I apologise ahead of time for not spending more time searching for an answer (I don’t have the patience, due to my tiredness).
I decided to try Tumbleweed and ended up breaking the graphical system, so I reverted the system by changing the packages back to the 13.1 repositories. While the system works, I’m left with lots of boxes instead of text in any GNOME 3 window (in Firefox’s case, just the title bar). I took care to make sure I didn’t have leftover packages that needed the distribution upgrade or had open dependencies, but maybe there was something I missed? I’m hoping this is an easy fix, as I’d rather not have to run through a reinstall.
I’m not sure exactly what logs I’d need to pull (Xorg log?), but I’ve been up long enough, and I should get some sleep before I do anything else.
It is a bit difficult to assess how you did things. My guess is thet people here can not realy decide if your description “I reverted the system by changing the packages back to the 13.1 repositories” shows exact enough what you did (used YaST or zypper and what actions). How can they then advise you if you did it correct?
In general, when in a text there are open rectangles shown, this means that there is no glyph (the image that forms the character) can be found for the character code to be shown. E.g. when in a text there is the ASCII code hex 41, but you have no font that has the picture for an A, then you will see an open rectangle instead. This is of course very unlikely to happen with the latter A, but more with non Latin scripts.
On 2014-10-28 13:46, hcvv wrote:
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> It is a bit difficult to assess how you did things. My guess is thet
> people here can not realy decide if your description “I reverted the
> system by changing the packages back to the 13.1 repositories” shows
> exact enough what you did (used YaST or zypper and what actions). How
> can they then advise you if you did it correct?
I can only blindly advise to do the DVD upgrade procedure, upgrading
13.1 to 13.1. It is like hunting geese with fragmentation grenades,
but… you do get the target.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Sorry for the confusion, I meant to say that I downgraded my packages from Tumbleweed to 13.1; I was quite tired and trying to spend the least amount of time typing, which wasn’t the best decision, but I figured I would probably have an answer or two by the time I woke up.
This worked just fine (though I was holding my breath a bit until I saw the text XD). And yes, downgrading probably isn’t a good idea, but I ended up with an unworkable graphical environment after upgrading to Tumbleweed, so the two choices I had was to either downgrade or to reinstall and reconfigure 13.1 (with the latter being more slightly annoying in my opinion). Normally I would’ve done this on another machine with a test partition/drive, but I just had an itching to tinker and that machine was already running.
Anyway though, thank you for the help and quick response. I will definitely put this into my knowledge toolbox if I ever run into it again (hopefully never XD).
