[Swlug] Remote SWLUG on Jitsi tonight Tuesday 21 June 2022 at 7pm BST

[Daniel Morris]

No worries, thanks for the heads up!

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022, 19:24 Dick Bain, <dick.bain at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will be late as my Linux mint is corrupted on the root fs gah
> Dick
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022, 14:29 Daniel Morris via Swlug, <
> swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Huw,
>>
>> Most have been pretty flawless, apply any missing/current patches, set
>> releasever=15.4, 'zypper ref; zypper dup'. I think I've one machine that
>> I've updated from about 12.x or 13.1 (never get around to nuke & pave). I
>> add the DVD iso as a local repo, slurping a WiFi hotspot or using my
>> mobile's generous limit. Pretty much these instructions:
>> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
>>
>> One system had a bit of drama losing the connection, about 800 packages
>> left to apply with 1100 done. Problem was zypper executable was hosed with
>> "zypper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libzypp.so.1722: undefined
>> symbol:...".  I just scp'd the libzypp and zypper packages from the DVD
>> image over and applied with rpm, and they restarted the 'zypper dup'. It
>> saved a 600 mile round-trip, or having to 'fess up to a colleague and do a
>> rollback :)
>>
>> Tumbleweed for a year was fun but just too much churn for my day-day,
>> especially now with metered bandwidth.
>>
>>  Daniel
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 13:41, Huw Pearce via Swlug <
>> swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Good to hear your openSUSE Leap upgrade to 15.4 went well. I have to
>>> have another go after following the instructions I found, that did not
>>> work.
>>>
>>> My openSUSE Tumbleweed systems continue to update without any dramas and
>>> hopefully 'touch wood' continue to do so.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Huw
>>>
>>> On 21/06/2022 13:14, Daniel Morris via Swlug wrote:
>>> > Avoid travel chaos tonight with a good old fashioned remote SWLUG
>>> > meeting, tonight, on Jitsi at 7pm. You can revel in the post-truth
>>> > 20-20 hindsight by reasoning this SWLUG is remote to:
>>> >
>>> > 1) Show your solidarity with striking transport workers amidst the
>>> > cost-of-living crisis
>>> > 2) Stay safe (COFID is out to get you!)
>>> > 3) 'Cos No Fridges are available for this time slot
>>> > 4) Any other (il)legitimate reason - it is 2022 be creative, and Free!
>>> >
>>> > I'm going to be crowing about how easy openSUSE Leap 15.4 upgrades
>>> > have been, even when my ISP decided to stamp on the radio signals
>>> > mid-way through. And how OpenReach celebrated the Jubilee bank
>>> > holidays by ripping out the "legacy" June/July 2021 overhead fibre and
>>> > started afresh - still just the 40m of tree cutting left...
>>> >
>>> > Simply launch a web-browser and go to
>>> >
>>> > https://meet.jit.si/swlugmeetonline
>>> >
>>> > Or,
>>> > https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ and choose "Start a call" and enter
>>> > "swlugmeetonline" as the name.
>>> >
>>> >  Daniel
>>> >
>>>
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