Dist upgrade mga1 to mga2 failed [SOLVED - sort of]

[mrambo3501]

Hello,

This applies to a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop FWIW.

I used the applet to kick off the upgrade from 1 to 2. This morning I arrived to find a conflict attempting to install both libpq9.0 and libpg9.1 (both mga2 packages). I told it to continue. It did this several times failing on libpq9.0 vs libpq9.1 each time. I eventually switched over to a terminal and removed the mga1 version of libpq (associated with php-pqsql which the system stated was already uninstalled). I clicked continue again. It no longer failed on libpq but the dist upgrade failed entirely with no error some period of time later. All it said was that the upgrade failed.

The laptop is now pretty much hosed. When it rebooted I first saw an error "Detected a loaded display driver kernel module which conflicts with the driver the X server is configured to use. Startup of the X server may fail.". While the X server did not fail, KDE has. All I saw was the cashew on what looks like a 1 inch wide panel at the top. The rest of the desktop was blank. I got it to install the panel at the bottom but all previous settings and icons were lost.

I cannot relaunch mgaapplet. Cannot launch mcc. Cannot launch XFdrake. All fail with a perl symbol lookup error in /usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/xf86misc/main/main.so Perl_Gthr_key_ptr undefined. rpm tells me that there are 816 mga2 packages and 1590 mga1 packages installed.

I wasn't surprised that the video had problems. I always have video problems with this laptop. It must use the generic vesa driver which X never wants to use by default. But I'm sure little of the rest of this was an expected thing for an upgrade. Fortunately it is just a spare machine that I play with. Make me very nervous about going from mga1 to mga2 on my primary machine though - at least with an upgrade.

I can alway scotch this whole thing and install fresh but I wanted to see if there was any information that might help the developers before I did. I would submit a bug report but I'm not sure how best to describe it. Thoughts?

Mike

[sglafata]

Can you get to the console (CTRL-ALT-F1)? If so, continue your upgrade from the cconsole as root. 'su', enter password, and type 'urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto -v'.

[mrambo3501]

Thanks. It is at least working on something. The console screen looks like the 32x16 screens I used to see in the early 80s - and it doesn't scroll - but it is working. I'll let you know whether it works out in the morning.

[mrambo3501]

That suggestion has eventually completed the upgrade to mga2. It left the desktop a mess though and is dog slow. I'm going to wipe it and install mga2 fresh and see if it works a little better. Still not sure though if the original libpq9.0 vs libpq9.1 thing that precipitated the problem should be reported as a bug though.

Thanks for the help.