I just did a zypper dup which updated to 20240311-2001.1 (the openSUSE-release version). I could see that this removed a lot of plasma5 packages and replaced them with plasma6.
Half way through the update (done in a konsole within KDE) the desktop closed. I checked that zypper had completed before logging in again. The desktop did start, but I was missing some panel widgets - audio volume and the network manager. Networking was not working. I tried to find/add a network manager widget, but couldn’t see it. YaST is showing the network manager is configured, but there are no other options to select (other than disabling the network).
Rebooting leaves me in a state where KDE starts, but there are no panels (that’s with X11 and Wayland). IceWM will start.
The repos I have are Packman Essentials, repo-non-oss, repo-openh264, repo-oss, update-tumbleweed (plus Skype and VSCode).
Is there any way out of this pickle, short of a re-installation?
Okay thanks, that looks like it will help, but to get there I have to get wifi/network working. Is there a way to manually start the network manager in this state?
Chances are that you have an incomplete upgrade. If your system successfully rebooted (you are lucky) login to a TTY terminal (CTRL+ALT+F4 for instance) and do a sudo zypper dup
to see if anything missing gets installed.
Yes, that worked - ie. I set up the networking with nmcli, and then zypper ref/dup again, which added some missing packages (they were cached, so it looks like the install crashed or stopped).
The desktop is now a mess, but that’s “just” a matter of cleaning it up, I hope.
