Suse Linux 9

Still yesterday I have been running VMware on Suse Linux 9.1 and today (after I performed an online update of my system) I get: error while loading shared libraries: /opt/gnome/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: Suse has broken this package... But I didn't have any problems so far to run VMware, so I just have to figure out what I did today to break it. Apparently this error is due to my recent automatic update of my system: the culprit is gdk-pixbuf package 0.22.0-62.4. After I reverted to the older package 0.22.0-57 vmware started working again.

The .0 to .1 update suggests, that it's not a big deal. In fact, it is. Many things do brake and most people advise to do a clean install of 9.1. Because of extensive third party installations and customization I wanted to upgrade. In case the upgrade appeared unusable, I wanted to have the possibility to go back to 9.0. This appeared easily possible because we had a free 8.6 GB partition (hdb3) on the harddisk. Actually it was not free, but it was the root partition of our RedHat 9 installation. I did the following things:

Yast is of of course as unfriendly when it comes to error messages as any other Linux program. I tried to start up Apache2 using Yast2 and there were only 3 fields in the configuration wizard to fill in: server name, administrator e-mail and listening port. I filled in as server name "Suse Linux". When Yast2 wanted to do the configuration, the error message was: Error: cannot adjust apache2 service Cool.