This was not a problem, but in the next phase Windows Update wanted to install Service Pack2 and then the problems started. Installation of Vista Service Pack2 failed several times. Also, Windows Update wanted to install a Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (KB970895), but it failed as well.

After some google searching I found that the GRUB boot manager was the main reason for the fails. Microsoft Vista Update was unsure what was the active boot partition and refused to install that update.

Because I need my Vista system only to run a specific application and I have no need for internet surfing, I decided not to try installation of Service Pack2s again. But it was not so easy.

You can unselect installation of Service Pack2 in Windows Update:

But anyway, when you want to do shutdown, you will always see the following screen:

So you have always to select manually the correct shutdown option:

By this way Windows Update does not try to install an unwanted software update. I would like to unselect permanently that Service Pack2 update, but up till now I have not found any way to do it.

At the beginning YaST wanted to remove quite many packages. I had installed many packages from the source and selected to keep many of those ones YaST wanted to remove.

I also turned off the automatic dependency checking. When dependencies were ok and I had accepted the removed packages, YaST wanted to install additional packages due to dependencies. I accepted those all.

When upgrade started I went to sleep. After some hours I woke up and checked, if this upgrade had completed. It was not. There was still some 1174 packages to install and YaST reported that a subprocess had failed. YaST provided three options: Cancel, Try again, and Skip. When I clicked the Skip button, I got the same error message from the next package. When I clicked Cancel button, I got again the same error message from the next package.

My conclusion was that I had run out of space and it was better to cancel this upgrade. It looked that if I wanted to cancel upgrade now, I had to click Cancel button thousands time. I selected the fourth option: Power off and went back to bed.

When I tried to boot my Laptop (with OpenSUSE 10.1, no OpenSUSE 10.3 in the boot menu) next morning, I got the following error messages:

INIT: Id “3″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

INIT: Id “4″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

INIT: Id “5″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

INIT: Id “1″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

INIT: Id “2″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

INIT: Id “6″; respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and the same error messages second time. I decided again to make a power off.

It looks like I have succeeded to corrupt my OpenSUSE installation. For bugzilla reporting Open Source development teams want different kind of information about hardware construction, installation log, etc. I can’t provide anything like that, so I have ignored bugzilla and decided to write this document. Let’s hope that someone will tell OpenSUSE YaST team about those problems I encountered when I tried to upgrade OpenSUSE.