Very smooth upgrade from Milestone1 with zypper dup, using only Factory repo. Now have KDE4.3 and kernel 2.6.30-rc6, so effectively at Milestone2.
KDE 3.5 beta seems to take longer to load, mainly the bouncing cursor carries on too long. In use it’s very stable.
Sound works well on my onboard VIA chip (Via 8237 with AD1888 SoundMax) as before. The situation with multimedia has improved and more of it works. For testing I added libxine1 and codecs from packman, and libdvdcss from vlc (both are 11.1 repos).
Sound Issue: Yet again, on first starting up Kaffeine (or other app) after enabling DVD playback, Kmix master sound is muted. Is anyone else getting this? Hope it’s not a feature. :sarcastic:
What works/not so far for me:
Amarok 2 will play audio files, but not audio cd. Collection scanning or editing via settings is buggy. Kaffeine will play audio cd; and commercial dvd. Flash internet video streaming is good, but occasionally a slight instability creeps in (YMMV). Timidity for playing midi files (using Soundfont2) works as always. Audacity for audio editing fails to display gui after asking for language to use.
Issue with HP Laserjet printer (old): Automatic printer detection and driver allocated, but Test Sheet would not print even though the print job was set up. This has been solved, but with printer not identified and no driver. Yast provides driver search on manufacturer (you key it in) and then select the right driver, and name the queue. Press test sheet button. Printed.
Issue with openSUSE/Xorg not providing working DRI (no XvMC) with openchrome driver for Unichrome Pro chip, remains.
Issue with installer not placing Grub to partitions root directory as needed. Not able to test on this upgrade.
Hi,
Nice to hear that Packman for 11.1 is compatible with 11.2, at least for testing purposes.
For me not so direct comparison here, since I am using Milestone2 on VirtualBox, as guest machine with Gnome as DE.
(I like the new Gnome style.;))
Would like to give a test to ext4, but my virtual machine has been installed with ext3 and I have not yet investigated if I could run a painless migration to ext4.
Issues so far:
Xscreensaver starts normally, but then it maintains blocked the desktop, no way to go back
FileZilla doesn’t starts
I have subscribed to opensuse-testing@opensuse.org, where I would like to post/read some about updates related to the next releases.
Confession: I don’t like to much using bugzilla to file Bug Reports, especially in this case, where I am using a virtual machine.
Hi amdturion,
Oops, my mistake in last post, it should have read:
Firefox 3.5 beta seems to take longer to load, mainly the bouncing cursor carries on too long. In use it’s very stable.
I plan to give Gnome a try at some point, so it’s good to hear you like it. If I can find a spare partition to try ext4 I will, but it’s not looking likely at the moment.
Now I have started to play with Plasma, it crashed and it’s now not working as documented. I will post separately for that.
Only using a blank screen for power saving and that’s working ok. I have had problems with several screensavers on proper openSUSE releases, so I only use a small subset, but most of the time just use the blank screen.
Playing with KDE 4.3 and had a couple of plasma crashes on zooming and not unusual from other posters comments. One needed the removal of .kde4 :).
Setting up different backgrounds on each of 4 desktops after configuring plasma (one box-tick) for that is easy. The cashew was removed from Desktop 1 anyway with 4.3, but with the four different backgrounds set, Desktops 2, 3, 4 have the cashew top right on each. Seems a bit odd.
Does anyone else see that?? Perhaps it was like that before I configured plasma for the feature, can anyone confirm/not??
>
> Very smooth upgrade from Milestone1 with -zypper dup-, using only
> Factory repo. Now have KDE4.3 and kernel 2.6.30-rc6, so effectively at
> Milestone2.
>
> KDE 3.5 beta seems to take longer to load, mainly the bouncing cursor
> carries on too long. In use it’s very stable.
>
> Sound works well on my onboard VIA chip (Via 8237 with AD1888
> SoundMax) as before. The situation with multimedia has improved and more
> of it works. For testing I added libxine1 and codecs from packman, and
> libdvdcss from vlc (both are 11.1 repos).
>
> Sound Issue: Yet again, on first starting up Kaffeine (or other app)
> after enabling DVD playback, Kmix master sound is muted. Is anyone else
> getting this? Hope it’s not a feature. :sarcastic:
>
> What works/not so far for me:
>
> Amarok 2 will play audio files, but not audio cd. Collection scanning
> or editing via settings is buggy.
> Kaffeine will play audio cd; and commercial dvd.
> Flash internet video streaming is good, but occasionally a slight
> instability creeps in (YMMV).
> Timidity for playing midi files (using Soundfont2) works as always.
> Audacity for audio editing fails to display gui after asking for
> language to use.
>
> Issue with HP Laserjet printer (old): Automatic printer detection and
> driver allocated, but Test Sheet would not print even though the print
> job was set up. This has been solved, but with printer not identified
> and no driver. Yast provides driver search on manufacturer (you key it
> in) and then select the right driver, and name the queue. Press test
> sheet button. Printed.
>
> Issue with openSUSE/Xorg not providing working DRI (no XvMC) with
> openchrome driver for Unichrome Pro chip, remains.
>
> Issue with installer not placing Grub to partitions root directory as
> needed. Not able to test on this upgrade.
>
>
What actual repo are you using for milestone2? I downloaded the DVD version
and tried to burn the dvd with k3b (milestone 1) but kept getting errors.
Would like to try zypper but have not used it in the past. Always clean
install from DVD.
Still have not had success getting Iscan and Virtualbox USB playing
together, so want to see what happens in milestone 2.
The factory repos get updated weekly and you can control when/if you choose to refresh via Yast or zypper. For that reason, I don’t enable Autorefresh. Perform the distribution upgrade with ONLY those two repos enabled and refreshed, then from a terminal as root:
zypper dup
That should get you the new kernel and KDE 4.3 beta 1. You can repeat zypper dup to make sure of full upgrade.
To test local multimedia, I had to use additional 11.1 repos for packman (libxine1 and codecs), and videolan (libdvdcss). However you must realize that bug reports involving them probably won’t be accepted, and disable those repos immediately after installing the three packages. Also, consider implications for testing updates with those packages installed.
Still have not had success getting Iscan and Virtualbox USB playing together, so want to see what happens in milestone 2.
Thanks again for your help in past.
–
Russ
You are welcome to the help. You seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place with the Iscan.
Elsewhere in this forum, others have tried VBox (Sun’s PUEL version) that I assume is packaged for 11.1, and failed to run it on 11.2 milestone2 (new kernel 2.6.30-rc6).
>
> upscope;1993433 Wrote:
>> What actual repo are you using for milestone2?..
> Hi Russ,
> For milestone1, I did clean install of DVD (burned with k3b on oS
> 10.3).
>
> For milestone2, I disabled all milestone1 repos including Oss and
> Non-Oss; added the Factory repos:
>
> Factory-Oss: ‘Index of /factory/repo/oss’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/) that’s at
> download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/
> Factory-Non-Oss: ‘Index of /factory/repo/non-oss’
> (http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/) that’s at
> download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/
>
> The factory repos get updated weekly and you can control when/if you
> choose to refresh via Yast or zypper. For that reason, I don’t enable
> Autorefresh. Perform the distribution upgrade with ONLY those two repos
> enabled and refreshed, then from a terminal as root:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> zypper dup
> --------------------
>
>
> That should get you the new kernel and KDE 4.3 beta 1. You can repeat
> -zypper dup- to make sure of full upgrade.
> To test local multimedia, I had to use additional 11.1 repos for
> packman (libxine1 and codecs), and videolan (libdvdcss). However you
> must realize that bug reports involving them probably won’t be accepted,
> and disable those repos immediately after installing the three packages.
> Also, consider implications for testing updates with those packages
> installed.
>
>> Still have not had success getting Iscan and Virtualbox USB playing
>> together, so want to see what happens in milestone 2.
>>
>> Thanks again for your help in past.
>>
>> –
>> Russ
>
> You are welcome to the help. You seem to be caught between a rock
> and a hard place with the Iscan.
>
> Elsewhere in this forum, others have tried VBox (Sun’s PUEL version)
> that I assume is packaged for 11.1, and failed to run it on 11.2
> milestone2 (new kernel 2.6.30-rc6).
>
Thanks I’ll try that as soon as I get done with my mail. I did get my 11.1
system to upgrade to 4.2.3 from 4.2.1 using /kde:/42 repo but some rpms are
still at 4.2.1 (Noticeably konqueror), also k3b no longer works (1.66.0)
Russ, I forgot to warn you that following *zypper dup *, you could be in for >1GB of download as a very large number of packages were updated between milestone 1 & 2.
>
> Russ, I forgot to warn you that following -zypper dup -, you could be in
> for >1GB of download as a very large number of packages were updated
> between milestone 1 & 2.
>
>
Not a problem, on a fiber optics network and presently get 100MB
upload/download. Can get faster if I want to pay extra. I think the 4.3 GB
milestone 2 dvd download took about 20 -30 minutes yesterday.
I finally figured out what was wrong with my k3b on 11.1. Somehow the
cdrecord, cdrdao and growisofs files user got changed to burn (May have done
it when running seup after download k3b 1.66.0. Anyway I changed it to disk
and all works fine as user. Burnt DVD milestone and it boots. I’ll try the
steps you outlined with zypper first,
Want to try virtualbox 2.2.4 which I got an email announcement about today.
>
> Russ, I forgot to warn you that following -zypper dup -, you could be in
> for >1GB of download as a very large number of packages were updated
> between milestone 1 & 2.
>
>
Had interesting experience yesterday. First I tried zypper dup with only the
two factory repos enabled. All went well until it tried installing
Apache2-2.11-4.7. It hung at 94%. After 1/2 an hour I terminated it (had to
just reboot, everything was locked up. Tried to log on again, but due to
incomplete update I couldn’t. Used the dvd I had made and milestone 2
installed. All went well but the installer only installed a 640x480 screen.
Going into safe mode the YaST Hardware Graphics I put the correct parameters
in for my monitor and rebooted. All working correctly.
Then did the zypper dup and got all the latest packages ( slightly over
1GB). No hang ups. Did get a error on Mozilla xulrunner190-1.9.0-1.7 but
rest of install went well. Firefox seems to work and YaSt says the above is
installed… will look into it futher.
Next step for me is install Iscan and VirtualBox.
I will say zypper is faster than the YaST GUI. My calculation for
downloading the DVD version was wrong, to longer.
Last zypper dup I did to reach milestone2 was about 6 days ago and I had none of the errors you mentioned including xulrunner. I haven’t updated since, but I just finished updating from both factory repos. About 860MB downloaded including a kernel update. That gives you an idea of how many and how quickly packages are being updated in Factory at the moment - a lot, i.e. most of the installed ones in roughly a week. I wonder what will happen when I reboot…:\
>
> upscope;1994212 Wrote:
>> …Did get a error on Mozilla xulrunner190-1.9.0-1.7 but
>> rest of install went well. Firefox seems to work and YaSt says the
>> above is
>> installed… will look into it futher.
>>
>> Next step for me is install Iscan and VirtualBox…
> Last zypper dup I did to reach milestone2 was about 6 days ago and I
> had none of the errors you mentioned including xulrunner. I haven’t
> updated since, but I just finished updating from both factory repos.
> About 860MB downloaded including a kernel update. That gives you an idea
> of how many and how quickly packages are being updated in Factory at the
> moment - a lot, i.e. most of the installed ones in roughly a week. I
> wonder what will happen when I reboot…:
>
>
Actually what little testing I did worked. Did experience a Konqueror crash.
But my sound worked after I adjusted the desktop sound. I’ll get back to it
later today. Report bugs as i see them.
The DVD does not configure my graphics correctly. Ran into that with 11.1
also after recent update.
Yesterday I switched to Factory repository. Disabled all opensuse11.1-* repos and added Factory. Then in yast2 software manager I run "update all packages if newer version is available. "
It updated more then 1000 packages/3.5Gb overnight. Then said to reboot to activate new kernel. And now, during very early stage of boot process it says it can’t find /dev/system/root and runs timer waiting for /dev/system/root to appear. And of course it fails to appear. Then it gives me a shell. But I don’t know what can I do.
I’ve two partitions sda1 and sda2. sda1 carries /boot and sda2 is LVM2 volume where all other filesystems reside including root.
I scrolled back all screens to see other kernel messages and there were no word about detecting/not detecting my LVM2 volume.
Maybe I missed something? Thanks in advance.
Yes, exactly the same problem.
Unfortunately I don’t have installation CD to boot from and fallback to fixed version of lvm2.
But these words make me think that all I need is right rules for udev:
Indeed.
Actually the initrd script is simplified because udev can setup logical volume
automatically now. However, we forgot to include the udev rules for that.
Am I right? Or I must fallback to lvm2 from 11.1 and rebuild initrd to include all these programs vg*, etc. which are missing in my version of initrd.
If i’m not wrong there was a newer lvm2 submitted for M2 but it didn’t make it. I guess you’d need to add that repo (i don’t exactly know which one it is) and update to that lvm2.
I reverted back to 11.1 version of lvm2 and rebuilt initrd using rescue mode. Now it detects /dev/system/root and boots into init.
But, if I’m just waiting it to boot, it ends up with kernel panic.
It says: Loading drivers, then different kernel messages appear about detecting some devices and I got kernel panic. It happens after messages about CardBUS device. (it’s a laptop).
But if I start pressing Ctrl+C during boot. It boots ok and I am able to login. But it doesn’t mount my other partitions from fstab. And I can see messages when I was pressing Ctrl+C during boot:
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for dbus
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for acpid
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for fbset
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for hddtemp
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for random
getp: No such file or directory
could not get pty for network
So, I’m looking how to boot without pressing Ctrl+C every time )
Well, i’m sure they are working on that (xwhu home project ) and for now the patch doesn’t work. I guess if it succeeds you can safely install that lvm2 package to fix the booting.
Looks like udevd is causing kernel panic. Last messages from kernel that I see is about “yenta”.
I tried removing file pcmcia.rules from rules.d directory. It gave me ability to run udevd after successful boot. But if I let udevd run on boot, it still causes kernel panic.
You seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place with the Iscan.
You seem to be caught between a rock