Tumbleweed broke after todays updates

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#1

Did todays updates (122 Tumbleweed related things) with no errors reported during the updates. Now when I try to boot it always goes directly to the recovery mode even if I try and boot with the previous kernel.
Any ideas to try other than reinstalling it all again?

Thanks,
Dave

#2

On Thu 08 Sep 2016 05:56:02 PM CDT, AmigaOS wrote:

Did todays updates (122 Tumbleweed related things) with no errors
reported during the updates. Now when I try to boot it always goes
directly to the recovery mode even if I try and boot with the previous
kernel.
Any ideas to try other than reinstalling it all again?

Thanks,
Dave

Hi
No need to re-install, boot from the pre update snapshot and once
booted snapper rollback <your snapshot number> and reboot…

Some folks having problems (ntpd), my update when fine system boots to
Gnome shell. Boot time acceptable (25 sec the DELL has a slow BIOS 6.5
seconds, and my conky systemd service takes a bit to turn on at 4
seconds).

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#3

It still will only boot to the recovery mode login. When I try any of the pre rollback and login to the recovery console and run “snapper rollback XXX” and then reboot it still boots only to the recovery console login. I tried it with 2 different snapshots and same thing each time.

Dave

#4

Finally got it booted. I had to go back to the oldest “pre” snapshot on the list. Now I am afraid to run the updates and hose it up again.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

#5

Hi
So if you look at ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log any hints there, also look through journalctl -b

Not using a proprietary graphics driver?

#6

Hi
Good thing about snapper and bootable snapshots… :wink:

Any non-standard repos that could have added something?

Maybe an incomplete mirror your directed too…? I would give it a whirl again… at least you know where to roll back to…

Disk not full? Have you configured snapper?

Manually run;


btrfs fi usage /
#7

Using the default Tumbleweed driver, its just an old nvidia 8400S board. The only thing the logs shows out of the ordinary is an NTP error due to a timeout.

#8

I have Intel graphics, and I get a similar issue after today’s update. if I wait a long time, it will start KDE, but the splash screen looks to be hung for the duration.

X error log looks like this:



   156.705] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
   156.706] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
   156.706] (EE)  
Fatal server error:
   156.706] (EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)  
   156.706] (EE)  
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support  
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.  
   156.706] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/edward/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
   156.706] (EE)  
   156.706] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
#9

Hi
Could be either ntp or the zsh update…

There should be an update in the update channel…

http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/x86_64/zsh-5.2-6.1.x86_64.rpm

#10

Plenty of disk space, no weird repositories and all the updates installed prior to it breaking were listed as “upgrading opensuse tumbleweed”.

I broke it again on purpose - I let it do the updates again and got the exact same result - boots to the recovery login. Another interesting thing it did both times is that it eliminated the 8 second grub delay so its almost impossible to get to the snapshots. Definitely something fishy with todays Tumbleweed update. I got the “ntp job failed due to exceeding timeout” error again also.

#11

Hi
Update zsh (see above post) and suggest disabling ntpd for the moment.

#12

It was ntp!

Here was the fix:

sudo rpm -Uhv --oldpackage http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.4.x86_64.rpm

This will install the previous version of ntp. It looks like a fix will be coming soon.

Thanks!

#13

I just came here to day the same thing. Uninstalling and reinstalling zsh made no difference. Uninstalling and reinstalling ntp fixed it. I used Yast and it did the trick.

Dave