At first glance upgrading was successful but not everything works fine now.
So, my experience:
First of all, after installing 12.1, approximately 430 packages weren’t updated to new versions. For example, I had kernel-desktop-base and kernel-desktop-source packages from 2.6.xx kernel, while kernel-desktop ws updated to 3.1.
Second, when I tried to install new network printer (SMB), I couldn’t select any driver for the new printer, YaST utility just didn’t see any. I had to remove all driver packages and install them back, then I was able to select the necessary driver. Maybe, the reason was the same: old packages.
And the third problem is the most disappointing. I have an Intel GM965 laptop and there are problems with KDE, which I have never had on 11.4. Take a look at the screenshots:
After the boot everything is fine, but then those problems randomly occur. Unfortunately I don’t have any idea on how to get rid of it.
Has anyone faced the same problem?
According to the second method (15.1.3. Upgrading with YaST), I downloaded the ISO, burnt it onto a DVD and selected the update option. It removed all the repos used in 11.4, removed some packages and updated a lot of existing ones, but not all of them. And there were no error reports during the installation.
I’ve found a bugreport about black artifacts in KDE. Basicly, the artifacts I get are also black, but what’s more, some icons and sometimes even the cursor disappear.
On 11/18/2011 01:06 PM, aleyer s wrote:
> I’ve found a ‘bugreport’ about black artifacts in KDE. Basicly, the artifacts I get are also black, but what’s more, some icons and sometimes even the cursor disappear.
yes, that looks to be that folks are looking at that problem…on the
other hand i have no idea why “approximately 430 packages weren’t
updated to new versions” unless maybe they were packages you had
installed in 11.4 from sources outside of the four openSUSE repos: oss,
non-oss, packman and update…
OR those 430 packages have not changed since you installed them on to
11.4–and, if that is the case then they should not be upgraded…
OR, the newer packages have not yet been loaded into the 12.1 repos (or,
maybe never will be)
In order to update those 430 packages to new versions, I had to switch system packages to “openSUSE-12.1-oss” repository in YaST. Maybe you’re right, they could belong to Factory repository. I tried to install Gnome 3 in 11.4, it seems that I needed to add some extra repositories that time.
One thing is certain, all the new versions were on the DVD initially, as well as in oss repo.
> yes, that looks to be that folks are looking at that problem…on the
> other hand i have no idea why “approximately 430 packages weren’t updated
> to new versions” unless maybe they were packages you had installed in 11.4
> from sources outside of the four openSUSE repos: oss, non-oss, packman and
> update…
I reported that as bug a version ago.
But I don’t see where you read that “approximately 430 packages weren’t
updated to new versions” :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-18 18:06, aleyer s wrote:
>
> In order to update those 430 packages to new versions, I had to switch
> system packages to “openSUSE-12.1-oss” repository in YaST. Maybe you’re
> right, they could belong to Factory repository. I tried to install Gnome
> 3 in 11.4, it seems that I needed to add some extra repositories that
> time.
Don’t you have a list? It is possible to know if they were from packman or not.
> One thing is certain, all the new versions were on the DVD initially,
> as well as in oss repo.
Hold on, those packages were in the DVD you used for the upgrade? That’s
different from the problem I reported.
I assume you booted that DVD, and then selected the upgrade installed
system option?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Well, the approximate list looks like this. I’m not sure about the versions of all the 430 packages. I noticed only that 2 kernel-related packages were outdated, with the versions of the old 2.6.37 kernel from 11.4. So, it’s my guess that the situation is the same with the other packages. I may be wrong, don’t know.
One more thing, this bug is absolutely reproducible. I had to remove libreoffice-kde and libreoffice-kde4 packages to make it work without crashing.
By the way, I selected Fallback GLMode in kwinrc, and don’t have black artifacts for 2 hours already. But “Show desktop” icon has disappeared once again.
>>But I don’t see where you read that “approximately 430 packages weren’t
>>updated to new versions”
I just switched system packages to OSS repo in YaST and it told me that it needed to upgrade 429 packages.