openSUSE 12.2 M4 release date?

Hello @ all,

does anybody know a release date for openSUSE 12.2 M4?

thanks,

Reinardo

On 04/26/2012 09:56 AM, Reinardo wrote:
>
> Hello @ all,
>
> does anybody know a release date for openSUSE 12.2 M4?

Today on the opensuse-factory ML under the subject “New Milestone - same
problems”, Stephan Kulow wrote the following:

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We won’t be able to finish Milestone4 in time either ;(

And it doesn’t look like a problem with gcc, but the installation is
hosed - and libreoffice is uninstallable. Two problems we need to
fix IMO before we can release. So let’s hope the best for next week.
But as tuesday is a public holiday in almost all of the world and monday
is a vacation time for many, we need really good luck

Greetings, Stephan

Stephan, also known as coolo, is the openSUSE Release Manager.

Thanks very much for the info!!

Greetz,

Reinardo

Enjoy holydays with your beloved, don’t make M4 a in-a-hurry release, better later than bad;):)lol!
Ciao Pier

I updated from latest factory and now have Milestone 4. Yast doesn’t work properly and Amarok has lost its internal database.
I think the Amarok problem may not be M4 related and I’m checking the bugs list for Yast.

Please remember when updating from Factory. Factory is constantly in flux. What is not working one day – is then working the next day.

I would recommend checking Build Service Factory. It will tell you the state of the packages including patches and the build process hourly.

Was looking out for the M4 release this weekend… any idea if this will be the release week?

Been running the M3 KDE release, besides some small annoyances… thumbs up!

Cheers,
Willem

On 05/14/2012 02:46 PM, Magic31 wrote:

> Was looking out for the M4 release this weekend… any idea if this
> will be the release week?

iirc, they decided (and said on the factory mail list) to skip 4 and go
straight to 5 (at the pre-announced release date)…

you might look there to confirm…


dd

Ah… ok & thanks. I only saw the wiki/roadmap page mentioning M4 was delayed.

As for M5… that would then be Beta 1 and should be here somewhere end of next week. Guess I’ll wait for that one then :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Willem

Looks like we are looking for a release next week.

According to the roadmap milestone 4 is the last… milestone, "Thursday, 24 May 2012: openSUSE 12.2 Beta " so i hope that more people get involved to make the future 12.2 version better.

For all users that have a spare partition or drive

I would encourage more users participate in the beta testing process. Let’s catch as many bugs as possible so that we can have a very stable release.

As far as i know changing repo`s from 12.2/oss and non-oss to factory/oss and non-oss can get us a new state of the future 12.2.

On 05/18/2012 02:26 AM, creatura85 wrote:
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> As far as i know changing repo`s from 12.2/oss and non-oss to
> factory/oss and non-oss can get us a new state of the future 12.2.

That is correct. After you change those repos, do a ‘zypper dup’ and you will
get something that reports as 12.2 Milestone 4. After that, using ‘zypper up’
will get you rolling updates. Be aware, however, that such an update may break
your system completely. There is no guarantee for these snapshots.

The Live KDE CD will build, but not boot. I am trying to debug the issue, and
have found that the failure is because the root filesystem that is being built
gets full. Now, I’m trying to learn Kiwi configuration to see how that size is
set. Progress is slow because it takes a few hours per build attempt.

When I last checked, the Gnome Live CD did not build.

lwfinger that is true, factory is really unstable, one day it may work the other may break, but that is a risk that one should take when testing a future release.

Larry, thank you very much for looking in to this. Reading the mailing lists its clear to me that this is an area where attention was needed as the resources allocated were not adequate to keep creating the liveCDs.

I’m happy to test any try to boot an KDE live CDs you may produce (but not install from) on a variety of different PCs with different hardware. I have a high speed connection at home, and it only takes a small number of minutes to download any liveCD.

My PCs that I have quick access to for test are (with each having a CD drive to boot from):

  • 11-year old MSI KT3 ultra motherboard with 32-bit althon-1100 CPU, 2GB RAM, and an AGP nVidia FX5200 graphic card.
    I currently have 4 different versions of openSUSE on it (12.1, tumbleweed, 12.2 M1 and 12.2 M3) and has FreeDOS
  • 4-year old laptop (Dell Studio 1537) with P8400 Core2 Duo CPU, 4GB RAM, and Radeon HD3450 integrated graphics [and Intel Pro Wifi Link 5300 AGN wireless],
    Dual boots between Win7 and 64-bit openSUSE-12.1 (KDE)
  • 3-year old Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with Intel Core i7 920 CPU, 6GB RAM and a nVidia GTX260 graphic card.
    Has openSUSE-12.1 (KDE) and 12.2 M3 and winXP tri-boot.

Note I’m not adventurous enough to use the new grub version.

I also have limited access to

  • wife’s laptop (Lenovo X220) Intel Core i5-2410M CPU, 4GB RAM, and Intel Sandybridge (HD Graphics 3000). (wireless is an Intel N 6205 AGN)
    Dual boots between Win7 and 64-bit openSUSE-12.1 (KDE). I use an external USB CD drive to boot a live CD with it.
  • wife’s desktop. Asus P7H55-M, H55 motherboard, Intel Core i7-860 CPU, 6GB RAM, and a nVidia GT210 graphic card.
    Has openSUSE-12.1 (KDE), winXP and Win7 tri-boot
  • ancient office GNU/Linux users group laptop (HP NC4010) 32-GBit Intel 1.6GHz CPU, 500MB RAM with Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M graphics (wireles - Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0013])
    Its RAM is limited, and its hard drive is small. It currently has Tumbleweed on it. I use an external USB CD drive to boot a liveCD with it.

I have a spare drive and I’ll be glad to partecipate, installing the testing 12.2, I haven’t so high skills to find bugs:), but being a spare disk I can try anything without fear to bang my working system:), my doubts are on where to report the results…

I have managed to upgrade openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3 to Milestone 4.
After reboot i have discovered an issue regarding the login prompt, i was not able to login in to the KDE desktop with either normal user or root user. Logging in to console work without any issues for both usernames. Bug is reported here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=763142

So along with the 3.4-rc6 kernel, Firefox 12, LibreOffice 3.5, im really glad to see that a login prompt was again introduced. Dont know if i will use grub2 or i will stick to grub-legacy.

You didn’t upgrade to Milestone 4… you upgraded to Factory, which gets rebuilt daily. Nothing is wrong with that, but that bug is prominent enough that it won’t make it to the beta and is likely to be fixed in one of the next Factory releases.

creatura@creation:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release
openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 4 (i586)
VERSION = 12.2
CODENAME = Mantis

Sure it will get fixed :slight_smile: