I installed Tumbleweed a few months back, I have not been able to update the system because after the update when Iogin I get an X cursor and no applications can launch.
I have to rollback the update each time.
Im not sure how to fix this.
to select a different display manager. If you don’t have other, try to install xdm (sudo zypper in xdm) and then select it. Then reboot your machine (sudo reboot). If you can login but gnome can’t start, then press again Crtl+Alt+F1 login and run
I got stuck at the login screen, I could not login when I selected xdm as the displymanager. I was able to enter my username but I was not able to enter the password or maybe I did but I did not see the character placeholders and when I submitted it returned me to the login screen
I suppose you refers to xdm right? In this login screen you don’t see placeholders when enter the password, so no problem with this. So try to change the desktop with the command: