Zypper / rpm hangs / freezes

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Hi there,
I added the slowroll kernel backport repo to get a more recent kernel for hopefully better amdgpu support.

After invoking zypper in kernel-devel-longterm downloading and starting to install starts fine, no errors, but, after more than 30 minutes no progress, it just hangs.

ps aux reveales, theres an rpm process running, consuming between 95% and 100% cpu usage according to top.

Zypper/rpm hangs at

installing kernel-devel-longterm-6.18.20-lp160.2.1.g7e08e80.noarch…<100%>

Generally zypper works, the rpm db should be ok.

Any known issues with rpm on lp16.0?

Is there a good way to determine, if rpm is hopelessly stuck? Does rpm know a signal one could send to make it tell its state?

Thanks a lot

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If you want to use a Slowroll kernel, why don’t you install Slowroll? Trying to Frankenstein an unsupported kernel onto Leap 16.0 seems… inadvisable at best.

And why are you using “kernel-devel-longterm” and not “kernel-default” as recommended in the wiki?

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Which Repo? URL?

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Leap doesn’t seem suited to your needs ; rather than trying to adapt (and break) Leap to suit your needs, you should instead switch to Tumbleweed (stable) or Slowroll (experimental).

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Why is using another kernel breaking the System?

I have used kernel:stable:backports Repo for Leap for years without any Problems.
Also using the nvidia run without any Problems.

But you have to use the right Repo for your Linux Version…

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