Leap 42.1 Milestone 1

If you have not seen the announcement, Milestone 1 is available.

I downloaded the DVD installer (only 64-bit is available), wrote to a USB, and installed.

It mostly went well, until the reboot.

On the reboot, plymouth prompted me for a LUKS encryption key. But it seemed unable to read what I typed at the keyboard. Big red switch time.

Noteed!

regards

I’ve now reported that as Bug 939411

Doesn’t happen for me on a VMware (Tech Preview) VM. Plasma Desktop also. Seemed to be an error when I shut down but it went by way to fast for me to see anything. Not sure where the log files are. Refreshing the repos took a fair amount of time (maybe 5 minutes)

I’m really not compleely sure why people would use a physical for a first alpha release.

I have tried to install using a dvd iso but it failed at adding the dvd as an installation source

Why not? Somebody needs to test in a real environment.

It’s not as if I am dedicating an entire machine. It’s just one partition (40G)

Something similar is already reported:
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939401

Here’s a weird one. I’m not sure how to investigate further.

I couldn’t login to Gnome, due to a known problem with “sddm”. So I switched to “gdm” and rebooted.

Login to Gnome was fine. So then I logged into Plasma 5.

I did a couple of errands elsewhere. When I came back, I saw a login screen (gdm). I logged in again, did some more chores. When I came back again, a login screen.

I switched back to gdm (and rebooted). And Plasma 5 is quite stable when using “sddm”. But apparently it is flaky under “gdm”.

Oh, and “lightdm” does not seem to be available for 42.1 at present.

Quite right! Someone needs to, and it gives others confidence to have a go. :wink:

Be my guest [machine], and we enjoy reading your stuff with interest. However, two Tumbleweed updates in so many days is enough for now! I might just put M2 in a VM, as I hope to use the eventual release. :smiley:

I found out a bit more about this.

As it happens, I am using a KVM switch on that computer. It seems that if “gdm” is the GUI login manager, then toggling the KVM switch causes the desktop to crash. Possibly, it’s a Wayland bug (I think “gdm” uses Wayland).

Tested in a VM(VirtualBox).

Already during the installatio… I know its only M1.

http://www.jodo.nu/pic/pic2/snapshot98.jpeg

I had to clean ~tmp and snapshots twice latest 3 month on my laptop (13.2). Was suggested a 20GB for / btrfs on a 250GB HD. Me and others have complained a lot. Dumped a TW VM 3 weeks ago having the same problem.

40GB as / and btrfs seems to do the trick. I hope that “old” known problems will be considered in upcoming oS42. By the way how many new users have been scared away by the…

Why not let rbrown answer, he spend a lot of time on reddit to answer questions about oS42 ;).

regards

Installed OK and seemed OK at the start but soon the screen broke up
and eventually system required a quick tap on the reset button. In other
words, usual problems with Plasma5.

Now I’ve figured out what aren’t the probable causes, I’ll raise a bug
report.


Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 13.2 (64-bit); KDE 4.14.9; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 4.1.3; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:43:12 GMT
Graham P Davis <cloddy@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com> wrote:

> Installed OK and seemed OK at the start but soon the screen broke up
> and eventually system required a quick tap on the reset button. In
> other words, usual problems with Plasma5.
>
> Now I’ve figured out what aren’t the probable causes, I’ll raise a bug
> report.
>

Report number 939436.


Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 13.2 (64-bit); KDE 4.14.9; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 4.1.3; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)

This seems to be the same problem as in bug 911319 (for Tumbleweed). That bug is fixed in Tumbleweed, but I guess the fix did not make it to Leap. In any case there’s a workaround in that bug report in case you run into it. This is likely to be a problem for systems with USB3 hardware.

On 2015-07-24 21:56, nrickert wrote:
>
> If you have not seen the announcement, Milestone 1 is available.

I had few issues.

I installed under vmware player.

I changed the proposal (10 GB for root with btrfs, 1G swap, the rest
(25GB disk) for home) to swap (5GB) + root with ext4. Frankly, I can’t
understand a proposal using btrfs on such a small space.

I removed plymouth, as I always do.

I also removed the update desktop app (not the entire packagekit).

I saw no place during install to select additional languages.

I miss xfce. I had to install gnome, which is no longer familiar to me.

I miss rsyslog.

No vm-tools, means no resizing of display.

On gnome, application list, going up/dn corrupts the display.

The screen saver triggered once, I could not get back in. Mouse,
shift… no go. I had to tap the space bar, and that character went to
the password prompt. I don’t know if this is normal for gnome or not.

YaST was quite slow downloading repository data, and I have a fast
internet connection. YOU fails to find the update repo: I don’t know yet
if it does not exist or points to the wrong place.

Being gnome 3, I don’t know how to add applets to the panel. There is no
real panel, anyway :-?


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

I agree re 10GB root with btrfs, although useful for a small testing VM. I have one on V’Box for a 13.2/KDE guest and 10 GB .vdi, with viciously reduced snapshot retention and no timeline snaps. Updating is slow even on fast fibre broadband.

What is virtual RAM set at on your VM?

YaST was quite slow downloading repository data, and I have a fast
internet connection. YOU fails to find the update repo: I don’t know yet
if it does not exist or points to the wrong place.

In addition to previous comment, earlier today my real Tumbleweed snapshot update was painfully slow, down to dialup modem speeds of old. Maybe a general problem or just a bad mirror?

Yes, I’m noticing that. The “refresh” (updating repo meta data) is already slow.

My guess is that the server is loaded down with many people updating Tumbleweed, and also updating mirrors at the same time. Until the mirrors are updated, they cannot distribute the load. When there’s a Tumbleweed update, it seems to be better to wait a few hours before updating.

I think it is either swipe up or ESC.

On 2015-07-25 22:36, consused wrote:

> What is virtual RAM set at on your VM?

Default, which is about 750 MB. Small, but suffices. If it needs more,
let it swap :slight_smile:

>> YaST was quite slow downloading repository data, and I have a fast
>> internet connection. YOU fails to find the update repo: I don’t know yet
>> if it does not exist or points to the wrong place.
> In addition to my previous comment, earlier today my real Tumbleweed
> snapshot update was painfully slow, down to dialup modem speeds of old.
> Maybe a general problem or just a bad mirror?

Dunno, I have not investigated. I downloaded the ISO DVD image in about
two minutes perhaps half an hour earlier, so network is fine here. But
that was using aria2c, which is very fast. I’m unsure about yast/zypper.
I think that the development release, and perhaps TW, gets fewer mirrors
and bandwidth.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

On 2015-07-25 23:16, arvidjaar wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2720972 Wrote:
>>
>> The screen saver triggered once, I could not get back in. Mouse,
>> shift… no go. I had to tap the space bar, and that character went to
>> the password prompt. I don’t know if this is normal for gnome or not.
>>
>
> I think it is either swipe up or ESC.

I think I tried ESC, no go. Swipe up… you mean, as in a tablet with
the finger? Never thought of that. I’ll try later.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))