Hi,
I was running openSUSE 12.1 (with Gnome) and upgraded to 12.3. The packages have been downloaded and installed but my laptop shut down during the reboot. Now I’m able to open a session but there are a lot of abnormalities. I can’t connect to internet and the network icon at th top right isn’t shown anymore. When I open the network settings I get an error : “the system network services are not compatible with this version”. When I open YaST and click on “software management” I get the following error “Can’t l”“ocate strict.pm in @INC…” (the message is very long). When I try to use zypper it says “error while loading shared librarits: Linton.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direct”
Is there any way to fix my system? I have 12.1 iso file.
Please help me with this, I’m getting desperated.
On 2013-04-10 22:26, andrecmoi wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I was running openSUSE 12.1 (with Gnome) and upgraded to 12.3.
Which method? Did you follow the docs?
Online upgrade
method
Offline upgrade
method
Chapter 16. Upgrading the System and System Changes
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-04-10 23:26, andrecmoi wrote:
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> I followed this tutorial : http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
Ok.
That’s the online upgrade method, and it clearly says that “jumps” are
not supported. They may work, they may not…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Is there any way to fix my system or do I have to reinstall it completely?
Before upgrading, I copied the following folders to an external drive : var, srv, etc et my home folder. Can this be useful?
On 2013-04-11 00:56, andrecmoi wrote:
> Is there any way to fix my system or do I have to reinstall it
> completely?
Dunno. I don’t know what exactly is broken.
Some people have had some success with doing an offline upgrade (dvd
upgrade) from one version to the same version. This replaces (most of)
the packages to the original versions of the release. It also destroys
any extra repository you may have enabled.
And later there are things to do…
An alternative is a zypper dup with only the default repositories
enabled and nothing more - if zypper runs.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 2013-04-11 01:36, andrecmoi wrote:
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> Before upgrading, I copied the following folders to an external drive :
> var, srv, etc et my home folder. Can this be useful?
For repair, not much.
For rebuilding from scratch, yes.
My procedure for upgrades includes a full backup, so that I can restore
the complete original situation and try again, or do a clean install
recovering my files and system configs.
I also do a test fresh install on a small partition to see if the target
release works in my computer (the alternative is running a live, but
that is more limited as a test).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
You can probably download DVD and try to upgrade again. People have reported successfully making jumps from 11.x to 12.X 