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

[Dick Bain]

Now the entire system won't boot Linux or Windows just comes up with grub
rescue, looks like I will have to do a complete system install from
scratch, grrrrr
Cheers
Dick

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022, 19:48 Daniel Morris, <danielmorris.cengmiet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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