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.*
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
.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.
Same thing happened to me. I just continued on and changed TTY and all was fine.
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
I am long-time Tumbleweed user and it really boggles my mind how something like this goes past “quality control” and “testing”.
Major updates to a Linux DE has been like that forever, though.
Can’t we isolate DEs somehow? They’ve been always the most complicated and fragile part that brings down the whole system.
I wish I could containerize them easily, but it’s so hard.