I just upgraded on-line from 11.3 to 12.1 and everything seemed to go fine. However, when I log on normally it just shows the splash screen with a small round wait timer. If I log on using Failsafe I’m able to get to the desktop but I can run anything. When I do, it sends me right back to the logon. I’m able to select iceWM and that lets me run Firefox but nothing else. In iceWM if I try to run Yast I get an invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 gtk warning cannot open display :0.0
If you really did an upgrade, then at this point I would suggest a clean install. It is possible, by doing a custom partition, to load openSUSE new in the same root partition and allowing it to format the drive, but you can just mount only, your old /home, making sure to not format it and thus preserving many of your personnel settings. It is the next method I would take. You you elect to mount all of the existing partitions in their very same place: root / at / (mount and format), /home at /home (mount only, no format) and swap at swap (format is OK). Then let the install begin just as before.
I read the documentation but also found a couple of examples where people posted how they went from 11.3 to 12.1 directly. Apparently, my bad for believing…
That makes sense, although I’m sure I’ll have some questions when it comes time to actually making the partitions. Home is the most important partition so this will work well. Downloading the .iso now.
On 2012-05-03 13:16, stevericketts wrote:
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> robin_listas;2460057 Wrote:
> I read the documentation but also found a couple of examples where
> people posted how they went from 11.3 to 12.1 directly. Apparently, my
> bad for believing…
Many people got it working. But it can fail.
Online upgrade over two versions is not supported. Offline upgrade is,
AFAIK. However, any update or upgrade can fail, no matter how small; they
are dangerous operations.
It is very possible you have pending configuration files (rcrpmconfigcheck)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)