On 2016-02-05 19:36, Jos van Kan wrote:
On 02-02-16 05:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
First of all I had to upgrade bash to x68_64 (thanks, Andrei) but then I ran Carlos' command and it appeared that I had a very crippled x86_64 system. So I ran zypper ref and zypper dup again and all was OK except for ... :)
GTK applications (Bluefish, Gimp, VmWare) had a font problem in that they would not render characters, but rather small empty rectangles. :) After a lot of googling and soulsearching it appeared to be a pango problem that went away after the following incantation (as root)
pango-querymodules-64 --update-cache
Thanks to Andrei, Carlos and John for their help. All in all I would not recommend to take this route to upgrade from i586 to x86_64 :) You may as well do a fresh install.
Well... I did this type of upgrade some years ago. It is the setup I'm using to write this post. I did a DVD upgrade (offline upgrade), then several zypper up, followed by the same "rpm -q -a ..." that I told you to do, both in several cycles, till everything was clean. I had to specify by hand several packages to upgrade that "zypper up" would not catch. I'm surprised that your bash was not upgraded for you the first time. I don't know how that could happen. Unfortunately, the 32->64 upgrade is not supported, which means that you can't report it in bugzilla. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)