Gary Mills wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
Yesterday I upgraded a Hipster installation from April 2016
to the latest state (by starting a pkg update).
I apparently could not boot beyond the single user mode, but
the real reason appears to lie in a change in the video driver
ABI.
I had a similar problem, and have partially solved it. I had an AMD
Athlon system with an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE video card. It was
running OI Hipster installed from the 20160421 ISO. I had installed
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132 to get it to recognize the video card.
When I upgraded to the current Hipster in a new BE, the BE failed to
boot.
I couldn't find a way to uninstall the Nvidia software I had
installed, but I was able to boot an old BE that I made before I
installed the software. It was using the VESA driver for that video
card, but otherwise everything ran normally.
Uninstalling the driver should be straightforward :
the install script first only does a "pkgrm" to remove
the former version (before doing a "pkgadd" to install
the requested one).
Then I replaced the video card with a new low-end one that seemed
current. It was an Nvidia card with a GT730 GPU. The cost was less
than $100. Hipster recognized that card. It described my monitor
correctly and set the resolution to the monitor's default. The Nvidia
X Server Settings GUI worked.
That system is still running Hipster from 2016, but I'm ready to try
the upgrade again.
So you are also back to square one. I took a simpler
approach by restoring the whole system from a backup.
My understanding is that irreversible changes have been
made somewhere (dead symlinks have been found, so some
newly required feature is probably not available in older
drivers).
And I have to give up upgrading.
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