Hello all, Yesterday I upgraded my slightly-cookerized install of M8.2 to M9b2. This didn't go completely trouble-free:
- At first try I chose Expert/Upgrade mode. This failed because DrakX told me there wasn't enough free space (/usr had about 500MB free). I don't understand why, just upgrading the packages shouldn't take more then 500MB? - Then I used Expert/new installation mode and told diskdrake to zap /usr and / but to keep the rest of the partitions. This resulted in a problem later, because my /boot partition including all old kernels still existed but the kernel modules that belonged to it were gone. For some reason, DrakX didn't install a new kernel in /boot automatically and the bootloader-install tried to use one of my old kernels, which resulted in a 'mkinitrd failed'. I could boot the system but it would complain about missing modules (duh ;). - After manually installing a new kernel from CD I ran into another problem: whenever I tried to start anything GNOME-related (except for gdm2) the system would freeze hard. There were no clues I could see in the syslog or XFree86 log as to why this happened. Eventually I solved this by deinstalling all gtk/gnome related stuff and urpmi'ng it again from Cooker. - I found that drakboot failed to start up (some error about too many arguments at line 39) so I tried urpmi'ing a new drakxtools. This resulted in the situation where none of the drakxtools will run, not even when I put back the old versions from the beta2 CD. Errors look like this: [root@tocotronic reinout]# drakfont Can't locate loadable object for module Gtk in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/sbin/drakfont line 81 -- Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/drakfont line 81. Reinout van Schouwen Artificial Intelligence student email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile phone: +31-6-44360778 GPG public key http://www.cs.vu.nl/~reinout/reinout.asc BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/drakfont line 81. [root@tocotronic reinout]# rpm -qa|grep GTK perl-GTK-GLArea-0.7008-21mdk perl-GTK-Glade-0.7008-22mdk perl-GTK-GdkImlib-0.7008-22mdk perl-GTK-GdkPixbuf-0.7008-22mdk perl-GTK-0.7008-22mdk perl-GTK-Gnome-0.7008-22mdk [root@tocotronic reinout]# drakboot /usr/bin/perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr For completeness, here are some details about my system: Epox 7KXA (VIA KX133 chipset)/Athlon 600MHz 256MB RAM Symbios 875 SCSI adapter Matrox G400 16MB video card Pioneer 103S DVD-ROM drive Philips CDD3600 CD burner Quantum lct 17GB IDE harddisk ZIP 100 drive Realtek 8139 network adapter -- Reinout van Schouwen
