On Tuesday 28 December 2010 23:14:17 phanisvara das wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:25:11 +0530, Stan Goodman
wrote: On Tuesday 28 December 2010 22:08:58 phanisvara das wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:19:07 +0530, Stan Goodman
wrote: ------------ zypper mr -d
------------ We are past that stage now, and zypper dup has been chugging away for over an hour, doing its thing.
yes, i didn't see the other posts saying the same thing before i posted this one. sounds good, and good luck!
That's what I thought too. The reinstallation is finished now, after an hour and a half plus, and I was told that some programs haven't been restarted because they depended on files that have been deleted. I was advised to run zypper -ps.
That produced a file of nearly 30KB, containing a list of what appear to be library files; I was able to save this file, but not to copy it to another machine through NFS, so I can't exhibit it here.
What am I to make of this? Is this normal in the circumstances?
"zypper ps" shows you processes that use files that have been deleted during the upgrade. that's normal; files get deleted and replaced by different versions, being switched to another repo. the programs using them won't crash immediately because these files still exist in some temporary fashion.
you can run "zypper ve" (verify), to make sure that all dependencies are fulfilled. that should show nothing; "zypper ps" showing a lot of libraries being used by running processes is normal at this stage. you'll have to log out of KDE, and back in to see if everything works as it should. (i think there should be nothing in the update requiring a full reboot; wouldn't hurt to do it anyway i guess...)
I have not been able to find hints about how to approach the apparent failure of the reinstallation, and I can add only the following few observations to what I have already reported: 1) After running zypper ps, the report was that there were no unstarted packages. Running zypper ve reported that there are no unresolved dependencies. 2) Booting the system to runlevel 5 doesn't end exactly as I reported earlier. I observed that there is near the end an interval of a few seconds when the mouse cursor is not frozen, but seems to behave normally, then freezes and jumps to the center of the screen and freezes. The progress gauge does not reach the end position and stop, but freezes a little sooner than it did the first time. The Desktop Folder and Panel never come up as they did the first time. 3) FWIW, the startup log reports that the following actions failed: Starting VirtualBox kernel modules Starting Postfix Starting rng-tools If any of this suggests a diagnostic approach to anyone, I'd like to know what.it is, because I have nothing. In the absence of any other suggestion, I think I have to abandon the installation and install 11.3 elsewhere on the HD, then try to fetch data to it from this one. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org