On Saturday 05 February 2011 19:54:46 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/02/05 19:31 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
Before preparing to upgrade to KDE4.6, I found that the system wanted to install essential patches. I debated whether to accept this or to pass on it and upgrade KDE first. I took what turns out to be the wrong choice, and accepted the patches.
When the smoke cleared away an hour or so later, I was asked to reboot, which I did. The boot never finished, but froze while the chameleon screen was still up, with the mouse cursor stuck in the center and the keyboard dead. I reset, and the new reboot ended with a black screen, but with all else frozen as before. I would like, if possible, to avoid reinstalling v11.3 from scratch; if somebody has a better idea, please mention it.
Since opensuse v10.0, I have never had real trouble from KDE installations, and I do not see any light at the end of the tunnel with this one.
Type a <space> 3 when the Grub menu comes up, then press <Return>. That should get you into text mode with full networking. Login as root on tty2 and open mc. Login as root on tty3 and do 'zypper up' and see if it finds anything to do. If it does, let it proceed, then either try rebooting normally,
What zypper found to do was to d/l the java 1.6.0 runtime, the correspoinding browser plugin, and pullin-msttf-fonts, and I let it do so. It's hard to believe that these have anything to do with the inability of KDE to run. So I rebooted on principle and took the chance of updating the system to KDE v4.6 as described by "C" in this thread. The method is exactly as described below, and is uncomplicated. I don't think the system is capable of downloading, because of some of the lines I have been able to see in the last part of the boot log (I have reported them in previous messages). Some of those lines seem irrelevant to the current problem. For example, there is a remark that there is no hardware support for RNG, aa random number generator. I don't know if there should be hardware surpport or not, but there is also a red warning that there are no rng-tools, which makes it seem abnormal. But it isn't clear that lack of a random number generator would shut down KDE. The following seems more disturbing, and also more relevant to the possibility of downloading upgrades: ***** Error while executing: Command 'ip route replace to 192.168.1.1/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0' returned: RTNETLINK answers:Invalid argument Configuration line: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 eth0 ***** (192.168.1.1 is the gateway, the router.) So this seems to be referring to the routing configuration, but I don't know what it wants, or where to fix it with what. Can someone help clarify this?
or switch to tty2, navigate to /etc/zypp/repos.d/, where you'll want to configure a file for using the 4.6 repo. One way to do that is if you have a 4.5.5 already configured, just edit it using mc's internal editor to change title, name, and applicable URL. First make a copy for backup [highlight old file; shift-F3; end; BS: removes "o" from name of original filename, creating new file with .rep as ending] Once that's done, goto tty2 and do zypper ref. If no errors, do zypper dup. If while all this is going on you need internet access, you can right inside mc via its built in FTP, such as fetching an RPM or getting a repo URL correct in your mind. After zypper dup is done, try rebooting normally. Look at man zypper for the -r command if you want only to upgrade from a particular repo, such as your new 4.6.
I am very open to suggestions about getting KDE up and running, after which I think the KDE 4.6 upgrade would happen automatically. If someone sees the missing light at the end of the trouble, I would be very grateful. If not, I'll scratch this installation, and do it all over again in the hope that whatever happened won't happen again. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org