Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clayton wrote:
> > Yast2 Control Centre is but none of the YOU bits work. Each pretends to
> > start then suddenly disappears. The YOU Software Management, eg, starts,
> > states that it is preparing a list of software, announces that it is
> > Downloading something (?the Source), then poof! just vanishes.
>
> It's Segfaulting... there are a few bugs open on this.  If you start
> YaST form the command line, you get the privilege of seeing the
> segfault :-)  Not too helpful if you don't know how to fix it, but it
> takes the poof out of what's happeneing.

So instead of going "poof" it goes "clunk" in front of your eyes, eh? :-)

I'm glad someone has submitted reports on this "poof"/"clunk" phenomenon.


> > It's all relative, isn't it? To me, yes, but to some others it's
> > accepted as a natural occurrence in betas and therefore nothing of any
> > import.
>
> I wouldn't say it's nothing of any import.  It's something that
> absolutely needs to be fix, and as soon as possible... but... the fact
> that it exists in 10.2 Beta 1 is not something that should scare you
> off until 11.0.  Your earlier comments on Beta 1 made it sound as if
> you were expecting a fully functional and 100% working SUSE
> release.... something you can and should never expect from a Beta 1
> release. 

Never! I expect very little at all times. My needs are simple.

> If the same problem is still there in Beta 2 and Beta 3...
> then it's time to panic. :-)

Beta 2 is due out next Thursday. What are the odds this problem will be 
fixed? :-)

>  Meanwhile... if you are like me and not
> able to really contribute to the actual repair work, you do like we
> all do.. try it out on a non-critical system... report the bugs... and
> provide any additional information the developers need to find the
> cause of the problem.  Then in the end.. there's (hopefully) a 10.2
> release in December that works almost perfectly.

It would be a nice Christmas present all 'round if 10.2 came out as a 
functional release.

Cheers.


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"They misunderestimated me."

 George W. Bush   6 November 2000