Bugs:Most Annoying Bugs 11.0 dev

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The most annoying bugs and their suggested workarounds:

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openSUSE 11.0 RC1

General

• Multimedia Keys on laptop will no works Bug #398846 Bug #398774, package hotkey-setup is not available on OSS repository. (workaroud install the package from home:anubisg1 and reboot)
• GRUB config broken for other partitions Bug #395085
• USB system with EHCI might have issues in device recognition [[1]]
• Eclipse only works if Xulrunner (and therefore Firefox too) is not installed Bug #383702

GNOME

• GNOME asks for the root password on first login Bug #390658
• GNOME has wrong icon theme by default Bug #391865
• GNOME updater crashes on login Bug #395445 Workaround - until the fix is pushed to the update repositories you can change the ShutdownTimeout to 120 seconds in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf

KDE

• KNetworkManager fills the system tray with 3 icons. Bug #383032

openSUSE 11.0 Beta3

General

• after installation from LiveCD, it is imperative that you delete the file /.buildenv , otherwise your system won't boot after you upgrade the kernel because of a missing initrd file. See Bug #389177 and Bug #392054. [NB: If you happen not to be able to boot because of this, reboot with the livecd, open a console, mount your root partition (say to /mnt/root) (and the boot partition to /mnt/root/boot if necessary), then do "mount /sys --bind /mnt/root/sys", chroot to /mnt/root, delete .buildenv and run mkinitrd to create the missing initrd file.]
• NVIDIA driver doesn't compile. Workaround: check here for a patch. No patching required if 173.14.05 drivers are used. If you want to install the nvidia legacy driver take a look here.
• parallel driver grabs IRQ14 preventing legacy SFF ATA controller from working (Bug #375836)
• T41p shutting down due to "temperature critical" (Bug #378327)
• Branding not yet complete (Bug #369270)
• Package selector doesn't show any patterns (Bug #390139)
• SMB based (network) printer cannot be added (Bug #386934)
• network printing via lpd fails (Bug #391848)
• Upgrade process leaves the system with wrong permissions on some files. Run `SuSEconfig` to fix them(Bug #390930)

GNOME

• YaST control center does not start under GNOME (Bug #389069)
• No window decoration, workaround run compiz-manager & or metacity --replace& (Bug #387168)

KDE

• kdm looses keyboard when detecting an unknown previous session type (Bug #389098)
• Kontact starts with sidebar splitter on right window border (Bug #389141), Workaround: move it to left to see components
• opensuseupdater-kde unable to start 'yast2 piwo' (Bug #389765)
• (K)NetworkManager unable to autoidentify the right wpa (Bug #391759) Workaround: choose Expert settings and specify manually the WPA version and the specific chiper. If you don't know which use be root and check with: iwlist dev-name scan (i.e. iwlist wlan0 scan)

openSUSE 11.0 Beta2

Live-CD

• Automatic Configuration after boot into installed system behaves weird (Bug #385563, Bug #385558)
• Installation leaves traces of Live system (Bug #385829)

Note: You can find newer Live-CDs with those fixes on ftp.suse.com

General

• GNOME Main Menu is slow to respond (Bug #375701) Workaround: Click on volume control in the panel, Configure local sound server then check "Enable network access to local sound devices"
• Hostname created during installation isn't being saved to /etc/hosts, and can cause slow Desktop logins and launching of apps (Bug #383336). Workaround: Add your hostname to /etc/hosts (See bug)
• NVIDIA driver doesn't compile. Workaround: check here for a patch.
• If you upgrade the kernel to 2.6.25.2-2-default you must run mkinitrd or your system won't boot on next reboot (Bug #389177)

su - 
cd /boot
mkinitrd

• YaST NTP module does not start Bug #387717

openSUSE 11.0 Beta1

Live-CD

• x86_64 live CDs do not fit on 700MB, need to be tested with DVD-R
• tells that you have to type kernel name which fails, just press <return> (Bug #381152)
• Live-CD installer does not work (Bug #381259, Bug #381153)
• memtest fails even on good RAM (Bug #359490) Workaround: use older media e.g. 10.3

DVD

• Adding of system users is broken (Bug #381227), workaround: see below
• Changing something in the bootloader proposal causes broken menu.lst (Bug #380781)
• License text still from 10.3 (Bug #381158)

General

• password exceeds 8 characters warning during installation (Bug #371147)
• Patterns or patches will never be shown as selected (Bug #380356)
• GNOME Main Menu (and some other apps) are slow to respond (Bug #375701) Workaround: Click on volume control in the panel, Configure local sound server then check "Enable network access to local sound devices"
• GDM does not start, missing gdm user (Bug #381227), Fix: Reinstall gdm as below to work around
• NVIDIA driver doesn't compile. Workaround: check here for a patch.
• KDE4 login screen is confused about focus (Bug #381501)
• Trashcan/desktop icons may get duplicated on every login (Bug #381191)
• If Plasma crashes or gets killed on next login the panel is missing (Bug #381704)
• X doesn't start in VirtualBox (Bug #374710) Workaround: Log in as root, run "sax2 -m 0=vesa" then "rcxdm restart"

Missing System Users in 11.0 Beta1

There is a Bug which affects the adding of system users in the following packages on both LiveCD and DVD installation:

• aaa_base
• avahi
• beagle
• cups
• dbus-1
• festival
• fuse
• gdm
• hal
• ntp
• openssh
• PolicyKit
• postfix
• pulseaudio
• pwdutils
• samba
• scrollkeeper
• uuid-runtime
• yast2-registration

You have to reinstall them to get the correct users created on your system. You can do so either in YaST or use zypper like:

for i in aaa_base avahi beagle cups dbus-1 festival fuse \
 gdm hal ntp openssh PolicyKit postfix pulseaudio pwdutils \
 samba scrollkeeper uuid-runtime yast2-registration; \
 do rpm -q $i > /dev/null 2>&1 && zypper in -y -f -n $i; done

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha3

• PERMISSION_SECURITY set to secure by default (Bug #373654)
• The kernel OOPSes early in the installation on hardware probe on some hardware [including virtualbox] (Bug #371997 - workaround: boot with hwprobe=-parallel,-misc.par [do not enter space after comma])
• "Use Automatic Configuration" checkbox is highly experimental, this feature is not yet finished.
• the root password will be "*****" by default, feel free to change it
• network startup is racy (Bug #359793), work-around: rcnetwork restart
• the artwork is not yet complete (e.g. Bug #368624)
• Autoyast broken (Bug #372322)
• grub config is empty (Bug #372351) after update - workaround cp /boot/grub/menu.lst.old /boot/grub/menu.lst
• installation from KDE CD starts xdm (Bug #372506), fix: set in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
• yast2 icons are missing on the GNOME CD (Bug #372569)
• installation continues in text mode (Bug #373703)
• SATA DVD Drive HP Model DH-16A1L is no longer accessible (Bug #373677)
• Mouse does not work in VMware. Workaround, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment out InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" in the ServerLayout section
• NVIDIA driver doesn't compile. Workaround: check here for a patch.
• Wireless doesn't start up (Bug #376742). Workaround: as root run "/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log &", then kill and restart nm-applet. After a few seconds, the connection should work.
• Can't switch keyboard layouts with Alt-Alt hotkey (Bug #373197).

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2

• Progress dialog Loading the Package Manager... blocks the installation-update proposal (Bug #359235). Although you can accept the proposal by clicking on [Accept] you can't see the proposed data/values.

• Linuxrc crashes when you change default language and display. (Bug #360867). You can accept the default proposal and change them in YaST later.

• KDE3 autostart applications may crash on KDE4 Startup (Bug #359800)

• Mono apps do not work on the GNOME LiveCD (Bug #359768)
• Missing graphical menu on Live-CD (Bug #359486)
• Popups during the installation behave sporadically
• Kernel panic on boot KDE LiveCD (Bug #365783)
• Frozen shutdown on a dell precision 690 Bug #365491

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha1

• PPC can not be installed or upgraded at all via the inst-sys, because yast crashes very early due to miscompilation in the LIMAL package. Upgrade from a fresh 10.3 or 11.0 Alpha0 release.

• Firefox is crashing (Bug #354150).

• X11 config is crashing (Bug #354386). This makes second stage installation crash too. After system reboots, YaST asks whether you want to rerun the aborted second stage installation and if you do so, installation crashes again at the end. Workaround is to skip rerunning it and configure X11, sound, TV and printers on a running system.

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0

• Hyperlinks in installation proposals (partitioning, network, firewall, X, printer...) don't work in Qt (Bug #346158). You have to use the [Change...] button at the bottom of those dialogs. This will be fixed with an updated yast2-core (-2.16.13) in factory.

• Some YaST dialogs that use a tree (Sysconfig, Firewall, DNS-Server, DHCP-Server, ...) don't work in Qt (Bug #346165). This will be fixed with an updated yast2-core (-2.16.3) in factory. In the meantime, you can use the NCurses (text based) version.

• A new YaST UI engine (a.k.a. "mod-ui") has changed the appearance of some dialogs (Language selection, Registration AKA Online Update Configuration, ...)(Bug #345819).

• First Stage Installation might get finished with "An error occurred...". This is caused be some wrong handling in YaST (core?) when finishing the y2base process (should not cause any huge problem).

• Zypper can't add repositories (Bug #346797).