https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221824 Summary: On the "creating / downloading the source(s)" page, yast2 had a problem creating one of the sources Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Beta 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pearson44j@wanadoo.fr QAContact: jsrain@novell.com From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> To: James PEARSON <pearson44j@wanadoo.fr> Cc: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Installing openSUSE 10.2 b2 on a T60 Thinkpad Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:36:26 +0100 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) James PEARSON <pearson44j@wanadoo.fr> writes:

Hello all

I installed openSUSE 10.2 b2 on an old PentiumIII at work which uses an i810 chipset. The "yast" install ran in "ncurses" mode but it ran ok. That is very notable because alot of live cds wouldn't even start an xserver on the i810 chipset. Great work!

Since that worked out OK I decided to install openSUSE 10.2 b2 on my T60 Thinkpad (Model 1952 W5R). It has a Intel Centrino Duo 1.83 cpu with 2 Go of RAM and a Mobile Intel 945GM Express video chipset). Note as far as I know only openSUSE 10.1, gentoo, and the latest [k|u]buntu work OK on the Intel 945GM video chipset. Hands off to openSUSE for being one of the three.

Thanks!

# My report I selected a kde install as per normal. The 10.2 b2 install went fairly quickly until it hit the "Download and Installation" page. Creating / downloading the source(s) took some 20 minutes. First remark. Why does creating / downloading the source(s) take so long ? (here's is what I hope will be taken as constructive criticism - as I can download 1000 kb/sec+ on my side, I would appreciate more speed on the suse side. I personally would be willing to pay for higher download speeds - please note I have had problems in the past with slow updates when installing suse using the orginal 10.1 CD's and ended up leaving the computer on all night - maybe you could consider a subscription service something "a la Mandriva" for higher d/l speeds).

On the "creating / downloading the source(s)" page, yast2 had a problem creating one of the sources (it definitely appeared to be looping for awhile). After some 20 minutes yast2 offered be the choice to hit the skip button and finished the install.

Please create a bug report for these two and attach /var/log/YaST (as tar file) and /var/log/zmd*log

When the install finished, yast rebooted automatically into kde but I had no kde menu panel. I managed to open a konsole window and I noticed that I had no IP either. Please note that I had selected "Network manager" during the install instead of the traditional setup method as I normally do. It would appear that "Network manager" had a problem when it had to choose between the normal network cable (which definitely works - I just deleted a working 10.1 install in order to test 10.2) and the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG chipset (which still had to be fully configured).

There are already bugs in this area, I think you hit a duplicate. "rcnetwork restart" should fix it - if not, please open a bugreport.

I rebooted again. On the second reboot I had a "SUSEPlugger - The KDE Crash Hander" window telling me that "The application SUSEPluger (suseplugger) crashed and casued the signal 6 (SIGABRT)

Known bug - mentioned in the most annoying ones.

I would really like to work with you on this in order to get openSUSE working on my T60. Please let me know what logs I need to send to help improve things.

Thanks for your testing! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.