https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461374 Summary: update woes Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Update Problems AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: koenig@linux.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- the update from 11.0 to 11.1 was IMHO a medium desaster :-( - again conflicts nightmare - unsupported/old packages got deleted ( I do *NOT* want this to happen!) - error in kvm-kmp-default postinstall - no boot loader -- and no display of grub/install error - many (623) RPMs changed arch from x86_86 to i586 including Xserver, emacs etc. details: T61p x86_64 (2.4 GHz T7700), update from 11.0 to 11.1 with DVD9 image: 1) again conflicts nightmare I tried to add some more/new patterns before starting the update. after successfully adding some patterns, I got into the dependency conflict resolution nightmare again! after ~20 CPU minutes (!!!) and _many_ conflict resolution selections I resigned and aborted any pattern -- just start the update without any new patterns for now. the final y2log is 290 MEGAbytes, likely because of this conflict "problems" ?! I'll attach y2log.... 2) unsupported/old packages got deleted ( I do *NOT* want this to happen!) I was surpriesed that in update options it's no longer possible to specify if unsupported RPMs shall be kept or deleted (because I want them to be kept!). hmmmm.... so I started a plain update with no special settings. and first I got told that 200+ packages will be deleted :-(((( I see package names like "tpb" and "enigma" which I _really_ want to be kept. deep sigh... 3) error in kvm-kmp-default postinstall there was an error trying to update kvm-kmp-default -- retry did not work, I had to ignore that error and continue. now there are two RPMs installed, I had to remove the old package manually: harald harald > rpm -q kvm-kmp-default kvm-kmp-default-63_2.6.25.5_1.1-31.1 kvm-kmp-default-78_2.6.27.7_9.1-6.4 4) no boot loader -- and no display of grub/install error at the end of the update, the installation of thr boot lodaer failed -- but it's not possible to display the error logs or similar (tried several cycles through the yast boot loader menues without success:-( the grub menu.lst did not get updated at all, still showed the kernel versions from 11.0 :-( so I had to ignore that boot loder stuff and fix that from rescue system:( 5) many (623) RPMs changed arch from x86_86 to i586 including Xserver, emacs etc. after reboot the *BIG* shock was to realize that 623 RPMs are arch i586 instead of x86_64 -- what's going on here ????????????????? full rpm arch list on request (I guess you'll extract this from y2log ?!) I used "zypper install emacs.x86_64" etc. for all those i586 packages to manually switch back to 64 bit arch -- now only wine etc. are left as i586 (not counted in those 623 RPMs). this update really was disapointing -- I which I'd have had time and disk space to beta-test this before. is no one testing updates anymore these days ????? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.