October 2011 - openSUSE Testing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

12.1 repos
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, talked to coolo today and he wants the 12.1 repo to be available after Friday under the final URL http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ so that it can get more public testing before RC2 and between releases. Since 12.1 is already branched from Factory, there will only be bugfixes going into it. Switched openQA.o.o to test 12.1 now instead of Factory. Be sure to file all Bad Bugs (tm) in bugzilla or there is little chance for it to be noticed by the people who could fix them. Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6obwUACgkQSTYLOx37oWSt2ACg1hJICZLkG2JRQTK7yScsnMT3 b04An2dM7qC3ODn8y5Q3q75RIEKs7beU =YsoH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting 2011-10-25 17:00 UTC
by Holger Sickenberg 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, the 38th openSUSE Testing Core Team IRC Meeting will be on: Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 at 17:00:00 UTC Please use the following link to find out what that means in your local timezone http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=25&year=2… We will meet in the Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network. irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing Please post your topics on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Testing_meeting Best wishes, Holgi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAk6lJS0ACgkQ539IWoEy06VC8gCeI+BvxfVkGkjBu57kye2rE6cb BjAAni2NH2wZSsI/RAT9modTSlxxW74F =kUCm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Updating from Beta 1 to RC 1 non-trivial
by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

I'm probably not the first one to run into this, but I thought I'd post a warning anyhow. Yesterday I was running 12.1 Beta 1 and did a "zypper update" on my laptop from the GNOME desktop. It managed to retrieve all the packages, but during the install, the wireless crashed, and then the X server crashed. There was no way to get back, and I ended up re-installing. So ... if you decide to update in place, do it on a wired connection from a console (init 3). -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Problem with systemd and NFS mounts with no "system" connection
by Larry Finger 14 Oct '11

14 Oct '11

Hi, For some time, I have had a problem that booting with systemd enabled never completed. I had not had a chance to debug that issue until today, when I was forced to do it. After a 'zypper up' on October 13, I was no longer able to select SystemV using either "init=/sbin/init" in the GRUB options line, nor with F5. GRUB seems to do the right thing but the console log indicates that systemd is running. From a Fedora article on debugging systemd, I discovered the boot commands to enable a log level of "debug". From that, I could see that the NFS mounts were failing. The problem is as follows: My network connection uses wireless with NetworkManager and the KDE plasmoid applet, thus no connection is made until a user has logged in. However, systemd will not proceed until the NFS volumes are mounted, and there is an impasse. I allowed the system to sit for nearly 2 hours, and it never finished booting. The patch to /etc/init.d/nfs shown below is a workaround. It places the NFS mount in the background so that it is completed when the network is up, but booting can continue. Index: etc/init.d/nfs =================================================================== --- etc.orig/init.d/nfs +++ etc/init.d/nfs @@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ case "$1-$nfs" in # of them. So always 'settle' if there is any mounting to do. echo -n "Mounting network file systems ..." udevadm settle - mount -at nfs,nfs4 || rc_failed 1 + sleep 2 && mount -at nfs,nfs4 & + sleep 2 rc_status -v fi # My change might not work when some of the system's files are contained on NFS volumes. I have no way to test, but the patch does make my system usable again. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Issue installing VMware Workstation 8 on openSUSE 12.1 Beta 1
by M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

I have a machine running openSUSE 12.1 Beta 1: Linux DreamCatcher.site 3.1.0-rc7-3-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 28 14:41:36 UTC 2011 (50fb02f) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I haven't tried older versions of VMware Workstation, but VMware Workstation 8 (8.0.0-471780.x86_64) is definitely not installing out of the box. The "vmnet" module does not compile. Fortunately there is a patch / workaround, which I found on via VMware and Arch Linux sites: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1842875 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware This script worked: $ cd /tmp $ wget http://88.191.137.189/vmware3.1rc.sh $ chmod +x vmware3.1rc.sh # ./vmware3.1rc.sh -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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testing meeting 2011-10-10
by Bernhard M. Wiedemann 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as no participants with time to attend appeared for our testing meeting, I just email things here. First topic was the experience with our 12.1-Beta On 10/10/2011 06:05 AM, Larry Finger wrote: > Sorry, but something has come up that will prevent me from being > available for tomorrow's meeting. > > For entry into the log, my experiences with 12.1 Beta 1 are as > follows: > > I have installed on 3 real machines (2 x86-64 and one i686) and one > 32-bit VirtualBox VM. All instances are updated every 2-3 days with > 'zypper up' with Factory repos enabled. For the most part, > everything I need for my normal operations is functional. > > The main exception is a failure in systemd for my main 64-bit > laptop. It failed in MS6, worked for a while with Beta1, and then > started failing again. The symptom is that it hangs in the middle > and never completes. I need to enable debugging to see what fails. > Systemd is fine for the other instances. > > I still have the complaint that the KDE plasmoid network manager > applet asks for the system password too often, but otherwise it is > functioning. > > I still have problems with the nouveau driver for my main laptop, > but it works on a desktop with nVidia graphics. I have two machines running Factory full time and a third installed with it. Most things just work. There were several reports about problems with fresh installs of 12.1-Beta that were attributed to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720571 I also noticed black tooltips in LibreOffice on KDE that did not appear in icewm or gnome. Will file a bug. openQA currently shows random problems when rebooting into the installed system or rebooting later (hangs when shutting down network). Overall, results should get clearer during the next days. You may add your own experiences by responding to this thread. Second topic was Beta Pizza Party planning. There is one party scheduled to happen in Nuremberg in SUSE headquarters and all 12.1-Beta or Factory users are invited to join in. You find details on time and place on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:BetaPizzaPartyNBGAttendees If you plan on joining the event, please add yourself to the list. People are encouraged to organize their own pizza party in their area and add details to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:BetaPizzaParty Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6TOrMACgkQSTYLOx37oWS72QCg+OKNbcSHYLGlyaZUCQA9/NE0 I1gAnR5zOTQYrM+WyjPvX0BKpX99fYff =W7UJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Weekly News for October 8
by Larry Finger 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

The next meeting of the Testing Core Team will be October 10, 2011 at 17:00 UTC on Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing). Our preliminary agenda includes our experiences with 12.1 Beta, and a discussion of the Beta Pizza Party. The Beta 1 release of 12.1 was released approximately one week ago and has been getting quite a bit of testing. On my systems, I have been doing updates from the Factory repos nearly every day. Most things are working without problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-testing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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