Geee Michael, this sounds like SuSE should have the same warning as Slackware does on upgrading. DON'T without starting from a clean HD. I will follow this thread with MUCH interest. Hope that you can get some answers from SuSE on this one! Wayne Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Troubles upgrading to 5.1 Date: Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 11:15:06AM -0800 In reply to:Michael Perry Quoting Michael Perry (mperry@mperry.basin.com):
I recently (read last nite) upgraded from SuSE 5.0 to 5.1. The first part when quite well which included booting the cd, telling yast to upgrade only selected software packages, and then checking out which ones were actually going to come. I got the usual post install message since I gather some software is on other cd disks and was told to reboot and the rest would be done. I did this but then found that yast claimed all had been done and came up with a few mislinked libraries, programs that suddenly wouldn't work like WABI, an upgraded x server which completely overwrote my existing and somewhat customized .fvwm2rc, and installing the demo version of applix over my registered copy. I had correctly selected all the options but still even after saving the config on a floppy diskette as it asked spent some amount of time figuring out why suddenly things like slang were not linked correctly, why WABI complained suddenly about /dev/zero, and why the /etc files like profile were completely overwritten. Libraries I had compiled myself like xforms and slang seemed broken or symbolic links had not been maintained in the upgrade process. Is this normal? I thought yast would make copies of things like profile from the existing installation and perhaps my .fvwm2rc. I always keep copies so its not a totally big deal. I am more curious about how this happened and what I perhaps did wrong. Does yast have a problem with libraries that I compile without using it?
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