Hello,
Yesterday I did a zypper dup and it only had a few updates. It came up with one problem stating that there was a problem with the installed “systemd”.
It only gave me 2 choices:
1 - Keep obsolete systemd.
2 - Remove entire systemd subsystem.
I chose the first choice and now when you try to boot it just goes to 3 green dots in the middle of the screen and no further. If I try recovery mode it goes into a loop displaying errors forever. If I try a rollback snapshot no change at all. So I can’t get in at all not even to root or cli.
I’m guessing I’m going to have to do a full reinstall but if. anyone knows an easier way I’d appreciate the help,
Yes but it flies by to fast to read it before it goes to a grey screen with 3 green dots and freezes.
In Recovery mode it just prints errors that scroll by to fast to red and it never stops.
And I cannot get to any kind of cli or to a login prompt.
The errors seem to have to do with systemd not working.
Ran into another problem - I created a bootable uSB stick to re-install TW but upon boot it has like negative 2 size fonts and I am vision impaired and even with magnification its unreadable to me. I’ve been using Opensuse for at least 15 years and I guess I’ll have to finally switch to something else. I hate to do it as over the years I’ve tried many different distro’s and always came back to Opensuse and I had everything set up in a way that worked really well for me.
When its in the forever loop with the errors mist of them are :Can’t open shared Library" errors if that helps any.
Is it possible for you to take an image with your smartphone or camera and post it here? We might get a better understanding what’s going on on your system.
Update:
I found a way to edit the grub script and change the font size. I tried using the recovery mode from the usb stick but still could not get into anything to run zypper commands. So I tried reinstalling it but without wiping the old date first. This worked me a few years ago when I had a different problem that locked me out. This time it didn’t work and got over 300 errors and the install crashed part way though with a “fatal error”.
So I guess a format and full install are the only way out.
But after 15 plus years with Opensuse I am also trying out some other distros as its been years since I looked at anything except Ubuntu which I used to run a music server on a mini pc. Ubuntu looks alike a “toy” compared to opensuse TW though so I don’t want to use it as a daily driver. Fortunately my daily pc is triple boot with Win11 pro and MacOSX and a now blank M2 previously occupied by TW. Tahoe to I have something else to use while deciding which way to go. One promising distro I checked out is “GhostBSD”. I played with it for a few hours and like it so far. Also before I retired I was always working in a UNIX environment going back to DEC11.70’s etc. The last time I went through a bunch of other distro’s I ended up giving up and stayed with Opensuse. So that may happen again.
I haven’t read everything, but when Plymouth starts and you get to the flashing green dots, you tried to enter the console with the key combination Ctrl+Alt+F3 and then from there zypper dup
I also tried to install a distro instead of another very similar distro but it crashed and everything went wrong so I format it and made a clean install
I used the same TW distro and the installed distrio was also TW and had been up to date but when I tried just installing over the top of it just got lots of errors until it got a fetal one and would not continue.A gew years ago I did the same thing and it actually worked and got me back up and running with minimal grief.
As I can’t find a way in to attempt to do any kind of repairs I think its toast and needs a new fresh complete install. I guess I can’t complain to much as its been pretty stable with only minor hiccups for the last few years but before that it did croak itself much the same way also after an update.
If you can use recovery mode use it and if you can get your files with any way try to get it and try a clean install.i have tried this from a month and it failed because many sensitive files and folders can be merged or there is two same system folders or files corrupts and do you made a /home and / partitions? If you do it you will install on / only and your /home (home folders and downloads) will be safe!.
