TW update (zypper dup) has crashed two of my machines this morning

[hui]

@Budgie2

So all I have to do is issue the command but can I do it from a gui terminal or go to a TTY ?

For the snapper rollback you need to stay in the GUI terminal:

2. To perform the rollback, run

sudo snapper rollback

and reboot afterward. On the boot screen, choose the default boot entry to reboot into the reinstated system. A snapshot of the file system status before the rollback is created. The default subvolume for root will be replaced with a fresh read-write snapshot.

[Budgie2]

Hi,
You are a champion. My machine is back up and so far so good it seems to be working OK. A thousand thanks.

Sadly I am not having the same experience with my laptop as it is only working with IceWM desktop. How do I get back to my normal desktop WM. I hardly ever use IceWM
and I just don’t wish to have to learn new tricks. Will explore some more and post new thread if I cannot solve it.

I need to read the snapper manual again but it seems for my experience so far that all my snapshots may be RO until I use rollback command. Is this the correct default situation or is my configuration faulty?

Many many thanks again.
Budgie2

[Fraser_Bell]

@grg

Oops… I was not in TTY terminal Thanks for clearing this up for me. I thought a Konsole window was the equivalent of a TTY window. Followed the TTY directions (correctly) and now all is well. Thanks

@grg Yes, that is a common misunderstanding for new users and others not that deep into solving the mysteries. It took me awhile to realize that one back when I started out.

[pavinjoseph]

Wouldn’t it be less confusing to say the console?
Or may be not as Gnome is switching from the Terminal app to Console sometime in the future.

How about GUI session and TUI/CLI session?

TTYs are confusing because the user is already in one with a graphical shell, so they might be thinking why change to a different one or they may not be aware of the concept at all.

[OrsoBruno]

Once upon a time CTRL+ALT+F1 … CTRL+ALT+F7 were known as VT1 … VT7 but here “Virtual Terminal 1…7” is about as confusing unless one knows that Xterm, Konsole etc. are “Terminal Emulators” strictly speaking… and can tell the difference