Seems I was not precise enough.
I can get Textmaker etc. up and running from the desktop as well as from the menu bar.
What doesnot work is double clicking a textmaker document to get textmaker up.
This only work by starting Textmaker and then within the menu "open" to open textmakers file manager.
Well, let see. I am stil not sure whether multilib is a real option or if I will reinstall both environments and use the chroot again.
You may have to edit whatever your DE or file manager uses to tell it what to open the file with. I'm using KDE/Dolphin and that .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications does the trick.
I will mark this htread solved, although the solution was a new install.
Whatever I tried, I could not get the old system up and running.
So after a while I was fed up and made a backup of all my data and cleaned most partitions.
The likely reason for the mess was, that with the update of the 32bit and later 64bit system the bootloader entries went banana.
As my disk/boot order was not "normal" I tripped over that.
Some observations on the update/upgrade procedure:
At a certain stage, the upgrade procedure might get stuck because of loosing the internet connection. Usually eth0 or wlan0 needs to be
configured to connect to the network and so internet. This is not documented in the procedure description. It would however help the less
experienced users (like me). Once you are stuck there you need to have a second PC with internet connection to find out how to fix.
I will be happy if I could propose the instruction or update the document directly.
As a side note: I also had some problems with the instruction to install multilib.
On other proposals/comments:
Salix64 14.0 offers just the huge.s kernel (unless I am really blind). So starting the installation CD to boot into the system on the HD with other
kernel is not an option (maybe I am still worng, but that is also what the screen tells me...).
So, I now have a new Salix64 14.0 installed and configures, with just LILO and no other system to boot.
Multilib is installed and works for the Softmaker-Office.
jpg153 wrote:Some observations on the update/upgrade procedure:
At a certain stage, the upgrade procedure might get stuck because of loosing the internet connection. Usually eth0 or wlan0 needs to be
configured to connect to the network and so internet. This is not documented in the procedure description. It would however help the less
experienced users (like me). Once you are stuck there you need to have a second PC with internet connection to find out how to fix.
This is not something that should be documented in the upgrade procedure. If you start thinking that way, then you should also put stuff like "what to do if you have a power outage during an upgrade" or "what to do if your cat hits random keys on the keyboard during upgrade", you get the point. If you want to write a "how to establish a wired/wireless connection from the terminal" wiki page please go ahead though.
well, I would not go that far - I dont care about cats and dogs running over keyboards etc. - but I got that issue when
upgrading the 32bit environment.
So I think, if it is specific and likely to happen by just following the given procedure, it might be more than handy if
it would be mentioned in that procedure or with a link to the thread (forum) or a link to a other user document.
If something comes up random, I am fully with you - we don't need to rewrite the bible!
