Hello,
I’ve followed Suse wiki guide to update my SUSE from 12.1 to 13.1 using zypper but faced with the alot of dependency errors during
zypper patch
or
zypper dup steps
providing repositories for both 12.1 and 13.1 suse versions.
could you provide me with some manual how to easily update my suse to 13.1 version?
Best,
James
I believe it’s probably best to upgrade to 12.2/12.3 before trying to go from 12.1 to 13.1. I’m not sure that’s even a supported jump.
After that, I believe you must follow this >> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
Hi,
12.1 to 13.1 is a massive jump as a lot of things have changed, including many upgrades to the software stack and default compression for .rpm packages.
I, personally, would suggest downloading, burning and booting from the DVD and making the upgrade from there or alternative the NET iso if you have a fast network connection.
While I support the advices above (do not jump fr om 12.1 to 13.1 in one step), it is in any case wrong to have 12.1 and 13.1 repos active at the same time.
Hi,
today I’ve tried to make manual update from 12.1 to 12.2 and then to 12.3
as the result both network manaher and X server had stoped to work after rebooting 
I’ve fixed problem with Network but when I try to
startx
there are error that nvidia kernels are missings (I’ve reistanlled drivers and reloaded nvidia-xconfig but no effect). Could you suggest me possible solution ? I have also 13.1 suse CD might it be better to reintall suse using it keeping all DATA files from my PC?
James
You don’t need xconfig or anything of the sort anymore, you also don’t install the drivers manually which by the sound of if you’ve done (and haven’t disabled KMS).
Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the drivers you’ve installed, then follow the instructions here; http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers (once you’ve gotten back to X)
thanks! could you suggest me the most trivial way to remove all old nvidia drivers assuming that it have been installed from repozitories by
zypper install x11-video-nvidiaG02
evenrually I need to install this drivers back because my working software use nvidia GPU +cuda
You should be able to find all installed nVidia drivers with zypper se -si nvidia and then zypper rm’ing those packages. If you remove xorg.conf you should be able to boot into X, if not, holler here and we’ll see what we can do!
(se = search, si = search packages that are installed)
yes, the X is active but login is possible only with Failsafe mode (I’ve tried to reinstall nvidia drivers following suse wiki)
What display adapter do you have?
Also could you copy paste some relevant information regarding the nVidia adapter from both; dmesg (run it as root) and /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log - seeing what the errors there are might help us tell you what is causing the problem.
Then your installation should be ok.
“Only” the nvidia driver is not working.
What do you mean with “X is active but login is possibly only with Failsafe mode”?
Do you get dropped back to the login screen, when you try to login? In that case, try to select a different desktop session there and report whether this works.
Or do you not get a login screen at all?
This might be a permission issue. Can you login as root?
What nvidia and kernel packages do you have installed?
rpm -qa | egrep "nvidia|kernel"
Please do a normal boot, reboot to recovery mode, and post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old then.
And, as Miuku already wrote, it would be nice if you would specify your actual graphics card as well… 
it’s hard to copy logs because I’m writting from the laptop but in generally I think that the problem is due to the fact that I’ve intalled nvidia drivers from 12.3 repo on my out-of-dated 12.1 suse so I thinkin any case the much better will be update it or alternatively intall 13.1 suse. In any case I’d like to keep all files and software alive so it seems that update will be better
Oh yeah that won’t work - no wonder it won’t boot. 12.3 drivers will not work on your 12.1 installation.
Note; you cannot upgrade with the CD. You need the DVD to make the upgrade.
I thought recovery mode works fine, so you should be able to post the logs from there.
Or is your internet connection not working?
You could also copy the logs to a USB stick or similar and then post it from the Laptop.
but in generally I think that the problem is due to the fact that I’ve intalled nvidia drivers from 12.3 repo on my out-of-dated 12.1 suse so I thinkin any case the much better will be update it or alternatively intall 13.1 suse.
Hm?
I though you are in 12.3 now? So the 12.3 drivers should of course work
Have you tried to remove all packages with “nvidia” in it already? Search for “nvidia” in YaST->Software Management, and uninstall all 3/5 (depending on the driver version).
Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf as well, and you should at least get a graphical system using the nouveau driver.
Then you/we could try to install the nvidia driver again and get it to work.
And why do you think the 12.3 drivers would work after you upgraded to 13.1?
You can with the Netinstall CD.
Only the LiveCD doesn’t offer the possibility to upgrade, but then it is not really a CD anyway… (it doesn’t even fit on a CD)
no I just try to upgrade suse from 12.1 to 13.1 using dvd and install new drivers for nvidia from 13.1 repo. I hope this help.
James
Might work, but it’s not really supported.
But I thought you upgraded to 12.3 already, or have I misunderstood something?
You wrote:
And even on 12.1 you should be able to get your system to work again by uninstalling the 12.3 nvidia packages and removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf it it exists (as this would probably force the nvidia driver).
I’ve tried to upgrade system to 12.3 from repo but there were some dependency warnings during it which might produce my issue.
The system has been upgraded fine but there is some problem with the network
on the mahine there are 2 eth0 and eth1 adapters where eth1shuld be used with all required parameters. When I restart eth1 the network works fine but always stop working after 1 min . It seems that some conflict between both adapters exists. How could I completely remove eth0 and switch to the et1 always ?
Also some questions: there were two desctops installed from 12.1 (gnome and mate) which not works with 13.1. How could I deleate it and reinstall manualy from the 13.1 repo ?
Thanks,
James
ah problem with the network manager has been solved using network config utility
the another problem is the drivers for nvidia again
I’ve updated drivers from the 13.1 repo (this time I’m using 13.1 suse) and run nvidia-xconfig
but the drivers are not recognized by suse (the X is started from the default video drivers) althought it has been recognized by zypper. What should be specified here ?
James
Good.
I’ve updated drivers from the 13.1 repo (this time I’m using 13.1 suse) and run nvidia-xconfig
There’s no need to run nvidia-xconfig. The nvidia driver is used automatically if it is installed.
And I also have seen nvidia-xconfig create a broken/invalid configuration.
So remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf again. It is not necessary.
but the drivers are not recognized by suse (the X is started from the default video drivers) althought it has been recognized by zypper. What should be specified here ?
You don’t have to specify anything. If the nvidia driver is installed, it is used.
Please, again, post which nvidia and kernel packages you have installed:
rpm -qa | egrep "nvidia|kernel"
And maybe boot to recovery mode and post /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old.
And for a third time, please tell us what graphics card you have:
/sbin/lspci | grep VGA