12.1 RC2 available with zypper

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#1

Downloading now - wish me luck :slight_smile:

#2

I wish you luck cause the DVD is not available for downloadā€¦ even though it says it is. Hopefully, your zypper will get the proper latest sources and data. I prefer to use the DVD in order to check out the install procedures. Probably isnā€™t all ready yet. It is 4:34am here in Arizona, USA. I see that you started yours at around 5:03am in the UK. Since there is 7 hours difference between us, I figure we should hear some reports from you by the time they get the download page straightened out. Right now we get a reply that it canā€™t find it.
Take care,
Chuck

#3

Well, it failed at 93 % of Kernel install stage with the message :

Warning: %post (kernel-desktop-3.1.0-1.1.2.x86_64) Scriptlet failed, signal 2.

Rebooting was ok so back in business with previous kernel. Guess Iā€™ll wait before another attempt.

#4

Depending on location mirror/s sync may take a while :slight_smile:

#5

Later - discovered zypper and yast broken. :frowning:

But Kpackagekit installed what was left of the update and yast etc now ok.

But - yast tells me that the kernel is now version 3.1.0-1.1.2 (ie no update needed) but menu.lst says itā€™s 3.1.0-rc9-1. Which do I believe?

#6

On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:56:02 +0000, petermcph wrote:

> Later - discovered zypper and yast broken. :frowning:
>
> But Kpackagekit installed what was left of the update and yast etc now
> ok.
>
> But - yast tells me that the kernel is now version 3.1.0-1.1.2 (ie no
> update needed) but menu.lst says itā€™s 3.1.0-rc9-1. Which do I believe?

I updated my 12.1 yesterday via YAST, got the new kernel and menu.lst was
also updated from rc9 to final version. What hasnā€™t changed is that it is
still 12.1 RC1, not RC2. A small update this morning did not change that.

ā€“
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

#7

On 11/03/2011 07:56 AM, petermcph wrote:
>
> Later - discovered zypper and yast broken. :frowning:
>
> But Kpackagekit installed what was left of the update and yast etc now
> ok.
>
> But - yast tells me that the kernel is now version 3.1.0-1.1.2 (ie no
> update needed) but menu.lst says itā€™s 3.1.0-rc9-1. Which do I believe?

Neither. Only ā€˜uname -rā€™ knows for sure.

#8

Ah yes of course. It tells me itā€™s 3.1.0-rc9-1. So it seems Iā€™m stuck.

#9

Not necessarily. What about using yast2 -> Softwaremanagement? Doesnā€™t the new kernel show up if you enter ā€œkernelā€ into the search field?
All you need to do would then be a right click on the appropriate kernel and then choose ā€œupdateā€. This should fix your problem.

Regards,
Andreas

#10

Yast software manager only shows the new kernel. But in /boot/grub, there are all the files for both kernels.

Anyway, I think Iā€™ve just fixed the problem (well at least uname -r now shows the new kernel) by first running ā€œmkinitrd / -f <new_kernel_name>ā€
then changing the necessary info in menu.lst.

I donā€™t know if mkinitrd was necessary, but it all seems ok now. :slight_smile:

#11

RC2 is available now!

#12

On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:26:02 +0000, hank se wrote:

> RC2 is available now!

Just started a meta-download. Bit surprised by the size - 3.7 GiB
compared to RC1 4.4? Super new slimline version or something missing?

ā€“
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

#13

And it has build number 25, RC1 is 379.

S.

#14

Writing this from virtual box:
I did received 1893 updates two days ago, a couple updates yesterday and still i`m on RC 1. Now i see that RC 2 is available but zypper says that it has nothing to do.
Apper does not work anymore complains about a missing library so i had used the gnome interface of Packagekit (i have both kde and gnome desktops installed) and even then gnome-packagekit says that my software is up to dateā€¦
What is wrong here? Where does 1893 updates the ones for RC2? And if so, why in the bootloader i still have RC1 ?

creatura@creation:~> uname -a
Linux creation 3.1.0-1-default #1 SMP Tue Oct 25 17:33:27 UTC 20
11 (68289aa) i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

creatura@creation:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release 
openSUSE 12.1 RC 1 (i586)
VERSION = 12.1
CODENAME = Asparagus
#15

I get a 404 from the software.opensuse.org link but Index of /distribution/12.1-RC2/iso is working I am downloading the dvd now. I just want to see if the software bug is fixd will report in a few hours

#16

My report is here has anyone installed rc2 from the dvd yet?

#17

I upgraded with zypper dup from RC1 and was not successfull. Gnome was falling several times and I decided to download RC2 from distrowatch this morning. I will test it.

#18

On 11/04/2011 08:16 AM, petrherynk wrote:
>
> I upgraded with zypper dup from RC1 and was not successfull. Gnome was
> falling several times and I decided to download RC2 from distrowatch
> this morning. I will test it.

My upgrade of a KDE system with ā€˜zypper dupā€™ from RC1 to RC2 was completely
satisfactory. Now running just fine.

#19

I upgraded with zypper dup, downloaded about 300 MB. I had to boot twice, with one fall. I tested only a while and for the time being all functioned.

#20

Where did this update come from? I zypper dupped from the factory repo and Iā€™m still in RC1.