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Hey,

I have been busy with graduating lately and now I noticed 13.1 is out. So I wanted to upgrade. I followed the guide in the user documentation step by step (no ata drives, no dist-upgrade). Just before I checked and Gslapt told me it had about 500 packages to upgrade, but I did it following the guide on the command line as user root.
This happened:
- installed glibc
- every package installed, it went so fast that I could only see that 1 or 2 packages mentioned an error, and some 'unable to delete file/folder' messages.
- kernel upgrade with no problem
- lilo pointed no problem
- reboot:
- a lot of udev messages about the same thing, something was replaced with something else, but it booted until X. That didn't boot, just the message 'x-server starting up' (or something) and hang on that.
With control-alt-F3 I got a login: user root gave immediately two errors before I entered the password, but it let me log in as root. I wanted to run the NVIDIA installer again, hoping it would give me KDE back, but the installer complained that the kernel source was not the one compiled with the version of glib that was installed. So no screen, no kde, problems at bootup.

What can I do and do these problems sound familiar and solvable?
Or should I do a clean install from cd?

Regards, Ron

It's probably something with the configuration files. The root login messages certainly are. Did you run dotnew after all the upgrading? Careful not to replace /etc/group, /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd, everything else should be ok though.

A clean install only takes 10 minutes maximum though, maybe it would be just simpler to do that.

Hey Gapan,

Tnx for the quick answer, I did run dotnew, but I was not asked for any config files to accept or deny. Should it have asked me something?
I will do a fresh install tomorrow.

gr. Ron

There are definitely many new configuration files when doing an upgrade from 13.0 to 13.1, but I can't think of what could have gone wrong and you weren't asked for any of them.

Regarding the NVIDIA error, I've had that one a couple of times before but it still worked fine if I just accepted and continued with the installation regardless. However I can say for certain I didn't get that error with the current 13.1 glibc/kernel-source and the NVIDIA driver (version 256.35).

ron_uit_best wrote:I have been busy with graduating lately...

Congratulations!!

...but the installer complained that the kernel source was not the one compiled with the version of glib that was installed. So no screen, no kde, problems at bootup.

Sorry for what my be obvious, but did you upgrade the kernel-source package?

tnx, 4 yrs study paid off!

I did upgrade every kernel-... package.

I now have a fresh install, works like a charm.

One more question: How do I change the 'darkstar' login to my own creative name?

Regards, Ron

ron_uit_best wrote:One more question: How do I change the 'darkstar' login to my own creative name?

Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME. I'm preparing a tool for that btw.

gapan wrote:Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME. I'm preparing a tool for that btw.

yea!
In the mean time he could use netconfig from the command line; that's what I do.