After upgrading 15.6 to 16 with zypper I am now locked out of the system. I cannot connect with ssh as it closes the connection after a minute and a console session at the box gives me the password prompt and returns a timeout message after 60 seconds.
If I launch into single user mode I can get in as root and running journalctl with the -e and -xb flags doesn’t show me anything that gives me a clue.
I even looked at doing a clean install but the agama installer is IMHO, garbage at the moment. I’d like to fix my existing setup if possible. Does anybody have any suggestions?
Solved. I have no idea how or why but it just started working again. I checked config files against the rpm-new copies, ran journalctl -g pam, nothing there, checked var/log/messages, no hints there. I have yet to test that all the services are working but here’s hoping.
I have one more server on 15.6 where it will stay until the end of support.
And the problem came back after the next reboot so I solved the problem permanently with ubuntu server LTS. As an opensuse user since 1999 it is sad in a way. If opensuse ever sort out partitioning in the mess that is Agama I might migrate this box back. Until then, tschuss.