Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (193 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Lars Rupp <lrupp@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Eberhard
>
>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
>>> Next question: is this the inst-source of beta1?
>>
>> No answer yet - what's up at SUSE?
>> The time plan is hurt, and nothing but silence.
>
>
> Sorry for the late answer. Our project managers have decided to delay
> Beta1. Reason: a bug in insserv.

Which leads to the scripts started in the wrong order, so first
postfix, then nfs, and finally the network ;-(



> The "insserv" program determines the order of the init scripts.
> A bug in it results in the wrong order of init scripts, which
> results in a partially or completely unusable system.
> The package maintainer of insserv is debugging it.
> Trying obvious things like going back to the old insserv
> did not help, so it seems it was a dormant bug which
> was only triggered now. Side-effects of hundreds of
> changes we did for Beta1.

Yes - and therefore Beta1 will be delayed by at least one day...

Which also gives us time to reorder some packages on the CDs so that a
default GNOME/KDE installation (in englisch or german) will only use
CDs 1-3...

> But don't panic: Just the usual chaos at the beginning of a new release.
> ;-)

That's what I hope as well ;-).

Cheers,
Andreas
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