[SLE] Upgrade 10.0 to 10.1 via smart? Long post.

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I could not get the CD's for 10.1 to work with this system because of PM
problem with retry failing and just dyeing. To access the CD I have to
boot from floppies. So I wanted a better way to install. Mounting DVD
from another system fails as well during install. So uptime before trying
smart.

uptime

4:25pm up 1 days 4:15, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.59, 0.69


I first tried the smart -gui upgrade. I add the local HD's and
installation sources and started the upgrade.

The channels are as follows

/local/suse/suse/i386/10.1/inst-source
/local/suse/suse/i386/10.1/non-oss-inst-source
/local/suse/suse/i386/update/10.1/
/local/packman/suse/10.1/

This system updates the 10.1 updates nightly.

I waited 7 days and when I did a "ps -ef | grep smart" on May 28 I got

root 417 28313 88 May21 pts/1 7-21:17:03 /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/smart --gui

I got uptime similar to what I have now. I did not copy and save them.
Because I could not really see anything happening I then kill smart. I
then decided to try smart --shell. It did not have the 10.1 repos. It
had the 10.0 ones. I then deleted all the 10.0 channels which showed when
I booted smart. I added the 10.1 channels, ran check, then
I ran upgrade, commit. I think it is still in the upgrade as I have
not received a prompt with smart> upgrade.

from my ssh window.

I do not remember the command I used but I have a list of what I think are
all the packages it is going to upgrade.
...
libnl-devel zoo
libnlink zoo
libnlink zoo-debuginfo
libnotify zope
libnotify zope
libnotify-debuginfo zope-debuginfo
libnotify-devel zope-mysql
libnotify-devel zope-mysql
libnscd zope3
libnscd zope3-debuginfo
libnscd-debuginfo zsh
libnscd-devel zsh
libnscd-devel zsh-debuginfo
libnvtv zvbi
libnvtv zvbi
libnvtv-devel zvbi-debuginfo
libnvtv-devel zvbi-devel
libobjc zvbi-devel

smart> stats
Installed Packages: 4101
Total Packages: 11090
Total Provides: 34293
Total Requires: 6873
Total Upgrades: 12428
Total Conflicts: 164

smart> check
smart> upgrade
commit

So I think smart is doing something but I am not sure. I am trying to
decide wether to kill smart and just leave the machine at 10.0 or let it
keep doing what it is now, or start all over again. I am not able to do
security updates. It fails with a message about in use.

Below is what I see right now from a "ps -ef | grep smart".

root 417 28313 88 Jun03 pts/1 8-22:19:42 /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/smart --shell

Uptime shows

4:25pm up 25 days 4:15, 2 users, load average: 1.49, 1.83, 2.52

I boot this system to init 3 and run the system without any problems on
10.0. The system has 65-256 MB memory. I do not remember. It has
problems booting from the CD's and with the broken PM that can not restart
it fails. Below is from the yast2 disk and hwinfo on 10.0 gives me.

hda 20 GB HD
hda1 502 MB swap
hda2 18.5 GB

hdb 120 GB HD
hdb1 115 GB /local

hdc 120 GB
hdc1 776.5 MB swap
hdc2 114.2 GB /local1

From hwinfo

cpu.1: cpuinfo
- ----- /proc/cpuinfo -----
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1792.370
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat p
se36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3547.13

15: None 00.0: 10102 Main Memory
[Created at memory.59]
Unique ID: rdCR.CxwsZFjVASF
Hardware Class: memory
Model: "Main Memory"
Memory Range: 0x00000000-0x0fffffff (rw)
Memory Size: 256 MB
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown


# floppies : 1
Floppy 0 type : 3.5'' 1.44M
Floppy 1 type : none
HD 0 type : 2f
HD 1 type : 2f
HD type 48 data: 64319/230/0 C/H/S, precomp 16, lz 65280
HD type 49 data: 4080/240/0 C/H/S, precomp 0, lz 0
DOS base memory: 640 kB
Extended memory: 65535 kB (configured), 65535 kB (tested)
Gfx adapter : EGA, VGA, ... (with BIOS)
FPU : installed


<4>Linux version 2.4.21-192-athlon (root@xxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version
3.3.1 (SuS
E Linux)) #1 Wed Feb 18 19:28:00 UTC 2004
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000010000000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>757MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>256MB LOWMEM available.
<7>ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
<4>On node 0 totalpages: 65536
<4>zone(0): 4096 pages.
<4>zone(1): 61440 pages.
<4>zone(2): 0 pages.
<3>ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
<4>Building zonelist for node : 0
<4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 desktop splash=silent
<6>bootsplash: silent mode.
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>Detected 1792.370 MHz processor.
<4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 3547.13 BogoMIPS
<6>Memory: 255316k/262144k available (1728k kernel code, 6440k reserved,
605k
data, 176k init, 0k highmem)
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<6>Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<6>Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
<4>Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<4>CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d22f. Reprogramming to 2003d22f
<6>CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
<6>CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
<6>Intel machine check architecture supported.

Should I kill it or just wait? I would upgrade the memory once I get more
funds in, but I do not remember what Mother Board is in this machine.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Boyd Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>
ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047
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