I used the 8.1->8.2 upgrade script to do what appeared to be a successful upgrade (after changing my pacman.conf to point to the -testing repos), but after rebooting, X-windows won't run on the console on my backend/frontend machine. I'm still able to connect via the web interface and ssh, though. I'm running on a virtual machine on vSphere. Any ideas why X might break during this upgrade?

Anything in the message.log? From ssh what do you see from:

sudo sv restart frontend didn't print anything of note. I'm not getting X at all, not even for running the backend setup.

Another data point is that I created a new VM, nstalled a fresh version of 8.1.1, and then did the upgrade. X was working fine in 8.1.1 but never worked after the upgrade. I'll try to do some more investigation with the log and configuration files over the next few days if I have the time.

Are there plans to release an 8.2 ISO?

Also take a look at the /var/log/$DATE/$hostname_frontend.log for some clues.

I have done dozens of R8.1 to R8.2 upgrades in both VMs (VirtuaBox) and real boxes have have not run into losing X. So this is a new one. There was just an update to xconfig.sh so if you could try again and then run xconfig.sh manually. And the /tmp/xconfig.log.

Yes there will be a R8.2 iso but it isn't quite ready yet which is why we have not made 8.2 final.

Here are another couple of data points: I used the 8.2 ISO to do an upgrade from 8.1.1 and also a fresh install and both resulted in no X. I'm running vSphere 5.1.0.

I'll do some further investigation on xconfig.sh and the log files.

I have two installations set up side-by-side, 8.1.1 and 8.2, and I haven't been able to find any significant differences in the configuration or log files between the two.

I did stumble on something promising, though: I renamed /usr/bin/plymouthd to /usr/bin/plymouthd-bak to disable it on the 8.2 system and I got X back. Unfortunately, I don't know the correct way to disable it, but I thought that might be a good data point for someone who might know what's changed in that area in 8.2. I'll try to continue my investigation.

plymouth is the boot splash. You can disable it on install from the iso by choosing the second option. It can also be disabled in LinHES Settings --> Advanced.