Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1517 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 02:05:54PM -0700, Vahe Avedissian wrote:
> I finally got 11.r installed and for the most part it works great. However I 
> wanted to know if anyone encountered the following
> Issues and if there is a known solution. I could
> Not find anything googling nor on the forum.

11.r = 11.3?

> 1. Both the live cd and dvd hang at partition detection. Cause is I have a 
> dmraid array and this is not being handled correctly. 11.2 handled this 
> perfectly.
>
> 2. As regular user I cannot mount luk cryptyo partitions. I get some dolphin 
> error.
>   Root can mount these ok. Worked fine in 11.e

11.e = 11.2?

There was an issue with pam_mount in 11.3 which got fixed by a recent
update.  Please check the output of

  rpm -q --changelog pam_mount

for lines stating:

- rdconf: do not warn about missing fskeyhash when no fskey specified;
  (bnc#626127); http://bugs.debian.org/580430

> 3. Partition references in menu.lst are parr by-id and part be /dev device 
> entry (root).
>   Adding a new drive breaks grub booting. Seemed to work fine in 11.2
>
> If there is documentation on these can someone point me to it?

Mount by-id is a feature and not a bug.  Think of the situation when you
add an additional disk (usb, esata, firewire).

See for example
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/install-boot-login/405704-what-difference-hd0-2-sda3-disk-id.html

Idependent of your actual version number of the old release and the new
version number you use this is again an example why we have to point
users to the release notes of previous releases.  We cant't expect
people to install every release.

Please consider to check the wiki if there is some documentation about
the /dev/disk/by-* stuff and if not feel free to add one.

> Otherwise another great release!

Thanks!  But this depends heavily on your hardware.  There had been some
reports that oS 11.3 was the worst thing SUSE release ever.  Not a point
I'm sharing.  But all this depends on your hardware.  Here even with
about 10 very different systems (AMD and Intel based; very, very old and
two very recent) I had only small issues.

Most important is to check bugzilla and to report issues if they are not
reported yet.  The noise level on the different lists is simply to high.
In particular as a developer your focus is on the upstream discussions
and the bug trackers.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany