- openSUSE Factory

boot-iso link to the iso directory
by houghi 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

People have some problem finding the boot.iso (and the boot.ppc.iso) as they are looking in the iso directory. Would it be possible to siftlink these two files? As it does not add any space (well, not really) to the mirrors. 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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factory changes
by Peter Czanik 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Hello, http://en.opensuse.org/Factory-News does not show anything new, but I see, that almost the full factory tree is refreshed. Is it only due to the new gcc, which I found in the ChangeLog? Is it worth to download it, or there were not yet significant improvements to the package manager (what I could not figure out from the ChangeLog)? Bye, CzP

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WARNING about FACTORY ftp installations
by Andreas Jaeger 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

We have received bugreports that our current installer does not handle the FACTORY ftp tree correctly and installs packages for other platforms. [Bug 151933 and Bug 151954] I suggest to not use the tree for now, 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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Size of the 6 CD version
by houghi 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

How large will the 6 CD version be in total? I asume (hope) that the 6th CD is in the same layout as the other 5. The reason I am wondering about the above two, is so that people can use makeSUSEdvd (or any other means) and burn a DVD from either CD1-6 or from the downloadable DVD + CD 6. houghi -- Nutze die zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Wert und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das tun. Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Partitions mounted in /media, data directories off /
by Chad Groneman 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi, I noticed with Beta4 that my partitions outside my fstab are automatically mounted inside the /media folder. I also notice that there appears to be several /data[x] directories, I think these existed in previous versions. I was hoping someone could give me a few details about these, specifically answers to these questions: 1. Do the mounted /media/disk[x] folders roughly correspond (the [x] appears to be numbered differently) to /data[x]? 2. If so, is there a reason for both to be there? 3. My labeled partition seems to get different permissions: cgroneman@chad2:/media> ll total 5 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-01-04 20:46 disk drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 648 2006-02-17 19:04 disk-1 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 592 2006-01-31 23:42 disk-2 drwsrwsrwt 6 root root 136 2006-02-17 19:03 STORAGE Why does STORAGE (the labelled partition) get different permissions than the others? Thanks, Chad

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Re: [opensuse-factory] beta4 and VMware
by Brian Jepson 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

James PEARSON <pearson0j(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: > The install process blocked when I gave it the 3rd CD. After hiting > ENTER a couple of times, I finally chose "Ignore" and voila, I had the > same problem for the 4th CD. I chose "Ignore" again and the install > process asked for the 5th CD. The 5th CD ran without any problems and > the installation continued up until "Hardware Configuration" page setup > where there is still a problem on the "Hardware Configuration" setup > page. I believe that is last problem is related to Sax2 configuration > process under Vmware. I had the same CD problem in Virtual PC, but I didn't solve it until after I got the system up and running. Even though I couldn't get it to install from anything other than CD1, I got a base system with X11 and FVWM. Although X11 runs fine on Virtual PC for Windows, I get an error on the Mac version (dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.so: undefined symbol: SetupPciIds), so I just use vncserver running inside the virtual machine, which would probably work for VMware as well. From this base install, I was able to run yast to install more software (BTW, the beta 4 warning about leaving CD1 in the drive applies to any time you go to add software--when I started yast with a different CD in the drive, it didn't see any packages). Here's what I did; I imagine the same thing would work during the install: When I got the first error about the CD (I think it was some kind of media error), I switched over to another terminal, and looked in /var/log/YaST2/y2log. That's where you can find where it's trying to mount the CD (for example, /var/adm/mount/AP_0x0000000). What worked for me is doing "mount /dev/hdc /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000007", clicking OK in the CD dialog, and then umounting /dev/hdc when it asks for the next one, and mounting the new one on that same mount point. The one problem with this approach is minor, but annoying: the count of remaining packages will not be updated as you're installing, so you have no idea how much time is left. - Brian

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Great GNOME artwork in 10.1
by Igor Jagec 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

You really did a great job with the new GNOME artwork in 10.1. I like the new Industrial icon set very much, and the new GNOME default theme as well. Cheers! -- Igor Jagec

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Hostname not set correctly w/ Traditional Method (networking)
by Silviu Marin-Caea 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

I did a beta4 network installation (ftp). No DHCP server, I have specified the IP with hostip=192..../24 I have set the hostname and the installation completed as usual. But after booting the hostname was "192". Setting it again with YaST fixed it. Does anyone know if this is already in bugzilla? I searched, but still not sure. Wouldn't want to file a dupe.

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Serious concerns about font rendering regression
by Hans-Peter Jansen 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Hi, since 10.0, I noticed a regression with the font rendering quality, especially the kerning is degraded, compared to 9.3. The situation persists with 10.1 (or even got worser). I already filed a report against 10.0: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=133086 only to realize, that I'm soliloquizing. What I've learned from trying to fix the problem myself is that fontconfig and possibly qt3 uses an unofficial API from treetype2 to render stuff, and had a hard time to adjust freetype2 cvs to provide the hooks. Unfortunately, I suffered from some crashes using it (could be unrelated), but not enough time to examine the reasons, thus reverted my local changes that time. For what is worth it, I'm using the "Bitstream Vera Sans" truetype font for all sans serif uses. Getting back on topic, I hadn't compared 10.0 with 10.1, but 9.3 with 10.1, and besides a much worser kerning, bold glyphs are notedly less detailed (zugelaufen). Does nobody noticed this regression and is concerned, too? It could be, that I'm picky in this respect, but font rendering quality is a very important factor in user experience and acceptance. Pete

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All Kernel are installed ?
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 19 Feb '06

19 Feb '06

Hello, is this a known Bug ? On my new installation, all three Kernels from the x86 Tree are installed ? Now I have on a old single CPU (no HT) a smp Kernel installed ?? This is new ;), or is this the Problem from the new installer ? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer

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