- openSUSE Factory

Beware of NetworkManager
by Frank-Michael Fischer 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

There are a couple of non-documented shortcomings in this package I would like you all inform about: 1. NetworkManager at its present state cannot deal with WLAN card using the prism54 chip. The corresponding bug 148210 has been marked FIXED without submitting or communicating a fix. Workaround: Either do not use NetworkManager (the traditional method supports prism54 with no problems) or install ndiswrapper from the factory tree (not included in the beta isos!) and use the corresponding MS driver with ndiswrapper. Then NetworkManager can deal with it. Sort of a Trojan horse to get MS drivers into Linux. 2. NetworkManager relies on DCHP in a very rigid manner: DHCP must provide not only the IP address but also the name server address. As many DHCP servers sit in DSL routers and similar devices they are often limited in functionality. E.g. they cannot provided a fixed MAC-IP address relation. Naturally these routers work as the name servers. So in case you want to put your DHCP server on to another node this server needs to address the issue of having a different name server (the one in the router). All this because there is currently no way to specify a fixed name server address NetworkManager will use (bug 159524). FMF

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(Fwd) Re: Please attach a sample file to the bug 685335
by Ulrich Windl 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

FYI: (GhostScript Bug #685335) ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Dear Ulrich Windl, Thank you for the sample file. I confirm that released versions of Ghostscript generate PDF files that convert to text with wrong encoding. This problem is fixed in the current development version since rev. 6178. The development version of Ghostscript can be obtained from the Subversion repository as svn checkout http://svn.ghostscript.com:8080/ghostscript/trunk/gs/ Regards, Alex Cherepanov ------- End of forwarded message -------

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xen
by Peter Czanik 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hello, As but https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=158831 xen-libs are missing from beta8. Could you make it available somehow? Like the fontconfig fixes for earlier betas. Or should I install the packages made for SLES available at http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/downloads.php/xenpreview/SUSE%20L… But then I would have a mixed environment, if it installs at all... Bye, CzP

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hidden comments in Bugzilla and no fix for testing and no timing for the fix?
by Frank-Michael Fischer 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Amongst others I have reported bug 148210. It got marked as fixed (no fix provided, so I cannot verify the fix). I find not only this strange but also there are comments missing like #46, #48 and #49. Moreover there is no entry in which milestone it got fixed. Does someone now if this common policy for an "Open"SUSE product, so reporters and contributors get no idea how the bug got fixed (or if it got really fixed at all)? FMF

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older versions in Factory repository ?
by David Wright 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Finally managed to get YaST Software Management working (rug still bombing out when trying to add factory, bug raised), when I installed Beta 8, I was just getting media exception errors (bug raised) on gwdg.de and uni-heidelberg.de. Today I managed to add uni as a repository source and went to look to see what had been updated, some packages, such as Windowmaker are older than what was on the Beta 8 CD's and everything else has the same version. It doesn't look like a single core package has been updated according to YaST. Is this really the case or should I raise a bug on this? Dave P.S. I'm slowly getting frustrated, since Beta 4 I haven't been able to update to factory using YaST or rug once :-( -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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PPC question
by andrea 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

I own a apple g4 cube, i installed opensuse 10.0 before, but it s from beta version of 10.1 that I get kernel panic on booting while tries modprobe sbp2 concerning ieee1394 ochi1394. I googled but I can t find any similar question about it. Is this a known kernel isuses?

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java on PPC
by Peter Czanik 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Hello, What is the status of Java on PPC? I filed a bugreport about it ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=121964 ) without much response at the end. There are a lot of packages, which are included on PPC, but I was unable to install due to lack of Java. Could the good old IBM Java 1.4.2 be included again in 10.1, as it was in 10.0 at least in the inst-source-extra section? Bye, CzP

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beta8 kernel unstable?
by Andreas Klein 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

Hello, anyone seeing instabilities with the beta8 kernel? I have two machine not even responding to ping. One is a dual opteron, the other one is a virtual machine in vmware. Both run 24x7 with all previous betas without crashing. Bye, -- Andreas Klein Andreas.C.Klein(a)physik.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Default Root Partition Size
by David Wright 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

Just a word of warning regarding the new default partition sizes suggested by YaST. I have a 10GB root partition on my laptop and just went to install IBM Rational Software Architect. The install files take up around 2.5GB of space and the installed program itself takes another 2GB (I eliminated some of the options I didn't need) I could have extracted the install images into another partition, but I took the default of /root/IBM/install_images... which meant there wasn't enough space left to actually install the software... If you are planning on installing any major programs like the Rational suite on your system be very careful about your partitioning scheme when installing. I think the combined Rational sweet, for example runs to in excess of 5GB and wants to install itself to /opt. On my laptop, with Gnome, KDE, the developer packages, Kernel source, OO.o etc. takes up around 6GB with logs and temp files as well. I wasn't expecting to need to install Rational on the laptop, so it caught me out. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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Factory Media Exception Error
by David Wright 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

With Beta 6 I could see the Factory repository, even if I couldn't download much (about every third package seemed to be missing when I went to do updates :-( ), but with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST, but with opensuse.org, gwdg.de and uni-heidelberg.de I get a Media Exception error when adding the url :-( I thought at first that I was typing it incorrectly, so I browsed the repository with Firefox and copy and pasted the url across to YaST and rug, but both of them come up with a Media Exception either when creating the repository (YaST) or trying to install a package (rug). Is this a known problem with Beta 8? I did a search, but it didn't show any results for this... (Searching media exception, factory and yast). Can anyone point me to an open bug, or shall I raise a new one? Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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