Hi Marc, please be so kind to configure your mail client to send email to this list in plain text format, and avoid top-posting. On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 20:13 -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi Martin and Thanks much for responding. I am not grokking everything you said, but enough to get the gist of it. I have not used RAID systems much so my understanding of them is very limited. I finally managed to gather the information that you wanted me to submit in a bug report https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194355
Ok, I'll have a look.
This was a lot more difficult to do than I first imagined. I first created a Live Tumbleweed USB stick and had to baby sit it through over 800 updates! Seems like the Tumbleweed live image ought to be updated a bit more often,
The current image on mirrors is 3 days old (220103). AFAIK we build a new TW image with every snapshot. Perhaps you grabbed an older one? Of course, if you're out of luck, you could meet a point in time shortly before a larger update happens, in which case 800 packages isn't really that much for TW. The network image might have worked better.
there were almost a dozen instances where a particular update could not be done because of missing files, rpm or otherwise.
Sounds related to the late issues we were seeing with mirroring, which are currently being debugged (See "Tumbleweed repo errors" thread on this ML, and https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/399). Anyway, all this is off topic.
That took me over a day to complete. Next I spent another day trying to figure out how to increase the font size of almost all of the tools so that I could read them. At 9pts (which is apparently a ridiculous default) most of the tools were unreadable and I had to look at the tools (such as gparted or Yast) on another system to figure out what was being said. I wish someone could write a tool that unifies font settings under one GUI, and sets a reasonable default font size. This has been a long standing (many many years) complaint of mine about OpenSuSE.
Now you're really mixing issues. Please open separate thread, or create a separate bug. Personally, I have never experienced this issue. It's possibly related to your monitor reporting a wrong size or DPI value. But you didn't even say if this was under X, wayland, or the text console. And it's really OT here. I understand your frustration, but this isn't an "openSUSE sucks" thread.
Finally when I got to where Tumbleweed was usable, I tried the Yast partitioner and gparted to see if either could handle my system with it's SSD and Optane memory drives. No joy! Same error messages as always.
Ok. Will follow up on BZ. Martin