Last night, I upgraded from DVD from openSUSE 11.1 (Gnome GUI) to openSUSE 11.3 (Gnome GUI).
My dual boot system with Windows XP SP3 remains unchanged.
The upgrading process took about ninety minutes, with a few error messages and a few warnings. So, this gave me a good feeling until … until the computer rebooted.
I got the login screen, where I gave my login + my password and then I arrived on the desktop.
Alas : not one single program icon, no task bar, no system tray. So : completely useless.
CTRL-ALT-DEL gave me the possibility to log in as root. This also resulted in a desktop without one single icon, no task bar, no system tray. I have a terminal window though.
Maybe I can try YAST and see if something has to be changed about my screen definition ? But then, how is it possible not to have a task bar ? Weird, very weird …
Is this a problem that has been mentioned before ?
Thanks for your very fast answer. Would I have done better to do an installation as if I should not have had any version of openSUSE ?
I looked at the HELP prior to installation, and,as far as I remember, upgrading was recommended.