[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I upgrade from 151a7 to 151a9 ?

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

could you describe your system configuration? What is in your
~/.xsession-errors ?

If you do pkg verify then is your system OK?

If you check output of pkg list, are all your packages on the latest
versions? It means all components from system repository are on versions
ending with -0.151.1.9 ?

The key problem is if the only person who is working on JDS these days
(I) can reproduce your problem on my systems. I cannot reproduce them.
Give me hints how to reproduce it and I will do that.

Yes, nobody has the idea why you have problems. If you are using
standard desktop system then there should not be problems like you are
describing.

Best regards,

Milan

On st, 2014-02-19 at 15:44 +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> This is basically my7 experience, too.
> 
> And noone seems to have any idea about why these Gnome problems ACTUALLY 
> occur.
> 
> 
> On 2014-02-19 15:09, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
> > Not to blame anyone, but IMO every next OI release becomes less stable 
> > than previous...
> >
> > The latest release which works stable for me is 151a7. 151a8 also 
> > worked, though I could not configure network interface using GUI tool 
> > in it (after disabling "nwam" and enabling "default").
> >
> > Then 151a9 was released. After upgrading my 32-bit production server, 
> > it simply did not boot. It gone into infinite boot loop at the very 
> > early stage of the boot process. OK, who needs a decade-old 32-bit 
> > hardware (which though worked like a clockwork with 151a7, and had 3GB 
> > of RAM, not the very minimum)... I have upgraded my hardware. Now it 
> > is 64-bit.
> >
> > I have started from 151a7, not 8 (to avoid hassle with setting static 
> > IP address manually in various config files - I could miss something 
> > and spend much more time to do this simple setting). OK, 151a7 is 
> > working fine. Upgrading to 151a9... GNOME degraded. No upper toolbar, 
> > no lower status bar, no Nimbus theme, just background image and mouse 
> > pointer. Right-click menu is working though.
> >
> > There was an advice to reinstall gvfs. Tried in a test virtualbox 
> > setup. This worked in reverse! In /virtualbox/, 151a7 /successfully/ 
> > upgraded to 151a9. Though in vbox the upgrade went successfully, I 
> > have tried if reinstalling gvfs is safe (before trying it at 
> > production server). Booted into single user mode, log in as root, and did
> > # pkg uninstall gvfs
> > # pkg install gvfs
> > And rebooted. What do you think? GNOME degraded. In the same way as in 
> > the production server. Reinstalling gvfs caused exactly the same 
> > symptoms which it intended to cure.
> >
> > If someone knows how to upgrade 151a7 to 151a9, please post step-by 
> > step instructions.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dmitry.