Also noticed that I’m technically off topic.
Anyway, started new thread:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/521126-Various-problems-42-2-install?p=2800622#post2800622
I can confirm, that Software updates behaviour is different in 42.2.
It checks updates really only one time per day. And it doesn’t matter how many times you login, restart or switch off/on machine.
I used virtualbox openSUSE 42.2 machine and I was changing dates.
FYI, I submitted an update for Leap 42.2 with the tentative fix in your bug report (and another one) last Sunday:
https://build.opensuse.org/patchinfo/show/openSUSE:Maintenance:5895/patchinfo
Should get released early next week I suppose (Monday maybe?).
Hi
It’s nice to read something other than complaints. I too upgraded from 42.1 to 42.2 and it has been the best yet. I started on linux with Suse 6.4, then via Suse 9.1, the 10s, 11s, 12s to 13.something. With every upgrade I cursed myself. “Fool”, I said, “You have spent weeks getting the previous version exactly to your liking. Now you have upgraded for no good reason and have ruined everything. You have weeks of work ahead, getting everything the way you want it”. I never learned, so it was great trepidation that I ventured this update. Guess what - everything is perfect. Everything works, mp3s, flvs mp4s, wifi - everything works. I have not had to do a thing. So a big thank you to all at openSuse, and keep up the good work!
By the way, I do realise that although 6.4 had cde which I liked (as opposed to kde), it did not recognise a so-called winmodem and would not recognise almost everything I have got now. So all those upgrades have not been entirely in vain. :shame: Another very happy camper
Hi
It’s nice to read something other than complaints. I too upgraded from 42.1 to 42.2 and it has been the best yet. I started on linux with Suse 6.4, then via Suse 9.1, the 10s, 11s, 12s to 13.something. With every upgrade I cursed myself. “Fool”, I said, “You have spent weeks getting the previous version exactly to your liking. Now you have upgraded for no good reason and have ruined everything. You have weeks of work ahead, getting everything the way you want it”. I never learned, so it was great trepidation that I ventured this update. Guess what - everything is perfect. Everything works, mp3s, flvs mp4s, wifi - everything works. I have not had to do a thing. So a big thank you to all at openSuse, and keep up the good work!
By the way, I do realise that although 6.4 had cde which I liked (as opposed to kde), it did not recognise a so-called winmodem and would not recognise almost everything I have got now. So all those upgrades have not been entirely in vain. :shame: Another very happy camper
I started with 13.2, then the same day I found 42.1 had been released, I loaded that. It ran perfectly, with the exception that firefox couldn’t play videos, but eventually that was resolved and 42.1 was stable, reliable and the absolute perfect alternative to Microsoft bully-ware. Imagine my horror when 42.2 wouldn’t even set a mount point for root, or any of its sub-volumes and that it would only boot directly into emergency mode. It worked well enough though for me to discover that despite some improvements in polish, the new version gave me no reason to keep it. Nice try, but 42.1 works, it works well and I am going to stick with it. In my mind, a claim that a newer version is better and improved can’t be believed if you have to solve a raft of problems to even use it.
I was running the release candidate before the official launch so I knew there were issues with Nouveau and plasma. By the way I was really impressed at how quickly the Nvidia repo was available so that a stable desktop could be achieved! 
So on release day I installed on my main machine (I know I take risks but that’s all part of the fun) and wow this has been nothing short of a revelation. It boots fast and Plasma 5.8 is gorgeous… a new look and the fonts look stunning to me; I like the new SUSE themes and so far I have had absolutely no issues on my hardware.
It is a shame about Nouveau but I guess a fix will be forthcoming at some point. I also understand that some graphics on chips don’t work very well atm… hence my laptop is not going to be touched just yet. Actually off topic but I am experimenting with kde mint with that at the moment…
So to summarise I think this has to be the best openSUSE release yet, and thus the best OS release. What surprises me is the number of complaints of how slow it is and kde in particular. Not in my experience!
Have you filed a bug report about this?
As I understand it, this would be your only complaint about 42.2.
And 42.1 will be unmaintained in about half a year, 13.2 will be out of support as well then, so you would have to upgrade anyway.
I am a little worried to read people have problems with upgrading to 42.2
I am still using 42.1, dual-boot with Windows 7, UEFI and GPT partitions. Everything works fine.
Except for this only reason:
And 42.1 will be unmaintained in about half a year, 13.2 will be out of support as well then, so you would have to upgrade anyway.
should I upgrade?
I really don’t want to break things which I have spent a lot of time on to fine tune to my liking just in order to have the latest version number (which may fix some old bugs but bring in new ones).
What approach would you recommend?
If everything is working perfectly fine, you can wait until closer to the end of support of 42.1 and do the upgrade at some point where you have a bit more time (just in case).
What type of hardware do you have, and what type of apps/repos do you use? They’re probably the main factors affecting how easy it is to upgrade.
But at that time there might be 42.3 already and who knows what else, so the upgrading may not be so easy if I have to jump 2 versions ahead?
What type of hardware do you have, and what type of apps/repos do you use? They’re probably the main factors affecting how easy it is to upgrade.
i7 3770, 32GB, GTX 680, SAS controller for LTO device, Audigy2 audio, SSD for OS, 3 other SATA disks
zypper lr -d
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service
---+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | Google_Chrome | Google Chrome | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
2 | RawTherapee | RawTherapee | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rawtherapee/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
3 | download.nvidia.com-leap | nVidia Graphics Drivers | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1 |
4 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/ |
5 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss_1 | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/ |
6 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/ |
7 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1 | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss |
8 | ftp.gwdg.de-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
9 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 |
10 | http-download.opensuse.org-1f4f3a68 | KDE:Extra | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
11 | http-download.opensuse.org-22fcdb31 | devel:languages:python | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
12 | http-download.opensuse.org-7bd1a2b3 | X11:Utilities (for redshift) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Utilities/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
13 | http-download.opensuse.org-d346fc1e | multimedia:color_management | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/color_management/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |
14 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/ |
15 | repo-debug-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Debug-Non-Oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/ |
16 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/oss |
17 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/ |
18 | repo-source | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Source | No | ---- | Yes | 99 | NONE | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/ |
19 | repo-update | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/ |
This is what I would recommend, as well. If it is running fine, stay as-is until you get closer to EOL for 42.1, unless you have a specific reason to upgrade. If you have spare space, and wish to experiment, you could do a test install of 42.2 as an extra operating system, just to find out what you think of it and see if you have any problems.
The bonus in waiting is that most of the problems and bugs will have been worked out and patched by then.
As far as hardware goes, 42.2 runs just fine on some (very) older machines. Just ask oldcpu, he can verify that.
Thanks.
How do I know the exact EOL date of a particular version (e.g. 42.1 or 13.2)? Is it published somewhere?
Big thanks!
howcan i manage user login in opesuse leap 42.2
I’m getting a screen freeze on leap 42.2, really disappointing. Processes still seem to be running, i.e. music is playing and I can use the mouse but the screen is frozen, I cannot click the mouse or do anything.
Anyone else having a similar problem?
You’re best advised to start a new thread for this in the appropriate forum, detailing the desktop environment you’re using and your graphics chipset details (eg /usr/sbin/hwinfo --gfx).
Thank you, I will take on board your comments, can you suggest the best forum I should post?
Cheers.
The Applications forum
Questions about desktops (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.), software applications (configuration, usage, bugs, documentation)
Don’t forget to the title is suitably descriptive as well. That way you’re more likely to attract the attention of those who may be able to assist/advise etc.
it’s a common graphic card issue see the forums or make a new post telling us your issue and what hardware you have laptop or desktop, graphic card and cpu (as most newer have builtin graphic cards)