* James <midnightcomman...@gmail.com> [12-03-15 13:04]:
> Saturday, I attempted an upgrade from openSUSE 13.2 to openSUSE Tumbleweed,
> which employs Darktable 1.6.8 instead of the 1.4.2 that 13.2 uses. The
> upgrade wasn't a good fit so I rolled back to 13.2.
> 
> The upgrade installed 'over' my existing Darktable .cache and .config
> directories/files.
> 
> Back in 13.2, I now find that I can't launch Darktable, getting the
> following error:
> 
> $ darktable
> [init] error: can't open new database schema
> ERROR : cannot open database
> 
> I suspect this is because I (may have) launched darktable while in my
> Tumbleweed install and the database was converted to a version than my 13.2
> based Darktable (version darktable-1.4.2-2.2.7) can't support.

indeed.  It is advertized as so.  
 
> Sound reasonable or might there be something else going on?

You can perhaps recover if you have a backup copy of your library.db. 
But I would suggest upgrading dt to dariux' build of darktable 2.0+git...
available:
  
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/darix:/darktable:/master/openSUSE_13.2/

I have been using his tumbleweed builds for several weeks w/o a problem.

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