Hi to all,
After system update ( from 12.1 to 12.2 ) , server not booting
Photo of the screen is here SUSE Paste . Please help
“yes” or “no” not helping
This doesn’t look good. Can you post a beter picture? I cann’t read it all.
Indeed does not look good. How did you perform the update?
maybe this will be better
SUSE Paste
I have perfomed update using Jast -> online update
On 2012-10-08 15:06, melkij22 wrote:
>
> Hi to all,
> After system update ( from 12.1 to 12.2 ) , server not booting
> Photo of the screen is here ‘SUSE Paste’
> (http://paste.opensuse.org/13908390) . Please help
> “yes” or “no” not helping
We need a better photo. Did you use a flash? Disable it. Dim room light. Use a tripod or a pile
of books to stabilize the camera.
It seems I see references in the text to vmware, to corrupted bios (wow!) and to missing
binaries like “ln”. We need to be sure.
Finally, how did you perform the upgrade, online or offline?
Online upgrade method
Offline upgrade method
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Do you have a picture from before? Or maybe a movie? The error did occur before this lines.
For now can you do the following?
- ls /
- mount
So, you changed the version numbers in the repos, and performed an online update. That’s definitely not the way to go. IMHO you have now borked your system in such a way that it’s going to take a lot of time to get it working, with no guarantee on a proper installed system. Perform a clean install, it will take a lot less time, and you’ll end up with a stable system. I don’t see other valid options, hence I’m out of this one.
better photo is here SUSE Paste
I think now you can read what is written there.
How was update done - I have writened in post earlear
Doh… But there is a lot of information that I need. Maybe there is a way to fix it somehow? I didn’t changed repo manually - maybe it done program that I wanted to install from repo 12.2
You cannot upgrade unless you change repos, they’re version dependant. The one thing you can do, is boot from a LiveCD and check whether /home is on a separate partition. If so, you could leave it untouched on a clean install and reuse it. Backup before, using the LiveCD.
You can update a server with yast online_update, that is the correct way to do this. I think it does not see the hard disk. But can you give us the output of the following commands?
ls /
ls /dev/
mount
On 2012-10-08 16:06, melkij22 wrote:
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> better photo is here ‘SUSE Paste’ (http://paste.opensuse.org/74338280)
Not good enough, some parts are blurry.
> I think now you can read what is written there.
> How was update done - I have writened in post earlear
No, not clearly. The only upgrade methods are those two I pointed to, and it seems you did
neither. Apparently you changed the repositories, and then did an online upgrade - this is a
sure method to break your system beyond repair. You have parts from 12.1 and parts from 12.2.
You can attempt a repair by using the offline upgrade method, but no guarantees.
Besides, you have a bios problem in the first line.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Thanks for help to all.
I’m doing a fresh instal…
On 10/08/2012 10:06 PM, melkij22 wrote:
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> Knurpht;2494291 Wrote:
>> So, you changed the version numbers in the repos, and performed an
>> online update. That’s definitely not the way to go. IMHO you have now
>> borked your system in such a way that it’s going to take a lot of time
>> to get it working, with no guarantee on a proper installed system.
>> Perform a clean install, it will take a lot less time, and you’ll end up
>> with a stable system. I don’t see other valid options, hence I’m out of
>> this one.
> Doh… But there is a lot of information that I need. Maybe there is a
> way to fix it somehow? I didn’t changed repo manually - maybe it done
> program that I wanted to install from repo 12.2
>
>
When you say there is a lot of information you need, is it in the /home
directory? Do you not have the /home directory in its own partition? If
you do not have it in its own partition, you can always copy your /home
partition to an external drive before doing a clean install. Then when
you do your clean install, make sure you have a separate partition for
the /home partition to protect for next time. You can then copy your
data back to your /home directory after the clean install.
If you already have a separate /home partition and that is where all
your data is that you want to save, then a clean install is the way to
go. Import your old partitions if the install disk proposes something
different from what you already have, and then make sure before you hit
“install” that it says at the top of the summary screen that it will not
format the /home partition. I have done it twice like that and not lost
any data.
G.O.
On 10/09/2012 02:26 PM, melkij22 wrote:
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> robin_listas;2494324 Wrote:
>> On 2012-10-08 16:06, melkij22 wrote:
>>>
>>> better photo is here ‘SUSE Paste’ (‘SUSE Paste’
>> (http://paste.opensuse.org/74338280))
>>
>> Not good enough, some parts are blurry.
>>
>>> I think now you can read what is written there.
>>> How was update done - I have writened in post earlear
>>
>> No, not clearly. The only upgrade methods are those two I pointed to,
>> and it seems you did
>> neither. Apparently you changed the repositories, and then did an
>> online upgrade - this is a
>> sure method to break your system beyond repair. You have parts from
>> 12.1 and parts from 12.2.
>> You can attempt a repair by using the offline upgrade method, but no
>> guarantees.
>>
>>
>> Besides, you have a bios problem in the first line.
>>
>>
>> –
>> Cheers / Saludos,
>>
>> Carlos E. R.
>> (from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
>
> Thanks for help to all.
> I’m doing a fresh instal…
>
>
And just to follow up from my earlier post, if you need to get data off
before you do the fresh install, you can always boot up with a live KDE
or live Gnome disk, mount the /home partition, and copy the data you
need off of that.