I have dared upgrading OpenSUSE 10.3 directly to 11.2. And it almost worked…
After upgrading the system boots, but some operations last for a very long time.
For example: on the login screen it takes a lot of time for the login/password
box to appear. But the display icon (which is on the same screen!) is very fast
and responsive.
After logging into the system, I have to wait a few minutes for the desktop
to appear (I mean the menus, the wallpaper etc.). When I open the Gnome terminal,
I can work in it without problems, however when (using the same terminal) I
try to do “su -”, after I type in the password, I have to wait for a very long
time to log as root.
The CPU usage is OK (i.e. it’s very low).
There following error messages appear in /var/log/messages after I do “su -”
and enter the password:
gnomesu-pam-backend: The gnome keyring socket is not owned with the same credentials as the user login: /tmp/keyring-oiJdty/socket
gnomesu-pam-backend: gkr-pam: couldn’t unlock ‘login’ keyring: 255
Also, when booting the machine, there are these error messages in the /var/log/messages file:
…]
auditd[2112]: Error sending signal_info request (Operation not supported)
…]
seahorse-agent[15536]: GConf error:#012 Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See GConf configuration system for information. (Details - 1: Could not send message to GConf daemon: Connection is closed)
…]
I am not using NFS.
Generally the Gnome environment is very responsive (e.g. switching between windows
is very fast). It’s just that some operations take very long time to complete.
Update: I have compared system log with the one from another PC (where I also installed OpenSUSE 11.2),
and there are the same error messages. However, on this other PC OpenSUSE works perfectly.
You may ask for help, Tomek, but you’ve done exactly that, what’s been suggested NOT TO DO. Performing a clean install is the way to go. It’s almost impossible for us to find out what’s going wrong, since your system might very well contain a mix of 10.3 and 11.2 packages.
What you’ve done is practically the road to instability.
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I know it’s been risky.
Would it be OK if I booted from the install DVD, and chosen the “Repair” option? Would it overwrite all packages or should I rather delete everything and start from scratch?
my guess is the easiest way to fix all the problems is to back up
all the data you wanna keep and do fresh format and install 11.2 from
DVD, then restore from your current backup…
well, you can try preserving your current /home and let it be the new
home, but chances are there is some crud in its hidden directories
that contain traps and dangers not easily repaired…
note: i’m sending from a rock solid 10.3, which i hate to leave but
when i do i will remove the old drive, install a new, and give it all
to openSUSE…including a new user’s home…then, i’ll attach the old
again and tranfer data, music etc only…hopefully that way any old
junk will be left behind…
ymmv…note, supposedly it is ok to upgrade to 11.2 from 11.1, but…
Had nearly the same problems.
After reading the “Releases” found no information that would be incompatible to update from the 10.3 to 11.0
Had to go through the school of hard knocks.
First: The “fstab” file is important and have always had a hard copy in the manual. This was the answer to the incompatibly because the 10.3 was using the journalaling “Reiserfs” where the 11.0 was “ext3” file system. Could never get HOME directory (/dev/sda7) to act anything normal.
Had to do format and reinstall.
2 Tips: 1- With dual Boot use the Computer Manager in Windows and delete Linux partitions and enlarge Windows to full then reinstall.
2- Print out your “fstab” file and have as reference.
Thomas7343 wrote:
> Had nearly the same problems.
> After reading the “Releases” found no information that would be
> incompatible to update from the 10.3 to 11.0
that 10.3 (and all previous and 11.0) to 11.2 upgrade is not
supported info not make it into the readme? it is carefully hidden
here: http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade
and in many threads in these fora…surprised it didn’t make it into
what you read…