Snapshots not loading on selection

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New to openSUSE, but it came highly recommended, so let’s give it a whirl :slight_smile:

The possibility to create snapshots and rollback in case I mess anything up sound like a brilliant idea. So before I start properly tinkering with the system, I would like to make sure that system is working.

Perhaps I’m looking at this the wrong way, or missing some obvious point, but somewhere something goes ploink. Or doesn’t. End result is no snapshot for me. From what I’ve read, after selecting a snapshot it should boot into a read-only version of that snapshot. Not happening.

Snapper is working, I have automated and manual snapshots in the system.

  # │ Type   │ Pre # │ Date                          │ User │ Used Space │ Cleanup │ Description           │ Userdata
────┼────────┼───────┼───────────────────────────────┼──────┼────────────┼─────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────
 0  │ single │       │                               │ root │            │         │ current               │
 1+ │ single │       │ Sat 27 Jul 2024 19:52:29 CEST │ root │   4,24 MiB │         │ first root filesystem │
 2  │ single │       │ Sat 27 Jul 2024 19:59:41 CEST │ root │  47,80 MiB │ number  │ after installation    │ important=yes
 7  │ pre    │       │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 09:24:39 CEST │ root │ 208,00 KiB │ number  │ yast snapper          │
 8- │ single │       │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 09:25:52 CEST │ root │  16,00 KiB │         │ Clean install         │
 9  │ post   │     7 │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 09:25:58 CEST │ root │  80,00 KiB │ number  │                       │
16  │ pre    │       │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 16:22:22 CEST │ root │  16,00 KiB │ number  │ zypp(packagekitd)     │ important=no
17  │ pre    │       │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 16:22:56 CEST │ root │  16,00 KiB │ number  │ zypp(packagekitd)     │ important=no
18  │ pre    │       │ Mon 29 Jul 2024 16:26:33 CEST │ root │  16,00 KiB │ number  │ zypp(zypper)          │ important=no

The boot menu shows the ‘Start bootloader from a read-only snapshot’ option. This took me a while to find, due to multiple entries. It was just out of the visual area. But hey, you live and learn.

That menu shows me the available snapshots.

I select the ‘Clean install’ one, press enter… a black terminal window quickly popups up and disappears, and I’m back in the main menu. Nothing else to choose than the default openSUSE entry for the current installation.

Video showing the boot sequence

How can I get hold of the contents of that terminal window to see whether there is any useful logging there? Or is there anything else I can check?

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I do not see anything wrong here.

No. you are not. You are in the grub menu of the snapshot you selected.

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Hold your horses. Just noticed that certain files are ‘unwritable’ after I boot into the installation which I expected to be the default openSUSE entry. That would indicate that this could still be the snapshot I’ve booted into. Not that there’s anything else indicating such a thing, but it could just be…

Then, apart from the menu not being very intuitive, everything is fine.

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sigh just realized that myself. Thanks for the quick reply, that explains it all. Then the ‘unwritable’ behavior makes total sense. And snapshotting works, hooray!

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