Have the install problems from rc 1 dvd been resolved?
I did an install from the rc 2 kde live CD today which went fine. Still a few hiccups:-
youtube crashes on launch using konqueror (using the default webkit). Same result if flash is installed or not. Switching to kthml cures the problem
kscd still crashes on launch
Overall first impressions - am impressed.
I have just finished installing from the DVD. This was a 32 bit install on 64 bit hardware. I’ll try a 64 bit install tomorrow.
It went very well.
Okay, it failed to boot on the reboot. But that was expected. I am suffering from bug 708214 on that system - namely, the desktop kernel does not load. This time around, software selection went fine during the DVD install. And I installed the default kernel in addition to the one chosen by the installer. Rebooting with the default kernel completed the installation.
It is looking pretty good to me. Most of the bugs that had concerned me, have now been fixed.
WiFi worked correctly, unlike with rc1. That’s because they included a lot more firmware with rc2.
I installed RC2 today and played around with it a bit. Overall, I have to say I’m impressed – I think 12.1 is a good successor to 11.4 which IMHO was an excellent, excellent release, and I talked several people into using (and they’re all quite happy with it)
I’m interested in the GNOME and KDE desktop environments mostly, and have been trying out different releases over the last few months to try and figure out which direction I’m going to go in – either continue as a GNOME user (under GNOME 3) or revert back to KDE 4.x, as I used to be an avid KDE user until 4.0 came out. (I just can’t get used to the UNITY desktop. I can see the vision, but it’s just not for me.) I’ve heard such bad things about GNOME 3, and had bad experiences with KDE 4.x over the last few years, I was seriously contemplating abandoning Linux on the desktop and buying a Mac (and I’ve been using Linux for a long, long time). 12.1 RC2 has really put any fears I had to rest; the choice I need to make now when moving from a gnome 2.x desktop won’t be “what distro will I choose”, but “will I run GNOME 3 or KDE 4.7 on OS 12.1?” (I figured that my choice was pretty cut and dry, based on what I had read, and I planned to move to KDE 4.x on SOMETHING, but the GNOME 3 environment on 12.1 on OS combined with the supurb implementation of KDE 4.7 offers up another quite viable choice).
Performance … one word. Snappy. First KDE release that hasn’t lagged on my hardware (nothing exotic, just a standard issue Dell laptop with standard parts in it). GNOME 3 flew. Boot was noticeably quicker than 11.4 for me.
Yep, I’m excited for 12.1.
The only thing that I’ve noticed so far is shutdown will sometimes hang on me … I notice this more when I’ve been using GNOME 3 than when I’ve been using KDE for some reason – just haven’t had the time to figure out what’s going on. Needless to say, I’ll be upgrading my spare laptop from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit to 12.1 when it’s released in a few weeks, with my main (work) laptop to follow soon thereafter.
Good job devs!
Just installed to Virtualbox from the 64-bit DVD with package changes, and it went smoothly. 
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:36:02 +0000, dth2 wrote:
> Have the install problems from rc 1 dvd been resolved?
No. Still locks up on faux reboot; glad I’ve got a reset button on this
machine.
Sound isn’t working for standard user but is OK when I logged on as root
to complete installation. On this machine, kmix in root is old-style and
I’ve previously been able to use that to correctly configure sound.
Haven’t yet tried disabling PulseAudio yet. Will also try setting up new
user to see if it has same trouble.
Couple of faults with this newsreader (Pan) including no spelchequer.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:01:45 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
> Sound isn’t working for standard user
Disabled PulseAudio and sound is back. Old-style kmix menu looks
different with “master front” now just “master”. Looks like another
change affecting Azalia. Will try on another machine with different sound.
Gnucash is broke:
gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was disabled at
configure time.
WARNING: no socket to connect to
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile argument to disable.
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/main.scm
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/core-utils.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/core-
utils.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: no code for module (sw_core_utils)
;;; compiling /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnc-module.scm
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/gnc-
module.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: no code for module (sw_gnc_module)
;;; WARNING: compilation of /usr/share/gnucash/guile-modules/gnucash/
main.scm failed:
;;; ERROR: In procedure debug-options-interface: Unknown option name:
maxdepth
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
170: 12 [catch #t #<catch-closure ca5c60> …]
In unknown file:
?: 11 [catch-closure]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2497: 10 #<procedure c397a0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2485:4 (name #:optional
autoload version #:key ensure)> # …]
2763: 9 [try-module-autoload (gnucash main) #f]
2103: 8 [save-module-excursion #<procedure e217b0 at ice-9/
boot-9.scm:2764:17 ()>]
2774: 7 #<procedure e217b0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:2764:17 ()>]
In unknown file:
?: 6 [primitive-load-path “gnucash/main” #f]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
458: 5 #<procedure b7b0c0 at ice-9/eval.scm:452:4 (exp)> #]
In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
1024: 4 [chi-top-sequence ((debug-set! maxdepth 100000)) () …]
922: 3 [scan ((debug-set! maxdepth 100000)) () …]
1015: 2 [scan ((#(syntax-object debug-options # …) (# # #))) () …]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2854: 1 [debug-options (show-file-name #t stack …)]
In unknown file:
?: 0 [debug-options-interface (show-file-name #t stack …)]
ERROR: In procedure debug-options-
interface:
ERROR: In procedure debug-options-interface: Unknown option name:
maxdepth
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:32:14 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
>> Sound isn’t working for standard user
>
> Disabled PulseAudio and sound is back. Old-style kmix menu looks
> different with “master front” now just “master”. Looks like another
> change affecting Azalia. Will try on another machine with different
> sound.
Yep! Azalia problem by the looks fo it. No trouble on other machine.
One I forgot: openSUSE branding for Firefox is version 5 and is
incompatible with Firefox 7 so switched to upstream branding. An old
favourite returns! 
Speaking of old favourites, found the auto-hide on the KDE task-bar was
very coy and wouldn’t come out of hiding. Vulcan neck-pinch to logoff and
turned off autohide when back in. Must check whether I’ve raised a bug
report for that; if I did it was probably half-a-dozen years ago.
I’d better go and raise the new bugs and resurrect old ones now.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
My installation with the DVD went smoothly and practically un attended after the installation started.the only hiccup was a bad signature for hplp
the software change bug is fixed
after the installation my wireless would not turn on. I had to fire up windows and wait for a wireless connection there and reboot into openSUSE again then my Wireless worked.
Curious a hardware problem or a bug??
I get a bad target during boot up what ever that is but so far every thing works sound, wireless video oops forgot to install flash
bye
Flash is working and am listening/watching Joe Satriani on youtube.
I did run in to one snag: upon initial boot, I didn’t have network access until I switched to networkmanager.
RC2 installs fine from DVD on my Dell Lalitude e6500. 2 things not 100% OK:
(RC2 64 bit) VMware player installed from the bundle (also 64 bit version)
Install fails on my Dell Latitude D830. Does loading kernel then switches to a black screen and locks up. 11.4 installed perfect. I had the same issue when I tried to install Ubuntu 11.10.
Was this a 32 bit install on 64 bit hardware, using the DVD?
32 bit install 32 bit hardware.
Okay.
If the lockup occurs before the install, then try “nomodeset” on the kernel parameter line while booting. You might have a video incompatibility.
Thanks, that did the trick. Install went good except for an error with samba not installing. Had an authentication error.
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:32:14 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
> Gnucash is broke.
There is a fix on Gnome Apps Factory repository which works for me so
far. See bug report #724917.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:06:53 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:32:14 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
>
>>> Sound isn’t working for standard user
>>
>> Disabled PulseAudio and sound is back. Old-style kmix menu looks
>> different with “master front” now just “master”. Looks like another
>> change affecting Azalia. Will try on another machine with different
>> sound.
>
> Yep! Azalia problem by the looks fo it. No trouble on other machine.
Already reported as bug #725701 in RC1.
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:06:53 +0000, Cloddy wrote:
> One I forgot: openSUSE branding for Firefox is version 5 and is
> incompatible with Firefox 7 so switched to upstream branding. An old
> favourite returns!
Bug reported as #728316. I’m sure there was an earlier report of this bug
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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.1 RC2 (64-bit); KDE 4.7.2; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
I`m just installing RC2 using the dvd iso, 586, and it seems that the bug in the installer has been solved; i was able to chose more packages and sections along with the default sections chose by the installer after selecting kde as my main desktop