October 2009 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] 11.2 Release Notes
by Karl Eichwalder 25 Jun '10

25 Jun '10

It would be good if we would start with collection release notes snippets for 11.2 now. Do not hesitate to provide input! Here is some background information: http://en.opensuse.org/Release_Notes -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] checkinstall
by Donn Washburn 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

openSuSE 11.2 RC 1 I see "checkinstall" is still broken. Something keeps it from writing in a directory that exist. /usr/src/packages/BUILDROOT -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Enabling SELINUX failed
by Marco Calistri 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello Listmates, I attempted to enable selinux on my 11.2 Rc1 but it fails with the error: no selinuxfs found. I followed the "how-to" as per en.opensuse.selinux but it seems something is lacking from my understanding, or perhaps from current kernel. Suggestions are welcomed. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri <amdturion> If it happens once, it's a bug. If it happens twice, it's a feature. If it happens more than twice, it's a design philosophy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Wiki entry on Wagon (ie. zypper dup gui)
by Greg Freemyer 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

All, I've been trying to edit the 11.2 Upgrade pages on the wiki. I came across <http://en.opensuse.org/Wagon> which had no content at all. I've added some, but I guessed at much of the overview because I don't know the background. Since Wagon (yast2 wagon) will likely be used heavily in OpenSUSE in the 11.2 rollout, I hope someone can review and correct what I did. fyi: my one and only attempt actually upgrade a 11.1 system to 11.2 RC2 ended with a segfault and now yast won't run. I'll have to troubleshoot my system a few days from now, but it would be good to get more testing of the Upgrade via wagon before the release. Is wagon a supported upgrade method with this release? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] problem on tp X200 after upgrade to 11.2RC2
by Markus Weiss 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, (sorry if this is known) i ran into a problem after doing a zypper dup yesterday, upgrading to 11.2RC2 from 11.1. on a thinkpad X200 laptop. When booting (normal kernel or failsafe, doesn't make a difference), the system gets stuck after Starting HAL ..OK The system is still responsive to the SYSRQ key and to ctrl alt del. When I boot into runlevel 3, I can switch to runlevel 5 by hand without problems, but booting into runlevel 5 directly hangs the system. Does anyone have a pointer, what this might be related to ? (earlykdm on intel graphics ?) Probably unrelated, but I also noticed that a lot of Plasma widgets in KDE4 have gone dark again, as on some earlier KDE4 versions under 11.1, this problem had been gone however, with the latest 11.1 and KDE4 updates before I updated to 11.2RC2. Thanks for any pointers, I can provide more detailed infos if necessary, Thanks, Markus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Installing 11.2 on a computer with other Linux distros
by Clayton 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

I just installed 11.2RC2 on my netbook (Asus EeePC 1005HA), and it's working well.. but... it's totally ignored the other Linux distro I have installed. The harddrive is partitioned like this: /dev/sda1 - ext4 - Ubuntu 9.10 - 15GB /dev/sdb2 - ext4 - openSUSE 11.2 - 15GB /dev/sdb3 - ext 4 - Home partition Ubuntu was installed first, and was booting/working fine before I installed openSUSE 11.2. I installed 11.2 (custom partitioning to force it to install on sdb2, all other settings are default), and it has booted up and is working fine, but Grub only knows about openSUSE.... I "can" manually fiddle with Grub to get it to boot, but that is a bit messy and unwieldy. This is something that used to work fine... has something changed? or have I missed something? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 5-year old "bug"! just moving KDE/Kontact Calendar events between calendars?
by Ben DJ 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi, While moving all my data from Macs to RC2, I setup multiple calendars in KDE Kontact, similar to what I had in OSX. After trying to figure out how to simply move an Event from one calendar to another, or just assign one in the first place for that matter (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/428156 ?), it looks like it's not possible at the moment. There's a bug (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381503) that both W Stephenson & S Kulow commented on back in 2008, which is marked RESOLVED for 11.0. I'm not sure what that means, since that bug tracks back to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72531, opened 2004-01-13. It's seems like this is just not getting done 'upstream'. At least as of 2009-10 people are still posting bug comments about it. I think this is pretty basic functionality. At least I can't honestly see moving people to a PIM where it's not possible. How can this get fixed in / for OpenSuse 11.2 RELEASE, which is frankly where I care about it getting fixed. Can any of the 'heavyweights' here chime in upstream again? Or can it be addressed just in this Project? Thanks. BenDJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] binary nvidia driver and RC2
by Peter Czanik 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, Did anyone successfully install the nVidia binary driver on RC2? I downloaded it from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_190.42.html , which compiled, but the kernel module itself could not be loaded :-( Is there / will be there an nVidia repo, like there was one for 11.1? Bye, CzP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] yast wagon question
by Greg Freemyer 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

All, I just did a test run of "yast2 wagon" from my laptop. (gui equivalent of zypper dup) I was already at RC1, so it should not have done much. But I had enabled the source repo prior to running wagon. wagon caused 1000+ source packages to download. Is that by design? Or is it a bug? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] what are 'optimal' ext4 mount options for various dir types?
by Ben DJ 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, With the migration to Factory, I've moved my partitions to ext4. In my /etc/fstab, I've configure 'usual' partitions like, /boot ext3 noatime,acl,user_xattr swap swap defaults / ext4 noatime,acl,user_xattr,journal_checksum,barrier=0 /home ext4 noatime,acl,user_xattr,journal_checksum,barrier=0 which all seem pretty clear. I'm less clear on two 'special' cases, (1) /build, where I'll do all my development builds, source checkouts & DLs, etc (2) /var/cache, which is simply the ususal system cache dir For now, I've set them up initially as, /build ext4 noatime,acl,user_xattr,journal_checksum,barrier=0 /var/cache ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback I'm not sure these settings make sense. I've been reading online, came across the whole 'Linus vs Ingo vs everybody' thread about the journalling, writeback, etc etc, and have simply gotten confused. For any / all of the dirs above, and especially the last two, what are the recommended mount options -- in particular regarding journalling & writeback. My goals are reliability for "my" data, and performance for transient &/or easily re-DLable data. Thanks. BenDJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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