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kscreenlocker_greet broke with a recent update of OpenSUSE (November 1). Any advice on how to fix it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've attached a literal screen shot of all systemd errors. It seems to be caused by kscreenlocker_greet because of a missing shared object file. The boot 9 hours ago was from a read-only snapshot, and therefore doesn't have it.

I have already tried updating with zypper dup, but that did not help.

Error as text:

PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib64/security/pam_pkcs11.so): /usr/lib64/security/pam_pkcs11.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can't you roll back to a snapshot before the update that broke it? Then you can wait with updating for a week or two, in hopes that it gets fixed in the next Tumbleweed update...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's what I've been doing for the past 2 days

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, you don't have to always boot anew from the read-only snapshot.

When you're booted into the working read-only snapshot, run sudo snapper rollback and then do a normal reboot.

This will make that read-only snapshot your new (read-writable) system state. So, after doing this, your OS will be as if you never applied that update.

More info on that command: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/archive/15.0/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.snapper.html#sec.snapper.snapshot-boot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, that makes sense.

I tried it, and ran it in the latest broken snapshot and was surprised why it didn't roll back to a previous version 😅.

EDIT: It appears that didn't work and instead overrode my working snapshot.

EDIT 2: Yep, it's gone. I only have snapshots of me trying to fix it by updating.