[sles-beta] SLES 12 SP1 BETA2 - Update from path ..

[Frederic Crozat]

Le mercredi 26 août 2015 à 16:44 +0100, Joe Doupnik a écrit :
>      Upgrading from SLES11SP3, my part of the story.

Thanks for your report.

>      As Thorsten said: insert DVD, select Upgrade, pray.
>       I followed that advice. SLES11SP3 was the starting point, with 
> loads of Apache apps installed and whatnot, a faithful test machine. I 
> inserted the SLES12SP1 beta 2 iso (doing this in ESXi). This time I 
> elected to register and receive updates during installation, something 
> which I normally avoid. "Some time later" the process finished with no 
> complaints.
>      Testing. GUI works (if one can call Gnome working). Apache 
> rebelled. The reason is it changed from v2.2 to 2.4 and Apache folks 
> changed regular "Order allow,deny" to less useful terminology, just 
> because they could I presume.   Similar Apache annoyances pop up as we 
> smooth things. I added module access_compat, but there remains many 
> other version specific changes to Apache config files, thus prepare for 
> a bit of rewriting.
>      My iptables material works. The network functions (copper, static 
> addressing).
>      The mouse no longer works in the GUI, and it does not appear in 
> text mode YaST.

Hmm, strange. Could you open two separate SR for this ? 
- for text mode in yast, I would assume gpm is not running (or it was
not properly enabled, if it was enabled before)
- for GUI, I don't know. Maybe an issue with open-vm-tools ?


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Frederic Crozat
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