Hi. Just to report that a couple of VM running Leap 15.6 (which was being online upgraded all the way since openSUSE 13.2) failed to boot properly after upgrading them to Leap 16.
The upgrade process with zypper dup was fine and does not showed errors, but when restarting the machines both didn’t started properly (weren’t reachable by ssh).
The console showed that systemd was going to single user mode.
The softlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target was pointing to a non existent file (don’t remember the name but was like runlevel3 o something like that)
The fix was entering single user mode and run:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
and reboot.
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Thanks for this! I had the exact same problem on a old system first installed in about 2014 and kept updated.
The broken symlink was /etc/systemd/system/default.target-> /usr/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target
Your solution worked perfectly for me as well.
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Welcome to the forum!! And your feedback is very much appreciated, for those upgrading to Leap 16 at the early stage!!
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