Bugzilla – Bug 130173
Upgrade crashing after restart leaving unusable system
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:52:58 UTC
I tried to upgrade my system from Alpha1 to Aplha2. After the update of the first CD was complete, the computer restarted. When it went into YaST2 again I saw the animated cursor on a blank screen (as usual) then the X server terminated, restarted with the "X" cursor and then terminated again. I got a "Segmentation Fault in Wizard.ycp:372" error. Additional details were (not everything but the most details I could write to a paper while it was on the screen): .../yast2.call line 283: 141551 Speicherzugriffsfehler y2base ... Then it continued to start up (I think it assumed setup ran properly) and started the X server but hung while starting KDE. To make my system useable again I had to "downgrade" to Alpha1 again. Since I can´t install Alpha2 (and I want to tets it) I´d really like to help debugging here, which logs should I post. I think as I ran the installer again (to downgrade) the logs are in an archive or something?
Can you please attach the output of hwinfo and the /var/log/YaST2 directory (as a tar file)? Please take a look at http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST if you have any questions about this.
sorry this upgrade scenario is not supported between alpha versions. If you will find that bug while upgrading from 10.0 to a beta or RC version please reopen it again.
Even if this is amrked as "wontfix" I post the logs anyway. I hope you won´t expect me to reinstall after each alpha version. I test the alphas in a "real" environment with all my data and programs.
Created attachment 55256 [details] YaST2 log folder
Created attachment 55257 [details] hwinfo output
Do you think backing up my home dir and restoring it on the new alpha will work? Or can I use the "backup" feature of YaST between versions?
I'd prefere rsync as backup solution. But please note bugzilla is not a support mailing list :-) We are off topic now and I would like to ask you to reopen this one if you encounter a bug while testing the suggestion made in comment #2. Thanks
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
it wasn't re-opened according to my last comment so this is not a bug
Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED. In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(