Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 30 August 2010 19:47:16 Erik Jakobsen wrote:
>   I run openSuSE 11.3.
>
> I have installed kedtoys4, and then I recognized, that also a new NVIDIA
> driver was installed.
>
> After the update I recognized, that my desktop looks like this:
>
> http://www.urbakken.dk/desktop.jpg

Eric and I just corresponded on IRC about this.  It turns out that Eric 
'zypper up'ed from openSUSE 11.2 to 11.3, then installed kdetoys4.  Because 
'zypper up' does not update repo urls for you, kdetoys4 came from an 11.2 
repo, downgrading the base kde platform to 11.2 versions.  Since kde apps are 
designed to be backward compatible with old config files but not forward 
compatible with newer config files, his desktop got messed up.

Moral of the story:  To update an installed system, the safest way is 
currently to boot an installation medium and perform an update outside the 
running system. This allows you to update repo versions and disables stale 
repositories. 

If anyone else makes this mistake, the remedy is to manually update all zypper 
repos to the newer version and then run 'zypper dup' to get a consistent 
system again.  This won't fix any config files that have been addled by the 
forward-backward do-si-do, though, so the old wisdom of backing files up 
before an upgrade still holds.

Will


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