April 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bug attention
by Chad Groneman 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

Hello, Once in a while, I file bugs and feel they're not getting proper attention. I don't know what's on the developer's plates, and don't want to scream and yell when they've got more important things to do, but at the same time I want acknowledgement from someone. I don't know what my expectations should be, but right now my expectations are that most bugs be acknowledged within about 24 hours, especially if I mark a bug as "Major" severity. What should my expectations be? In particular, I'm concerned about 166027 (filed about 24 hours ago). It's not a "blocker", but at the same time, I will be unhappy if it's not fixed by the final RC. I think a lot of people will. And time is short. Bug voting is in place, but does that help it get attention initially? If so, can a few of you out on this list vote for my bug? See it here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166027 Vote for it here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=166027 I feel a bit like a politician, but, thank you for your votes. Thanks, Chad

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Fix for Xen Paravirtualized Guest Installation, in SL 10.1 RC1
by Christoph Thiel 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:02:33 -0600 From: Clyde Griffin <cgriffin(a)novell.com> Subject: Fix for Xen Paravirtualized Guest Installation (SLES 10 Beta 10 / SL 10.1 RC1) There are two major Xen issues in SLES 10 Beta 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1. Workarounds are described below. Please pass this email on to anyone doing SUSE Linux testing with Xen. First Issue: The /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for booting the Xen hypervisor may not get created automatically. Workaround: 1) Run the YaST "Virtual Machine Management (Xen)" tool in the YaST "System" category to install the Xen hypervisor and kernel modules. (One time only.) 2) Add an entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst that looks like the example below. (Please refer to your existing menu.lst for specifics.) 3) Reboot and select Xen at the Grub menu. ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: xen### title XEN root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/xen.gz module /boot/vmlinuz-xen root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent showopts module /boot/initrd-xen Second Issue: SLES 10 Beta 10 and SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 paravirtualized guest installations do not work in the official builds. Workaround: 1) Create an install source. 2) Replace the install-initrd... RPM in your install source tree with the appropriate RPM located on the Novell/SUSE Xen Technical Preview site at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?xenpreview (install-initrd-1.0-14.i586.rpm or install-initrd-1.0-14.x86_64.rpm.) 3) Run the YaST "Virtual Machine Management (Xen)" tool in the YaST "System" category to install a paravirtualized guest.

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Software-Updates & Packman
by Martin Soltau 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

Hi @ all, I just installed RC1 and I am quite impressed. Very good work! Unfortunately two / three things are not working and I don't know whether it's a user-thing or some tech stuff: 1) Online Update: I see the orange exclamation mark in the tray, but when I tell the system to update I get an error message saying either - Updating kaffeine-0.7.1-23.i586[System packages] to kaffeine-0.8.1-0.pm.0.i586[20060414-150517] There are no installable providers of libgstreamer-0.8.so.1 for kaffeine-0.8.1-0.pm.0.i586[20060414-150517] libxine1-1.1.1-14.pm.0.i686[20060414-150517] needed by kaffeine-0.8.1-0.pm.0.i586[20060414-150517] or (when I deselect kaffeine: - Package transaction failed, Installation aborted by User But i can guarantee I didn't abort anything... 2) Automount: CDs and USB-storage are not automounted any more. I know that some people don't like that, but I do. How can I reactivate this? I do not get any SusePlugger-Notification (I guess plugger is not running), the fstab does not include the former default-entries for /media/DVD and /media/DVDRAM... I'm lost :-( 3) Packman: I am trying to load xine, mp3 and some other stuff from Packman. When I add a suse/10.1-Directory of any packman mirror to the installation sources (tried tu-ilmenau, uni-erlangen and packman.tu-bremen) I get some packages, but KDE-MP3-Support (kdexxxx-mad), libxine1and xine-ui are missing. Are they just not ready yet? Or have I missed something? Thank you all in advance, happy easter-holiday and : I'm looking forward for the final release... will there be a simple "upgrade all"? Martin Soltau

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Installation source operations take a lot of time
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

While installation source management in RC1 is a definite improvement (like: it actually works), there's a usability issue: Whatever operation I do in YaST Installation Source, it takes a lot of time, and there's no progress bar, no "please wait", no indication that it's not stuck. For example, after adding 2 sources from the internet and pressing "Finish", it took 30+ minutes for the window to close. I know that it must have been downloading repository metadata stuff from the internet, but the average user Joe will be very confused. Anyway, I suppose that this could be optimized later. After you guys pull this release through, you'll be heroes. It has been epic :-)

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XEN and 3rd party drivers (nvidia)
by Chad Groneman 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi, My observation / question is twofold. In playing with XEN, I've found that I can't start an X session, because of my NVidia driver that works with my regular kernel. The NVidia kernel module doesn't load when I use the XEN kernel. Is there an easy way to have graphical XEN and a 3D regular boot? I could use two xorg.conf files I suppose, but I'd like to not worry about it. Next question, is there a kernel-xen-source RPM? I didn't see it in factory, and don't believe the kernel-source RPM goes with the -xen kernel, like it does for the -default, -smp, -bigsmp kernels. I could be wrong. I know this setup would not be commonly used. Thanks for humoring me. Chad

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SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 Status Update
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

I just want to update you about the SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1 status. We've just build our second internal test build today - and checked in a couple of fixes that we found today. The bugs we're hunting down where: * During installation on x86-64, a conflict arose due to a proposal containing a package both as i386 and x86-64. * A similar problem happend during update with splitted packages * The online update at the end of installation installed on x86-64 a i586 version of suspend. * The installation sources were not registered at the end of the installation. * Showing which server was added as update server We fixed also some other issues in handling of patches and added some more translations. Hope that our testing will not show additional problems so that we can release RC1 on thursday, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)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

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YaST installation source (add-on source)
by Chad Groneman 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi, I have an add-on installation source that was designed for SuSE Linux 10.0, and I'm using it on my 10.1 RC1. It's the Novell Client 1.1 for SuSE Linux 10.0, found here: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=2RE4wvXCwqQ~ There's dependency problems, but that's irrelevant for this discussion. What I am concerned about is how it shows up. With 10.0, when I add this as an installation source, there is an option to install it under the package selections. With 10.1, it does not appear there. I have to go to the "Installation Sources" menu inside the Package Management to see the selections I want. I figure that could be due to a change in the format of a different install source, a planned change in the behavior of how YaST handles it, or a bug. Which is it / should I file a bug? Thanks, Chad

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Whois not up to date anymore
by houghi 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

The eu is now also a TLD. However whois does not recognise it: houghi@penne : mx -n houghi.eu Information on houghi.eu with ns14.zoneedit.com. as primary nameserver: Primary and secondary nameservers : ns14.zoneedit.com. ns2.zoneedit.com. houghi@penne : whois houghi.eu No whois server is known for this kind of object. Is this a whois problem, or has SUSE not yet updated or is there simply no whois server? houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Re: [opensuse-announce] SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1
by houghi 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need: > * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) > * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English > * All CDs for other selections Great news. Perhaps one thing on wording. I would use * All 5 CDs for other selections because people could get confused as to wether this CD 6 must be downloaded as well, even though it is indicated above. People are like that. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Thing to check: KDE's noteedit vs. lilypond
by Ulrich Windl 13 Apr '06

13 Apr '06

Hi, only yesterday I realized for 10.0 that the lilypond format noteedit is writing is not the format that lilypond is expecting. It would be good if the two versions from one distribution were compatible. Did anyone check for the current 10.1? (What I did: Import a simple MIDI file into KDE's noteedit, export as lilypond, then typeset with lilypond. Lilypond didn't like things like "\notes" in noteedit's output) Regards, Ulrich

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