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OpenSuse Tumbleweed: Update to KDE6 - Throws you back to login screen mid update/upgrade (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Halfway through the installation it throws me back to the login screen. When I try to continue the update/upgrade it does it again.

I already did a rollback with snapper and forgot to note at which package it exactly happened.

So anyone trying to update, beware that the update might not get through.

I'll wait a week and then try again.

Update

Ashged on reddit:

*Yeah, unfortunately the update doesn't work within KDE. No idea if/when they'll make a fix for that.

The update however works outside KDE, in an IceWM desktop or a TTY. For best results, first log out of KDE, then using Ctr+Alt+F1 go a text based enviroment. Log in there, use sudo zypper dup, then after it finishes, reboot and log in to your regular KDE desktop. Plasma 6 should upgrade succesfully.*

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I am long-time Tumbleweed user and it really boggles my mind how something like this goes past "quality control" and "testing".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It's updating your desktop so that's why it does that. The safest way is to log out of your desktop session and login via terminal (press ctrl+alt+f1 to get to one) and run zypper dup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure what I did differently. I accidentally updated to Plasma 6 by just clicking Update All in the Discover app. I didn't even realize Plasma 6 was out yet for Tumbleweed. It worked perfectly for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same thing happened to me. I just continued on and changed TTY and all was fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I was on Wayland and it kicked me out to login, I tried again and it did the same thing, each time installing a couple more packages. The last time I logged into icewm and completed it and it worked fine. I did wipe out my .config folder so I could start fresh with kde6 though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I followed Ashged's guide to install the update and upgrade to KDE6. It worked and now let's see if I run into any bugs. So far everything seems to work fine.

[–] mholiv 1 points 6 months ago

Same thing happened to me. I ended up finishing up the upgrade in Sway. Not a great user experience, but it wasn’t a huge deal for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was tossed back to the login screen, but was fine otherwise. I am on Wayland by the way, maybe this issue is an X11 exclusive one.