I had no problem whatsoever during and after the installation, with one minor wart:
at boot, the grub menu now says “opensuse 12.3”, even if it correctly points to the latest kernel. Tried to reinstall grub, but did not fix the problem – do I have to manually correct the label?
I was also left with a doubt:
i followed the guide above also in using tmux to launch “zypper dup”, but i never used a multi-plexer before, and after I launched the update I wondered whether I had to detach the tmux window from the konsole window, in order to protect the process from any X crash.
Yes, that’s a known problem, that already occured when upgrading from 12.2 to 12.3. The Label is not changed because it is user editable.
Use YaST->System->Boot Loader->Boot Loader Options to change it.
Or edit /etc/default/grub directly and call “sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg” afterwards.
I was also left with a doubt:
i followed the guide above also in using tmux to launch “zypper dup”, but i never used a multi-plexer before, and after I launched the update I wondered whether I had to detach the tmux window from the konsole window, in order to protect the process from any X crash.
No. tmux keeps running in the background even if the X session crashes, that’s its purpose.
Anyway, I never had such a crash when doing the distribution upgrade inside KDE.
Maybe it’s more dangerous in other DEs though.
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> I was also left with a doubt:
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> i followed the guide above also in using tmux to launch “zypper dup”,
> but i never used a multi-plexer before, and after I launched the
> update I wondered whether I had to detach the tmux window from the
> konsole window, in order to protect the process from any X crash.
My recommendation would be to switch to runlevel 3 and run the dup from
there.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)