viking60 wrote:So lemme see if I can translate your divine guru-stuff for us (very) mortals:
1. You tried to upgrade - like me - on your actual 2010.2 installation
1.5 You fell on your back - like me (Charlie Brown style). Because there was a load of dependency files that had to be fixed manually - in my case way to many to fix -probably in your case too - right?
I forget, exactly, what the problem was. Let me see.
Here:I tried similar, remember the
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urpmi --auto --auto-update --replacefiles 2>&1 | tee upgrade.log instruction. Would not even boot. I wonder about all the MIB stuff I had installed for 2010.2 and, moreso, the transition from rpm4 to rpm5, which was attended by much wailing and gnashing of teeth @cooker mailing list leading up to the release of 2011.
So, basically, the upgrade finished but wouldn't boot. Also, many attempts at live install or, even, booting various 2011 live disks were not successful or required booting to runlevel 3 and setting up X to use the generic vesa driver.
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62825viking60 wrote:2. You made a backup of your home files with the fantastic Guru backup script we have here.
2.5 You had no problems whatsoever with that of course.
Not exactly but that would be one way to do it.
viking60 wrote:3. You made a fresh 2010.2 install (because a fresh install of 2011 did not work?)
3.5 No problem
Yes, no fresh install I did would boot except to the
dracut: prompt, limited shell command set, / not mounted, unable to mount what partitions I could see with
ls /dev, could not fix. The ftp install of 2010.2 was solid and trouble-free. I put it into one 250G reiserfs partition, mounted as /. I created my user the way it has always been, same name, same uid and gid (under Advanced in the "Create a User" step of install), so all the files and directories in the /home I have been dragging forward for 10 years will just work.
viking60 wrote:4. You ran the
Wiki script from tty 3
4.5
And it works if you do not have MIB repos?
Yes. First I did a
urpmi -v --auto-update but the "Check for updates?" step at the end of install had worked, so all was up-to-date. On various attempts to install software in the recent past, I have seen "something cannot be installed because it depends on a version of foo that is older than your installed foo" where MIB is the installed newer version. So, that might not be catastrophic but is a possible source of headaches. As the wiki says, all packages (about 1690, here) are downloaded before being installed, all at once. I was in a 250G partition, plenty of space. I ran the script from init 3 to minimize possible glitches from X, there was no interruption of the connection to carroll.cac.psu.edu, and everything completed in one step. I noticed some steps related to installing rpm5 to do with database rebuilding or such. Maybe that is a refinement of the beta script.
viking60 wrote:5. You put your home files back with rsync (Not yet but that is the plan. And you are mostly worried about the .KDE files which I am not
)
5.5
And everything works?
First, I checked out the pristine 2011 KDE. I think there are some improvements but look and feel is something I have made choices about over many years, so I went about seeing how I could take out things I did not choose or would not have chosen, like stack folders
. Then, while just copying rsync backup files back over would be clean, my backup is sort of a bare minimum, my hoarder /home is 353G, at this point, I am lazy, and my method is to create the mount points for /home and my 4 other data partitions in fstab. On next boot, this has the effect of hiding the /home directory that was created on the / partition at install and using everything that is in the partition mounted on /home.
That restores the bulk of my look and feel, with the differences between successive upgrades being, relatively, minor. Various little glitches take time to resolve, some more major
like dropbox take a little more time but, as in other such upgrades, it is manageable, given a little free time.
viking60 wrote:Is this a way the Berserks need to follow?
I would think it is a fairly straightforward method to try, in case 2011 upgrade or fresh install isn't working, in case there is enough free disk space to play with.
