I have had Slowroll installed in virt-manager for something like 4 days. It worked well, but since yesterday, after the scrolling boot screen, it stays black and asks for a login, which it never did before.
After I type in my username, it asks for my password, and then I get this:
What does this mean and how can I get Slowroll to behave normally again?
Login as root and root-password and after that update with:
zypper dup
After update, type in
reboot
Does it now start in graphical Desktop?
What do you mean by that? I am the only user, and my username is user1. I never set any other username/login name.
root is the administration level user in Linux
Root password is most likely the same as your users but depends on options used when you installed.
I understand that, but what did @Sauerland mean by “login as root”? I assume they mean “use your root username”, but like I said, I only ever registered 1 username, which is “user2”.
root user name is simply root 
Here is the result:
Presumably the password is the password I set during installation?
BTW, I don’t understand the sarcastic “Have a lot of fun …”, but that is beside the point.
@Ngungu Yes, it’s the minimal setup, again that’s why Combustion is suggested to set the system up how your wanting to use…
That has been the openSUSE motto for ever… Enjoy and have a lot of fun, nothing sarcastic about it.
The thing with Aeon is you should hardly ever need to be at the command line like that, the system takes care of itself (the whole point) you as the user get to enjoy the desktop and add flatpaks or use distrobox etc
Having never heard of Combustion, I googled “combustion app in computing” and all I found is that it is an app for the Combustion Predictive Thermometer.
BTW, this particular thread refers to Slowroll, which did behave in my VM, then did not anymore, as the screenshots above show. That came as a surprise because from a VM point of view there is nothing special about Slowroll, as far as I understand.
I did get that same black screen when I tried to run MicroOS.
@Ngungu See https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MicroOS/Combustion and https://github.com/openSUSE/combustion
Thank you. For someone like me that is a complex system.
I think I’ll have to pass up trying out MicroOS+gnome.
Many thanks for your help and patience.
It has not solved my problem: Slowroll in a VM does not boot beyond that black screen and I don’t understand what the info it requires.
I am saddened that you will not continue in your resolution of your problem. I was hoping, that once you gained access as “root” (you will know you are “root” by the colour (it is now red)), you would have followed Sauerland’s advice and run “zypper dup”. And if successful, followed by a “reboot”. May I ask you this favour? Could you please continue?
An interested member.
Hi Kerijan, I am pleasantly surprised by your reply, even a little bit honored (
) that you try to persuade me not to give up. So, I will persist but in that case I ask you to stick with me until we get to the bottom of it, one way or the other.
Yes, I got the red color but did not realize I should have then typed “zypper dup” – thanks for pointing that out.
So, I did exactly that, and tried to resolve the issue of those obsolete keys by following the suggestions made in the terminal. This is the output I got:
Tell me if I am wrong but I find this terminal output confusing, to put it mildly. How should I proceed?
Seems you are using obsolete repos show
zypper lr -d
It “is” confusing when one is at the beginning of their linux journey. When you take on this journey, patience will be a large part of your life. It will strengthen you. I read it as:
# rpm -c GPG-PUBKEY-VERSION
should use one of the listed pubkeys, for example:
# rpm -c gpg-pubkey-f661cdcb-63ab09ad
But, I’m not as well versed, as some of our other esteemed members, in all things linux.
I am running Slowroll in a VM, where I installed it from an .iso image files that I downloaded from openSuse’s website.
I do not expect those to be out of date, and if they are, to be able to update them easily without having to jump through hoops like this.
Another thing that amazes me is that it is not even possible to run Slowroll, or any of the other openSuse Linux version, from a live USB stick. So, how is one even supposed to do a chroot? I know that is another question and is off topic, but many/most distros allow you to at least run them from a live USB stick.
There are Tumbleweed and Leap live images. Slowroll is Tumbleweed at the end.
So, please tell me where I can find a Slowroll live image.