Hello! I was going to send you a report with my experiences with beta1 when
beta2 came out, so I send you a "all in one" report :-) Beta1 was an upgrade
of a 7.2 system and beta2 was an upgrade of the beta1.
* Problems present in beta1 and fixed (I think) in beta2:
- X had ridiculous values regarding memory use in "ps".
- kppp was not setuid.
- openuniverse did "segmentation fault".
* Problems present in beta1 and which may be (or may not be) in beta2 (I
don't know due to the nature of upgrading):
- squid package was unable to create squid user or group, I don't remember
which one now :-(
- pspell, pspell-devel, gimp-libgimp and xmms-oggvorbis are "old" packages
which were not uninstalled despite the fact that I installed the "new"
corresponding packages.
- psacct package didn't make the files in /var/log, so I had to create them
manually.
* Problems present in both betas:
- During installation, when it finished copying packages from the first CD,
it asked for the second CD but I was unable to change the CD because it was
being used for some process. BTW nice pictures during installation ;-). Which
ones are going to be in the final release?. I propose penguins' renders or
drawings with penguins doing surf, skying, playing football, etc. :-D
- A manual entry in grub (menu.lst) for a kernel compiled by myself was
deleted.
- Makefile in kernel-source should have kgcc as the compiler instead of gcc
(or can the kernel be safely compiled now with gcc-2.96?).
- iptables-restore is unable to load a file which I have stored with
iptables-save.
- Aurora doesn't work with Matrox fb device (this happened with 7.2 too).
- I had a Microsoft IMPS/2. If I select "generic ps/2 mouse with wheel" in
installation the mouse behavior is erratic. I have to select "generic ps/2
mouse". Once installation is over, I can safely select "generic ps/2 mouse
with wheel" in mousedrake, it works fine (this problem happened in 7.2 too).
- rpmdrake doesn't refresh package list after uninstalling a package.
- Doing "supermount enable" manually generates entries for supermount
capable devices with noauto option, which I think is not desired.
- All directories in /var/log except "squid" and "security" missed their
execution permission for all users (including owner)!
Ok, that's all for the moment. I hope it will be useful.
See you in next report! ;-)
