[sle-beta] SLES gnome-session-failed for SLES 12sp3 -> 15 via zypper dup

Vincent Moutoussamy vmoutoussamy at suse.com
Mon Mar 12 09:01:33 MDT 2018


Hi,
> On 9 Mar 2018, at 20:20, Bahi, David <David.Bahi at dell.com> wrote:
> 
> A fresh install, using the Installer ISO and SLP for Packages + SLED / base / desktop_applications, made no difference.
> 
> Same result with a vncserver invocation (5901 - not the yast2 enable remote administration port 5900 thing) :
> 
> "Connection refused"
> 
> "cannot open display".
> 
> Nothing to do with firewall and this bz:
> 
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081952 <https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081952>
> 
> as firewall was entirely disabled for this attempt (because there's no Yast2 tool for configuring it yet).
> 
> 
> Opened:
> 
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084756 <https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084756>
> 
> db

Well thanks, creating the bug report was the right thing to do!

Regards,
--
Vincent Moutoussamy
SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager

> 
>> On Mar 9, 2018, at 11:37, Vincent Moutoussamy <vmoutoussamy at suse.com <mailto:vmoutoussamy at suse.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> “zypper dup” is not a supported method to upgrade to Major SLE version,
>> thus not supported to upgrade from SLES 12 SP3 to SLES 15.
>> 
>> This is only supported for Service Pack Migration of a SLE version, and note
>> even in this case we recommend to use “zypper migration” instead
>> https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.update.migr.zypper.onlinemigr <https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.update.migr.zypper.onlinemigr>
>> 
>> Note:
>> This is not new with SLE15, the same statement are true for migrating from SLE
>> 11 to SLE 12. cf https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.update.sle.methods <https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.update.sle.methods>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Vincent Moutoussamy
>> SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager
>> 
>>> On 8 Mar 2018, at 20:59, Bahi, David <David.Bahi at dell.com <mailto:David.Bahi at dell.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is this zypper dup path bz worthy?
>>> 
>>> prompt > systemctl isolate graphical.target
>>> 
>>> Only gets the GDM up as well - doesn't allow me to login.
>>> 
>>> bahid at hw-and-os-97:~> zypper se -s -i wayland gnome-session gnome-shell-classic
>>> Loading repository data...
>>> Reading installed packages...
>>> 
>>> S  | Name                          | Type    | Version     | Arch   | Repository
>>> ---+-------------------------------+---------+-------------+--------+----------------------------
>>> i+ | gnome-session                 | package | 3.26.1-4.1  | x86_64 | Module-Desktop-Applications
>>> i  | gnome-session-core            | package | 3.26.1-4.1  | x86_64 | Module-Desktop-Applications
>>> i  | gnome-session-default-session | package | 3.26.1-4.1  | x86_64 | Module-Desktop-Applications
>>> i+ | gnome-shell-classic           | package | 3.26.2-4.1  | noarch | Module-Desktop-Applications
>>> i  | libgstwayland-1_0-0           | package | 1.12.4-3.1  | x86_64 | Module-Desktop-Applications
>>> i  | libwayland-client0            | package | 1.14.0-1.5  | x86_64 | Module-Basesystem
>>> i  | libwayland-cursor0            | package | 1.14.0-1.5  | x86_64 | Module-Basesystem
>>> i  | libwayland-egl1               | package | 18.0.0-20.1 | x86_64 | Module-Basesystem
>>> i  | libwayland-server0            | package | 1.14.0-1.5  | x86_64 | Module-Basesystem
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> VNC session is just black... Is this a Wayland / X-display permissions issue ? Here's the log.
>>> 
>>> bahid at hw-and-os-97:~> cat ~/.vnc/hw-and-os-97\:1.log
>>> 
>>> Xvnc TigerVNC 1.8.0 - built ??? ?? ???? ??:??:??
>>> Copyright (C) 1999-2017 TigerVNC Team and many others (see README.txt)
>>> See http://www.tigervnc.org <http://www.tigervnc.org/> for information on TigerVNC.
>>> Underlying X server release 11906000, The X.Org <http://x.org/> Foundation
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thu Mar  8 14:27:47 2018
>>>  vncext:      VNC extension running!
>>>  vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on all interface(s), port 5901
>>>  vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
>>> /etc/X11/xim: Checking whether an input method should be started.
>>> sourcing /etc/sysconfig/language to get the value of INPUT_METHOD
>>> INPUT_METHOD is not set or empty (no user selected input method).
>>> Trying to start a default input method for the locale en_US.UTF-8 ...
>>> There is no default input method for the current locale.
>>> Dummy input method "none" (do not use any fancy input method by default)
>>> gnome-session-binary[1979]: WARNING: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1
>>> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>>> 
>>> ** (gnome-session-failed:2029): WARNING **: Cannot open display:
>>> 
>>> Thu Mar  8 14:27:53 2018
>>>  Connections: accepted: 10.138.8.158::55122
>>>  SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
>>> 
>>> Thu Mar  8 14:27:56 2018
>>>  SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)
>>>  VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888
>>>  VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 32 (32bpp) little-endian rgb max
>>>               255,255,255 shift 16,8,0
>>> 
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