manufacturer: ASUS
- Followed the instructions in the “SDB:System upgrade” document.
- Before performing the upgrade, got rid of my Oracle VirtualBox VMs – including a Windows 10 VM –
Experienced a complete system hang during the deletion of my Microsoft account – had to use the magic SysRq sequence to reboot – more later.
Removed the virtualbox package. - Used the “opensuse-migration-tool” “dry-run” to check if “all OK” – nothing not OK found.
In addition to the “openSUSE” repositories –
repo-oss; repo-non-oss; repo-openh264 [the ones which move to cdn.opensuse.org with Leap 16]
I also had the following repositories enabled:
Build_Service:_PHP:_Applications; Packman Essentials; Graphics_Project; Hardware:Tools; KDE:Extra; Multimedia:Libs; Security_project; VideoLAN_libdvdcss - Performed the upgrade – the Migration Tool didn’t offer the option to use SELinux – the “dry-run” did …
- During the upgrade, after the RPM package was upgraded, the following rpm error was being reported in /var/log/zypp/history:
“error: Key 70af9e8139db7c82 (SuSE Package Signing Key build@suse.de) expired on 2024-09-20 10:21:47” - RPM refused to erase the “apache2-mod_php7” package – more below …
- The system rebooted into Leap 16 and allowed a KDE Plasma 6 Wayland login.
Clean-up after the upgrade:
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“zypper verify” failed, stopped with an error, didn’t do anything because of “apache2-mod_php7”
Finally solved it by manually deleting the files in the package and then using “rpm --erase --justdb apache2-mod_php7”.
Maybe, if I had executed “rpm --rebuilddb” before the upgrade, the issue wouldn’t have appeared. -
The “SuSE Package Signing Key” issue also disappeared after cleaning up the Apache(2) PHP7 issue …
I then went through the “rpmconfigcheck”; “zypper verify”; “zypper packages unneeded|orphaned|system” exercises.
The system is currently running fine – I did have some “new experiences” with the change from KDE Plasma 5 on X11 to KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland – but, nothing really dramatic …
- The newest digiKam is running fine.
- A Java based Home Banking and Club Management application is running fine.
- LibreOffice is running fine.
- Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium are both behaving correctly.
KDE Kontact KOrganizer has an issue: <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510605>
- I’m waiting for the newer KDE Plasma 6 version to appear on Leap 16 –
Everything else in the KDE PIM is running fine – only the “To-Do list” is misbehaving …
The system hang mentioned above – is:
Okt 20 17:43:19 kernel: amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
Okt 20 17:43:46 kernel: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#5 stuck for 27s! [ksystemstats:80460]
I suspect that, this was also the cause of the hang on Leap 15.6, which has become more apparent with the Leap 16 Kernel.
- There seems to be some Work-In-Progress for the AMD GPU microcode and, there seems to be a new BIOS version for the Asus Mainboard being worked on.
I’m waiting with baited breath for both Firmware changes to become available.
If they don’t, I’ll probably have to purchase a new Mainboard and CPU/GPU …