On 16/01/2019 13:36, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
Hello, and good day.
I am often installing openSuSE on customer hardware (Laptops, Desktops, Servers). This worked well in the past, but in last time I notice an extreme (not to say scarying) increase of issues with Leap 15.0.
On younger hardware (not older than 1-2 years) this Leap 15 often causes troubles with even booting from the USB stick. Even when successfully installing it somehow, it is not sure that ACPI is working, so Leap does the full shutdown but not power-off, and/or that the battery-status is available at all. Even worser, when running the default update in KDE (simply allowing all suggested updates), often ends up with a system where the boot process stops after displaying "Loading initial ramdisk".
After re-installing the entire Leap 15.0 and locking kernel updates in Yast, I was able to update all the rest. So the laptop was somehow working, but ACPI did NOT work. This confirms that the newer KERNEL is even worser that the old/initial one and not working properly.
Finally a kind guy at #suse helped me to install kernel 4.20 on this problematic machine. Adter that, the system was fully usable. ACPI worked, battery status showed up, ...
Aha! You are "pingufan"?
What I want to recommend is: It is important to give users the choice between various kernels at installation time.
TBH I think this is counter to the style of a stable-release-cycle OS. Unless it is possible to isolate _what_ elements of rival distributions allow them to work on your hardware while Leap does not, I don't think there is any real path forwards here. If you are running leading-edge hardware, and for it you need a leading-edge kernel etc., then openSUSE already has an answer: it is Tumbleweed. There is a way to switch a Leap install to Tumbleweed. I do not know of a reverse, and I imagine that it would be very tricky to do. It might be possible to implement a reinstallation method that picks up an existing home directory and list of installed packages _which are in the Leap repos_. That could be useful for some people, I guess, but I do not think it is very likely. But in essence, what you are asking for is a constantly-changing special edition of Leap with the latest kernel. That is a partly rolling release distro. openSUSE already has a rolling-release distro, so this is not going to happen, I think. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org