I note there is a 2.6.27.23 kernel released for openSUSE-11.1. A user in another thread reported a sound problem, and I noted their kernel version was different than what I had expected. Upon checking the repositories I noted the new kernel out.
My plan is to wait a few days before updating, to ensure I have all the appropriate drivers in place. Sometimes updating a kernel can break:
graphics driver
wireless driver
sound driver
web cam driver
virtual box
any driver that has been custom compiled against the current kernel
So a general caution out to all openSUSE users. Be prepared best you can for problems …
Note this is a linux wide problem, and all distributions get impacted in such a way by kernel updates.
After installation of this kernel update I was unable to reboot to my desktop. This required a restore of a backup OS image. I’ll wait for an update fix before trying again.
graphics driver: ask it to be packaged in X11:Drivers:Video
wireless driver: ask it to be packaged in driver:wireless
sound driver: it is available out of the box, in the alsa package from multimedia:audio:KMP or isn’t available at all.
web cam driver: ask it to be packaged in drivers:webcam
virtual box: if you don’t need the commercial version features, use the OSE version from the main distro or Virtualization:VirtualBox
I don’t think it makes any sense to compile a driver nowadays. The ones with license problems are provided by third parties, the others can be packaged in the OBS… just ask it.
It could be this kernel update broke your graphic driver. [ie existing driver built exclusively against older kernel]. Are you using a proprietary ATI or nVidia graphic driver?
Kernel and PulseAudio updates applied to 11.1. When it updated Grub, it dropped the vga= parameter (again) from the updated menu.lst, but it’s easily edited back. I will also have to rerun VirtualBox setup to recompile its kernel module.
No problems so far but when I reboot, kmix has the master sound muted. This wasn’t the case before the update. That’s now the same on 11.2 milestone1/2. They must have changed a default parameter somewhere in both cases. :\
I was able to install the kernel update with no problems with the graphics drivers or anything else. I keep a couple of NVIDIA repositories in order to update in a timely fashion.
However, I notice that 2.26.29 is available in other distros? Why is SUSE lagging?
NOT the finest update ever. I had had a stable system, but now I’ve no sound, alsa claims no sound card, kmix wion’t load (sometimes crashes during load, sometime ignores the command from Konsole and does nothing), knetworkmanager only starts manually now, compositing is crashing again (arghh, that one had me stumped for months, and I just got it fixed last week) Perhaps someone didn’t bother to do any testing???
Is it possible to just roll back the kernel update? I’m on the road for ten more days and have no access to my backups 'til I return home. In the mean time no sound = wife can’t see & hear grandkids = not good for me.
(I know, I should have waited. I usually wait two weeks or more after a kernel udate comes out, but I got careless, ouch)
last time when I updated kernel, I faced a lot of issues with graphics, sound and webcam driver. So this time I am gonna wait… need to take a backup first…
Without the experience of you guys, I fell victim, I’m afraid. The system will not now boot (Invalid root filesystem) and does not seem to get far into the boot process. I have up to now always installed security upgrades immediately without problems. /home is backed up, up to previous night, with a few changes during the day. I’d rather not do a complete reinstall, but state of knowledge is not sufficient to avoid without help.
I have 11.1 x86_64, nVidia 9400, separate RAID1 partitions for /home, /boot, /var, /usr, /tmp, /. Any help would be greatly appreciated, otherwise lesson learned - do an image backup before kernel update.
oldcpu adjusted his/her AFDB on Tuesday 09 Jun 2009 21:46 to write:
>
> I note there is a 2.6.27.23 kernel released for openSUSE-11.1. A user
> in another thread reported a sound problem, and I noted their kernel
> version was different than what I had expected. Upon checking the
> repositories I noted the new kernel out.
>
> My plan is to wait a few days before updating, to ensure I have all the
> appropriate drivers in place. Sometimes updating a kernel can break:
> - graphics driver
> - wireless driver
> - sound driver
> - web cam driver
> - virtual box
> - any driver that has been custom compiled against the current
> kernel
> So a general caution out to all openSUSE users. Be prepared best you
> can for problems …
>
> Note this is a linux wide problem, and all distributions get impacted
> in such a way by kernel updates.
>
>
For anyone that has major probs with this kernel then just get into runlevel
3 as root and issue:
mkinitrd
it looks like the install script does not create a new ramdisk with certain
drivers on so a lot of the hardware is not using the new modules.
the above command will include the newer modules.
As for graphics then you will have to re-install Nvidias, ATIs for the
newer kernel.
