Lured by installpkg ease of use, wound up
"slackpkg upgrading-all"
"slackpgg clean-system"
Think lilo wasn't able to install. When I tried to exit root to log
back in as usr Here is repeating message:
How do I stop this repeating process? Helllp
Guess slackware12.2 is too fast! lol What have I done and what do I have to do next? Thanks

Gave up on waiting for a response, just rebooted but am stuck at boot:
I never upgraded before, guess it was a mistake.

Upgradeall also gave you a new kernel pkg as well. Lilo is still pointing to the old one. Up grading everything has to be done in certain steps or else you will break the system as you have found out. I did the same thing myself once. If you have another partition, you can do a clean install to the new partition and copy over needed files from the old one. You will have to edit fstab first, but that's easy enough.

The problem is /etc/inittab has /sbin/agetty set for respawning, as it should.

You need to probably start at verifying if /sbin/agetty is installed on your system.

Thanks, So if I can boot into setup, with cd1 from slack12 - what is the path to new kernels path so I can just reinstall it from hdd and then redo the LILO step through setup pkgtool?
I have been trying to download slack12.2 discs for laast few days on xp... maybe with that I can reinstall kernels and reconfig lilo?
Considering just doing fresh install of my old slackware12? Since I see the forum is now filled with people having trouble with changes to 12.2 and I am no linux wiz. lol

The kernels are all in /boot
I suspect though that "upgrade all" just fubarred the system. There are certain steps to follow in doing an upgrade. I believe you will be better served by reinstalling on a different partition. At least then you will still be able to access your old files and copy them over to the new install.

mlangdn, thanks I reinstalled slackware12 just because I had the discs and am wondering can I just upgrade xfce, firefox, network and server tools without having to upgrade everything?
I also want to try rob workmen's icewm desktop?

I have no need for all the latest media access since I am running PIII, PC100 with 32mb agp 1, 2x video crd -
Are there library dependencies related to upgrading the type of services I mentioned?

What are the upgrade steps you mentioned?

The extra headache of learning new ways to do what I am just learning to do now setting up networking and web hosting services.

Any advice is much appreciated.

If you pop in the 12.0 install disk and open it in Konqueror, you will find upgrade.txt in the first window. That one tells you how to upgrade from 11.0 to 12.0. That will let you know the steps involved if you still want to try that route. I don't go that route, and much prefer clean installs. No chance to break anything that way.

Its not really dependencies that are the problem, but the way things are linked together in your system. Upgrade.txt warns one to back up first before attempting the upgrade. Data is then secure if something goes wrong.

I am already using a few applications that were designed for 12.2 on my 12.0 box. Firefox is one, and it works fine. You can usually do that, and if doesn't work, just remove the package with no harm done. Sometimes it does not work, like when I tried Alien Bob's ffmpeg package and slackbuild. It installed just fine, but I was trying to re-compile k3b and it just would not see the ffmpeg headers or libraries. I took it out and used an ffmpeg from svn that was dated a year ago. Had no problems then.

Experiment little steps at a time.

I had a similar problem upgrading from 12.1 to 12.2. What I found was this:

The UPGRADE.TXT file indicates that you can confirm thta your system will boot prior to going through and reconciling all the .new files in the /etc directory.

However, I could not boot this way. I ended up going through the *.new config files and migrating most of them over and then it booted no problem. My suspicion is that rc.udev changed in a way that caused the tty devices to be screwed up if it wasn't updated.

Thanks, I am using new firefox 3.04 now. Have to upgrade xfce but I forgot howto get the shutdown to work. lol Am trying out fluxbox as different user. Be nice to have network gui tools for lighter window managers

I tried to upgrade to xfce 4.4.3 and I can't get it to startx... says:

So I am not all that familiar navigating through files system without a gui. fluxbox is working and I upgraded icewm and its working, upgraded firefox its working.

Quick question, how is security using flux,ice, and seamonkey?

FYI Currently running slackware12. Anyone know what to do with xfce? Thanks

Reading through the Howto upgrade 12.0-12.1, Upgrade Txt and other suggested reading I find I don't understand the following:

1. Howto runlevel1 and use telnet to upgrade gclib?

2. How you upgrade glibc shared libraries?

3. Is there a way to just look at what this library directory and it files look like in a regular slackware 12 install so I can compare mine to the one I have?

4. Also I upgraded to the latest mozilla thunderbird and can't get it to work on either, fluxbox or icewm. Currently I don't have xfce4 pkg installed and wonder if the latest xfce requires library upgrade?