November 2010 - openSUSE Testing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Recent Automated testing failures
by Larry Finger 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Bernhard, I noticed today that your tests are failing on the latest set of NET install CDs. When I downloaded build 0899 for i586 and installed it on a VirtualBox VM, everything was OK. I'm not sure why it is failing under KVM. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Factory Build 0909
by Terje J. Hanssen 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

After a working Milestone 3 x86_64, my Gnome desktop was broken with 'zypper (d)up' to Factory since a week ago. No login menu, just a green filled background, neither autologin worked. Tried also Update Installations with Build 0854, 0908 and 0909 NET installations from DVD without change. At last I did a New installation with Build 0909 to-day, and finally Gnome desktop works again. Has other than me noticed these two details? 1. During 11.3 Gnome 2.30 the user name field on the login menu used to be selected (inverse video). This made it practical simple to bring up the password field directly just by typing 'Enter' before the password. Now during 11.4 Gnome 2.32 milestones the login menu's user field is not selected (inactive light grey), so that one has to use a mouse click first to get further to the password field. 2. After login to Gnome 2.32 now in Build 0909, a message pop up: 'Enter password to unclock your login keyring' (did not unlock during login) Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Weekly News for November 19
by Larry Finger 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

The next Testing Core Team IRC meeting to discuss 11.4 Milestone 4 will be held December 6 at 1800 UTC. The release of openSUSE 11.4 M4 has been delayed until Monday, November 29. The results of the automated testing implemented by Team member Bernhard Wiedermann indicated that Build 0906, which was a potential M4 candidate, was not suitable, but that Build 0908 would install without errors. Congratulations to Bernhard for his efforts. Trying to test a version that will not install is hardly the best way to encourage testing. I have just begun to test M4 myself. Thus far, the NET install CD was used to upgrade from M3, and to build new installations on both real and virtual machines. My special interest is wireless networking - no serious problems found yet. I hope the readers will test this version, and post bugs on the Novell Bugzilla. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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KDE Live CD (b890) installation report
by Javier Llorente 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi Factory-lovers :-) Today I have installed openSUSE Factory from the KDE Live CD (build 890). Regarding packages, I ended up with -de and -ru language packages although I didn't choose any of those and with kdepim in English only. Greetings, -- Javier Llorente

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troubles with lastest kernel 2.6.37-rc2
by Bruno Friedmann 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi testers, This morning after a zypper up, I've got the kernel 2.6.37-rc2 on my factory install. I found 3 majors troubles first I loose the fn+F8 key function ( which give me cloning screen ) which as work from years (I hit it on kdm, and the second screen become a clone of the primary lappy one) Otherwise running with nvidia 260.19.21 xorg & kwin use constantly ~26% of cpu. I don't have this under 2.6.26-18 : most of the time 5% to 18% (same X same programs, same effects) And the last one trying to rebuild vmware module give a segfault Nov 20 14:09:11 localhost kernel: [ 811.988428] vmware-modconfi[11423]: segfault at 7f750df24050 ip 00007f74ee16f118 sp 00007ffffa5771f8 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[7f74ee05b000+164000] Nov 20 14:09:37 localhost kernel: [ 838.270217] vmware-modconfi[11646]: segfault at 7fe3299ff050 ip 00007fe309c4a118 sp 00007fff66cc5818 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[7fe309b36000+164000] And at least but every time on the factory at start : 2.6.37 Nov 20 13:56:03 localhost kernel: [ 23.740767] hald-probe-inpu[1638]: segfault at 7ff8 ip 00007fe8901d1139 sp 00007fff548316b0 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[7fe890159000+164000] 2.6.36 Nov 20 15:31:10 localhost kernel: [ 39.102197] hald-probe-inpu[1798]: segfault at 7ff8 ip 00007f1d09945139 sp 00007fff966a2430 error 4 in libc-2.11.2.so[7f1d098cd000+164000] Last one ( of those damned non free but usefull software ) When I try to close acroread 9.4.1 from non-oss, it simply use 100% cpu and stay here until kill -9 last lines of an strace reveal that open("/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/GlobalPrefs/reader_prefs", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0600) = 15 stat64("/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/GlobalPrefs/reader_prefs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 getuid32() = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_END) = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_END) = 0 _llseek(15, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0 write(15, "<</FeatureLockdown [/c <<\t/Defau"..., 2509) = 2509 close(15) = 0 munmap(0xf3a32000, 7461572) = 0 starting it under root give same thing + those line ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/suse-do-not-grab-server.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/lib/suse-do-not-grab-server.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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creating a better Factory
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hi there is this problem, that Factory is sometimes broken but it would be nice if people had a safer way to test new software even between milestone-releases (which are manual factory-snaphots). via https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Tools I found something I wanted to have for openSUSE, too: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Israwhidebroken.com_Proposal I did s/rawhide/Factory/ s/chewtoy/Factory-tested/ and seeded this onto http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory-tested_Proposal It is about creating a snapshot of Factory whenever it passes all basic automated tests (aka critical path) - preferably with minimal human intervention (aka hard work) needed. I have much of the automated testing done, so what is missing is a way to trigger+do the snapshotting. Ciao Bernhard M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Linux on new hardware Asus Motherboards w/ AMD graphics?
by Terje J. Hanssen 21 Nov '10

21 Nov '10

Hi all, I'm close to a needed workstation hardware upgrade and consider the following two, new interesting budget motherboards from Asus. IMO this list contains some noticeable key features: Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3: AM3/X3, ATI Radeon HD 4250, SATA-600 (RAID)/eSATA-port, HDMI, Firewire Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3: AM3/X3, ATI Radeon HD 4290, SATA-600 (RAID)/eSATA-port, HDMI, Firewire The basic SUSE Linux compatibility looks ok according to one comment found in this post http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/hardware/437090-asus-mothe… What concern me is if the Linux drivers for the ATI graphics really are so bad that full HD video at 1920x1080p hardly is possible to decode and playback on the integrated 4250/4290? Any comments/experiences to this? Reference articles AMD Radeon HD 4290 On Linux http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_hd4290&num=1 AMD Radeon HD 4250 880G On Linux http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_hd4250&num=1 Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Weekly News for November 19
by Larry Finger 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

A Testing Core Team IRC meeting to discuss 11.4 Milestone 3 was held November 15. We first discussed the latest developments in automated testing of installation. If those system builds that will not install are detected early, then users will be spared the effort wasted in downloading a product that will not run. The goal is to minimize user frustration, and maximize user time spent in tests that cannot be done automatically. For example, the virtual machines used in the automatic testing have very limited hardware, thus a lot of drivers are not tested. Team member Bernhard Wiedemann, who developed these testing procedures, has been granted access to a server at openSUSE for this purpose. For anyone interested in the details of how the tests function, please see https://lwn.net/Articles/414413/. To see the squashing of bugs over time, see http://openqa.opensuse.org/cgi-bin/currentresults. The links in the left-hand columns show details of the testing. To see visually what Bernhard is testing, look at the movie. The meeting also discussed the handling of Bugzilla reports. The plan is to automate the scanning of the list to find those bugs that affect the pending release so that none of bugs found in testing are allowed to persist in the released version. Further discussion of bug handling will be reported here. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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Config file with the repository list
by Terje J. Hanssen 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Does the packagemanager (yast, zypper) save a config file somewhere that contains the repository list that can be edited as a text file? Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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GDM/Gnome login menu without password field
by Terje J. Hanssen 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

On one of two machines with 11.4 M3 x86_64 installed (now upgraded to Factory) with Gnome 2.32, I managed to get a GDM login menu that doesn't display the password field, just my user name. As a workaround to start I have edited sysconfig/displaymanager to allow autologin. Can this be solved without trying a new installation, i.e editing displaymanager somewhere? Terje J. Hanssen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help(a)opensuse.org

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