[CLUE-Talk] CLUE: SuSE 7.0 Anyone
Richard Knechtel
krs3 at uswest.net
Tue Nov 14 13:53:45 MST 2000
You won't believe th reply I got from SuSE tech support. Basically oops!
oh well - run a fresh scratch install.
Sounds like a Microsoft reply to me...
I guess as the Linux distro companies go public, they will be more MS
like...
Now I'll have to spend hours/days figuring it out and fixing it myself I
guess.
- But, they are covered they do state - as do all distros - that they
give no warrenty.......
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Hard to tell what went wrong, but whatever it was, it does sound like
a mess. Just as well you made a back up of your data.
I can assure you, this is not the normal behaviour of the upgrade
procedure.
I don't see any other way but to make a clean install and then to play
back the back up (be careful with /etc - don't just copy it over the
new
/etc).
Best regards
Your SuSE Support-Team
Hartmut Meyer (isupport at suse.de)
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SuSE GmbH, Tel: +49-421-5262300 Mo-Fr 13-18.00
Schanzaeckerstr. 10, Fax: +49-421-5262350
90443 Nuernberg, Email: isupport at suse.de
Germany WWW: http://support.suse.de/
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Grant Johnson wrote:
>
> It does not sound like a kernel issue. I did the upgrade too. Here's the
> scoop on YaST at least: For some reason after a new install, YaST does not
> always decide that it is one and flag things. I suggest letteing YaST
> start, tellng it to do an upgrade (yes, I know this wil do nothing, but it
> seems to help when it finds nothing to do) then exit YaST, then log in as
> root, then run YaST again and d the upgrade again. Exit YaST and logout.
> Then it seems that somewhere in all of that YaST finally udates the flag
> that says it is done. As for httpd not being found: See if it is there.
> See if it is executeable. Maybe you had it before, but do not now and the
> start-up scrpts are still there. If you want it, install it, if not, just
> make the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d not executeable,and it goes away. If
> you do want it an it is being screwy, rpm -e it, then make sure the scripts
> are gone and the symlinks are gone to it too, then install it. Maybe the
> newer version of the packge is in a different directory, and the old
> start-up script is still there.
>
> Or you could do what I do: if it is installed, go in and tweak the
> start-up script to point to the right place.
>
> I have SuSE 7 nstalled on my laptop. I will be there tonight. We an poke
> around a bit and see what we find.
>
> Richard Knechtel wrote:
>
> > Has anyone upgraded to SuSE 7.0 by any chance?
> > I had lots of problems with the upgrade from 6.4. I have sent a couple
> > emails to SuSE tech support with no replies yet - except their standard
> > auto-reply's.
> >
> > I upgraded with SuSE Professional 7.0. (Yeah I know $69 is alot of
> > money...)
> >
> > Any help anyone can give would be greatly apprieciated.
> >
> > Issues:
> > 1)After the upgrade whenever I reboot or boot the system I keep
> > getting the yast script saying that it needs to run some scripts and
> > if they should not be interupted and then allows me to log in. When I
> > reboot/boot the system every time this happens.
> >
> > 2) When I try to go into Xwindows by using "startx" as usual I get
> > this error message "/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: xinit: command not found" I
> > tried to locate "xinit" myself and could not find it.
> >
> > 3)Durring Shutdown I am now getting the following error message
> > durring shutdown "/usr/sbin/httpd no such file or directory".
> >
> > I tried re-running the install/upgrade twice and these errors keep
> > happening.
> >
> > I had the upgrade install the pentium optimized kernal - I will
> > re-build my custome kernal later.
> >
> > I did back up my /etc, /root, /home directories prior to running the
> > upgrade.
> >
> > My system:
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > SuperMicro P6DBU Motherboard (Dual CPU motherboard)
> > 1 x Intel Pentium PIII 500MHZ CPU
> > 256 Meg crucial buffered ECC memory (1 x 256 meg dimm)
> > Matrox G400 Dual Head 32 meg AGP video card
> > Princton graphics system Ultra17 17 inch monitor
> > Promise ultra ATA/66 IDE PCI controller card (to add 4 more IDE devices
> > to system)
> > Acer 40X IDE Cd-Rom drive
> > Plextor 12/10/32 IDE CDR-W
> > Matsumi 4/8 SCSI CD-R
> > Archive Python 2 Gig 4mm DAT SCSI tape drive
> > 1 x Western Digital 20 gig ultra ATA/66 IDE drive (Windows)
> > 1 x Maxtor 27 Gig ultra ATA/66 IDE drive (Linux)
> > 1 x Quantum Fireball 6.4 gig IDe drive (Windows)
> > Intel Pro 10/100+ PCI ethernet card
> > Linksys Ether16 ISA ethernet card
> > Cisco 675 router/modem (DSL)
> > SohoWare 5 port hub.
> > US Robotics V. Everything 33.6 modem.
> > Umax 2200p - Scanner - parallel port (Windows)
> > Hewlett Packard Deskjet 722c printer - parallel port (Windows/Linux)
> > Iomega ZipDrive - Parallel port
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Richard Knechtel
> > email: krs3 at uswest.net
> > Web URL: http://www.users.uswest.net/~krs3
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Richard Knechtel
email: krs3 at uswest.net
Web URL: http://www.users.uswest.net/~krs3
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