Hi
i had 11.4 on my vaio laptop and i went to update it to 12.1 using dvd. in update process, it installed & uninstalled everything needed and in next section, that is a terminal-like environment, the last thing that it prints is “shuting down DNS” (i think) and it sticks at this section. I’ve tried several times and it didn’t make a difference.
when i try to boot the installed OS from my hard disk, system boots up bu it can’t start x server and goes to terminal mode. when i type “startx” it says that x server can’t find nvidia package and it doesn’t start.
your subject says it is stuck at the last step, i wonder what is the
last step successfully completed in either of these two supported and
recommended methods of upgrading:
none of these methods I’ve used; i just inserted the dvd and selected installation, then upgrade. the disk is ok because we’ve used it on other systems.
On 12/21/2011 07:06 PM, sazary wrote:
> none of these methods I’ve used
you really should follow the directions as written…
so i don’t know what might have gone wrong…you could try these:
at the first green screen during the boot press F5 and select to boot
from systemV (systemD is the default–it is a new system and is causing
some strange stuff on some machines…
if that doesn’t help, you might also try:
(i do not have a lot of hope that this will work, but it might) go to
On 2011-12-21 19:06, sazary wrote:
>
> none of these methods I’ve used; i just inserted the dvd and selected
> installation, then upgrade. the disk is ok because we’ve used it on
> other systems.
That’s the method explained briefly in “15.1.3. Upgrading with YaST” of the
links DenverD supplied.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-12-21 17:06, sazary wrote:
> I’ve tried several times and it didn’t make a difference.
> when i try to boot the installed OS from my hard disk, system boots up
> bu it can’t start x server and goes to terminal mode. when i type
> “startx” it says that x server can’t find nvidia package and it doesn’t
> start.
Reinstall the video driver.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Once the basic upgrade installation is finished, YaST reboots the system. Finally, YaST updates the remaining software, if any and displays the release notes, if wanted.
I’ve clicked “Start Update”, and the next level is not explained in this document. it goes to terminal mode and starts a kernel and… does nothing.
On 12/22/2011 10:56 AM, sazary wrote:
>it goes to terminal mode and starts a kernel and… does
> nothing.
as far as i remember it should not go into “terminal mode”, something
is wrong…it either doesn’t like your hardware or the install disk
is rotten…i know you wrote “the disk is ok because we’ve used it on
other systems” but that is an assumption which i’d ask you to check the
disk as i ask (because maybe the driver which is crucial to your
hardware (and not the other machines installed on) is garbled on your
install disk…throwing the whole shebang off the tracks.
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
Hi
I’ve checked the disk using the option in the boot menu and the media is just okay.
then i managed to change the driver that X is using to vesa, and added the nomodeset option to the boot options line to boot the system in graphical mode. none of these two (vesa, nomodeset) worked alone. and after boot, i’m trying to reinstall nvidia driver. i have some difficulties due to internet, and when i install it i will tell you the results.
after all, i can show you that terminal mode that it enters after update. i must excuse because i didn’t explain you the whole procedure, but now it is it:
i put the dvd in machine, restart it, selecting install from the menu, then update an existing opensuse. then it determines what it should do to update the system (updating packages, installing new ones and…) and will do it. after that a dialog box says that update is finished and it wants to restart the machine. when i click restart, the environment in the below picture shows up, and after this nothing happens, and even the cursor doesn’t blink.
that’s it all. http://s3.kkloud.com/gett/static/scaled/8ztdHZB-0.g83wm0hpphr7wrk9.jpg
one another thing to note is that when i booted the system using vesa and nomodeset, and told zypper to check for updates, it said that there is nearly 300Mb updates to download. is it real? does 12.1 have this amount of update now? or is it because dvd did not complete the update procedure?
On 12/23/2011 12:16 PM, sazary wrote:
> is nearly 300Mb updates to download. is it real? does 12.1 have this
> amount of update now? or is it because dvd did not complete the update
> procedure?
i don’t know how many updates have been made so far…could be a lot!
or, maybe the dvd hasn’t completed…
so, this may not help at all…maybe it makes it worse, but i think
you are getting bitten by a bug which is blocking shutdown…i wonder,
if it gets to that dead stop can you press Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in as root
and issue this command
shutdown -r now
which should cause an orderly shutdown and reboot…which (i think)
should get you the restart the system wants…
if that doesn’t work there have been a rash of “failing to shutdown”
12.1 in the forums in the last month…i do not recall how that is
fixed…ah, i think there is something in the release notes about
it…maybe you could make that change before clicking restart…
sorry, i do not have the patience just now to do all the required
research. (flu)
HI everyone!
first, i want to say thanx to everyone helped on this issue, and even everyone who spent time to read these; special thanx go to @DenverD
after installing nvidia driver, i’m now able to boot my system normally. everything is okay, or it seems to be.
the concerning points are:
as i had the nvidia driver installed on my opensuse 11.4 before update, it sounds natural to expect updater to not to uninstall it! but it did. can i report it as a bug?
second is that it tried to fast reboot, but it crashed. i’ve tried shutdown command before, and it works.
third is that when it wants to boot, it prints several lines of error due to a problem with some network devices, although my network devices (eth0 & wlan0) both work normally; or they seem to.
the last concern is about the updates. although now i have Gnome3 & KDE 4.7 ( i hadn’t them before update) but i’m afraid of having update not complete. this is my zypper output:
On 2011-12-23 16:26, sazary wrote:
> i think this volume of updates is unusual, even after a major release.
No, it is not. It is a known bug of the DVD upgrade method, that not all
packages are upgraded. It misses all those packages you have that are not
in the DVD, plus all those that were upgraded/updated since release.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
