Hi Peter and all, I have been experiencing similar things and even didn't get any response so far when trying to get support from novell. I couldn't even start 2 of 3 systems with neither the CD or DVD. Well I didn't have the time to get into that yet. Maybe later. Regards Martin Peter Nixon wrote:
Hi Guys
Is it just me, or is SuSE 9.2 not quite fully cooked?
So far, SuSE 9.2 Pro has failed to upgrade (Yast2 cannot mount the root partition) 2 of the 4 systems I have attempted to upgrade (from 9.1 pro).
FreeRADIUS has a broken init script which causes it not do ANYTHING unless you delete 3 lines. Postgresql doesn't come on the CD set, only on the DVD. This is a major PITA for me as I install Postgres on 80% of the servers I setup, and so far I have NEVER seen a server with a DVD drive. Cyrus IMAP is broken. (An update fixes this though)
Many -devel packages are missing from the CD set that have the non -devel packages. This means that again the DVD is required.
So far I only have SuSE 9.2 on 6 machines, so I at this rate I am sure I will bump into other issues. (I have installed around 30 SuSE 9.1 systems in the last 6 months...)
Novell/SuSE, please take more care with 9.3 as this is NOT the level of quality I have come to expect from SuSE. I have been using SuSE Linux since version 6.0 and until now, every version has been better, more stable and with less bugs. Please don't reverse this!!!
On a positive note, some of the extra packages in 9.2 make life easier when roaming between networks with my notebook (the SCPM profile switched on the toolbar in particular). Having 64bit binaries on the DVD along with 32bit is also a nice touch. Our first test of SuSE 9.2 on Athlon64 went painlessly.
Asterisk, ifplugd, and a bunch of other nice/usefull/interesting packages are also nice inclusions that make SuSE 9.2 worth the purchase and won't be sending me to any competitors anytime soon, but the initial problems I have met so far were not a good first impression.
Regards