Update Failure, Then Bugzilla Account Creation Failure

[dmvdoug]

I tried recently to apply all the updates available in Discover. That failed out of the gate, and when I tried to create a Bugzilla account, I couldn’t verify it.

Here’s some basic information:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240419
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Kernel Version: 6.8.5-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

Here’s what happened when I tried to update all the checked items in Discover:

Dependency resolution failed:

the to be installed openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA-20240510.6bfa644-1.1.x86_64 conflicts with ‘namespace:otherproviders(openSUSE-repos-NVIDIA)’ provided by the to be installed openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA-20240510.6bfa644-1.1.x86_64

Ok. I can’t find anything with ‘Slowroll’ in any of the listed updates. I had a similar message that included both Slowroll and MicroOS, and I was able to uncheck the repos-Micro update, and that pared it down to the above. I have no idea what to uncheck to get rid of it because I can’t find anything with Slowroll in it.

Then I went to Bugzilla. Ok, I have to create an account. I did so. It sent me a verification email. When I attempted to verify my Bugzilla account by clicking on the link provided, I got the following message:

An error occurred

Could not open the module. There is not enough memory available on the server. Please try again later.

The same popup occurs when I try to verify manually using the manual code included in the verification email.

Me: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hendersj]

For access to Bugzilla, just use the same account you use for the forums. There’s no need to create a new account to access Bugzilla.

What is the output of zypper lr -d?

I would use zypper dup to perform the update rather than Discover. If you try that, what happens?

[dmvdoug]

Thanks for the command-line and Bugzilla tips.

I solved my own issue by using the YaST2 graphical tool and manually resolving the dependency problem with the Slowroll-related dependency. I just told it not to install that at all, and Yast updated everything that Discover wanted to update (except two Boost packages).

Can I ask a non-specific follow-up? Is it generally better to just use the command line tools and commands rather than rely on the graphical frontend stuff with OpenSuse/Tumbleweed? Mint sort of emphasizes the GUI, distro-provided tools (although command line is available of course). If that’s a more reliable/dependable route for Tumbleweed, that’s fine (and good to know, so I don’t waste time in the future :)).

[hui]

Via commandline is more verbose and you have the zypper solver. Discover is a little bit limited in such cases…