Hello, I don’t know where to ask my question, I’m new to this forum…
I had a pretty old (11.1) distro so I tried to upgrade it to 11.2
via a “zypper dup” and now I find myself with an opensuse milestone 12.2
Did it happen to anybody ?
because now I have a few issues like kde not starting properly, my dvb card
not showing up…
when I try to re-install something yast tells me I have to downgrade things,
(it looks in the 12.1 repositories).
I must be a bit lucky because the system is up and running minus these few issues…
I dont want to do a fresh install and loose all my data.
Any clues about having a coherent system ???
Almost certainly you used the wrong source for the upgrade.
If you downloaded a DVD to do the upgrade, you likely downloaded the milestone DVD. But if you simply changed the repos so you could do a 'zypper dup" on those, you likely added the wrong ones.
So questions:
what preparations did you make in terms of DVDs or repos before doing “zypper dup”?
and
Please show your repos by running this command and posting the response here: zypper lr -d
On 2012-02-26 10:56, dferrec wrote:
>
> Hello, I don’t know where to ask my question, I’m new to this forum…
> I had a pretty old (11.1) distro so I tried to upgrade it to 11.2
> via a “zypper dup” and now I find myself with an opensuse milestone
> 12.2
So, you have installed the Beta version, in heavy development. Do not be
surprised if things do not work.
> Did it happen to anybody ?
Certainly not. You have to do it on purpose.
Get the backup you did of your 11.1 and reinstall it, then upgrade to a
supported version, or format and install fresh a supported version.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Please, anything about unsopprted version in Beta/test should go in the Pre-Release/Beta subforum.
There you will find youir fellow testers and you will not embarras normal openSUSE users.
What you did is mistakingly update straight from 11.1 to 12.2 . That’s not the way to go, to be fair, you messed up the install in such a way, that I suggest you download 12.1 and perform a clean install. You will no doubt have remains of 11.1, a mix of libraries in all kinds of versions, a dependency hell, which cannot be solved in a couple of hours. Do yourself a favor and install 12.1.
BTW 11.2 has reached the end of life long ago, so no packages available through the normal channels.
Well thank you all for your answers.
Looks like I don’t have may choices there…
Well I changed my repos since so it’s not relevant anymore but it told me
before proceeding that 11.2 was outdated.
Guess I’ll look around a bit before downloading 12.1
Thanks again…
I applogize for acting to soon on reading the word “12.2”. You weren’t posting wrong.
For some reason you added the 12.2 repos instaed of the 11.2 repos (which are in fact discontinued thus not easy to find at all).
The output of
zypper lr -d
could have shown what repos you use(d). But I guess this is rather academic now you decided to go for 12.1
On 2012-02-27 09:06, dferrec wrote:
>
> Well thank you all for your answers.
> Looks like I don’t have may choices there…
> Well I changed my repos since so it’s not relevant anymore but it told
> me
> before proceeding that 11.2 was outdated.
> Guess I’ll look around a bit before downloading 12.1
Make sure that you have activated the oss, non-oss, and updates repos for
12.1 (and only those repos) then do another “zypper dup”. As you updated
things to 12.2, it be a downgrade.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)