I did an update today (from a yesterday’s kde live-cd) and it now shows RC1.
Up to kernel 3.1.0 rc9 and kde 4.7.2.
Still need to reboot on install (for a wired connection) before internet connection works. A couple of observations the default for konqueror is now webkit not khtml but the browser keeps crashing (with flash installed or not) - changing to khtml sorts out the problem. Amarok has not been updated to take into account the recent libqt updates so comes up with error messages - the version from kde factory repo has been updated and works fine.
Am I just getting used to the ‘green’ or has it been toned down a touch - as it doesn’t quite seem as bright.
I noticed yesterday (with Beta1), that if I switch from “ifup” to “NetworkManager” in Yast, the network stops working until I reboot. It is probably the same problem.
i got the penSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0371-Media iso and it wants to downgrade 712 packages when i do a zypper dup is anybody else getting alot of packages wanting to be downloaded and is it safe to downgrade the packages
Will those of us running the beta be automatically upgraded to RC1? Or are we going to have to reinstall? I assume, given my experience with other distros, that we will be automatically upgraded, but I just want to be sure.
Those are the working Factory repos, but be careful.
Once the release is final you would need to change to the 12.1 official repos or even better do a new install
I just updated & am I delusional? I think I saw Geeko’s eye move back & forth on the boot screen as 12.1 loads. It’s happens just before one gets to the splash screen on a reboot or a start.
Given the problems with 12.1 beta1 DVD installs (32-bit and to a lessor extent 64-bit) I have a lot of trepredation wrt 12.1 RC1. I confess reading the bug reports on the install problems (and lack of reported progress in fixing) does not give me much confidence that the problems will be fixed.
It appears those who install 12.1 beta1 on a clean drive with a DVD have minimal problems, but once one tries to install with multiple partitions from a DVD the 12.1 beta1 has bad problems. For some reason it does not appear the packagers are using multiple partition configurations for their testing ( ? ) and hence are not able to reproduce the problems ? … I don’t know.
Its been almost a week since I last checked the bug reports - I hope progress has made, but I confess to feeling a sense of resignation that we could also see a bad RC1 for DVD installs.
As caf rightly points out to keep up-todate you need to change the repos for oss and non-oss to the factory versions. A beta install points to the /factory-snapshot/repos. Since rc1 there have been a further 157 updates (on a kde system). Factory updates do sometimes go wrong - like today’s updates bugger up the yast2-qt rpm’s resulting in yast being unable to make any package changes. Had to learn how to use zypper (for the first time) to put things right.
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> Yast2-qt
> In gnome isn’t working
> And gtk’s yast doesn’t show version radio buttons
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Of course it has a version selection in yast gtk (since 11.4) I quickly
checked that this feature is also there in 12.1 beta 1 (it just looks
different because it is not shown as radio buttons).
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Sorry I haven’t used gnome but for kde it was the update from factory today that caused the yast2-qt problems. This mornng yast was working fine - I am a bit old fashioned and still use yast for updates. Had a quick crash course with zypper and re-installed the yast2-qt packages pointing to factory-snapshot/repo and yast is back working.
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> Except I’m using RC1
> There should be buttons something like this
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/SUSE%20Misc/kernel-radio-switch.png
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I doubt that makes a difference, this is what it looks like in yast gtk http://susepaste.org/88790188
since 11.4 and also in the 12.1’s I have seen (though I did not look at it
in RC1). Instead of radio buttons you simply have clickable buttuns.
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
