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(VM has 1cpu + 512 MB RAM) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - after about 10% i see an error message: +</I>><i> i tried to take screenshots of everything... but there was alot. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> * it started with conflicts of /usr/share/doc/HTML/kcontrol/ that was moved +</I>><i> from kdebase to kderuntime or something +</I>><i> * alot of X needed by Y stuff: from perl-base, x11, python, imagemagick +</I>><i> +</I>><i> it seems to (ironically) be bug #404 . the upgrade seems to stop and just +</I>><i> move on to configuration... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - the users step was skipped (seems normal) however, the item is still +</I>><i> there? - the bootloader step was done +</I>><i> - i don't know if it's a bug or not, but security level was marked as +</I>><i> "unconfigured" in the configuration step. +</I>><i> - i chose yes to updates +</I>><i> - during update the small font is still there (#67) +</I>><i> - it gave an error that "aria2 failed(exited with 127): unable to access +</I>><i> distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)" with a text below: "medium: +</I>><i> ()" (#426) +</I>><i> - it then proceeded to show the screen to reboot +</I>><i> - documentation asked to look on terminal to find out some stuff, but in my +</I>><i> vbox, pressing Function keys with alt didn't do anything, and ctrl-alt +</I>><i> switched me on the host, so i couldn't test that. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> so i rebooted. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - rebooting showed me the old grub (text + graphic), but seemed to boot +</I>><i> into mageia, (even after selecting mandriva). +</I>><i> - black background in DM +</I>><i> - logging in to KDE gives "could not start kdeinit4. check your +</I>><i> installation" and a second window behind it, about changing names of +</I>><i> folders. i was in a daring mood and clicked update names. and after that +</I>><i> on the "okay" button from the kde error message. it got me back to kdm, so +</I>><i> i clicked console login - seeing tty, i noticed it still said Mandriva +</I>><i> linux +</I>><i> - product.id + /etc/issue still unchanged +</I>><i> - urpmq --list-url showed me that the DVD was still listed as medium, so i +</I>><i> did the urpmi --auto-update +</I>><i> - "unable to access core media" but it continued with message: +</I>><i> - "some requested packages cannot be installed: dblatex, gtk-doc", i said +</I>><i> yes - "the following will be removed: " kmail, due to missing kio-* ; and +</I>><i> some others like mdkonline and some python stuff., i said yes +</I>><i> - then installing package step, 276 packages and 39MB will be freed., i +</I>><i> said yes. +</I>><i> - it said, please insert medium "core media" +</I>><i> - i ejected it in vbox and put it back in, that did the trick +</I>><i> - it tried to start and said i needed 86MB on / (out of disk space?) +</I>><i> - i removed tetex (it seemed to take 200M on /usr/share/texmf) with urpme +</I>><i> and it removed also 12 that depended on it dblatex and stuff +</I>><i> - i redid the autoupdate, and it asked again to insert medium core media, +</I>><i> but reinserting it didn't seem to work. also not inserting something else +</I>><i> first. - failing that, i removed the core media and set up urpmi sources +</I>><i> from online local media. alas it seemed aria2c didn't work due to libz and +</I>><i> libxml versions missing... +</I>><i> - specifying --wget option didn't help either, because my eth0 wasn't +</I>><i> present, but renamed to eth1, which didn't have a config, of course. +</I>><i> - after dhclient eth1 and shutting down firewall, and iptables service to +</I>><i> accept, that worked. +</I>><i> - it also showed the "2\n2" isn't numeric warning messages (#201) +</I>><i> - i also had to add --no-md5sum (due to md5sum check failed) +</I>><i> - i also got messages that it was unable to get pubkeys +</I>><i> - urpmi --auto-update --wget gave warnings but seemed to work, only 2 +</I>><i> packages were to be removed due to python < 2.7 +</I>><i> - after it ran, it seemd to be only related to urpmi update, and so it +</I>><i> restarted itself and asked me to remove libktorrent to proceed, i say yes +</I>><i> - it then said 300+ extra MB for 1700+ packages, i say yes +</I>><i> - it's halfway through installing atm, i'll go to sleep and tomorrow i'll +</I>><i> continue this. +</I> +continuing: + +- after installing, i rebooted +- no 2secs delay +- no F1 F2 F3 text bug, colors looks nice +- but, text and graphic of grub is updated +- choose mageia 1 +- kdm displays, and looks ok +- the konsoles that were open still open fine +- indexhtml page seems still not to work (#72) +- firebug doesn't work for the 4.0 rc1 (i suppose this is the disadvantage of +shipping firefox 4.0 branch, there is hardly any addon support) which reminds +me, there isn't a KDE plasma notifier addon installed as well. +- all games submenus have this weird cardlike icon, even arcade and others +- the "more" thing is still there and in it, is the "pulseaudio config +settings" ? +- the configure your computer icon is below the line in the system tools menu +- weird artifact bug when showing shutdown menu (#439) +- i sent missing rpms from mdv (#440) + +voila! upgrade test complete. + + +><i> this was a cloned machine, so it can be retested at a later date. or in +</I>><i> different ways. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> my conclusion: +</I>><i> - totally not ready for upgrade via DVD. +</I>><i> - DVD upgrade method seems very unstable to me and takes way too much +</I>><i> time. - I would propose to change the DVD upgrade method, that it just +</I>><i> doesn't upgrade at all, except it installs a mgaupdate applet on the +</I>><i> mandriva, then reboots into mandriva, but sort of does an applet-y upgrade +</I>><i> there. +</I></PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003411.html">[Mageia-dev] second impressions of mageia 1 alpha 2 (upgrade from MDV 2010 x86_64 PWP) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003412.html">[Mageia-dev] base system size for next beta1 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3443">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3443">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3443">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3443">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |