[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

Sun Dec 16 12:55:51 CET 2012

On 16 December 2012 12:38, Mika Laitio <lamikr at pilppa.org> wrote:
+> Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update.
+> During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore
+> which one) and I canceled install with ctrl-c and saw message about
+> error in postinst section.
+>
+> I run urpmi.update again and then "urpmi auto-select" and somehow
+> ended up to situation where all my network interfaces are down
+
+maybe b/c kernel-firmware was upgraded first and your network card needs
+a firmware that is not compatible between different kernels
+
+> and about 900 rpm's fail to install as some of their dependencies are
+> missing.
+>
+> I tried to download and copy the missing rpm's with another computer to
+> usb stick, but usb fails to mount... (I can not see /dev/sdb, etc...
+> only /dev/sda which is my harddisk)
+
+Strange... Probably related to your network issue.
+You could run "modprobe usb_storage" (you may also have to load the USB
+controller modules (see output of "lspcidrake -v"))
+Didn't you reboot to a new kernel which you aborted the installation?
+What if you boot to an older kernel (eg mga2 one)?
+
+> Questions:
+>
+> 1) If I copy them missing rpm's to device by using the rescuq disc, do I
+> need to select again the "upgrade to mga3 option when booting to
+> mandriva" or is it one time operation that has been done in first boot.
+>
+> 2) Is there some trick for getting network up? Now ifconfig command
+> shows only the "lo" interface.
+