Bugs:Most Annoying Bugs 10.1

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The most annoying bugs and their suggested workarounds:

For general information about reporting bugs, see Submit a Bug.

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha3

• powersave dies at boot directly - get an updated package from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/powersave.

• acpid might not run due to a race with the Xserver (Bug #133440) - and then powersave will not run either. A workaround is available (see Bugreport).

• The packages that used to be availlable in inst-source-java are not availlable. (Bug #134459)

How to use Atheros WLAN device on 10.1Alpha3

Add the following line to /etc/udev/rules.d/31-net_create_names.rules :

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="wifi*", RUN="/usr/sbin/wlanconfig ath create wlandev %k wlanmode sta"

Reload the madwifi driver (rmmod ath_pci; modprobe ath_pci). You should now have an interface ath0.

Configure your WLAN device with YaST, use "ath0" as configuration name.

Add the following lines to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-ath0 :

WIRELESS='yes'

HWD_DRIVER='ath_pci'

It should work without the latter line, but is required if you want to use WPA.

Atheros device currently don't work with NetworkNanager.

For wpa, we advice to install the updated package from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/aj/wpa_supplicant

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha2

• libfontconfig does crash after installation or update, this affects most GUI applications like KDE or Gnome. You need to run "fc-cache --force" manualy as root to fix this issue. Bug 128080

• pilot-link has been updated to version 0.12pre4, not all packages do build against this version.

• Gecko 1.8 engine is used as default for all gecko based browsers, not all packages do build against this version.

• New Mono version broke the build of some C# applications, like iFolder or the mono-debugger.

• Package yast2-hardware-detection is not installed by default. Select it manually in the package selection otherwise yast will not be able to configure your hardware. Bug 133641

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1 (Codename "Auckland")

• The distribution identifies itself as "10.0.42 Alpha1" - and has in quite a lot places the 10.0 branding, including the 10.0 release notes. This is a known feature ;-)

• kdepim3 cannot get installed. We've put on the mirror besides the ISOs a kdepim directory with updated files.

• Internet test will not work since downloading of patches is not set up.

SUSE Linux 10.0 RC1 (Codename "Nürnberg")

• KDE default installation needs manual addition of "amarok-xine" package to solve dependencies.
  • There are similar issues with Kaffeine

• Installation on i586 systems is not possible since only a i686 glibc is on the media Bug #115834 Resolved.

• All versions you can download here (and from the mirrors, of course) are coming without the commercial packages. These are packages with restricted licenses (i.e. non-GPL-licenses). So please don't file a bug-report on a `missing package' which is indeed a commercial package and hence not distributed with the OSS-version. Either download them from the repositories, build them yourself (...). Wishes about to-be-added packages should always be made on the Package Wishlist anyway. Thank you for taking this into account.

• ATI 3D support is not working for many users even though the package from ATI's site has specific options for AMD64/SUSE 10.0.
  • See message board thread for reference: SUSE Forums

• High speed USB storage devices (harddisks, usb sticks, media players, ...) are working only with low data rates: Bug #105871

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 4 (Codename "Provo")

• After a network installation, the network is not up at all. Reboot the machine or run a "rcnetwork restart". Bug #112909, resolved in RC1

• suseplugger pops up after a new installation and informs about newly found hardware Bug #114427

• The bug with grub ("no operating system found"), still exists.Bug #103031

• Firefox doesn't work correctly if subdomain is started Bug #114350

Call for testing

• We ask you to test all the PCMCIA and Cardbus-cards you have with beta4. We expect everything to work :) but a broader test is appreciated. Thanks in advance for a lot of helpful bugreports.

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 3 (Codename "Bangalore")

• A GNOME installation cannot resolve all software dependencies, go into "Software" and add one of the two packages offered (either kdebase3-SuSE or apache2).

• kdm does not switch to utf8, add the following to /etc/init.d/xdm Bug #112774 :

 . /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

• udev gives a number of error messages during boot Bug #112820

• Xen is not working Bug#105178.

• Wrong firmware-loader script called by udev causing ipw2100/ipw2200 load failures. Bug #112915

Call for testing

• We ask everybody for a short check of power management and suspend. Please try suspend-to-disk and if you notice any problems after resuming please make a bugzilla-entry containing the following logfiles:

- the output of /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/powersave_logs (a file named powersave_logs.tar.gz)
- the output of hwinfo --all --log /tmp/hwinfo.txt  (file /tmp/hwinfo.txt)

• It would be very helpful if you could try suspend-to-ram, too, but before doing so, please read /usr/share/doc/packages/powersave/README.suspend2ram. Also, there is a good introduction into suspend troubleshooting on SUSEWiki.org [1]. Please have a look at Bugs:Suspend Failure before reporting those bugs.

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 2 (Codename "Boston")

SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS Beta 2 does contain OpenOffice.org, the hard dependency to Sun Java has been removed.

• Beta2 is not fully translated - a lot has been done but we're expecting some more translations for beta3. Do not report missing translations, but please report wrongly or misleading translated messages.

• On some systems the bootloader might not work - in these cases we advice to install the bootloader in the MBR Bug #103031, fixed in beta3.

• The kernel has a broken SATA cdrom support and will not install on machines with SATA cdroms/burners. Bug #102543, fixed in beta3.

• KDE uses a backported KDEMM multimedia system. Most important applications has been ported from aRts to kdemm. Knotify seems to have a problem with this at the moment. A "killall knotify" solves the problem for some time. Bug #104078, fixed in beta3.

• Scrollkeeper slows down the SuSEconfig run at the end of the installation. Bug #59833

• Kontact is installed when GNOME desktop is chosen due to dependency of TaskJuggler. Either TaskJuggler shouldn't be installed when GNOME is selected or TaskJuggler needs to depend on something else. Bug #104454

• Dualhead configuration using the radeon Xorg driver is broken Bug#104640

• Xen is not working Bug#105178, fixed in beta3.

• Non-WPA wireless encryption modes are broken. Try adding PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to the ifcfg-wlan config file. Bug #104117, fixed in beta3.

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 1 (Codename "Prague")

• Beta1 is not fully translated. Please do not report translation problems.

• OpenOffice.org is not included due to a Java dependency. Work is in progress to eleminate this dependency and bring OpenOffice.org into beta2.

• The kernel has a broken SATA cdrom support and will not install on machines with SATA cdroms/burners. Bug #102543

• The YaST ncurses front-end shows a broken display. Bug #102615, solved for beta2

• KDE uses a backported KDEMM multimedia system. Most important applications has been ported from aRts to kdemm. Knotify seems to have a problem with this at the moment. Bug #97588.

• Theming for the Gnome desktop is still based on older SUSE Linux 9.3. Updated Gnome packages coming in a future beta. Bug #102355, fixed in beta2.

• The bootsplash is not completely themed and uses the SUSE Linux 9.3 theming in some places. Bug #102654, fixed in beta2.

• Hotplugging USB devices and of some PCMCIA cards does not work currently. Bug #102655, Bug #102342

• Installation on secondary hard drive can cause the system to be unbootable. Bug #100728, solved for beta2

• Custom Partition Setup contains a bug when creating new swap partitions. The Expert Partitioner is not affected. Bug #102415, solved for beta2

• Scrollkeeper slows down the SuSEconfig run at the end of the installation. Bug #59833

• YaST does not allow to edit the second network card. A fix is available. Bug #102945, solved for beta2

• After installation, Windows dual boot not set up correctly in GRUB Bug #102703, solved for beta2

• Non-WPA wireless encryption modes are broken. Try adding PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT='no' to the ifcfg-wlan config file. Bug #104117

• Using LVM for the root partition results in unbootable system (menu.lst is broken and needs to be hand-edited) Bug #103134, solved for beta2

• Kontact is installed when GNOME desktop is chosen due to dependency of TaskJuggler. Either TaskJuggler shouldn't be installed when GNOME is selected or TaskJuggler needs to depend on something else. Bug #104454

• Dualhead configuration using the radeon Xorg driver is broken Bug#104640