Leap 42.2 Beta2 was released today. This thread is for discussion.
I’ll post my comments in a reply.
Download went smoothly.
Install went smoothly.
The first problem was on the first boot after install, where it went into emergency mode. This is related to using an encrypted LVM. I’ve had the same problem with Beta1 and some of the Alpha releases. My workaround was to edit “/etc/lvm/lvm.conf” and set “use_lvmetad = 0” (the installed setting is “1”). After that, it boot fine.
Plasma 5 is at 5.7.95, which is a beta release of 5.8. Thus far, it is looking pretty good. With Beta1 and earlier, the plasmashell seemed to crash during logout. I am not seeing that problem with 5.7.95. So looking good at present.
Yep! Just zypper dup’ed my main Gnome install, so far so good.
Maybe I’ll update the KDE test install in a VM in the weekend.
Hi
I ran zypper dup as well, no issues to date.
OrsoBruno wrote:
> Yep! Just zypper dup’ed my main Gnome install, so far so good.
> Maybe I’ll update the KDE test install in a VM in the weekend.
I made clean KDE install from USB stick to hard disk. During installation
I selected Finnish keyboard layout. In installed system keyboard layout
was US-English. In installed system Yast keyboard layout selection did not
worked.
I noticed that in VirtualBox upradet 42.1 to 42.2 system keyboard layout
selection was OK. In yast keyboard selection to US-English worked, but
not back to Finnish keyboard layout.
Then I installed 42.1 to hard disk and upgraded to 42.2.
Finnish keyboard layout was OK.
Did no try change it. 
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Viljo
I have a seg fault when trying to start ncurses Yast2 in Konsole. GUI yaST is fine
This was not a clepackman.an install, but an upgrade from a working 42.2 Beta with Tumbleweed KDE/Plasma and retaining the Kernel and Broadcom wireless drivers from Tumbleweed and Packman. So the problem could be entirely of my own making. Everything else seems good so far.
I just did an update using the iso on a USB stick from beta1 on my Intel I7 laptop. All seems to have gone well so far. Only comment I’d make is that it seems a shame that digikam is still at V4.14 when V5.1 is out and V5.2 is imminent. Otherwise from very basic testing so far no problems to report.
Stuart
Hi, I did two beta1 clean bare metal installs with Italian layout with no problems (one now upgraded to beta2).
Out of curiosity I tried adding the Finnish layout:
- adding through the Gnome settings panel worked (dropdown to select layout, Finnish working when selected);
- changing System KBD Layout in Yast apparently didn’t work in the Yast “Check layout” box, but Finnish was working on VT1:VT6 consoles after reboot.
I also noticed that often, specially with Tumbleweed LiveDVDs, the layout chosen at the GRUB screen doesn’t stick, while the install layout chosen at the first installer page (AKA “License page”) worked for me so far.
I think it’s worth a bug report, but maybe you have to double-check what you really did.
(Strange enough, I thought that Linus hard-coded the Finnish layout in the kernel rotfl! )
Because i stuck to nvidia closed driver…
Is it safe to use beta 2 with the closed driver from here?
Then i can also test 42.2 out
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.2/x86_64
Can’t see atm if the repo is already up to date for beta2
Safe? We’re still testing. Do not use 42.2 as a production system or for a system you otherwise depend on.
Personal experience?
- Upgrade 42.2 beta1 -> beta2: boring.
- Clean install 42.2 with KDE: ditto boring. Indeed the lag when loggin out / rebooting seems to have gone.
Overall smooth, very smooth
I installed Beta2 on a second computer. This one has Nvidia 6150LE graphics. I’m using “nouveau” graphics driver.
Plasma 5.7.95 does not like that at all. Plasma shell crashed then restarts in a loop.
So I abort the session (with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE), and try a different desktop (FVWM). There, I see that the load average is very high. That turns out to be due to coredumps being taken for the crashed plasma shell processes. I wait those out. After they have finished, the system becomes usable (but remember that this is in FVWM, not plasma 5).
Gnome and XFCE both seem okay with “nouveau”. But Plasma 5 does not like it at all. I’ll note that it actually worked in Beta1 (that is, plasma 5 + nouveau worked okay on the same computer).
The packages there still mention k4.4.19 and are timestamped Sept. 12 so no, they haven’t been updated to beta2 yet.
But I’m using bumblebee+nvidia with no problems, so at least installing nvidia “the hard way” should work!
And since kernel 4.4.21 didn’t change the ABI, the drivers from that repo might work as well…
You were apparently bitten by bug 1000565 – Keyboard layout in installation ignored Leap 42.2 Beta 2
While testing I submitted bug 1000768 – YaST2-System Keyboard Layout: "Test" box shows Gnome layout not System layout 42.2 beta2 as well, which apparently affects YaST but not (necessarily) the installer.
Please feel free to join with your results…
OrsoBruno wrote:
>
> Hi, I did two beta1 clean bare metal installs with Italian layout with
> no problems (one now upgraded to beta2).
> Out of curiosity I tried adding the Finnish layout:
> 1) adding through the Gnome settings panel worked (dropdown to select
> layout, Finnish working when selected);
> 2) changing System KBD Layout in Yast apparently didn’t work in the Yast
> “Check layout” box, but Finnish was working on VT1:VT6 consoles after
> reboot.
>
> I also noticed that often, specially with Tumbleweed LiveDVDs, the
> layout chosen at the GRUB screen doesn’t stick, while the install layout
> chosen at the first installer page (AKA “License page”) worked for me so
> far.
> I think it’s worth a bug report, but maybe you have to double-check what
> you really did.
I made new fresh installation of 42.2 Beta2, and selected Finnish keyboard
layout at License page. Result was US-English layout. It can hanged in
virtual consoles with yast. But changes exist only virtual consoles
tty1 - tty6, not in KDE.
> (Strange enough, I thought that Linus hard-coded the Finnish layout in
> the kernel rotfl! )
Perhaps hi made error. 
–
Viljo
Hi
From the ML, update on the way for non-us keyboard users;
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2016-09/msg00398.html
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000565
Updated a KDE VM install overnight and, to my surprise, I was still greeted by Plasma5 desktop 5.7.3.
It turned out that “zypper dup” didn’t upgrade plasma5-desktop and related packages. Tried to update with the following result:
linux-0uwp:~ # zypper --no-refresh up
Loading repository data...
Warning: Repository 'openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Non-Oss' appears to be outdated. Consider using a different mirror or server.
Reading installed packages...
The following 9 package updates will NOT be installed:
plasma5-desktop plasma5-desktop-lang plasma5-session plasma5-workspace plasma5-workspace-branding-openSUSE plasma5-workspace-lang plasma5-workspace-libs powerdevil5
powerdevil5-lang
Nothing to do.
linux-0uwp:~ #
Apparently plasma5-desktop-branding-openSUSE 13.3-6.1 conflicted in some way and was not removed by zypper dup.
I had to “Update all packages” with YaST2-Software and solve the conflict by removing plasma5-desktop-branding-openSUSE.
Trying to manually uninstall the offending package asked for removing all the desktop related packages.
There should be an equivalent zypper command, but I’m lazy and it was too late at night to try out.
Just a warning, “upgrading from beta1” isn’t a legit scenario for a bug report AFAIK and maybe upgrading offline by DVD takes care of that.
When you see that in zypper that means newer packages are available but it requires a vendor change ie the packages are not in the repo the current packages were installed from but in a different one
Not in this case, all packages are from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/ and vendor openSUSE.
“zypper dup” just took the default conflict-resolution choice “Do not install xxx packages” and not the No.2 choice “Uninstall plasma5-desktop-branding-openSUSE”, which I chose in YaST2-Software.
Does anyone know who do I contact to request that the 42.2 Beta2 be put on the internode.on.net mirror in Australia? It has everything except the latest 42.2 beta. Thanks.