On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:54:08 -0800
Roger Luedecke
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 01:38:23 Felix Miata wrote:
Not quite that bad, but way too many for an RC2.
Many KDE base packages apparently depend on bootsplash, many more than in previous KDE releases, which, along with splashy, I taboo on every install.
Grub failed to finish installing. I booted 11.4 and finished it myself with the Grub shell. Menu.lst had two copies of the default stanza, non-identical, besides a useless HD stanza and two failsafes.
Startx as root failed even after fixing permissions.local and doing 'SuSEconfig --module permissions'. How it failed I couldn't tell. It appeared the default X session was icewm, and it gave some wacko lack of space error, then shut down after I clicked OK, the only thing on the screen to click.
AllowRootLogin=true in kdmrc was apparently ignored (once it could be found squirreled away somewhere in the /usr rats nest instead of logically where config files belong in /etc), so getting into KDE via runlevel 5 was initially impossible, since I create no users on test systems, and even when not test systems I only create users after base installation is complete in order to assign user and group IDs appropriately to match all the other installed distros on the system.
Too many failed deps to remember, most probably based upon taboo of *kde*branding-openSUSE and *splash*.
So, you're doing something outside the normal way. Please fix it yourself. Fixes to packages are welcome but I doubt anybody will help debugging all this,
Andreas I would have to agree with Andreas. Your setup is outside of the usual and anticipated usecase scenarios. However, if you are willing to work some of
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:33:54 AM Andreas Jaeger wrote: these problems out and submit the patches we can perhaps include your usecase at least partially.
Personally, I find the installation to be difficult for a "newbie". I've used openSUSE since version 5 or 6 and find the most recent (11.3 thru 12.1) to be very user antagonistic. Yes, I know how to make modifications during the install process but how many users just starting to experiment with linux (and therefore SUSE) would know that? There is no documentation on the DVD iso's explaining anything about things like what "branding" is, why a separate /home is a good idea, what network settings (during install) are (i.e. loopback device), or even how to handle some of the more common problems during install (video cards, etc.). And what are we to think when we submit bug reports that don't seem to be investigated during several milestones? The only response seems to be to call them duplicates but not find a solution until enough duplicates are accumulated. Tom -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 openSUSE 12.1Mseries KDE 4.6.00, FF 4.0 KDE 4.6.1, FF 7.0 claws-mail 3.7.9 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org