Upgrade to 9.2 - please help
I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck. Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then insert the DVD when it complained about 32 vs 64 bit, and 6 packages failed to update: libgcj, libidu, libmikmod, screen, acroread, and java2-jre), the main installation seemed to complete properly. When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD. Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... ) Thanks, - Richard.
rkimber@ntlworld.com writes:
I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck.
Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then
Why would it not install from the DVD? It really should...
insert the DVD when it complained about 32 vs 64 bit, and 6 packages
If you start from the CD, then you get a 32-bit system.
failed to update: libgcj, libidu, libmikmod, screen, acroread, and java2-jre), the main installation seemed to complete properly.
When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD.
Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... )
And we worked hard to get it working on our test systems;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:32:40 +0100 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
rkimber@ntlworld.com writes:
I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck.
Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then
Why would it not install from the DVD? It really should...
It hangs just after it starts the installation program. It successfully activates USB devices and then hangs after: "Searching for info file ...." The machine is dual opteron, MSI K8T Master2-FAR, 2GB. - Richard.
When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD.
Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... )
CD install is 32bit only. Probably you have a not quite working mix of 32bit and 64bit rpms in your system now. I guess fsck just segfaults early because something is broken. There may be more things broken outside fsck. You could try to fix it from the rescue system, but easiest would be probably to save the data you still need on a different partition and do a full reinstall of your / -Andi
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:45:11 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD.
Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... )
CD install is 32bit only. Probably you have a not quite working mix of 32bit and 64bit rpms in your system now. I guess fsck just segfaults early because something is broken. There may be more things broken outside fsck.
You could try to fix it from the rescue system, but easiest would be probably to save the data you still need on a different partition and do a full reinstall of your /
But how could I do that? The installer seems to hang at "Searching for info file ...." so I don't get the option to choose between an update and a full reinstall. - Richard.
If I may suggest, recover your files to a CD-R with Knoppix, then do a complete reinstall of either 9.1 or 9.2 Janis On Thursday 10 February 2005 18:26, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:45:11 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD.
Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... )
CD install is 32bit only. Probably you have a not quite working mix of 32bit and 64bit rpms in your system now. I guess fsck just segfaults early because something is broken. There may be more things broken outside fsck.
You could try to fix it from the rescue system, but easiest would be probably to save the data you still need on a different partition and do a full reinstall of your /
But how could I do that? The installer seems to hang at "Searching for info file ...." so I don't get the option to choose between an update and a full reinstall.
- Richard.
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:04:17 +0200 Janis Klava <jklava@lettux.lv> wrote:
If I may suggest, recover your files to a CD-R with Knoppix, then do a complete reinstall of either 9.1 or 9.2
Well, I need 9.2. But the problem is that the installer seems to hang. - Richard.
On Thursday 10 February 2005 19:07, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:04:17 +0200
Janis Klava <jklava@lettux.lv> wrote:
If I may suggest, recover your files to a CD-R with Knoppix, then do a complete reinstall of either 9.1 or 9.2
Well, I need 9.2. But the problem is that the installer seems to hang.
- Richard.
From previous experience, updates often caused a lot of grief and the preferred method is a clean install, after backing up everything of any value. A clean in install should work, your files will be safe and you will have the peace of mind to play with it. Janis
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:18:38 +0200 Janis Klava <jklava@lettux.lv> wrote:
From previous experience, updates often caused a lot of grief and the preferred method is a clean install, after backing up everything of any value.
A clean in install should work, your files will be safe and you will have the peace of mind to play with it.
The install program seems to hang before I get the choice of doing a clean install. All important files are backed up. - Richard.
On Thursday 10 February 2005 19:33, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:18:38 +0200
Janis Klava <jklava@lettux.lv> wrote:
From previous experience, updates often caused a lot of grief and the preferred method is a clean install, after backing up everything of any value.
A clean in install should work, your files will be safe and you will have the peace of mind to play with it.
The install program seems to hang before I get the choice of doing a clean install. All important files are backed up.
Is your BIOS up to date, we had similar problems but on a different motherboard. Updating the BIOS fixed it. Janis
On Thursday 10 February 2005 15:24, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck.
Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then insert the DVD when it complained about 32 vs 64 bit, and 6 packages failed to update: libgcj, libidu, libmikmod, screen, acroread, and java2-jre), the main installation seemed to complete properly.
When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD.
Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... )
Thanks,
- Richard.
Richard, I have had similar, I think, problems. I have installed on a new amd64 asus k8v se with 500mb ram and geforce 5200. Each time a clean install except for /home. Each time I have installed various packages have failed, from 1 package to a maximum of 3. The failed packages are not the same for each install, over various installations there have been about 10 packages which have failed to install. The installation usually completes. So I then went immediately to yast and looked at the packages listed. Sometimes, 2 out of the 3 were installed. On 1 particular occasion I installed Opera, using yast which said that it was going to install the missing packages during the installation of opera. If there is a problem with the dvd, why do the affected packages vary from installation to installation. There does not seem to be a problem with the cdrom - I have burned Knoppix onto a CD copied the cd twice. Following one installation the m/c ran for 14 days and crashed on reboot. This may have been caused by faulty mains electricity. We have had storms and lost our supply over one weekend. The current installation was 25/1/2005. No acpi. 28/1/2005, ran memory test for 10 hours overnight with 55 pass no errors. Reboot 29/1/2005 - no problem since. Obviously I do not know what the problem is but the m/c is running! Sorry for the length. Malcolm
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