Several days ago I tried to chroot to do a TW update, which reminded me no can do due to different arches. So, Sunday night, on this, a Haswell, my primary machine, which spends 99.7% of the time not running TW, I shut down 42.1 to do $SUBJECT. Machine has 13.1 32 bit on md1, 13.2 32 bit on md2, 42.1 on md4, and until Sunday night, TW on md3 was 32 bit, last updated somewhere around 7 weeks ago. I used 20160415's linux and initrd with upgrade=1 started with 13.1's Grub 0.97-194. Before proceeding with installation phase, I re-enabled KDE3 and one other I've already forgotten, maybe Mozilla, maybe Packman. As usual post-13.1, I selected install no bootloader. Grub2* got installed anyway. I'm not sure whether I had had it locked out or not. Removing all of grub2* was performed as one of the first first-boot operations. Manual resolution was required only to permit the locked kernel-pae to be removed. IMO, too many new files got installed: upgraded 957 new 368 removed 15 (of which 6 were kernels as old as 9 months) A large part of the new were -32bit packages. Afterward I removed them all by removing glibc-32bit, somewhere short of 200 total, then added back glibc-32bit right away, after which in order to run old mozilla.org binaries I added pangox-compat-32bit, then a few more that Firefox 3 complained not found, which collectively via deps added back a somewhat more than half the number of 32bit packages removed by removing glibc-32bit. Reported ETA remained >2:00:00 until the packages remaining count was reduced to zero. :-( Some logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/updTestcase20160418004624-msi85tw.zip http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/yast2logs-msi85tw20160415.zip http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/Factory/zypplogs-msi85tw20160415.zip In summary, the overall process went well enough, and easier than a fresh install, under an hour, with a lot better result than when I tried to update a 32 bit 13.2 installation to 42.1 a few weeks before 42.1 release. As an aside, TW and 42.1 are both nicely running modeset X driver instead of intel. TW's KDE3 was writing mildly corrupted titlebars on background windows until I disabled text shadowing in its theme. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org