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[opensuse-factory] Draft Milestone 7 Release
by Andreas Jaeger 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hi, michl and myself are currently working on the M7 release. Below is a copy & paste of the current text. I'm off for lunch now and wanted to get your feedback. Please send your comments on opensuse-marketing or join michl and myself on freenode IRC channel #opensuse-marketing. Andreas openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase Milestone 7, a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the second release of the “Stablizing Freeze” and last milestone, the next release will be RC1 on June 17th. openSUSE 11.3 Progress Compared to M6, this milestone brings many bug fixes, an update to Linux kernel 2.6.34 and the integration of translations and new artwork. We plan to include in openSUSE 11.3 the following highlights: * Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE * Btrfs support in the installer * The zypper package management command line client has seen further improvements: o If a package gets removed, dependencies needed only by this package can get removed as well (option –clean-deps) o Package selection code has been enhanced to support the following syntax for use with in/up/rm commands: [+/-]repo:type:nameOPversion.arch o zypper will notify about updates with vendor change (from different repository) * Nouveau driver for Nvidia graphic cards is integrated * File sharing with SpiderOak * Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30, KDE 4.4, LXDE 0.5.5, and XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media. * On demand package installation in KDE, for e.g. debug info packages and missing modules. * Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick * Updated distribution with new upstream packages Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone and not a final release, 11.3 M7 does contain bugs both known and unknown, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The following annoyances have already been reported: * Firefox crashes at start Bug #608087 – workaround: update gtk2 to the new version from the GNOME factory repo * The x86_64 NET Install CD had a garbled screen for an NVidia GeForce Go 7150M graphics adapter. The workaround is to add “brokenmodules=nouveau” to the Boot Options line. * LXDM always start default session Bug #607868 Please see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… for the current list. What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from http://software.opensuse.org/developer today! -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] 11.3 M7 - screen blanking?
by C 30 May '10

30 May '10

I'm running 11.3 M7 (KDE4) on an ASUS EEE 1005, and it's working quite well. I've bumped into a few of the known bugs.... so no big/new issues. Overall, it's working very well.. better than 11.2 on the same machine (eg WiFi, sleep, suspend, display resolution etc. all work perfectly right from the initial install... no tweaking necessary) But... I'm having a small problem with the screen blanking. I've set all power management to off, no screen saver etc etc. Exactly 10 minutes after the last keyboard/mouse activity, the display is blanked. Is this a known bug? Is there some setting somewhere that's being missed or ignored? 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] Run download and install in parallel feature status
by Rastislav Krupanský 29 May '10

29 May '10

Hi all. I want to ask what´s the status of the most wanted feature #120340: Run download and install in parallel? Afaik, Milestone7 should be features freeze(sorry, if i´m wrong and correct me), but software management still uses traditional behaviour. Can we expect this feature will be added, or won´t? Or parallel download at least? If there is no plan to use it, could you change default behaviour to "DownloadInAdvance" in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf? Thanks a lot. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- 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] libtool: failing dependencies
by Juergen Orschiedt 29 May '10

29 May '10

Running M7, I did a "zypper dup" against factory (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss) this morning. # zypper dup Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... Problem: nothing provides /usr/bin/tar needed by libtool-2.2.6b-4.4.i586 Solution 1: keep obsolete libtool-2.2.6b-3.11.x86_64 Solution 2: break libtool by ignoring some of its dependencies So I removed libtool: # zypper rm libtool Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following packages are going to be REMOVED: libtool patterns-openSUSE-devel_basis patterns-openSUSE-devel_kernel=20 and tried to reinstall it: # zypper in libtool patterns-openSUSE-devel_basis patterns-openSUSE-devel_kernel Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... 3 Problems: Problem: nothing provides /usr/bin/tar needed by libtool-2.2.6b-4.4.x86_64 Problem: nothing provides /usr/bin/tar needed by libtool-2.2.6b-4.4.x86_64 Problem: nothing provides /usr/bin/tar needed by libtool-2.2.6b-4.4.x86_64 However, there's only "/bin/tar" - from tar-1.23-1.9.x86_64. -- 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] Lenovo T410s (11.2 black screen in runlevel 3, 5)
by Martin A. Brown 29 May '10

29 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello there, I hope I'm in the right place. I am interested in running the 11.3 Mileston 6 release later in the week, when it becomes available. I have a Lenovo T410s. I have the output of 'hwinfo', which I will happily share. I'm not sending it here, since somebody may want it in a particular place or may not want it at all. I tried installing 11.2, which installs beautifully, but fails on boot, whether I boot to runlevel 3 or 5. The 11.3 Milestone 5 installation failed utterly. I'm looking for advice: - I'm prepared to wait until later in the week, banking on Milestone 6. - Would the 'hwinfo' output be of use to anybody in particular? - Is this a well known issue? - -Martin - -- Martin A. Brown --- Wonderfrog Heavy Industries --- martin(a)wonderfrog.net "I'm trying to ovoid him, but he keeps circling!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgf-0.72 (http://linux-ip.net/sw/pine-gpg-filter/) iD8DBQFL2HVhki79Zb8hnmwRAiv1AJ0T2sEacl8ViqCl5Ks7nRU75f9wXACeKzgI EEXF0PUEQEaZ3wpGrqh15gs= =izd8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] 11.3 M7 not installable on DX58SO Intel
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 28 May '10

28 May '10

Hello, on my system, by installing M7 the system hang, by copying the rpm packages? I found no errors in the console. Is this a known problem with X58 chipset or the marvel chip ? with 11.2 I have to disable the marvel "eSATA" chip for installing. -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer -- 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] Issues since system update
by Doctor Who 27 May '10

27 May '10

I recently updated my system to M7 via zypper and now: 1) Lost graphical login when booting to runlevel 5 (just text prompt to login) 2) zypper no longer works, complaining: # zypper ref zypper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: _ZNSt7num_getIcSt19istreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE2idE, version GLIBCXX_3.4 Not sure how to show the active sources list right now, or I would include it here as well. Thanks for any help. -- 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] Any hero for yast2-repair?
by Stephan Kulow 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi, I would like to drop yast2-repair from 11.3 as this fails now for over half a year without anyone interested. The main problem with this yast module is that it needs someone who really tests to repair broken setups a lot - and this means a lot of work and very little reputation, because a repair module is only used when something is broken and if it works it's taken for granted and if it fails, it sucks. As the "fails for 149 days" message on [1] pretty clearly says: there is no one doing this. So I have two options: finding someone who loves repairing or drop it _NOW_. So I'm trying the first option with right this mail, but I need to drop it next week because I need to adapt the boot menu too. Greetings, Stephan [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/status?project=openSUSE%3AFactory -- 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] openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7: Preparing for RC Phase
by Andreas Jaeger 26 May '10

26 May '10

Milestone 7, a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last milestone release, the next release will be RC1 on June 17th. Now it's time for testing and bugfixing! openSUSE 11.3 Progress Compared to M6, this milestone brings many bug fixes, an update to Linux kernel 2.6.34 and the integration of software translations and new artwork. We plan to include in openSUSE 11.3 the following highlights: * Netbook support with both Moblin and KDE * The approaching Btrfs file system can be configured in the installer * The zypper package management command line client has seen further improvements: o Improve package dependency handling: if a package gets removed, dependencies needed only by this package can get removed as well (using option --clean-deps) o Better control over package selection: The package selection code has been enhanced to support the following syntax for use with in/up/rm commands: [+/-]repo:type:nameOPversion.arch o zypper will notify about updates with vendor change (from different repository) * Better graphics driver support for Nvidia cards with integration of Nouveau driver * Back up and File sharing with SpiderOak - still in negotiation but looking good * Kernel 2.6.34 which as usually brings a ton of new or updated drivers and assures better hardware support this time has as key features o support of a number of Intel processors and chip set which will be delivered in the future o improved visualization o more efficient usage of energy saving features provided through state of the art hardware * Great desktop experience with GNOME 2.30.1, KDE 4.4.3, LXDE 0.5.5, and XFCE 4.6.1. LXDE has been newly integrated and is part of the DVD media. * On demand package installation in KDE, for e.g. debug info packages and missing modules. * Imagewriter tool to copy ISO images to an USB stick * Updated distribution with new upstream packages A detailed list is available in the wiki. Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone and not a final release, 11.3 M7 does contain bugs both known and unknown, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. The following annoyances have already been reported: * Firefox crashes at start Bug #608087 - workaround: update gtk2 to the new version from the GNOME factory repo * The x86_64 NET Install CD had a garbled screen for an NVidia GeForce Go 7150M graphics adapter. The workaround is to add "brokenmodules=nouveau" to the Boot Options line. * Accessing LVM partitions is not possible - Bug #598193 "udev deletes device nodes". * LXDM always start default session Bug #607868 Please see http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… for the current list. What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from http://software.opensuse.org/developer today! Have a lot of fun! Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Request for new devel:languages:falcon project.
by Matt Williams 26 May '10

26 May '10

Copying my email previously sent to opensuse-buildservice since I think it's more appropriate here: For the last year or so I have been maintaining the package for the Falcon programming language [1] in openSUSE:Contrib:Factory [2] as well as a number of supplementary packages, module and tools for it in my home project [3] (the ones prefixed with 'falcon-'). I would like to request the creation of a new project under devel:languages called 'falcon' (i.e. alongside similar projects for Python, R, Haskell etc.) to place these supplementary packages. I also plan to move the falcon package that is currently in oS:C:F to this new project and then request for it to be linked into openSUSE:Factory Regards, Matt Williams [1] http://falconpl.org [2] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=falcon&project=openSUSE%3AF… [3] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3AMilliams -- 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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