Release Candidate 2 is now available
Index of /distribution/12.1-RC2/iso
Well, we got it installed… with some hassle. The first download from Utah.edu took over 4 hours and after disc creation it didn’t work. It died at the splash screen after the first selections. Another was obtained from another site symnds.com took over an hour and it worked.
During the install we had a problem. It got to the re-boot section and died on the WLAN check. I’m sorry I don’t remember all the details but a Power Off Reset was required. (gota get me a Reset Button) Anyway, after the power back on it finished the install and booted up the system. At this first sign-on we could not get connected to the Internet. Another here in the Forum had the same problem and we did the same fix. Re-booted and it worked.
Got the nVidia 285.05.09 installed and working… with a catch. Needs nomodeset and you must edit the kwinrc file inside:
.kde4/share/config
Need to add -or- change Enabled=true to Enabled=false under the section Composting. Found this out from our Arch Linux friends in a Net search.
Next was/is VMware Workstation. Got it working with the patches that are specified for this newer Linux. Information is on my WebSite at: SuSE 12.1
That’s all for now… have fun,
Chuck
This is quite possibly the worst release of OpenSuSE EVER. For the first time in my near decade of using OpenSuSE I experience lockups and crashes worse than Windows Vista ever gave anyone. I have filed numerous bug reports.
THIS RELEASE NEEDS TO BE DELAYED BY AT LEAST TWO MONTHS!
The installation doesn’t install a “default” JRE and doesn’t prompt the user to choose one, yet it forgets ahead installing LibreOffice which spits out all kinds of nasty messages about needing a JRE during each startup.
In order to save a Whopping 16K of RAM, the LP services aren’t installed, so only a technical geek can get PP printer running.
The KDE login screen eats the first password you enter, no matter what.
When installing multiple fonts at one time, if you hit enter after entering your root password instead of using the mouse to click the OK button, you will crash after the 6th font. Yes, you will have to enter the password multiple times because that little “remember” checkbox is completely ignored.
Evolution under KDE doesn’t automatically install its data server as a dependency which is fine because it is also missing roughly half its button icons.
QtCreator is missing yet there “appears” to be a qt4 development toolset package.
The Qt dependencies are completely hosed. After installation of the development environment, TEA built and installed, but refused to run. After installing many other libraries for many other things, including a JRE, TEA built, installed, and ran.
IBM Lotus Symphony 3 will finally install. When you run it the first time you do get the terminal window to accept the license. Under 12.1 that is all you will ever see of Lotus Symphony though.
UltraEdit will not install.
The list goes on and on. This has been a HORRID beta.
RELEASE NEEDS TO BE DELAYED TWO (2) MONTHS to give the developers time to sweep this catastrophe up.
Strange
I’m finding RC2 running very smoothly.
On 11/06/2011 03:26 PM, seasoned geek wrote:
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> caf4926;2400285 Wrote:
>> Release Candidate 2 is now available
>> ‘Index of /distribution/12.1-RC2/iso’
>> (http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1-RC2/iso/)
>
> This is quite possibly the worst release of OpenSuSE EVER. For the
> first time in my near decade of using OpenSuSE I experience lockups and
> crashes worse than Windows Vista ever gave anyone. I have filed
> numerous bug reports.
>
> THIS RELEASE NEEDS TO BE DELAYED BY AT LEAST TWO MONTHS!
>
> The installation doesn’t install a “default” JRE and doesn’t prompt the
> user to choose one, yet it forgets ahead installing LibreOffice which
> spits out all kinds of nasty messages about needing a JRE during each
> startup.
>
> In order to save a Whopping 16K of RAM, the LP services aren’t
> installed, so only a technical geek can get PP printer running.
>
> The KDE login screen eats the first password you enter, no matter what.
>
> When installing multiple fonts at one time, if you hit enter after
> entering your root password instead of using the mouse to click the OK
> button, you will crash after the 6th font. Yes, you will have to enter
> the password multiple times because that little “remember” checkbox is
> completely ignored.
>
> Evolution under KDE doesn’t automatically install its data server as a
> dependency which is fine because it is also missing roughly half its
> button icons.
>
> QtCreator is missing yet there “appears” to be a qt4 development
> toolset package.
>
> The Qt dependencies are completely hosed. After installation of the
> development environment, TEA built and installed, but refused to run.
> After installing many other libraries for many other things, including a
> JRE, TEA built, installed, and ran.
>
> IBM Lotus Symphony 3 will finally install. When you run it the first
> time you do get the terminal window to accept the license. Under 12.1
> that is all you will ever see of Lotus Symphony though.
>
> UltraEdit will not install.
>
> The list goes on and on. This has been a HORRID beta.
>
> RELEASE NEEDS TO BE DELAYED TWO (2) MONTHS to give the developers time
> to sweep this catastrophe up.
I also find openSUSE 12.1 running smoothly.
WHERE ARE THE BUG REPORTS FOR THESE PROBLEMS?
On 2011-11-06 05:26, chucktr wrote:
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> Well, we got it installed… with some hassle. The first download from
> -Utah.edu- took over 4 hours and after disc creation it didn’t work.
> It died at the splash screen after the first selections. Another was
> obtained from another site -symnds.com- took over an hour and it
> worked.
Use aria2c to download from the metalink URL and forget.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
They are all filed
That’s not my experience. This is still a release candidate, so an occasional imperfection is to be expected.
I seem to have java installed. Possibly, you installed from a live CD, and what can be installed that way is limited by the capacity of a CD. I installed from the DVD, and did not have such a problem.
Yes, I have run into that problem. I’m not sure, but I think it is swallowing the first password character that I type. If I pause for a couple of seconds before entering the password, then all is well. I’m guessing that the login prompt is being displayed before Xorg is connected to the keyboard.
On 2011-11-07 14:36, seasoned geek wrote:
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> They are all filed
The question is how. Bugzillas?
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
swallowing the first password
Uh?
Not seeing this at all.
Be sure the HD isn’t thrashing. I notice it doing so and it delays type you enter, which could be your problem?
I am not seeing any thrashing.
I type in my password, hit enter. The password shows up marked in pink and there is one less character than I actually typed.
I am seeing this on two different machines. One of them is old, slow and 32 bit. The other is new, fast, 64 bit. It only happens for the first login attempt after boot. If I delay a few seconds before I type the password, then the problem does not occur.
On 06/11/11 21:26, caf4926 wrote:
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> Strange
> I’m finding RC2 running very smoothly.
>
Depends what you are doing.
(1) Gnucash RC2 version fails to start. There is an update that is more
functional but crashes following certain actions.
(2) Sound for Azalia doesn’t work with PulseAudio.
(3) Pan has a couple of faults: no spell-check, automatic resizing of panes.
(4) Installation often freezes on first reboot though works eventually;
luck seems to play a significant part here.
(5) openSUSE Firefox branding is broke but that dates back to Firefox 5
and so isn’t a specific 12.1 problem, though it’s a shame to see it
still malfunctioning.
All bar (4) are in bugzilla specifically. There are numerous bugs that
are similar to (4) but I don’t see an exact match.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 11.4 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nVidia driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
just want to say I upgraded from 11.4 x64 and it was pretty painless, of course ymmv
3 minor issues
- recoll preview and open links don’t work but right click menu provides the functionality (notified dev)
- gtk styles for gnome apps under kde not working (filed bug report)
- needed to recompile Amarok, I run git and for some reason an error popped (forgot what) but make clean then recompiling fixed it
I remembered reading somewhere that operations with Sun had changed. Unfortunately we don’t get personal notifications on the changes made -but- a little investigation will show some answers:
[opensuse-java] Focusing on OpenJDK - Sun/Oracle JDK will not be in 12.1](http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-java/2011-09/msg00000.html)
I too like the Logon Screen instead of Automagically logging in. Not very secure IF you just let anyone in. My personal complaint on the Login would be the change to just a single entity. I liked it better when you could click on the “other” login, get the name and then enter the password. As far as missing the “first” password entered … guess I am old and to slow to experience that. Password entry problems have not been seen here. Now that doesn’t mean you don’t have a problem -but- many have not. I have experienced other problems and others haven’t. Depends on the season and which side of my mouth I am holding my tongue on.
I don’t know that 2 Months is necessary -but- possibly a delay IF the next release, the GM, doesn’t have the install problems fixed. A clean install, IMHO, is very important. Almost more important than the other problems. After a clean install you can get updates for the other items. However, IF you can’t install it in the first place… for whatever reason, then updates are meaningless.
don’t like new login screen, liked previous version that displayed user names - this overrides the kde kcm login module which offers the option as to whether names were listed and which specific names were then listed, seems like a very Gnome’ish thing to do.
in kde switching users is kludgey, switching back to original user takes long and the session is not correct - plasma does not seem to be running correctly (panels not showing) resolved by killing then restarting plasma-desktop (and maybe running kwin --replace)
Hello everybody,
I just want to tell you that I found untranslated things in french on that 12.1 RC2 version (DVD):
- Welcome to OpenSuse title in one of the installation screen.
- Administration or Administrator settings title (as root) in a Window when you want to launched Yast (for example).
- Online accounts (choice) is not in french (upper right corner with name of the user).
Thanks.
On 2011-11-07 23:36, Pierre4 wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I just want to tell you that I found untranslated things in french on
> that 12.1 RC2 version (DVD):
You have to report this in Bugzilla.
It helps if you can write the exact sentences in English as they are
displayed (or a photo).
There are two possible causes: that the translation was incomplete, or that
the packagers did not include it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
KDE live cd x86-64 boots and looks good on Toshiba nb except no thermal control and thus overheats. Disappointing as rc 1 worked perfectly.
If I leave my desktop PC alone for 10 minutes, the screen gets turned off. It’s not the screen saver and all the options in power management profiles are unticked/greyed out. So I don’t know what’s doing it. Very annoying. Anyone else seen the same problem?
Perhaps IF you have an LCD or LED monitor it is timing out on its own. My Sony monitor blacks out after 10 minutes of no activity. Changing your settings in SuSE will be of no help. There are ways to prevent the monitor from doing this -but- I would recommend that you leave it as it is … IF that is the result of further analysis.
Take care,
Chuck