First, let me just say that I really like openSuse, yast, and your KDE implementation. That’s why I’m running it.
However, I’m pretty disappointed by this release’s polish.
I’ve upgraded 4 systems, and run into (different) issues with all of them:
- New install of 13.1
- Fairly minor issue of encrypted LVM no longer showing a gui prompt, but drops a user into the boot text to enter the passphrase
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851767
- Fairly minor issue of encrypted LVM no longer showing a gui prompt, but drops a user into the boot text to enter the passphrase
- Upgrade from 12.3 -> 13.1 in a virtualbox vm
- System got stuck in a loop trying to start X
- Had to boot into rescue dvd and install updates, after which it booted successfully
- Upgrade from 12.3 -> 13.1 on a laptop (encrypted LVM)
- grub didn’t work after boot with this error:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846317 - I needed to boot to rescue and recreate grub.cfg and reinstall grub on the drive
- 13.1 rescue disk did not have a writable /dev, so I needed to do this with a 12.3 rescue disk…
- grub didn’t work after boot with this error:
- Upgrade from 12.3 -> 13.1 in a vmware vm
- After boot my network device changed from eth0 to ent0. That’s fine by itself, but none of the configuration was updated along with it. Since the MAC didn’t change, it was pretty confused. I needed to manually mess with the /etc/sysconfig network scripts, then complete the config with yast.
Overall not a great experience with the upgrade. I’m going to stick with openSuse though, but I hope you guys focus more on functional releases in the future. I haven’t had this much trouble with previous upgrades ever.
{burlesque smiley}