I think one way could be: 1. Try to save as many important configs (actually the config-files) and try to save the whole home-dir 2. If you have compiled own programs try to save them (would be easy if they were RPMs) 3. Make an new partition and install a new 64bit Linux on it 4. Play back the configs an install your own programs (or better try to compile them 64bit) If I make a update to my system (say 9.1 to 9.2) it works fine. The differences between the Distro-Versions are not very great. If the KDE-MainVersion, glib and so on are the same it works fine. If not you have to configure some progams new. Martin

* Alexandre Moutinho Santos [050207 13:14]:

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I have a dual Pentium III server with SuSE 9.0 as a NIS server exporting the home dir via NFS. If I connect a SuSE 9.1 x86 I can login with a NIS account with no problems at all. If I try to login from my new SuSE 9.2 x86-64 my password is accepted but no graphical desktop (KDE). Be carefull if you have a central account in a NIS server and upgrade to x86_64....

Hmm - this seems to be a rather local problem - we have lots of x86_64 machines here and all have working NIS. There is a problem with the Yukon Gigabit Ethernet Controller (eg. on ASUS A8V deluxe or ASUS D5000 Laptop), Which locks the machine hard upon mounting nfs shares. But this is resolved with newer kernels.

Alex

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Alexandre Moutinho Santos wrote:

Well, you were absolutely right.... I have an A8V board with the Yukon chip.... now with the latest kernel it finally worked:-)

<snip> Well, I'm sorry to disagree with you, but my A8V with kernel 2.6.8-24.11 -64 bits is still hanging when offering nfs shares and/or ftp service (vsftpd) thru the onboard Yukon/Marvelll chip. What I've noticed is when I initiate a data transfer from the 64bit box (for instance an ftp get -the 64bit machine is an ftp client to an other machine elsewhere) then afterwards this 64bit machine correctly offer nfs shares and ftp service to other computers. But if I reboot it, then try to mount the nfs shared offered by the 64bit machine from an other computer, then the 64bit machine is completely frozen... no luck for me... cheers, fabrice