- openSUSE Factory

Software Remover
by Marcel Hilzinger 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

The Software Remover (System -> Configuration -> Remove Software) shows me the installed packages, but after selecting a package for removal and klicking on "Remove", the package ist still there. Software Remover said: The transaction was succesfull. Bugzilla or wait for next beta? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99

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BUG 152085 - Installation Sources 10.1 Beta 4
by David Wright 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

With Beta 4, I have the problem that the Installation Sources section of YAST doesn't remember the sources I enter. After initial install, the list of sources is empty (not even the install CD is listed). If I enter the CD, Factory and other sources, clicking on the Finish button "erases" them, and looking at sources again shows that there are none. Going into Software Management, I can then, obviously, only delete installed packages, as SM cannot find any additional packages. This is frustrating as I can't update to factory or otherwise search for new packages without manually downloading and installing the individual packages. Is there a temporary workaround, i.e. can I directly edit a configuration file to add the sources so that I can use the software manager to install packages? (and if so, which file?) Has this been addressed in Factory/Beta 5 and would I be better to wait until I download the delta ISO's for B5? 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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Stupid bug, but with great potential: kmix
by Silviu Marin-Caea 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

I'd like to point out a lame bug that has good chances of being overseen and making it alive in the final release. This would cause a great deal of traffic on suse-linux-e, with the same question asked all over again by frustrated users. kmix is not working in first login after installation. It has a red "disabled" sign. Users will think their soundcard was not detected and attempt reinstallation and all sorts of fixing. Second login, or after restart, kmix is working but is muted (!). Unmutting it still won't be enough to produce sound because the sliders for headphones and PCM are at 0. I can only imagine the kilometers of thread about not being able to play shit, no sound, no mp3, SUSE sucks etc. So, please, please, nice and pretty please fix this :-) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144525 Ugh, could anyone confirm the bug? Or is it only for my particular hardware (i915)? It has been manifesting since beta1, I think.

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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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