On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 05:38:06PM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote: > 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 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).
No, because those are System V package commands. They still could have damaged the previous intallation of an IPS package. > >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. > > 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). I'm not quite back to square one. I now have a stable standard system with a modern video card. The OS upgrade should proceed correctly now. If not, there's a bug in the new Hipster version. > And I have to give up upgrading. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
