Upgrading from Leap 15.6 to 16.0 minor question

English Install/Boot/Login
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I am still running Leap 15.6 but have just completed running the migration tool. It tells me that dry run completed, feel free to continue. Give me a clue. To continue what?

I have no idea if it all worked but I did rebuild database before I started as I had no idea of the vintage of what was on the machine and had no errors or issues whatsoever. Does this mean that when I reboot I will be on Leap 16.0?

I also noted that the migration tool offered Leap 16.0 and 16.1. Being cautious I opted for 16.0. At what point is upgrading to 16.1 a good idea and how is this upgrade done now?

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In the far future.

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Trying it does take less time than creating a topic here…

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@Budgie2:

Looking at the openSUSE Roadmap, Leap 16.1 is planned to be GA in October 2026: <Leap 16.1>

The “dry run” is just that – it only checks if, everything seems to be OK.
If it checked OK then, simply continue and allow the upgrade to proceed.

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The real upgrade after the dry run?

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The installer has a quirk, that it shows the message of „successfull dry-run“ after the real migration.

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Re-booting was fine but now I cannot log in. It accepts my pw but then retruns me to the login again. I recall something like this a while ago but cannot find the thread. The machine was indicating plasma Wayland so I tried switching to X11. The login then appeared to proceed but stalled with nothing happening. On these machines I have AMD display cards.

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Then better start a new thread with a title that says something about your problem. In any case a more advertising one then “minor question”.

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Nvidia involved??? you always have to deal with drivers.

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Maybe leap-15-5-freezing-and-now-i-cannot-even-log-in?
Possibly a custom theme that didn’t migrate from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6?
Or anyway some 15.6 leftover? Try to switch to a virtual console (CTRL+ALT+F4 for instance) and see if you can login there to recover some diagnostics.

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Apologies all round. I found my earlier thread and that had the important link:-
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:KDE_repositories

There have been a few complications for me because each machine has been different eg Leap 15.6 and TW. Also I am not sure upgrades are treated the same as fresh installs with regard to SELinux but the tools worked fine. The only thing I have found is to make sure the repos are all installed correctly with correct priority and old stuff removed before you reboot.