On 31-08-2010 14:13, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 30 August 2010 19:47:16 Erik Jakobsen wrote:
I run openSuSE 11.3.
I have installed kedtoys4, and then I recognized, that also a new NVIDIA driver was installed.
After the update I recognized, that my desktop looks like this:
http://www.urbakken.dk/desktop.jpg Eric and I just corresponded on IRC about this. It turns out that Eric 'zypper up'ed from openSUSE 11.2 to 11.3, then installed kdetoys4. Because 'zypper up' does not update repo urls for you, kdetoys4 came from an 11.2 repo, downgrading the base kde platform to 11.2 versions. Since kde apps are designed to be backward compatible with old config files but not forward compatible with newer config files, his desktop got messed up.
Moral of the story: To update an installed system, the safest way is currently to boot an installation medium and perform an update outside the running system. This allows you to update repo versions and disables stale repositories.
If anyone else makes this mistake, the remedy is to manually update all zypper repos to the newer version and then run 'zypper dup' to get a consistent system again. This won't fix any config files that have been addled by the forward-backward do-si-do, though, so the old wisdom of backing files up before an upgrade still holds.
Will
-- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex Thanks for the chat Will. I just would try to change the repos, but Yast2 is ill too. With so many issues, I find it better to do a clean install of 11.3.
But for NVIDIA I haven't found good help since Sax2 was killed from the 11.3 package. I have before tried to install 11.3 on another HDD, but due to the NVIDIA I couldn't get it up running as before using Sax2. Is there now good advices on how to's ? Erik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org