Mandriva 2011 fails at the first hurdle

[Artful Codger]

Yesterday I received updates on my secondary system running 2010.2 free,
Gnome desktop. The update was glibc and was prompted to restart the
machine, which I did. After restarting I got the blue icon on the taskbar
inviting me to update to the newer version of Mandriva.
I \know/ it isn't a "good thing" to upgrade instead of a new install, but
as this wasn't my main machine I thought I would go ahead and see what
happened.
The answer is not much.
I clicked on Continue, was offered the option of Free or Powerpack, I
selected Free as that is the one already installed and clicked Install
( I may have the wrong wording but you get the idea)
After a few seconds I got an error stating the mirror () could not be
found.
The network was active and a full set of sources were added yet the
upgrade simply stopped without even offering to let me add a newer source
or retry. After this the blue "upgrade" icon disappeared from the taskbar.
Anyone else managed, rightly or wrongly, to upgrade?

[Bit Twister]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:31:47 -0600, Artful Codger wrote:

> Anyone else managed, rightly or wrongly, to upgrade?

I have seen several problem reports created by people attempting a
2010.x to 2011.0 upgrade.

Have you looked at the errata document?
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_Errata

In the past I have seen several people complain about small problems
when they did an upgrade between major releases. A great majority of
those problems went away upon a clean install.

The 2011 was a big step performed by a crew with a lack of experience
and appear to have a poorly defined Development/Release
methodology. :(

Big changes to rpm and database, several applications have new
configuration files, System start up has numerous changes.

I can only recommend backing up critical user files, verify they are
readable, format partition as /ext4, and do a clean install.

Just after install and it's reboot, click up a terminal, su - root, run
remove-unused-packages

run mcc
mcc->Software Management->Configure media sources for install and update
Click Options at top of screen, set Verify RPMs = always and wget as
downloader,
Click File, select Add a specific media mirror, pick Full set of
sources, enable free and non-free mirrors, exit Configure media,
Select Update your system. You should get a mandatory set of packages
to install like rpm, urpmi, maybe gcc, ...

Pick those updates, exit mcc. Enable network to boot during start up with
the command
chkconfig --add network
reboot

After reboot, I suggest downloading all packages to be installed. Command is

script -c "urpmi --downloader wget --auto --auto-update --test" /tmp/urpmi_test.log

Then you can install all the updates with the gui interface,
mcc->Software Management->Update your system

or do it from the command line with
script -c "urpmi --downloader wget --auto --auto-select" /tmp/urpmi_select.log

Restoring any kde user files before they log in "might" work.

[Artful Codger]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:19:59 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> I have seen several problem reports created by people attempting a
> 2010.x to 2011.0 upgrade.

8<

> Restoring any kde user files before they log in "might" work.

I will no doubt do a full clean install as usual. With this being a
secondary machine I just thought I'd see if the upgrade route had been
sorted. Seems it has not yet been fixed.

Thanks BT for the install tips.