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How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server) This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.4 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.1.

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By: Jason Masson
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You can pretty much just edit existing repos in Yast.  YAST > Software Repositories. Change all items that have 14.1 to 12.1 in the name and url of the enabled repos.

Complete the end of the how-to.

zypper ref

zypper dup

At the end, reboot the system...

reboot

... and enjoy your new OpenSUSE 12.1 system.

By: Anonymous
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I followed all steps above, but after reboot sysinfo still tells me that I am running opensuse 11.4. All start screens and the desktop still look the same as before.

 Is there anything I might have missed??

By: macias
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Please note that OS team does not perform full regression tests, second, packages are not self contained (i.e. they rely on other packages). I already found out that new glibc is not fully compatible with older (from OS 11.4) version. If software you use hits the incompatibility bit, you will be in trouble. So word of advice -- before you do any system wide update, make a 1:1 clone of your current setup, run update there and test all pieces, if they work, run update for real.

By: Jorg K
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I followed the steps and during the

zypper dup

I got heaps of errors:

insserv: script jexec is broken: incomplete LSB comment. insserv: missing `Required-Stop:' entry: please add even if empty. Perl-Bootloader: 2012-01-10 20:22:06 ERROR: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: did not find a match for hd2 in the device map

and others. Due to the last problem the /boot/grub/menu.lst file was updated incorrectly. But even after fixing this manually, the system doesn't boot any more in "normal" mode. In "fail safe" mode it boots sometimes and sometimes it doesn't boot at all any more. So I don't quite enjoy my new 12.1 system.

By: martin
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I had to replace systemd with sys-v init in order to get vmware VM network interfaces up and running after upgrade from 11.4 to 12.1:

 zypper in sysvinit-init

By: Guido
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Many thanks for you very clear and useful tips.

I tried to upgrade from11.4 to12.1 from the desktop environment... without success!

I was unable to start a graphic section.

Now following your detailed tips I solved the problem.

 

Guido

 

By: Rob Cranfill
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I have one other suggestion: make sure you've got a fair amount of space free. I think you'll need it on the root partition, but I'm not sure about that. I got nasty warnings when I updated that I was running out of space; luckily I had just enough to complete, but I suspect Bad Things would happen if you ran out.

 /rob

 

By: Rogier
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