Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (956 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Marco Calistri <marco.calistri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-10-04 20:46]:
> On Tue 04 Oct 2011 at 8:04:52 (-0300 UTC) Per Jessen wrote:
>
> > Johannes Weberhofer wrote:
> >
> > > I have tried to install the beta version. Unfortunately all I get
> > > after the installer copied all the files and tried to reboot:
> > >
> > > Starting YaSt2
> > > error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (No
> > > such file or directory).
> > > Therefore installation does not finish and the system does not work at
> > > all...
> >
> > I'm pretty certain I saw the same message, but my system installed fine
> > regardless. 
> >
> >
> > /Per
> I (guess) to have installed 12.1 Beta starting from "12 M5" via zypper
> dup after adding Factory repos in place of old 12 ones.
>
> (But may be I'm on Factory and not on Beta (??))

This bug only affects new installations.

> I'm using this pre-release as guest on VirtualBox.
>
> Anyway I noticed that system doesn't boot in graphic mode just in text-mode.

That's completely unrelated to this bug (and likely a systemd
problem, booting with sysv init should fix it).

> If I try to start the graphic by "startx" I get an error message from X.

Since /usr/bin/Xorg isn't suid in 12.1 startx can be expected to
not work any more.

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Guido Berhoerster
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