[opensuse-factory] Mixed findings with 12.1RC2
Hi all, I had some strange experiences, and two problems left with 12.1RC2. I installed it as a new install, formatting / and /boot , but with an existing and populated /home partition. On first install, it got till some 80% of all packages, and from then complained not being able to lock the rpm-database, because the file system was read-only. I wish I had made a note of the message immediately, so I could have been more specific. Instead I gave it another go from the start, and now everything installed fine. One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me... Two problems are left: - video: I have a two-monitor setup, on a simple Radeon HD6450-based card. Bios messages and grub-menu appear on both screens, but KDE only appears on one. When I first tried to activate the second screen by kde's system settings, I got a totally messed up second screen. But after a restart of KDE the second screen came up automagically... So far so good, but now I have re*booted*, the screen which I had designated as the first is totally messed up: a pattern of blue/white vertical lines, an the top there is about 1 mm which seems like the border of a window or something, and where one can see a tiny part of the mouse cursor moving. No task bar visible, so I'm rather in the dark, sometimes able to grasp a window from the first screen and pulling it to the second, where it is visible. krunner also lets me start programs which are visible on the second screen. - sound: I have a dedicated sound card (a Xonar Essence STX), which is seen by yast, kde-system settings and kmixer. I have set it up as default in yast, and as preferred hardware in kmixer. Test sounds and notification sounds come trough fine, but music, be it from youtube through firefox, or with kaffeine is not audible. One can see the streams from firefox or kaffeine coming up in kmixer, though... All in all, my findings are mixed, and especially the video-problems renders the system rather unusable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On vrijdag 4 november 2011 22:24:30 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me...
I see this message only when I use a USB stick as the boot device, but it also indicates that the device it cannot partition is the USB stick/disc, called sdX, where X is a letter; in my case c or g. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Op 04-11-11 22:53, Freek de Kruijf schreef:
On vrijdag 4 november 2011 22:24:30 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me... I see this message only when I use a USB stick as the boot device, but it also indicates that the device it cannot partition is the USB stick/disc, called sdX, where X is a letter; in my case c or g.
In my case it's just a plain hard disk, which has always been in use for experimental version of opensuse. Often installed on, never had this message or a problem with it... regards, Jogchum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2011/11/4 Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf@gmail.com>:
On vrijdag 4 november 2011 22:24:30 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me...
I see this message only when I use a USB stick as the boot device, but it also indicates that the device it cannot partition is the USB stick/disc, called sdX, where X is a letter; in my case c or g.
I did went through something like that, but re-writting the image to the stick fixed the problem and when I rebooted again the partition table was there editable.
-- fr.gr.
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On zaterdag 5 november 2011 05:12:05 you wrote:
2011/11/4 Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf@gmail.com>:
On vrijdag 4 november 2011 22:24:30 Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me...
I see this message only when I use a USB stick as the boot device, but it also indicates that the device it cannot partition is the USB stick/disc, called sdX, where X is a letter; in my case c or g.
I did went through something like that, but re-writting the image to the stick fixed the problem and when I rebooted again the partition table was there editable.
This was a USB stick with openSUSE KDE Live on it, so the first partition is an iso9660 partition. Immediate after booting such a system, it is writing a second partition on the remaining part of the stick which gets the label hybrid and which is ext3 formatted. Later in the process of installation before doing the partitioning, this message about being not able to repartition that device appears. However there is a serious problem after that. First it takes an awful amount of time before the KDE user screen is ready for use. Clicking the install button froze the system and only a power off regained control. After that first booting the USB stick fails, right at the moment in the first boot the hybrid partition was created the boot process does not advance anymore. So only rewriting the Live CD image to the USB stick makes it bootable again, but only for one boot. Later I tried the KDE Live in a virtual machine and could not use the Live system. After some time the system hangs. Contrary to booting from the USB getting a responsive KDE screen did not take that much time. However working in that screen gives the above mentioned result. I was only able to use the KDE Live CD to generate a system using the Installation entry in the boot menu of the Live CD. This was in a VM. Did not try it on a real system. So there are still serious problems with the KDE Live CD image. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Op 04-11-11 22:24, Jogchum Reitsma schreef:
Hi all,
I had some strange experiences, and two problems left with 12.1RC2.
I installed it as a new install, formatting / and /boot , but with an existing and populated /home partition.
On first install, it got till some 80% of all packages, and from then complained not being able to lock the rpm-database, because the file system was read-only. I wish I had made a note of the message immediately, so I could have been more specific. Instead I gave it another go from the start, and now everything installed fine.
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me...
Two problems are left:
- video: I have a two-monitor setup, on a simple Radeon HD6450-based card. Bios messages and grub-menu appear on both screens, but KDE only appears on one. When I first tried to activate the second screen by kde's system settings, I got a totally messed up second screen. But after a restart of KDE the second screen came up automagically... So far so good, but now I have re*booted*, the screen which I had designated as the first is totally messed up: a pattern of blue/white vertical lines, an the top there is about 1 mm which seems like the border of a window or something, and where one can see a tiny part of the mouse cursor moving. No task bar visible, so I'm rather in the dark, sometimes able to grasp a window from the first screen and pulling it to the second, where it is visible. krunner also lets me start programs which are visible on the second screen.
- sound: I have a dedicated sound card (a Xonar Essence STX), which is seen by yast, kde-system settings and kmixer. I have set it up as default in yast, and as preferred hardware in kmixer. Test sounds and notification sounds come trough fine, but music, be it from youtube through firefox, or with kaffeine is not audible. One can see the streams from firefox or kaffeine coming up in kmixer, though...
All in all, my findings are mixed, and especially the video-problems renders the system rather unusable.
Update: I managed to start systemsettings again. Without more success, but I started it from the console, and there the message X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Extension: 149 (RANDR) Minor opcode: 7 (RRSetScreenSize) Resource id: 0x163 appeared. Gives a clue maybe? Jogchum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
Op 04-11-11 22:24, Jogchum Reitsma schreef:
Hi all,
I had some strange experiences, and two problems left with 12.1RC2.
I installed it as a new install, formatting / and /boot , but with an existing and populated /home partition.
On first install, it got till some 80% of all packages, and from then complained not being able to lock the rpm-database, because the file system was read-only. I wish I had made a note of the message immediately, so I could have been more specific. Instead I gave it another go from the start, and now everything installed fine.
One peculiarity: in both occasions there was a message that parted couldn't read the partition table of the disk to be installed upon, and hence wouldn't be able to repartition the disk. That wasn't needed, so no big deal in my case, but it seems strange to me...
Two problems are left:
- video: I have a two-monitor setup, on a simple Radeon HD6450-based card. Bios messages and grub-menu appear on both screens, but KDE only appears on one. When I first tried to activate the second screen by kde's system settings, I got a totally messed up second screen. But after a restart of KDE the second screen came up automagically... So far so good, but now I have re*booted*, the screen which I had designated as the first is totally messed up: a pattern of blue/white vertical lines, an the top there is about 1 mm which seems like the border of a window or something, and where one can see a tiny part of the mouse cursor moving. No task bar visible, so I'm rather in the dark, sometimes able to grasp a window from the first screen and pulling it to the second, where it is visible. krunner also lets me start programs which are visible on the second screen.
- sound: I have a dedicated sound card (a Xonar Essence STX), which is seen by yast, kde-system settings and kmixer. I have set it up as default in yast, and as preferred hardware in kmixer. Test sounds and notification sounds come trough fine, but music, be it from youtube through firefox, or with kaffeine is not audible. One can see the streams from firefox or kaffeine coming up in kmixer, though...
All in all, my findings are mixed, and especially the video-problems renders the system rather unusable.
Update: I managed to start systemsettings again. Without more success, but I started it from the console, and there the message
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Extension: 149 (RANDR) Minor opcode: 7 (RRSetScreenSize) Resource id: 0x163
appeared. Gives a clue maybe? Update 2: I got sound back!When I went just another time to the settings of kmixer, opened Geluidsinstellingen (~ sound settings) in the (Dutch)
Op 04-11-11 23:03, Jogchum Reitsma schreef: menu, and then the first tab: Apparaatvoorkeur (~ Preferred device), now I didn't see the three hardware sound devices in my system, as I saw before, but only the PulseAudio sound server. On the second tab, "Geluidsinstellingen van de hardware" (~ Sound settings from the hardware) I set the internal and the hdmi output to Off, and voilà! there the sound (Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, very beautiful!) entered the room. One has to dig deep, but it's there... Video is still distressing, though. regards, Jogchum
Jogchum
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