-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, For years I have been doing "off-line" factory upgrades. I explain. Let's assume that factory is in /dev/sda9, and the production system is in /dev/sda7. Instead of booting factory, I boot the production system, which I continue using, and attempt to upgrade the factory partition from the running stable system. I do it that way because it can take 10 hours to run (slow internet), and days if it fails with repeated attempts and half upgraded system. The procedure is this: mount /other/ mount --bind /proc /other/proc mount --bind /sys /other/sys mount --bind /dev /other/dev cat /other/etc/SuSE-release echo echo " Copy paste the next line to activate prompt change:" echo echo "export PS1=$'\\[\E[1m\E[31m\\]Anor_chrooted_on_\\h:\\w # \\[\E(B\E[m\\]'" echo "export PBL_SKIP_BOOT_TEST=1" # http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover echo "export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1" echo "cd" echo chroot /other/ /bin/bash --login Once I run that in an xterm, I can run "zypper up", then dup, etc. This I have done for several versions... till 11.3, it does not work. This is what I get: Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # The file exists, but it doesn't work, not surprisingly. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # l /var/run/dbus/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 messagebus messagebus 4096 Apr 18 04:38 ./ drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Apr 18 21:30 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 04:38 at_console/ srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 18 03:45 system_bus_socket= I wonder if I should bind that directory to the "host" equivalent directory? Would that work? Is it dangerous? I tried, and it appears to run: Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # Well, the nothing to do is because M5 has the distribution repos, not the factory repos. I'll change that and report. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkvLYBoACgkQja8UbcUWM1zlFQD+K6Q+bheILcACb+O1c2kaHHzm 9Q6wJCzt5swq1pRbpAgA/jx1GFIcIAf5kkTXcTXuLxx8fbjY2vxqa1YLdxPj30Dh =qK3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org