Opensuse kde plasma 6 upgrade

MajinBlayze , 3 months ago

That’s the fun part of kalpa. Get to upgrade confidently. Though it does take a quick reboot to actually apply

Pacmanlives , 3 months ago

I always do my updates in a tmux session for this very reason. If something crashes I can pick it up via ssh or a tty

ProtonBadger , 3 months ago

Yeah, when I saw the update I canceled, logged out and ran zypper dup from a tty. Rebooted and logged into a Plasma 6/Wayland session. Went swimmingly.

I think this kind of update is where “atomics”/immutables really shine. Install the update on a new separate snapshot and activate it at boot.

MajinBlayze , 3 months ago

Yup, Kalpa upgrade was easy

Archaeopteryx , 3 months ago

Did the upgrade a few minutes ago. No problems so far and everything feels very smooth when it comes to animation, desktop effects etc.

HumanPerson , 3 months ago

Wow, if only I saw this last night. I ended up installing lxqt and updating from there.

intelisense , 3 months ago

Upgraded this morning. Everything seems mostly OK, but the login screen theme is odd, but fully functional. The lock screen is the same as before, though.

bjoern_tantau , 3 months ago

So that’s why my screen wouldn’t turn on this morning. I do automatic updates every night. After a reboot I didn’t even notice that I was on 6.

MyNameIsRichard , 3 months ago

So I’ve updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.

dandroid , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I just installed this accidentally by clicking update all in the Discover app. It seems like it was successful and didn’t fail halfway, but I’m still confirming that. Everything seems to be working as of now.

I had to reset a lot of settings, unfortunately.

just_hiroshi , 3 months ago

WOOO amazing!!

also, thanks for the recommendation ^^

DARbarian , 3 months ago

How exactly did you do it? Any links to instructions and commands?

just_hiroshi , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

First logout of Plasma, then you can change to tty 4 (for example) with ctrl + alt + F4, then you can login there with your user and do the upgrade safely in that other tty (or another one if you want to haha, just not in the normal desktop).

I think the Plasma desktop is always in tty 3 (ctrl + alt + F3) and the Plasma login is in tty2, in case you want to go back.

PlantPowerPhysicist , 3 months ago

In my case I had another WM installed (iceWM, I think it was there by default?) and did the upgrade from there. Unfortunately it does seem that if you try to upgrade from within KDE it will crash part-way (I used zypper dup and it failed).

bjoern_tantau , 3 months ago

Screen or tmux are awesome to ensure that you can get back to a running shell. Like over SSH or on another tty.