Rescue Leap 16.0

[jhaskings]

Hi All,

Long time opensuse user. Just upgraded from 15.6 to 16.0, which went fine using the opensuse-migration-tool and everything went fine. I was messing around with the system to get virtualbox up and running again as I use it to host my smart home system with home assistant. Reading through some of the errors, I made a bonehead move of going into the yast software manager and just did a search for kvm and removed the packages it found (i know big mistake). I did some other things to get virtualbox up and running again and the home assistance was happy but I noticed some ohter system issues (from all the packages I removed earlier) and decided to reboot.

Now I’m at rescue mode, tried some various things to no avail. I downloaded the ISO and the old tried and true method to boot from the ISO and simply choose the upgrade option when installing, but noticed it’s not there anymore.

Any suggestions on if I can get my system back by a reinstall and preserving my settings and data? Thanks for any help that you can provide.

[deano_ferrari]

If your system uses the default Btrfs + Snapper layout , you may be able to recover it very easily, as openSUSE creates automatic snapshots before and after package operations. Does the GRUB menu offer the option to boot from a read-only snapshot? If so, and it can boot successfully, you can make it permanent with

sudo snapper rollback
reboot

[jhaskings]

saved my butt, thank you!