System broken after dup from 12.1 to 12.2?

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I tried upgrading today with ‘zypper dup --download “in-advance”’. It appeared to download all the packages okay, but then some time during the installation my computer restarted abruptly. I assumed this meant the upgrade was complete, but before I got to the login screen I got this: http://blog.gambliser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fedora-error.jpg . I tried booting from a LiveCD, and from there I changed /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager to use kdm instead of gdm.

This time when I booted from hard disk I got a primitive-looking graphical login screen, but after logging in I got the same error. Only this time, I had the option to log out to a command line. While on the command line, I noticed that it said “opensuse 12.2 Asparagus, Linux 3.1…” or something like this. When I did “zypper list-updates -t package”, 1195 (over 1 GiB) packages were listed as being available. This seems to be me to indicate that the upgrade didn’t complete properly for some reason? But how can I resume it from the command line without a network connection?

Thanks for any help

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Even in the console, you can try to use Yast. Login with username and password, and do

su -c yast

and use it to setup the networking.

My guess (but this is a guess) is that you flooded your “/” by downloading in advance. To check the diskusage by running

df -h
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Thanks for your fast reply. I’ve tried using yast, but when I select anything I get /usr/lib64/YaST64/plugin/libpy2lang_perl.so: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

df -h shows that 92% of 20GB is in use, 1.6GB remaining. While downloading packages, it did complain that only 1GB was left. But installation started soon after, and the remaining space started increasing again.

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If I were you I would download the installation DVD (not one of the live
CDs) and do an offline upgrade to repair the system.
That means boot from the DVD and choose the install option when it asks
if you want to do a fresh install or an upgrade choose the upgrade.
That should bring your system back inta working state and then you can
run a normal update to get all the bugfixes which were released since
12.2 came out.

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PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.5 | GTX 650 Ti
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.9.3 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 11.4 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | lamp server

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On 11/21/2012 04:51 PM, Martin Helm wrote:
> If I were you I would download the installation DVD (not one of the live
> CDs) and do an offline upgrade to repair the system.

a step-by-step guide for an offline upgrade:

http://tinyurl.com/7l4m2td

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dd http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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Thanks for the help guys, upgrading from the DVD repaired it.