Dear all,
could you please recommend me how I can upgrade to the 12.1 from 11.4?
IS there any guide out foir this?
B.R
Alex
On 11/22/2011 07:46 AM, alaios wrote:
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> IS there any guide out foir this?
sure, there are two…i hear both work:
Make sure 11.4 is fully updated; change to the 12.1 repos; refresh the repos (sudo zypper refresh); and upgrade (sudo zypper dup).
KDE or Gnome? I’ve only done KDE so far. The old KDE settings [at .kde4 hidden directory in /home] caused me problems, so first “move” the whole .kde4 directory to a safe place. On restart, that will allow KDE to generate new settings for KDE 4.7.2, and for you to copy back any settings files you need to keep.
Of course, first make backups! 
On 11/22/2011 12:46 PM, consused wrote:
> Make sure 11.4 is fully updated; change to the 12.1 repos; refresh the
> repos (sudo zypper refresh); and upgrade (sudo zypper dup).
i wonder why you give instructions which omits every possible chance of
recovering after any kind of upgrade problem??
both of the community published upgrade methods (already provided to the
OP) allow some good measure of data security that your truncated advice
ignores…
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DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat http://tinyurl.com/DD-Hardware
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Software
dump Flash: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15797399
And I’m sure Alex will have read both of them, realising my post wasn’t a full-blown tutorial, having been around the forum for a while (448 posts).
And when one has updared, refreshed and dup’ed what next? My macine now does not boot and drops me into emergency mode with no suggestions of what is
a) wrong, and
b) what to do next
First upgrade that has caused problems for a decade
You have my sympathy, really. It’s a risky business :(. I only ever had one failure with zypper dup, and that was testing a development Milestone release. I probably had slightly more doing clean installs.
I hope you read DenverD’s two links that “allow some good measure of data security”. Did you start a help thread for your problem?
wELL i HAVE IT RUNNING, BUT ONLY BYU STARTING EACH service by hand (network, nfs, rpcbind, …). I wonder how I get it back fronm a powercut? xdm (hand started) allowed me to log in, but did not give a screen for 5 minutes. Very suspicious of what is going wrong.
Did also notice thar LibreOffice now stops(crashes) on docx or ptt file. Is there any way of checking what its problem is? On this and why it does not boot?
Did not start a new thread as I was looking for others with problems
(No kde, no gnome, fvwm+X11)
Oh I almost forgot to mention that I always do the first upgrade (zypper dup) of a new release on my test-system partition, as I did recently for 11.4 to 12.1 with KDE. I suppose that’s just common sense really.
Starting a new thread with an appropriate title is normally recommended for such a serious problem, as it should command more attention from those who can help.
On 11/22/2011 05:16 PM, consused wrote:
> I’m sure Alex will have read both of them, realising my post wasn’t
> a full-blown tutorial, having been around the forum for a while (448
> posts).
but when someone here write incomplete (and insecure) advice, they are
not just writing to Alex…instead, they are also writing to the next 25
(or 250) who will google in and NOT know the given advice wasn’t nearly
complete…
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DD
Tough! Caveat emptor, DenverD. There comes a point when the motherhood becomes a turnoff, and patronizing to the reader. 
On 2011-11-22 18:56, jpff wrote:
> wELL i HAVE IT RUNNING, BUT ONLY BYU STARTING EACH service by hand
> (network, nfs, rpcbind, …).
At the boot prompt use F5 to change to systemd, and try.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)