Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.3 to 11.4

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#1

Through the control panel on my vps i can only install OpenSUSE 11.3. Now i want to upgrade to the latest version 12.1. First i wanted to upgrade to version 11.4 and after this upgrade to 12.1. But during the upgrade from 11.3 to 11.4 i get the following error:

Installing: filesystem-11.4-11.14.1 [error]
Installation of filesystem-11.4-11.14.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /proc: cpio: chown failed - Permission denied

Does this mean that a file has not the write permission? If yes, which file?

#2

Exactly what way are you trying to upgrade? There are several possible ways.

#3

I try to upgrade in this way:

1. zypper update

2. After the update is complete i disable the 11.3 repositories ---> zypper modifyrepo --all --disable

3. Then i enable the 11.4 repositories
    zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/ repo-11.4-oss
    zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/ repo-11.4-non-oss
    zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.4 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ repo-11.4-update

4. Then i run the full distribution upgrade:
    zypper ref
    zypper dup

I have to accept a license and then the error is displaying.

#4

On 2012-02-27 01:36, gogalthorp wrote:
>
> Exactly what way are you trying to upgrade? There are several possible
> ways.

My guess is that is a virtual remote server, on a farm of some kind.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#5

On 02/26/2012 11:56 PM, ProClub wrote:
> Through the control panel on my vps i can only install OpenSUSE 11.3.
> Now i want to upgrade to the latest version 12.1.

is there a problem with your virtual private server’s openSUSE 11.3?

if not, why would you want to attempt to upgrade it?

i mean, i assume you have rented space on some hosting service
somewhere, right?

if so, what benefit would you expect to get by moving through 11.4 to 12.1?

anyway, i highly doubt you have root access to the openSUSE system and
therefore have no ability to upgrade anything anyway…

well…actually i’m only speaking from my own experience…i’ve had
several web sites hosted in on small account at Dotster for years and i
don’t even know which linux distro it runs on…and, don’t care as that
is the server farms’ business…

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#6

Yes, it’s a virtual server. I wanted to upgrade to suse 12.1 because i am learning to run OpenSUSE on a server. Till now i only run it on a windows ps. I wright my hosting about this and i received this answer from them:

OpenSuse 11.4 is unsupported with our vServers (thats declares your problem). Currently it looks like we will drop any OpenSUSE support because it is very hard to use OpenSuse with a Linux-VServer.org based vServers, to much problems with this distri.

#7

On 2012-02-27 22:26, ProClub wrote:

> -OpenSuse 11.4 is unsupported with our vServers (thats declares your
> problem). Currently it looks like we will drop any OpenSUSE support
> because it is very hard to use OpenSuse with a Linux-VServer.org based
> vServers, to much problems with this distri.-

You have to use what they choose, not you.

If you want to learn how to use openSUSE, install it yourself on your own
computer.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#8

In my last post I have mentioned that I OpenSUSE already run on my PC.

Thank you all for your responses.

#9

On 2012-02-27 23:56, ProClub wrote:

> In my last post I have mentioned that I OpenSUSE already run on my PC.

Then use that one. Don’t try to upgrade that remote one, not worth it. They
will probably replace it with some other distro, so your upgrade would be lost.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)