Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Andras Mantia <amantia@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 I decided last evening to update my 10.3 system to 11.0 beta1. First of 
all, I have no problem running unstable versions of software, I use the 
KDE svn regularly and used (open)SUSE's previous releases starting from 
late alpha/beta state. Still, this 11.0 beta1 was a bad experience. 
Here are the problems I saw (with bug numbers);

1) first of all, the installer failed to find a repository on the DVD. I 
found that if I give dvd:///devices=/dev/hdc it will work. Funny, 
that /dev/sr0 also works from the console, but not from yast. Bug 
383896.

2) so after I found how to go forward, I tried to update the system. IT 
failed to find and mount my partitions, I had to give the partition 
type (vfat, ext3) manually. Bug 384133.

3) After this step the Installation media showed no available 
repositories. I did not file a BR for this, but I can do if it makes 
sense.

4) Upgrade started, the total percentage went quickly to 100%, sat there 
for a while and fall back to 0% and remained there until the upgrade 
finished. Bug 384134.

5) System was rebooted, complains that fsck failed for /dev/sdb4. Turned 
out that the fstab is wrong that should be /dev/sda4. Bug 384133 
(again).

6) corrected the fstab, rebooted the system (ctrl-d). And here came the 
disaster. Instead of getting a grub menu, the pc kept rebooting itself 
forever. So when it started from boot from the disk, it rebooted. No 
error, nothing on the screen, just reboot forever.
 Bug 384136.

7) Tried to fix the bootloader both with rescure disc, repair system and 
manually. No luck, same symptoms, so I had to reinstall the system over 
the broken installation, whatever will happen because of this. Bug 
384136.

8) So the reinstall... After getting through the issue 1) I choose to 
install over the existing system. I had to use the expert partitioner, 
otherwise it would format two of my partitions that held data, not the 
old OS, and confirm that I really want to overwrite an existing system.
I saw a visual bug: the percentage used in the progressbar is white on 
white, so it is not visible until around 50% is reached. Bug 384137/

9) Reboot, yast starts, and gives an error:
"No workflow defined for this installation mode"
and exits. So I remained with an unfinished installation.
Bug 384138.

10) I noticed a warning on boot:
java: serif (and sans serif) fonts not found for Japanese/Chinese 
languages. I don't use those languages, so I did not report as a bug, 
but I mention it here.

11) during installation I was prompted to enter an user name, password, 
etc. When first time kdm start I tried to log in as that user (an user 
that already existed under 10.3, so it had its home dir during install 
time). I couldn't, and I found it why: the user was not created. I had 
to create it again manually. May be because of 9). Bug 384140.

12) Display was not configured, I ended up with an 1024x768@60Hz. Might 
be again because of 9). Fonts are ugly. :( Now I'm trying to make 
things work and look nice, as at least I can boot in the system. After 
hours spent fixing it...

Andras


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