Re: [Sheflug] SuSE linux crash - help!

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 PaulSims062527 [at] aol.com wrote:

> I'd back up /etc & any user stuff then do an upgrade to 7, uness you feel 
> like a total reinstall......

Yes, this is what I am doing at the moment (upgrade to 7), only without a
backup... (this is a 'test' machine, anyway, although I wouldn't like to
loose it's contents...). The thing is that I have to do it on a
486-33MHz... After a successful upgrade of the base system (huray!),
running suseconfig with yast produces a lot of errors (none of them seem
to be fatal, hopefully) and then on mandb stage it complained about a few
missing man pages and... it's being running for almost 30 minutes already
without any visible progress (disk spinning, mandb eating processor, but
log window not changing...). I used to use this disk on a P-75 and I don't
remember anything that would take nearly as long... Oh, it
finished!:-) And SuSEconfig with it...

A few segmentation faults in SuSEconfig.susehilf: line 156,
mksusewmrc failed to load shared libraries
somewhere after SuSEconfig.tetex lstat(./*****) failed (unprintable
characters
and then a bunch of mandb messages...
Not too bad overall...:-)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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