Warning: Huge Slowroll update for the ffmpeg-8-mini-libs problem kills X server and thus Myrlyn

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Good news: Bernhard, the Slowroll maintainer, triggered a complete rebuild of Slowroll to fix that problem with ffmpeg-8-mini-libs on PackMan:

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1262799

nothing provides ‘this-is-only-for-build-envs’ needed by the to be installed ffmpeg-8-mini-libs-8.1-1.2.x86_64

Just now Myrlyn found 2500+ updates for my Slowroll, and there are no more dependency problems.

But one of those updates killed the X server after updating some 2000 packages, and that made Myrlyn hang in an endless loop because the X connection was gone; it spammed its log with thousands of messages like

2026-05-08 10:11:20.744 [530515] [Qt] The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?

If you have that same problem, kill Myrlyn (the PID is this [530515] from the log) and restart it to resume the update. I’ll fix Myrlyn to at least do a clean exit and avoid being stuck in the Qt event loop with repeating that message over and over.

I couldn’t try it, but it’s probably the same on Wayland.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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That will differ at every Myrlyn process started!

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Yes, of course. This was just meant to show users where to find it.

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And BTW those who think “let’s better use zypper dup then”, please be advised: If you do it from a graphical terminal (KDE Konsole, GNOME Terminal, Xfce4-Terminal, XTerm), the X server going down will also cause problems.

Doing it from a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc.) or from an SSH session from another machine will be different.

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@shundhammer the use of screen should suffice, both from a GUI and command line perspective.

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I think, I have seen cases, where a screen session was also killed on logout - and the solution was to do
sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER

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