Download for openSUSE 12.3 Milestone2 is now available

[Romanator]

Notice

The openSUSE Milestone 2 is now available for download. Link is right here.

[Cloddy]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:46:01 GMT
Romanator <Romanator@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Notice
>
> The openSUSE Milestone 2 is now available for download.
>

Downloaded the DVD (64-bit) and pleased to see the md5 checksum was OK
this time and that it also fitted onto a DVD.

Installed on a couple of machines - using DVD on this one and USB-stick
on UEFI machine. All seems OK - so far - apart from YAST (Software
Management) still giving error initializing repository "|" - a useful
message!

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3-M2 (64-bit); KDE 4.9.90; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

[nrickert]

Installed on a 64 bit system with DVD image on a USB.

Problems seen thus far:

Online updates (in yast) gives an error message about invalid meta data. "zypper patch" does the same, and suggests that the problem is with the update-nonoss repo. Disabling that removes the meta data message. However, there's another message that update repos are not yet configured.


In KDE, "Configure Desktop", I attempted to change settings for the login screen. I wanted to disable the user list. It told me that I did not have permission to save the changes. In previous version, I have been prompted for the root password at that stage.

[Cloddy]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:35:04 GMT
Graham P Davis <cloddy@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> Installed on a couple of machines - using DVD on this one and
> USB-stick on UEFI machine. All seems OK - so far - apart from YAST
> (Software Management) still giving error initializing repository "|"
> - a useful message!

Drat! Spoke too soon. LibreOffice is broken. Same fault I had after
updating to 3.6.3 (from 3.5.x) in 12.2. I got it working OK there and
assumed the fault had been fixed but, although versions seem the same,
it's back. The problem is in Calc, where graphs vanish when one clicks
on them. Not only does the graph go blank but right-clicking on them
shows there is no data.

OK, back to 12.2 to see whether it's still working or is also broken
there.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3-M2 (64-bit); KDE 4.9.90; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306

[lwfinger]

On 12/14/2012 02:56 PM, nrickert wrote:
>
> Installed on a 64 bit system with DVD image on a USB.
>
> Problems seen thus far:
>
> Online updates (in yast) gives an error message about invalid meta
> data. "zypper patch" does the same, and suggests that the problem is
> with the update-nonoss repo. Disabling that removes the meta data
> message. However, there's another message that update repos are not yet
> configured.

During the MS, Beta, and RC phase, the update repos are not available.

[Romanator]

The openSUSE greeter still points to openSUSE 11.3 and KDE 4.4.

I've submitted a bugzilla report for 12.1 and it's still outstanding in openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2.

[chucktr]

Ok. We brought this down, installed it and screwed up our System!! We have a three partition set up. Windows Media Center, openSuSE 12.2 and openSuSE 12.3. Well, the third one is supposed to be for 12.3. It was still setup as 12.2 from our 12.2 testing days. Anywho, we tried to do a "zypper dup" from our DVD copy. After we got the commands straight to do it from the drive, we fired it off. When it finished, it had over written our MBR.!! So, right off the bat we are NOT happy. Had to use SuperGrub2 to get ourselves straightened out. Try it, you'll like it.

We installed M2, as mentioned above, using zypper and then had to repair our system. We tried fixing it via the Yast controls but they did not. We searched the forums and found info from caf4926 discussions that eventually fixed our problem.


# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported.
After re-booting we found that it worked. We are not only back to our "normal" system, we also have the new openSuSE 12.3 as one of our selections in the initial boot. This Grub2 can be frustrating -but- it does have its rewards. Well this was unusual. As mentioned above, we "updated" a 12.2 version to 12.3 and to our surprize VMware is working!! nVidia didn't carry over cause we got that "Direct Rendering" message again -and- our display is shifted to the Left by about a 1/4 inch. However, as we experienced once before, the nouveau driver works better when it gets loaded by an Update -after- nVidia has been installed. We'll see IF the nVidia driver that we have will work with this verson of openSuSE.

Initially, we have the following System setup.

OS Information
OS: Linux 3.6.3-1-desktop x86_64
Current user: ctaylor@dusty-tr2.TRComputing
System: openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.9.90
Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: GeForce 7300 LE
2D driver: nv
3D driver: Unknown Gallium (9.0)

Ok now. we have the nVidia driver installed.

Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: GeForce 7300 LE
2D driver: nvidia
3D driver: NVIDIA 304.64

-And- copying the above Display Info from the Computer screen, and then pasting it in my
WebPage, presented some problems. The "fix" seemed to come -after- we exited the Computer
Display Screen.
So, things did not get moved over smoothly. However, at this point in time we have not had any Freezes. The nVidia driver requires "nomodeset". Otherwise you will have conflicts... well we did.

-Annnddd- the time is wrong. Don't know what was done in these last couple of openSuSE versions
-but- they don't set the time correctly on the initial install. Ok. We checked and the 'adjtime' file was there -but- it had 'UTC' on the last line instead of 'LOCAL'. We changed it but the time is still wrong. We will do our usual and re-boot to see what happens.
Ok. After re-boot we have the correct time.

That's all for now,

[crmrhm]

I did a fresh install of 12.3 milestone 2 on a ThinkPad X-41 - default KDE setup - from the DVD iso on a USB stick. The install went OK.

In getting samba to connect to the network, I went to the Yast firewall configuration tool, and got the following warning:



I have never seen this in a previous version, including 12.3 milestone 1. It is not mentioned in the release notes. If you press the continue button, Yast shows the firewall is not running.

What is this other firewall? I cannot find anything.

Thanks,
Howard

[crmrhm]

Never mind. After a reboot, the firewall is behaving properly, and samba is connecting.
Thanks,
Howard

[caf4926]

We installed M2, as mentioned above, using zypper and then had to repair our system. We tried fixing it via the Yast controls but they did not. We searched the forums and found info from caf4926 discussions that eventually fixed our problem.


# grub2-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported.
After re-booting we found that it worked. We are not only back to our "normal" system, we also have the new openSuSE 12.3 as one of our selections in the initial boot. This Grub2 can be frustrating -but- it does have its rewards. Well this was unusual. As mentioned above, we "updated" a 12.2 version to 12.3 and to our surprize VMware is working!! nVidia didn't carry over cause we got that "Direct Rendering" message again -and- our display is shifted to the Left by about a 1/4 inch. However, as we experienced once before, the nouveau driver works better when it gets loaded by an Update -after- nVidia has been installed. We'll see IF the nVidia driver that we have will work with this verson of openSuSE.

Did you go to the 'Booting' heading in the summary? I always tend to do that.

Let it be said though, I have no hesitation installing to the MBR (some folks have phobia about this)
And I tend to mark it up this way: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Grub2_Project/C1.png
So far, I never had trouble.