Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue- working now!!!

2013-03-08 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
this is an issue others are likely to hit with SLES11 upgrade. Annie -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:19 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue On 3/7/2013

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue- working now!!!

2013-03-08 Thread Mauro Souza
are likely to hit with SLES11 upgrade. Annie -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 6:19 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue On 3/7/2013 at 06:03 PM

SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
We made it to SLES11 and at point of patching Have hit an issue in that script uses YaST2 Perhaps an export DISPLAY issue Tried issuing 'export DISPLAY=myhostname:0.0' and 'echo $DISPLAY' to see it took But when I issue YaST2 get the message below: Cannot open display Anyone else hit this issue

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Marcy Cortes
No, but I used VNC instead. Marcy -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 10:54 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Troth
Lots of tips/tricks here. If you already know, please excuse me. Tried issuing 'export DISPLAY=myhostname:0.0' and 'echo $DISPLAY' to see it took But when I issue YaST2 get the message below: Cannot open display Be sure that myhostname is running an X server. (Is it your PC? Do you have

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue Lots of tips/tricks here. If you already know, please excuse me. Tried issuing 'export DISPLAY=myhostname:0.0' and 'echo $DISPLAY' to see it took But when I issue YaST2 get the message below: Cannot open display Be sure

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Troth
myhostname is a vmware session running Windows XP Sounds good. Should be fine. Only have PuTTY for access PuTTY can do the X tunneling. (X tunneling is a special case of tunneling via SSH, supported by most SSH clients, including PuTTY.) No longer allowed to use Hummingbird Exceed

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
with the (new) root password or the Newly created user account in a few seconds ... (/root) Ready(0)# -Original Message- From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:27 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Troth
: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue myhostname is a vmware session running Windows XP Only have PuTTY for access No longer allowed to use Hummingbird Exceed Xwindows -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Troth Sent: Thursday

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue Taking a step back ... I've been thinking just about trying to get X working (since YaST2 will need that). There are other ways to get the maint finished. Marcy mentioned VNC. Do you know if a VNC server was started

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
I'm curious, why do you NEED X to do maint? I do all our manual maintenance in Yast2 via Putty. There are a few things you can't do in non-graphical (like mark a patch taboo), but otherwise it's almost all there. Also, You really might want to try VNC. If you don't have a vnc client, or know

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Post
On 3/7/2013 at 04:29 PM, Veencamp, Jonathon D. jdveenc...@fedins.com wrote: I'm curious, why do you NEED X to do maint? I do all our manual maintenance in Yast2 via Putty. There are a few things you can't do in non-graphical (like mark a patch taboo), but otherwise it's almost all

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery)
-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:52 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue On 3/7/2013 at 04:29 PM, Veencamp, Jonathon D. jdveenc...@fedins.com wrote: I'm curious, why do you NEED X to do maint? I do all our

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Post
On 3/7/2013 at 06:03 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: In this case the upgrade process script is calling YaST2 /sbin/yast is simply a symbolic link to /sbin/yast2. /sbin/yast2 is a bash script that tries to figure out whether to run in ncurses mode or

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Leland Lucius
account in a few seconds ... (/root) Ready(0)# -Original Message- From: Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 3:27 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue myhostname is a vmware session running Windows XP Only have

Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

2013-03-07 Thread Leland Lucius
Make sue you started an X server on you PC and make sure X11forwarding is enabled prior to logging in. On Mar 7, 2013 12:54 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: We made it to SLES11 and at point of patching Have hit an issue in that script uses YaST2 Perhaps