Downloading (via aria2c) now.
George Baltz wrote:
> Downloading (via aria2c) now.
>
cool.getting live images 
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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
Thanks. I’m downloading the 64bit DVD image now. I’ll check the live image later.
I downloaded the 64-bit openSUSE-13.1 M4 liveDVD (KDE) and booted to it with my Toshiba Satellite Z930 Ultrabook (which has a UEFI bios and secure boot enabled). I used an external USB DVD drive to boot. I left secure boot enabled , and at the start of the boot selected F12 to obtain the Toshiba’s UEFI boot menu. I saw the external DVD drive, selected it, and booted successfully to the liveDVD with no problem. Again, I note secure boot was enabled.
Internet via wireless and our home WLAN worked. Graphics worked (special desktop effects/catube rotation in KDE). Sound worked. USB wireless mouse worked.
Using rpm-build (installed into RAM) I rebuilt and installed inxi from Packman spec file (also into ram) and obtained the following:
linux@linux:~> inxi -F
System: Host: linux.site Kernel: 3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-desktop x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.10.97 Distro: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle
Machine: System: TOSHIBA (portable) product: Satellite Z930 version: PT23LC-01300D
Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Satellite Z930 version: Version A0 Bios: TOSHIBA version: Version 6.70 date: 04/04/2013
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i7-3667U CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 1150.00 MHz 2: 2125.00 MHz 3: 2850.00 MHz 4: 2725.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
X.Org: 1.14.2 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.2hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel
Audio: Card: Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-desktop
Network: Card-1: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
IF: enp0s25 state: down speed: 4294967295 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: e8:e0:b7:73:c3:68
Card-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 84:a6:c8:ad:ba:4c
Drives: HDD Total Size: 256.1GB (-) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_THNSNF25 256.1GB
Partition: ID: / size: 477M used: 313M (70%) fs: rootfs ID: / size: 477M used: 313M (70%) fs: overlayfs
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 16.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 172 Uptime: 0:11 Memory: 925.6/5874.0MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24
This was just a basic (successful) test. I have downloaded both the 32-bit installation DVD (which I am in the middle of installing on my 12 year old ancient sandbox PC) and have downloaded the 64-bit installation DVD, which I plan to install in a spare partition on my 3.5 year old desktop PC.
I’ll report later on those.
Download completed.
I’ve booted the live KDE. It does not like the nouveau driver with my Nvidia GeForce 6150LE video. The KDE session does not fully start up.
Work around – hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE twice to abort the session. Login to Icewm. Edit “.kde4/share/config/kwinrc” and add a line “Enabled=false” to the compositing section. Then logout, and login again with KDE. It works fine now, but with desktop effects disabled. I presume that if I re-enable desktop effects, I will again run into problems.
I installed the 32-bit openSUSE-13.1 M4 LXDE from the installation DVD on my 12+ year old ancient sandbox PC. I put this openSUSE on a second hard drive (sdb1 = / (root) , and sdb5 =/home ). Installation was not perfectly smooth as I obtained an error about 6-packages not being installed. The md5sum was ok wrt the download, but I am very confident the problem is this PC is so old that its DVD reader calibration is off and hence these sorts of errors can crop up during an openSUSE install. I likely need to put a newer DVD reader in the PC. Still looking at the names of the 6 failed to install rpms, my view was none were critical (xscreensaver, xcreensaver-data, xchat, xchat-perl, xfce-power-manaer, yast2-control-center-qt) so I proceed with the install.
I selected the legacy grub (instead of grub2) and only put grub on the root partition /sdb1 and ensured the MBR was not touched. I already have another openSUSE version (12.3) on this sandbox PC (in sda1) with its grub having an assortment of settings, one to boot sdb1. Hence i decided not to mess with that.
The remainder of the installation was uneventful. The PC booted ok to the LXDE destop. I ran YaST and installed the 6 packages missing from the above. Internet worked, as did graphics (nouveau driver on an old FX5200). I added the Packman factory repos and insatlled some multimedia apps. Sound worked. I set up a network printer and a network scanner and they both worked fine.
Here is the inxi output:
oldcpu@stonehenge:~> inxi -F
System: Host: stonehenge Kernel: 3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-default i686 (32 bit)
Desktop LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4 (i586) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle
Machine: Mobo: MSI model: MS-6380E version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 07.00T date: 04/02/01
CPU: Single core AMD Athlon (-UP-) cache: 256 KB flags: (sse) clocked at 1150.074 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]
X.Org: 1.14.2 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@59.9hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV34 GLX Version: 1.5 Mesa 9.2.0-devel
Audio: Card-1: Ensoniq 5880B [AudioPCI] driver: snd_ens1371 Sound: ALSA ver: k3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-default
Card-2: VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller driver: snd_via82xx
Network: Card-1: Atheros AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath5k
IF: wlp0s10 state: down mac: 00:11:95:91:76:f5
Card-2: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too
IF: enp0s8 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:50:fc:5f:ba:6d
Drives: HDD Total Size: 484.0GB (1.0% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3320620A 320.1GB
2: /dev/sdb Maxtor_6Y160P0 163.9GB
Partition: ID: / size: 25G used: 4.6G (20%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 50G used: 85M (1%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 2.85GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap ID: swap-2 size: 1.04GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0C mobo: 55.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 4326 fan-2: 0
Info: Processes: 113 Uptime: 0:20 Memory: 271.8/2017.2MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24
JFI
Upgraded with yast from factory, 855 packages updated,
165 new packages installed
DigiKam still does not start, although showFoto is useable
(same occurs starting from liveCD)
Bug 321188 – Crash on startup openSUSE: states this has been fixed upstream
pc switches off/reboots ok after using mtt (motv) one time, not tested further
Bug 819160 kernel-3.9.0, opened for this and remains open
googleearth runs ok with fix, bug report states this will be fixed with next
update
libreoffice-calc freezes plasma randomly when dragging/dropping, can see System Monitor
and clocks running but cannot select/change to any other window, all keyboard
and mouse input are ignored, only recovery found is to cold boot
not checked yet to see if covered with bug report yet
Fri 9 Aug 17:02:07 CEST 2013
System: Host: A780GM-LE Kernel: 3.10.5-1.g4e0ffc2-desktop x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.10.97 Distro: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle
Machine: Mobo: ASRock model: A780GM-LE Bios: American Megatrends version: P1.10 date: 02/13/2009
CPU: Quad core AMD Phenom II X4 940 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2993.682 MHz 2: 2993.682 MHz 3: 2993.682 MHz 4: 2993.682 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780 [Radeon HD 3200]
X.Org: 1.14.2 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel
Audio: Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS780 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 3000-3300 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.10.5-1.g4e0ffc2-desktop
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
Drives: HDD Total Size: 660.1GB (6.4% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD5000AAKS 500.1GB
2: USB /dev/sdb 00BEVT 160.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 50G used: 6.0G (13%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 96G used: 34G (36%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap ID: swap-2 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: 38.0C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3515 fan-1: 2596 fan-3: 0 fan-5: 0
Info: Processes: 172 Uptime: 0:38 Memory: 838.3/1752.2MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24
cheers
Downloaded & checked 64bit DVD, wrote to USB. Booted on this Latitude D630, and updated my 13.1M3 partitions to M4. So far:
- Installation conflict between apper and gnome-packagekit - kept the old(obsolete) g-p, since I don’t really use Gnome.
- The release notes are still titled “openSUSE 12.4 Release Notes”
- Got errors while trying to run mkinitrd - YAST says I have both 3.10.0 (M3) and 3.10.1 (M4) kernels (default and desktop), but the grub menu only shows the M3 versions.
FWIW, whatever I’ve done with YAST 3.0 seems to work.
I installed the 64-bit openSUSE-13.1 M4 KDE (DVD) on my main desktop PC (an old (3+ year old) PC with an Intel Core-i7-920 CPU) in a test partition. I chose to use the Legacy grub, and to put grub on the /sda3 partition (where this openSUSE / will go). I set it up to not write to the MBR, and I also elected not to make /sda3 the active partition. Rather /sda2 on this PC is the active partition, which is where my nominal openSUSE-12.3 resides. I have grub pre-setup on my 12.3 (on sda2) with a boot selection to the /dev/sda3.
The installation was smooth, and afterward the PC booted ok to KDE. I did see a very brief message (too quick to capture … which I will need to capture later) about the profile failing to activate ‘DimDisplay’. Wired Internet access (via our home LAN) worked. The Webcam worked (a Logitec C920). I was able to setup network printing and network scanning which worked fine (to HP-All-In-One-Premium-c309a printer).
Sound worked, albeit there was a change in the auto-mute behaviour of the speakers (when a headset is plugged in to the front jack of the PC) which was different from the openSUSE-12.3 behaviour - which initially surprised me.
Graphics is with nouveau driver on the nVidia GTX-260 hardware where 1920x1200 is correct resolution. Special desktop effects (such as cube rotation) with nouveau driver worked. I thought I saw very some small artifacts in a Firefox edit window, but I can not reliably reproduce this. I have not yet tried a proprietary nVidia driver.
some detail …
oldcpu@core-i7:~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch> inxi -F
System: Host: core-i7 Kernel: 3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-desktop x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop KDE 4.10.97 Distro: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 4 (x86_64) VERSION = 13.1 CODENAME = Bottle
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T DELUXE V2 version: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 1108 date: 09/21/2010
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU 920 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
Clock Speeds: 1: 2668.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1600.00 MHz 6: 2668.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT200 [GeForce GTX 260]
X.Org: 1.14.2 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1200@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA0 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 9.2.0-devel
Audio: Card-1: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2: Logitech HD Webcam C910 driver: USB Audio
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-desktop
Network: Card-1: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: enp4s0 state: down speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:38
Card-2: Marvell 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:24:8c:7e:ee:39
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (0.4% used) 1: /dev/sda ST31500341AS 1500.3GB
Partition: ID: / size: 15G used: 5.4G (40%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 34G used: 114M (1%) fs: ext4
ID: swap-1 size: 6.82GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0C mobo: 49.0C gpu: 0.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1028 psu: 0 sys-1: 0 sys-2: 0 sys-3: 0
Info: Processes: 245 Uptime: 0:41 Memory: 804.0/5972.2MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.24
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:36:01 GMT
oldcpu <oldcpu@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> The installation was smooth, and afterward the PC booted ok to KDE. I
> did see a very brief message (too quick to capture … which I will
> need to capture later) about the profile failing to activate
> ‘DimDisplay’.
Yes, that message from the power management system about profile
‘AC’ seems to be associated with PCs but not laptops. [Based on sample
size of two PCs and one laptop!] It’s nothing to do with existing
settings as new user gets the same message.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit); KDE 4.10.5; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor;
Kernel: 3.10.2; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver);
Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA); Wireless: BCM4306
Yes I get the profile AC message too, on my desktop PC. Can’t see anything in Power Management to change it.
Still no Amarok useability out of the box.
Trying to install a secure boot I keep getting the following errors
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nux-pyzo:/home/dale # grub-install
Perl-Bootloader: 2013-08-10 14:44:47 <3> yast-8197.1 Core::RunCommand.1642: Error: Command '/usr/sbin/shim-install --config-file=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg >/var/log/YaST2/y2log_bootloader 2>&1' failed with code 256 and output: Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
Perl-Bootloader: 2013-08-10 14:44:56 <3> yast-8197.1 Core::RunCommand.1642: Error: Command '/usr/sbin/grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi >/var/log/YaST2/y2log_bootloader 2>&1' failed with code 256 and output: Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
/usr/sbin/grub-install: line 23: /etc/grub.conf: No such file or directory
running modprobe efivars doesn’t work either (I thing that might be obsolete) I think it should be EFIVAR_FS That is what I found with make xconfig
That is with a live kde install. I know that installing from the DVD or the NET install works fine but with a persisent fs I can install everything I want on my thumbdrive
If the bugs ever get worked out then it would a boon for the merchandising chaps.
Have you looked at my recent additions to your bug report 827520 ?
Try this:
Mount the hybrid partition of your USB on an installed working system.
# cd root-dir-of-mounted-hybrid-partition
# rm -rf boot
and see if it then works. That fixes the brokenness for a non-EFI install. I wont be able to try an EFI install for a couple of days.
I have installed on a six year old Dell Dimension using nouveau graphics.
The install was smooth.
Normally, when I first use Yast software manager after install, it draws in a bunch of other stuff. That did not happen here, so I wonder if my system is incomplete.
The power management message about AC (see comments #9 and #10 above) did not show up. However, they did show up when running the live KDE on the same hardware. I think the difference is that I have display dimming disabled in my power settings. If I create a new user, then I will probably see the message for that user.
Tried 32-bit live KDE “CD” which boots fine on an old Toshiba laptop with Celeron M CPU and 2 GB RAM. Graphic card is ATI X200 M Radeon chipset. During installation, I chose (legacy) Grub instead of Grub2 and elected to place it in the root partition, also disabled boot from MBR. However, after reboot the screen shows Grub2 of 13.1 M4 is in charge. The screen now shows “Linux other 1/2/3” as well as “Windows 1” and “Windows 2”.
Is there a way or a file to edit the Grub 2 boot menu entries so that the titles become more descriptive, e.g. “OpenSUSE 12.3”, “Linux Mint 15”, and “Windows 7 Home Premium”?
Thanks for your help.
Should be in Yast-boot
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
Found lingrub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/openSUSE/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-default
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.10.1-3.g0cd5432-default
Found memtest image: /boot/memtest.bin
No volume groups found
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) on /dev/sda10
Found CentOS release 6.4 (Final) on /dev/sda14
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
Found Linux Mint 14 Nadia (14) on /dev/sda4
Found openSUSE 12.2 (i586) on /dev/sda6
Found openSUSE 12.3 (i586) on /dev/sda8
done
PROBLEM SOLVED!
At first when the screen shows “Loading Grub 2.0” I thought that Grub2 is in charge. Duh!
After checking YAST > Boot Loader, I saw that (Legacy) Grub is installed and I proceeded to edit grub/menu.lst.
lol!
I have now installed on a 32bit system. And I am still seeing the plasma shell crashing (segfault) and restarting in a loop. This makes KDE pretty much useless. Any further testing on that box will have to be with icewm.
I read your comments on bugzilla
I have played around with /read-write/boot (hybrid/boot) which gives me a grub2 install but not an uefi secure boot.
booting the live kde and removing /boot which is empty and copying /read-only/boot (loop device/boot) to / allows for an uefi secure install with no error messages.