On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 02:27:44 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I spent the better part of 3 hours trying to get it working, and in the end, I decided there was some old cruft on the system that was probably causing problems, and I could have spent another day trying to get it to work, or I could just install / from scratch and have a clean setup. I opted for the latter.
There are two kinds of cruft after a system upgrade.
Three, but OK.
* One, is that as the DVD is too small to contain the full oss repo, a lot is missing. So you have to do after it:
Well, yes, or if you've installed software from other sources that's not compatible with the new libraries, etc. Or if you have lots of repos configured (as I have done in the past).
* The second issue is stale config files. If you run "rcrpmconfigcheck" you get a list of config files to check. Even on normal updates you get them:
I back those up regardless of how I do an upgrade. Better to be safe than sorry. This time around, I missed user cron jobs. Ah well, nothing overly complex in them, so recreating them isn't a problem. Third kind of cruft, BTW - are those things that are installed from unofficial sources. To each his own - I prefer doing a clean install every now and then regardless of the OS. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org