James Knott said the following on 12/15/2011 04:30 PM:
Do you use ifup for networking?
Damned if I know; I just installed Fedora-15 and it "Just Worked"
Run fetchmail?
If you read my postings here you'd know the answer ...
There was also the problem with network manager plasmoid that requires root password to create any WiFi connections. This wasn't a software error. It was an incredibly stupid design decision.
Indeed. There's a lot of that about!
I also have one computer that I have to boot through the install disc.
All that stuff about where the pre /boot boot stuff lives, MBR, which partition and how it all links together confuses me. My laptop will boot from a USB but only if you reconfigure the BIOS while the USB is there. You can't tell it try USB, then if that's not there or fails try CD/DVD, then if that's not there or fails try the hard drive regardless. And don't ask me how things get from grub to a working system under SystemD now I can't trace the scripts starting form the entry in /etc/inittab. And no, the docco isn't up t date on that.
Of the 3 computers I've installed 12.1 on, 2 of them have problems getting networking to run in systemd. The 3rd, is a notebook that uses network management plasmoid, instead of ifup, for networking. Get networking working reliably and also fetchmail to work at all in systemd, then we can talk about running a server etc. on it.
We definitely need a better logging of the boot and startup with SystemD. Try editing /etc/systemd/system.conf to turn it on :-)
I find it surprising that postfix wasn't working "out of the box".
I do too. But then I have a separate mail hub so mail capability on my workstation or laptop is a non issue. Design Decisions again. -- "Now look," Forrester said patiently, "progress is an outmoded idea. We've got to be in step with the times. We've got to ask ourselves what progress ever did for us." -- Randall Garett, "Pagan Passions", 1959 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org