I have actually got it down to a science now. I have a second hard-drive just to hold my data files, and symlink everything to the Home folder after installation. It's just getting Kontact, my gpg keys, and ssh keys and all that jazz back up that takes up time. That's a neat trick with rpm. I exported the packages with Software Management though. It's a fresh enough installation that I should be able to get everything back up and running. Thanks for the additional feedback! On Saturday, September 19, 2015 08:40:41 PM Carl Symons wrote:
On Saturday, September 19, 2015 10:26:00 PM Chan Ju Ping wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I guess I will remove the kde config files and start from scratch.
The last time I got a borked configuration was also resolved by me wiping everything and starting from new.
Hopefully that resolves things.
After doing hundreds of these install or upgrades, I've found that starting fresh gives the best result. Otherwise it seems to be one little thing after another. This is particularly the case when there are little irritations that evade solution.
If you have an external drive that will hold your home directory, then rsync will catch everything. From that you can put back in /home/... what you really need.
The other thing that I do is work from a listing of apps installed. rpm -qa > pkglist150917.txt then open the txt file with LibreOffice and sort it.
I just did a fresh install a couple of days ago. There were some minor glitches (such as installing Scribus 1.5.0 from source with all dependencies). It's all good now, and seems snappier than ever.
Carl
On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 18:45:46 Carl Symons wrote:
On Saturday, September 19, 2015 08:23:18 PM Chan Ju Ping wrote:
Hi.
I decided to upgrade from 13.2 to Tumbleweed, but couldn't get the login screen to load when I did the steps with `zypper dup` in the Tumbleweed installation guide. Some failure with Plymouth or X to load properly.
Since that failed, I went ahead and downloaded the Tumbleweed ISO for KDE and installed it within my LUKS partition setup and by also importing the mount points from my previous installation. Amazingly enough, everything worked out of the box with the wipe and reinstallation of /, and I didn't have to reconfigure my core applications.
However, I have now been running into frequent crashes and freezes, where the computer stops responding. This seems to happen every time online video is being played, for both Flash and HTML5.
I have toggled the compositor via KDE's settings to use OpenGL 3.1 as the screen stutters on OpenGL 2.0. I suspect it is a compositor issue.
Any thoughts on how to track down and resolve this issue?
Does it only happen when you play online video? Or are there other actions that cause crashes?
With the information you've provided, the first thing I'd suggest is to switch from OpenGL to XRender. System Settings/Configure Desktop > Display and Monitor
Compositor > rendering backend
Tumbleweed repositories should replace 13.2 ones.
I have no experience with installing to LUKS partition setup.
If I were in your situation... I'd back up /home/YOURNAME Install Tumbleweed from scratch without reformatting /home
In that case, some of your configurations are probably going to be incorrect. But without some knowledge of your current set up, it's hard to tell what might need to be different. Might be good to rename KDE configuration files to filenameOLD and let the KDE set up create new ones. I just looked at my set up and I'm hesitant to say which things to hide like this. (~/.config has a bunch; ~/.kde4, ~/.local/share
If this doesn't make your machine feel right, then (if it was me) I would back up the entire home directory and then reinstall everything including a newly formatted home directory. Then you can copy necessary personal files from the backup into your home.
Carl
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