On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:20:45 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2018-07-16 22:49, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just upgrade my box from 42.3 to 15. Just one heart-stopping period.
I used zypper dup and the good news is that it performed the upgrade apparently successfully and didn't complain about my reiserfs filesystems, which still work.
Yes, I'm also considering to use zypper dup for my systems with reiserfs :-(
Also encrypted partitions make the DVD upgrade to crash.
The heart-stopping moment came when I rebooted. I saw the h/w start up, and then grub, and the opensuse stuff* and then it switched to X (or at least an X-style arrow mouse pointer appeared. But it then just sat there with a black screen. Initially it didn't seem I could do anything at all, but after rebooting again with nomodeset I was able to select text-mode tty2. After a lot of faffing around and getting frustrated I started yast in text mode and went to update-alternatives and switched from sddm to lightdm. After I rebooted, everything worked.
I have no idea why sddm wasn't working, but then I have no idea why it chose sddm when I was previously using lightdm.
Because the setting in "/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager" is deprecated and ignored. It is probably a bug that update-alternatives was not initalized with the previous default instead of creating a new one, but not something that can be solved at this point, too late.
Ah, mechanism changed with no migration :( I don't understand why it didn't work though, but I don't really care.
* I also have no idea why the stuff I saw at bootup included plymouth, since it wasn't installed before the upgrade. I've deleted and tabooed it.
Yes, you have to taboo things you really do not want, or they may come back to you.
That seems pretty arrogant of whoever packaged it. If I bothered to delete it, then I think I've made my wishes clear.
One thing that wasted my time was that during the upgrade I was asked to approve a licence - something about nvidia video. Now my box doesn't have an nvidia hardware; it uses Intel 915 video. So one of the things I tried to fix my problem was to remove some packages with nvidia in their name, on the offchance it was a driver issue. But I couldn't remove them because of lots of dependencies. What's going on there? Why do I need a whole bunch of packages with nvidia in their names even with no nvidia hardware? And why do I have to agree some special licence?
Paste the output of "rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia". And also "hwinfo --gfxcard" to make sure about your video hardware.
It is possible that you have installed some video coding software that make use of the GPU, and thus the driver is installed even if you don't have the hardware.
The problem seems to be libdrm_nouveau2, which has over 60 things dependent on it. It was discussed on this list in 2014. # hwinfo --gfxcard 15: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.378] Unique ID: _Znp.j1zPNNVJiH1 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Device Name: "Onboard IGD" Model: "Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x0412 "Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]" SubDevice: pci 0x0750 Revision: 0x06 Memory Range: 0xf7800000-0xf7bfffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xf000-0xf03f (rw) Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 255 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00000412sv00001025sd00000750bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i915 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #15
I wonder what other gotchas await? Hopefully none.
Probably more :-p
Yeah, some of my perl programs needed some TLC, and lxcc isn't working so far. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org