2015-11-16 10:55 keltezéssel, Basil Chupin írta:
On 16/11/15 02:29, Albert Oszkó wrote:
Hi all,
As I mentioned a week or so ago, I installed Leap/KDE on Lenovo G505. I could hardly wait Leap, because I had to make too much compromise with 13.2, so I hoped things can only get better. Well, they did not. The installation went flawlessly, but then I tried to use the machine, and there were several severe problems. Not with the look of the desktop, it is mainly a matter of taste - but I admit it can also has an effect on usage. The nerve-cracking behavior of KWallet can somehow be tamed. But the continuous crashes of LibreOffice was showstopping. I uninstalled, the installed 5.0.3 - get the same crash. Looks like starting Writer, Calc, etc made the system log out. The common start menu of Libre worked, but the individual parts did not. Finally I reinstalled Leap. The Libre complained that somebody (that is me) from the previous installation edited something. So I deleted libreoffice from /home/.local. I removed my earlier persona, but did not remove crashes. So I considered giving a try to Linux Mint 17.2 with MATE. Could not install it. ( I disabled UEFI and Secure boot). Ubuntu 15.04 installed like a charm and upgraded to 15.10 - with kernel 4.2. I did not like it, could not import my client.ovpn file, and found ridiculous that it has no scanner support per se. So I installed Kubuntu 15.10 - and all things work. I got used to Suse - started with 9.1, and want to go back after changing this laptop. The reason I wrote this long text is that I am absolutely lost in the reasons of crashes. Nobody tells Libre5 crashes on Leap - neither on the libreoffice list. So I thought the mistake is on my side. And yet, *buntus with 4.2 kernel work. Do you have an idea what is wrong with this Leap install?
Please let me share a final thought in a different topic. I am eager what Suse guys think of the future of this distro. I mean Leap came out only in 64 bit version. I think there are thousands of elder 32 bit machines still working. The other day I met one not accepting even 13.2 with ext4 filesystems. They will look after another distro when they want some more recent system.
Best regards, Albert
The one theme which I can see running thru your post above is that the only distros which worked for you were those you installed from 'scratch'. While your opening statement that you installed Leap/KDE on Lenovo G505 does NOT indicate that it was installed as a new, clean install and I therefore come to the conclusion that you did a zypper dup to get Leap/KDE - but I may be wrong.
I, personally, NEVER, upgrade to a newer release by using zypper dup (well, I did once, many years ago but learnt to never do it again).
Talk again when you have installed Leap 42 as a new installation from a newly burnt ISO, OK?
BTW, LibreOffice works fine in Leap, and so does Wallet (which I at first hated the sight of but now see that it is of some use).
BC
Just like you, I made zypper dup a few years ago, with catastrophic result. Since then I always make a clean install from DVD, and lately from USB stick. Albert