Re: [opensuse-factory] status report distribution week 2

2008-01-10 Thread Keith Goggin
On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:54:25 Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag 10 Januar 2008 schrieb Keith Goggin: The openSUSE 10.3 detailed roadmap made it clear that beta1 would provide a Feature and version freeze for the complete distribution (exception: patchlevel update of leaf packages

Re: [opensuse-factory] status report distribution week 2

2008-01-09 Thread Keith Goggin
On Thursday 10 January 2008 02:52:23 Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2008/1/9, Stephan Kulow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch 09 Januar 2008 schrieb Ladislav Michnovič: I read the Roadmap at http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap and my humble opinion is that we should have 4 beta releases, not only 3. The

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bugzilla Tutorial for testers

2007-12-14 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 14 December 2007 21:57:50 Andreas Jaeger wrote: Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Now in the interest of not wasting anybody's time, including my own, I would like to suggest that all testers, including volunteers, be given access to Novell's Bugzilla tutorials

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bugzilla Tutorial for testers

2007-12-14 Thread Keith Goggin
On Saturday 15 December 2007 03:56:11 Robison, Jonathon (M.) wrote: You thought employee/internal sites would have more data? In my experience, they usually say nothing of value and then point to external sites for more information! Well yes I did think that, perhaps a little naively. I get

[opensuse-factory] Bugzilla Tutorial for testers

2007-12-13 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi list, When I uncover what I suspect to be a bug, I search both the factory mailing list and Bugzilla for the occurrence of a likely keyword. More often than not my searches are unsuccessful, so based on my own level of confidence that I may have found a genuine bug, I will either post a

[opensuse-factory] RC1 i386 Installation

2007-09-23 Thread Keith Goggin
1. During installation 'add online repositories before installation' should NOT in my opinion be the default. It causes more trouble than it's worth and takes far too long to complete. Adding repositories after installation is a much faster and cleaner process. 2. The installation process did

[opensuse-factory] openSUSE-10.3-Beta1-DVD-x86_64.iso Install

2007-08-11 Thread Keith Goggin
Installation on my AMD64/ASUS M2A-VM paused while loading the AHCI driver and ultimately failed with the messages:- Could not find the openSUSE installation source - activating manual setup program and No repository found. Ralf Vogt reported the same in Bug 299010 - openSUSE 10.3 installation,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Next week, next alpha

2007-07-24 Thread Keith Goggin
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 02:19, Stephan Kulow wrote: Hi! As not everyone might follow the recent changes of the wiki, I'd like to tell you quickly that we'll release next week's alpha to the public. I hope we can sort out all blockers till then. Next week's alpha? OK now I see the roadmap

[opensuse-factory] Five or More?

2007-07-22 Thread Keith Goggin
A minor point but in Alpha6 Kmenu / System / Configuration / Yast2-Install is labeled 'Five or More'. also Kmenu / System / Desktop Applet / openSUSE-Updater is labeled 'Balsa'. Do these require a bug report?

[opensuse-factory] Apparent new user

2007-06-17 Thread Keith Goggin
During installation of Alpha5 I am asked if I wish to disable automatic login in the following message:- The automatic login feature is enabled for user ... Now you have added a new user. Disable automatic login? I checked Yast User Management and no second user exists?

Re: [opensuse-factory] Apparent new user

2007-06-17 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 18 June 2007 03:47, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-17 16:38]: During installation of Alpha5 I am asked if I wish to disable automatic login in the following message:- The automatic login feature is enabled for user ... Now you have added a new

Re: [opensuse-factory] USB not working (for me) in Alpha 5 X86_64

2007-06-17 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 18 June 2007 05:50, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:23:32AM +1000, Keith Goggin wrote: Eeek, that's not good at all (and is indicitive of not a USB problem, but something else.) Can you try out the -vanilla kernel and let us know if that fixes the problem

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-06-10 Thread Keith Goggin
On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:27, Sid Boyce wrote: As drives are emulated, you could try e.g -cdrom /dev/sdc to see if it it will use it as an emulated cdrom and on a mounted filesystem OK I now have 10.2GM i386 running in 10.3A4 X86_64 but it runs very slowly on an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ with 2GB

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-30 Thread Keith Goggin
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:45, Ladislav Slezak wrote: Keith Goggin wrote: [...] I created testvm.qcow (20GB) OK but then couldn't execute the next step.. # qemu -sda /home/kg/Desktop/openSUSE-10.3Alpha4-DVD-x86_64.iso -boot d qemu: invalid option -- '-sda' Note both my HDD and DVD-ROM

[opensuse-factory] Installing on SATA HDD with SATA DVD-Burner

2007-05-21 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi list, I have installed openSUSE 10.3 alpha 4 on a SATA2 HDD using a SATA2 DVD-Burner. So far so good. However the mobo has Radeon Xpress 1250 integrated graphics which only runs in framebuffer mode on alpha 4. I would like to exercise the graphics chip in 3D mode but so far there are no

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

2007-05-19 Thread Keith Goggin
On Sunday 20 May 2007 12:40, Sid Boyce wrote: Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! I wrote an article about different types of Virtualization here: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualization.html This article describes 4 stages of Virtualization: Emulation, Full Virtualization,

Re: [opensuse-factory] K3b May be a problem also branding

2007-05-18 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 18 May 2007 23:23, peter nikolic wrote: Hi .. I have downloaded the x86_64 alpha4 DVD iso and attempted to burn a DVD this disk had 10.3-alpha3 on it DVD-RW K3B is refusing to write to this disk it will not format it . is there a problem with 10.3-Alpha3 x86_64 burning or

[opensuse-factory] firmware test new hardware

2007-05-04 Thread Keith Goggin
I've just built a new box and wish to save the output of the firmware test included on the openSUSE10.3alpha3 installation disk. I tried 'save to ssh' with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:filename but got an scp syntax error. I read the man scp page but it didn't help. Can someone help with the destination

[opensuse-factory] Another Delta question

2007-02-08 Thread Keith Goggin
Andreas, Will there be an 10.2 GM to 10.3 Alpha1 Delta? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-factory] Order of Search Installation Sources

2007-01-24 Thread Keith Goggin
openSUSE 10.2 does not appear to have any method of ordering the search of software catalogues under YAST Software Installation Source. Previous versions of SUSE had an option to promote or demote Source URL's in the search order so why has this been removed in 10.2?

[opensuse-factory] Epson CX5300 Scanner Work Around

2007-01-17 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, My scanner now works correctly in openSUSE 10.2 after applying the correct USB Vendor and Product ID (0x04b8 0x808) to the 'usb' line in /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf as described by Jon Nelson in his comment # 4 Bugzilla # 229250. It seems to me that there may be more than one problem here

[opensuse-factory] Python IDLE

2006-12-18 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Python IDLE is not found on the 32 bit openSUSE10.2GM DVD. Is this due to the change to patterns or a question of space on the DVD? In any event could it be included in openSUSE 10.3? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[opensuse-factory] Mouse instability in 10.2GM install - reported

2006-12-09 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, I've installed openSUSE10.2 GM from the i386 DVD and the mouse became unstable during the Hardware Configuration stage after testing a new monitor resolution in Sax2 (changed from 1280x1024 to 1024x768). By pressing Tab to continue without any further modification, the installation

Re: [opensuse-factory] Mouse instability again!

2006-12-08 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 08 December 2006 19:08, Hugo oosterkamp wrote: Hi, Just installed openSUSE10.2 GM from the i386 DVD and the mouse became unstable during the Hardware configuration stage (Graphics Card Monitor). I rebooted and continued the install without configuring the monitor (accepted

[opensuse-factory] Mouse instability again!

2006-12-07 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Just installed openSUSE10.2 GM from the i386 DVD and the mouse became unstable during the Hardware configuration stage (Graphics Card Monitor). I rebooted and continued the install without configuring the monitor (accepted the default resolution) and the install completed OK. This appears

[opensuse-factory] RC1 to GM Delta ISO

2006-12-03 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Will there be a RC1 to GM Delta ISO? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, A suggestion for openSUSE10.3. I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. I had a look at this compressed text file and observed that it

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 01 December 2006 12:54, Andreas Hanke wrote: Keith Goggin schrieb: I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. It's really insane

[opensuse-factory] Yast Printer Configuration lost but printer still works

2006-11-29 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, In 10.2RC1 I've noticed Yast Printer Configuration is lost on completion of configuration but the printer works OK. Is CUPS taking over Yast's roll here? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: New kernel released for 10.2

2006-11-28 Thread Keith Goggin
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:40, Andreas Jaeger wrote: We just released a new kernel package that contains the latest fixes via online update for 10.2. Please install it on your systems and report if you have any new problems. Installed cleanly in two stages as described using Yast YOU.

Re: [opensuse-factory] ntp error

2006-11-28 Thread Keith Goggin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:26, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote: * Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Nov 28. 2006 16:13]: My clock is more than 2 minutes slow. Services shows ntpd running. I don't see anything in /var/log/* to indicate any problem with ntpd. What should I do to fix the

Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: New kernel released for 10.2

2006-11-28 Thread Keith Goggin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:43, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 28 November 2006 20:40, Andreas Jaeger wrote: We just released a new kernel package that contains the latest fixes via online update for 10.2. Please install it on your systems

Re: [opensuse-factory] ntp error

2006-11-28 Thread Keith Goggin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 03:05, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote: * Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Nov 28. 2006 17:03]: Yes I think so because when I test it from Yast Network Services NTP Configuration it responds 'Server is reachable and responds properly' also IPCop is set to 'Provide

[opensuse-factory] K3B as root cant find growisofs

2006-11-27 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, In openSUSE 10.2RC1 when I run K3B as root it can't find growisofs? When run with normal user privileges K3B runs OK. Is there now (10.2RC1) a need to run K3B as root? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse-factory] User Session automatic locking 10.2RC1

2006-11-26 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Has anyone found a way to defeat the automatic inactivity locking of user sessions? I've tried Yast SecurityUsers User Management but nothing available there. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Directory structure for ftp tree of openSUSE 10.2

2006-11-26 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 27 November 2006 02:56, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Thanks a lot for all your comments, I have refined my proposal now taking them into account! I realise it's a bit late to comment now, but I am curious to know why you have not mentioned the update repositories in this proposal?

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Dummy Updates for Yast YOU

2006-11-26 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 27 November 2006 04:04, Duncan Mac-Vicar wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 17:25, Marcel Hilzinger wrote: Only opensuseupdater is concerned by the problem. YOU shows the available test patches. I did installation without Zenworks and can confirm the problem. Can you guys please:

[opensuse-factory] fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) in 10.2b2 10.2RC1

2006-11-25 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, I've been in the habit of mounting all my partitions at boot time and have noticed (since openSUSE10.2b2) that the new version of fsck which is run against mounted linux partitions other than (/ and swap) does not like pre openSUSE10.2b2 ReiserFS partitions. I don't know if this is a bug

[opensuse-factory] Dummy Updates for Yast YOU

2006-11-25 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, 1. I've added http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/update/10.2/ to opensuseupdater in both 10.2b2 and 10.2RC1. In 10.2b2 opensuseupdater shows 7 patches available. In 10.2RC1 opensuseupdater shows none? 2. What happened to the dummy update I asked for

[opensuse-factory] MD5SUMS for 10.2b2_RC1 Delta ISO's

2006-11-22 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Are there MD5SUMs for the 10.2b2_10.2RC1 Delta ISOs and/or the resultant 10.2RC1 ISOs? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] K3b

2006-11-19 Thread Keith Goggin
On Sunday 19 November 2006 19:37, Andras Mantia wrote: On Sunday 19 November 2006 04:15, Keith Goggin wrote: In openSUSE10.2b2 K3b refers to growisofs and not wodim. Why should it refere to wodim? ;-) growisofs is part of dvd+rw-tools, while wodim is the forked cdrtools suite, which

[opensuse-factory] K3b

2006-11-18 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, In openSUSE10.2b2 K3b refers to growisofs and not wodim. See SettingsConfigure K3bPrograms Will this be fixed in RC1? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse-factory] lppasswd

2006-11-17 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, according to Bug 218745 - /usr/bin/lppasswd has setuid lp which does no longer work. Comment #2 From Klaus Singvogel 2006-11-09 07:34:16 MST [reply] found the cause of the problem: the daemon itself fixed in next version. what is meant by next version,

[opensuse-factory] GRASS 6.2.0 GIS

2006-11-17 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, Version 5.0.3-29 of GRASS is included with SuSE 10.1. Will the current stable GRASS 6.2.0 be included in openSUSE 10.2? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] Epson Stylus CX5300 not installed correctly

2006-11-13 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 13 November 2006 20:59, Johannes Meixner wrote: Johannes, On Nov 12 22:12 Keith Goggin wrote (shortened): When installing 10.2 B2 (X86 DVD) I found my Epson Stylus CX5300 printer was not properly configured. On subsequent YAST Hardware configuration it worked OK, however I

[opensuse-factory] Epson Stylus CX5300 not installed correctly

2006-11-12 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, When installing 10.2 B2 (X86 DVD) I found my Epson Stylus CX5300 printer was not properly configured. On subsequent YAST Hardware configuration it worked OK, however I was unable to configure the scanner by this method. epson no scanner recognised by this driver

[opensuse-factory] Initial Boot Screen

2006-11-12 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, When installing 10.2 B2 (X86 DVD) I found The F1 to F5 configuration options were dark blue and difficult to see. Previously reported here at Alpha4. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[opensuse-factory] Deselecting Zenworks

2006-11-12 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, When installing 10.2 B2 (X86 DVD) I found deselecting Zenworks and selecting instead the lightweight alternative to Zenworks did not prevent the ubiquitous Zenworks from being installed. Note the red icon along side the deselected Zenworks is defined as Taboo-Never Install I know this

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Real (or Dummy) updates for Yast YOU

2006-09-25 Thread Keith Goggin
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:50, Martin Vidner wrote: On út 19. září 2006 08:40, Keith Goggin wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 22:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Would it be practical to develop a dummy update that could be applied with YOU

Re: [opensuse-factory] Real (or Dummy) updates for Yast YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 18 September 2006 22:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Would it be practical to develop a dummy update that could be applied with YOU and or 'Software Updater'? For what do you want it? For Beta testers to test Yast YOU / Software Updater / RUG

[opensuse-factory] Real (or Dummy) updates for Yast YOU

2006-09-14 Thread Keith Goggin
1. Would it be practical to develop a dummy update that could be applied with YOU and or 'Software Updater'? 2. Can we have the 'Software Updater' correctly identify itself? When the cursor is placed over the Icon it simply says 'There are nn software updates available' 3. Will the 'Software

Re: [opensuse-factory] Pre-Beta Beta comments

2006-09-11 Thread Keith Goggin
On Monday 11 September 2006 18:14, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know there is still one alpha to go but here are my pre-beta beta comments :-) 1.The colour contrast on the initial (Splash?) screen is such that the F1 through F5 tabs are difficult to see

[opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.2 Alpha 4 install

2006-09-10 Thread Keith Goggin
Hello all, Some issues I encountered on an Athlon XP 2600+ 1. USB mouse problem described by others 2.Philips 107P4 detected as 15 inch not 17 inch 3.Epson CX5300 not detected -error message: USB bus not properly configured 4.After install 18 software updates shown as available but

[opensuse-factory] Internet Installation openSUSE 10.2 Alpha4

2006-09-08 Thread Keith Goggin
Hello all, http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version says in part 'If you choose this installation type, you download a small boot medium to start the installation from and the YaST installer does the rest for you' I have tried this method and cannot get beyond the error message 'Could not

[opensuse-factory] Burning the internet install ISO for 10.2 alpha 4

2006-09-07 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, I've downloaded and burnt the X86 boot disk for internet install (openSUSE10.2 Alpha 4). The disk verified ok but the boot process hasn't recognised the install media. I've used a re-writable CD does that matter? Thanks for any advise

Re: [opensuse-factory] Burning the internet install ISO for 10.2 alpha 4

2006-09-07 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 08 September 2006 07:52, Brendan Mulholland wrote: On 9/7/06, Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hey. I've downloaded and burnt the X86 boot disk for internet install (openSUSE10.2 Alpha 4). The disk verified ok but the boot process hasn't recognised the install media