chris-tux Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hello, I am trying to upgrade from 10.1 to 2007 pwp: more than one day of installation with a lot of errors (libraries...). Is there any solution except than putting all my data into /home and perfoming a fresh install... Is 2007 really ready for release ? TIA chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 A fresh install is your best choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris-tux Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Thanks for your reply, As it was impossible for me to upgrade, I performed a fresh install leaving my /home intact. Anyway, there are problems detected for many packages. Does it mean that I had a problem when burning out the 2007 pwp dvd but md5sum was correct and k3b didn't complain of anything ! What is the "normal" duration for installation ? (1h, 2h..10 hours..?) The problem is that now, it seems to be difficult to access to my home partition :huh: chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 (edited) I take it that you can login but you have problems accessing your home folder? If so try renaming you user /home/yourusername/.kde folder to .old-kde or whatever then log out & back in again. This should give you a clean desktop enviroment. All you need to do then is copy your configs etc from the .old-kde to the new .kde HTH Edited November 19, 2006 by jaraeez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris-tux Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 No, I can't login anymore! I'm downloading agin 2007 pwp on a windows pc and I will burn it with nero at low speed and retry again a fresh install. I don't know how to check the dvd apart from checking the md5 sum before burning it out :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhn Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Try moving all files and folders that start with a "." in your homefolder to a new folder (~/old or something). If the problems ocurred during the install I'd guess it's a bad burn... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 I don't think that upgrading from 10.1 to 2007 is supported. Too many things changed between the two release and there were two main release (2005LE and 2006) between the two. As others said before me do a fresh install. Or upgrade to the next release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 Try moving all files and folders that start with a "." in your homefolder to a new folder (~/old or something). If the problems ocurred during the install I'd guess it's a bad burn... better still create a new user.... get this working and then you can start copying stuff incrementally.... I doubt you need a new install at all... when you say you can't log in that almost impossible ... if you boot to RL 1 you don't even need a password but perhaps your keymaps are messed up? (its typing different in your password) if you want to use a GUI to do the rest then I'd install something like ICEWM (very small) but I think its just your user can't log into the gui.... can you log in as root on tty1? how about the user ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris-tux Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 I was not even accessing to lilo. In fact, I know now that my dvd was not correctly burned even if all was ok with k3k. I will now perform a md5sum before burning the iso and after on the iso burned. Perhaps it was because k3b speed is on auto by default. I used then successfully nero at 1X speed. I can boot now but have problem with the display (gotta nvidia NV31 GeForce FX 5600XT card) It was ok with the nvidia drivers on my 10.1... The configuration seems ok ( I choose NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic) ). I'll have a look on the forum and perhaps open a new thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Sounds like you need to do: urpmi dkms-nvidia to get the drivers you need for your card. However, you need to visit the easyurpmi link at set up repositiories for main/contrib/updates/plf-free/plf-nonfree to do all this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris-tux Posted November 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Thank you Ian for your help, In fact, as I was suspecting that all came because I performed a fresh install (but leaving my /home) even with a new user, I erase my /home partition and reinstall 2007: now the display is ok. Unfortunately, I can look at a clear display but I have strange freezes (I need to reset, it's like a hard freeze :o ). I looked at the memory, tried with noapic but with no results. The worse situtation is then I try to load KDE I can't even go to the desktop. Gnome and IceWM are a little better, I can work a little but after a while .... Any Help Appreciated... I will open a new thread for that problem. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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