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==Kernel Panic==

When booting my USB device the kernel loads.
<pre>
[ 0.618555] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
[ 1.089931] Kernel Panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
</pre>
This happens both when the 11.2 iso is put to my USB device with dd and Win32DiskImager.
Boot from CD is working.

--[[User:Tomasjensen|jensen]] 10:18, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

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[http://www.mini-notebook-laptop.com Mini-laptop]
[http://www.mini-notebook-laptop.com/netbook-vergleich-und-charts Mini-Computer]
[http://www.mini-notebook-laptop.com/netbook-vergleich-und-charts Netbook]

Der Mini Notebook Markt wächst und wächst, wir versuchen euch den Markt so übersichtlich wie möglich näher zu bringen. Als erstes haben wir für

euch eine Liste mit dem wichtigsten Netbooks zusammgestellt. Der 2 Link ist sind die meistverkaufsten Mini Notebooks. Viel Spass.

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  /trunk/buildservice/src/build
-== osc (wip) ==
+== osc (git) ==
  /branches/buildservice/osc-exception-handling
  /branches/buildservice/osc-package-tracking
  /trunk/buildservice/src/clientlib/python/fuseosc -> branch fuseosc
-== yabsc ==
+== yabsc (svn) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/yabsc

 ==KIWI-LTSP==
-This Live DVD includes KIWI-LTSP server. To Test the KIWI-LTSP Server follow the [[LTSP/Quick_Start|Quick Start guide]]. Up to 5 users can be logged in to the live LTSP server (You will need minimum 512MB RAM+200M per additional user). More users can be added after installing on hard disk.
+This Live DVD includes KIWI-LTSP server. To Test the KIWI-LTSP Server follow the [[LTSP/Quick_start|Quick start guide]]. Up to 5 users can be logged in to the live LTSP server (You will need minimum 512MB RAM+200M per additional user). More users can be added after installing on hard disk.
 To test iTalc with LTSP, double-click iTalc icon after booting clients.

  /trunk/buildservice/documentation -> master/documentation
-== sign (svn) ==
+== sign (git) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/sign -> master
-== build (svn) ==
+== build (git) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/build
-== osc ==
+== osc (wip) ==
  /branches/buildservice/osc-exception-handling
  /branches/buildservice/osc-package-tracking
  /trunk/distribution/instsource-plugins
-== openFATE (svn) ==
+== openFATE (git) ==
  /trunk/infrastructure/openfate
  /branches/infrastructure/openfate/1.2.6 -> branch 1.2.6
-== Hermes (svn) ==
+== Hermes (git) ==
  /trunk/infrastructure/hermes
  /branches/infrastructure/hermes/0.5 -> branch 0.5
-== software.o.o (svn) ==
+== software.o.o (git) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/software

  /trunk/buildservice/documentation -> master/documentation
-== sign ==
+== sign (svn) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/sign -> master
-== build ==
+== build (svn) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/build
  /trunk/distribution/instsource-plugins
-== openFATE ==
+== openFATE (svn) ==
  /trunk/infrastructure/openfate
  /branches/infrastructure/openfate/1.2.6 -> branch 1.2.6
-== Hermes ==
+== Hermes (svn) ==
  /trunk/infrastructure/hermes
  /branches/infrastructure/hermes/0.5 -> branch 0.5
-== software.o.o ==
+== software.o.o (svn) ==
  /trunk/buildservice/src/software

 <b>This also applies for the default queue setting:</b>
+There is no such thing as "THE" default print queue.
+The system default queue is in /etc/cups/printers.conf stored as "DefaultPrinter queue_name" entry which usually (but see below!) shown when root runs "lpstat -d".
+Besides this any normal user can have his own default queue which is stored in ~/.cups/lpoptions
+(since CUPS 1.2 / openSUSE 10.2, it was ~/.lpoptions in CUPS 1.1) when the user runs "lpoptions -d queue_name" so that any user who runs "lpstat -d" could see his own different default queue.
+Unfortunately also root can run "lpoptions -d queue_name" which stores a special kind of "semi system default queue" in /etc/cups/lpoptions to maximise confusion because now this queue is shown when root runs "lpstat -d" (and no longer the real system default queue in /etc/cups/printers.conf). The "semi system default queue" is also used for normal users who do not have their own default queue setting just like the real system default queue.
 For the default queue setting, there is additionally the environment variable <code>PRINTER</code>. If this environment variable is set to a value other than <code>lp</code>, this setting determines the default queue with highest priority. If <code>PRINTER</code> is set to <code>lp</code>, it is ignored by CUPS. Reason: For traditional printing systems, there is an entry in <code>/etc/profile</code> or in <code>/etc/SuSEconfig/profile</code>, which normally sets <code>PRINTER</code> to <code>lp</code>. As this would determine the default queue with highest priority, it would be impossible to set any other default queue with the usual CUPS tools.

  /trunk/buildservice/src/yabsc
-== kiwi-extenstions ==
+== kiwi-extenstions (done) ==
-We may shall integrate this into kiwi git on berlios ?
+Moved to berlios kiwi git.
  /trunk/distribution/instsource-plugins

 == 11. Changelogs ==
-This section describes the openSUSE policy for RPM Changelogs. The original Changelogs comming with the original source are not affected by this policy.
+This section describes the openSUSE policy for RPM Changelogs. The original Changelogs coming with the original source are not affected by this policy.
 In general: Remember that not even a "well informed developer" but also a "normal enduser with some technical skills" should read and understand a RPM-Changelog - even in one or two years and should be able to reconstruct/revert to the previous specfile (except deleted patches).
-Changelog entries have to be in chronological order. No fixes of previous changelog entries are allowed if a package is "checked in" to autobuild.
+Changelog entries have to be in chronological order. Newer changelog entries are listed in the file above older entries, thus the first entry is the most recent one. No fixes of previous changelog entries are allowed if a package is "checked in" to autobuild.
 === 11.1 General information ===

 __TOC__
-= Upgrading to KDE 4.3.x on openSUSE 11.1 =
+= Upgrading to KDE 4.3.x on openSUSE 11.2 =
 {{Yellow-frame|'''Note:''' This is an unsupported upgrade process.}}
 Add the KDE:43 repository and set priority. Remove any repository with conflicting KDE versions (KDE:42, KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop, KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop)!
- zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.1/ kde-desktop
+ zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/43/openSUSE_11.2/ kde-desktop
  zypper mr -r -p 10 kde-desktop
-'''If''' you have not the online release repository enabled, do it now. The new packages depend on packages which are not part of 11.1 CD/DVD:
+'''If''' you have not got the online release repository enabled, do it now. The new packages depend on packages which are not part of 11.2 CD/DVD:
  zypper mr -e repo-oss
 '''If''' you get a conflict in the upgrade step or if want to use/keep using the KDE3 versions of eg Amarok, Konversation or K3b (now renamed to kde3-<foo>) you need to add the KDE:KDE3 Build Service repository.
- zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.1/ kde3
+ zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.2/ kde3
  zypper mr -r -p 10 kde3
 '''If''' you have KDE:KDE4:Community or even KDE:KDE4:Playground repositories registered update their URLs to (easiest by editing /etc/zypp/repos.d/* files):
- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_43  (community packaged, not in distribution)
+ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43  (community packaged, not in distribution)
- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.1_KDE_43 (<span style="color:red">development snapshots/releases!</span>)
+ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2_KDE_43 (<span style="color:red">development snapshots/releases!</span>)
 == Upgrading ==
  zypper in <b>-n</b> <foo>
+and make sure you have the KDE:KDE3 repo registered - these KDE3 packages are tweaked to not conflict with the current KDE4 packages
 = Also see =

 If the bugreport itself already references an upstream bugreport, just close it. If not, you can try to find a possible upstream bugreport yourself. You can use the advanced search there (if there is a backtrace, search for the topmost entry in it, if there is an error message, try searching for the fixed part of it, etc.). [https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?severity=1&product=kwin This link] will give you a table with all bugreports for components of a specific bugzilla product (edit the 'kwin' in the URL to whichever part of KDE is responsible). If you find such bugreport, add it to the URL field in bugzilla and close the bugreport with a comment like:
-<nowiki>'Please next time report non-major problems that are not openSUSE-specific directly upstream at http://bugs.kde.org  (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE#Report_at_bugzilla.novell.com_or_bugs.kde.org.3F)' and add the upstream URL there too.</nowiki>
+<nowiki>'Please next time report non-major problems that are not openSUSE-specific directly upstream at http://bugs.kde.org  (http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE#Report_at_bugzilla.novell.com_or_bugs.kde.org.3F)'</nowiki>
 If you cannot find an upstream bugreport for the issue, you can either report it yourself (in which case then close the original one as said above), or you can ask the reporter to do that themselves (e.g. if they may be asked for further information by upstream developers, or even just if forwarding them upstream is too time consuming). Close then the bugreport with a comment like:

 =South Africa Johannesburg=
-MadLinux [http://portal-madlinux.blogspot.com/]
+MadLinux [http://#/]
 =Nigeria=

 * [https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546017] Bug 546017 -  [KDE 4.3.x] Incorrect rendering of the title of the active window when enabled compositing
 ** Is fixed upstream, not sure if it warrants an online update
+*[http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558447] Bug 558447 - kwin crash at start if no found 3d/acceleration
+**Is this an X or KDE issue?
 == Need special equipment/software/whatever ==

+{{SpeedDelete|Content Spam}}
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 '''Occupation:''' Computer systems engineers<br>
-'''IRC:''' AlpVonKri @ [http://freenode.net Freenode]<br>
+'''IRC:''' AlpVonKri → [http://freenode.net Freenode]<br>
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-Last update on Wed Dec  2 05:42:16 CET 2009
+Last update on Thu Dec  3 06:19:43 CET 2009
 [[Category:SUSE Linux]]

 '''We have extension input box :-)'''<br/>
 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox
+----
+This box will create article prefixed with [[openSUSE:Test]] using as template [[openSUSE:Article Template]]. If article  [[openSUSE:Test]] already exist, then it will be opened for edit without using template article.
 <inputbox>
 type=create
-width=40
+width=60
 preload=openSUSE:Article Template
-hidden=yes
 default=openSUSE:Test
 buttonlabel=Create article
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+This one will add comment to openSUSE:Sandbox
 <inputbox>
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+hidden=yes
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- *[mailto:hkwarlock@gmail.com Email]
+*[mailto:hkwarlock@gmail.com Email]
 *[http://www.facebook.com/wwarlock Facebook]
 *IRC: Shayon on [irc://irc.freenode.net freenode.net]

 Thanks
 ----
+== hello  ==
+this is a test

 : "Network card bonding is an effective way to increase the available bandwidth, if it is done carefully. Without a switch that supports 802.3ad, you must have the right hardware to make it work. In this article we will explain how bonding works so you can deploy the right mode for your situation."
  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 03:14, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
+; [http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-apache2-with-php5-and-mysql-support-on-opensuse-11.2-lamp '''HowtoForge/Falko Timme: Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.2 (LAMP)''']
+: "LAMP is short for '''L'''inux, '''A'''pache, '''M'''ySQL, '''P'''HP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 11.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support."
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 04:36, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 ===New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE===

 <center><inputbox>
 type=search
-width=30
+buttonlabel=Hit Me !
-prefix=Help:
+searchbuttonlabel=Get deeper !
-namespaces=Help:
-searchbuttonlabel=Misc. !
 bgcolor=#669900
 break=no

 : ""This is not a democracy, it's a meritocracy." - The statement comes from the Ubuntu Governance page, but you can find similar statements in the Fedora Release Notes, the Why Debian For Developers page, and just about anywhere else were free and open source software (FOSS) projects discuss their core values."
  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 03:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
+; [http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-tweeting '''Linux Journal/Doc Searls: Open Source Tweeting''']
+: "Can we liberate tweeting from Twitter? It's an open question. And it's one that Dave Winer hopes we can answer, in response to his post We need: An open source Twitter shell. He begins,
+: "It would do more or less exactly what the twitter.com website does. Same prefs, same commands, same user experience. Think Apache for the Twitter user interface.""
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 04:24, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 ====Warning!====

 with some comment
+== Test ==
+Test

 * [http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/99 Русский]
 * [http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Noticias_Semanales/99 Español]
+* [http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/99 日本語]
 Delayed / to be translated:
-* [http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/99 日本語]
 * [http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/99/indonesian Indonesia]
 * [http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/99/chinese 简体中文]

   de |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
  ----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-----------
-  ja | F | d | d | d | d | d | d | d | X | X | X | d | X | X | X | d |  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 17:14, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
+  ja | F | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 04:08, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
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   ru |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |

 ====Reports====
+; [http://www.osor.eu/news/de-open-source-professorship-at-university-of-erlangen-nuremberg '''OSOR.EU/Gijs Hillenius: DE: Open source professorship at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg''']
+: "Germany's first open source professorship was established at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
+: First professor of Open Source will be Dr. Dirk Riehle, MBA. The professorship and its research group will focus on the use of open source as a target for developers, and its application in enterprises."
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 03:26, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 ====Reviews and Essays====

  yast2 lan
-Assign static IP address to the internal interface: IP address 10.0.0.254, Mask 255.255.255.0 as shown in the image below.
+Ignore the message about NetworkManager as we would switch to "Traditional" method from the first tab. Assign static IP address to the internal interface(usually bridged interface br0): IP address 10.0.0.254, Mask 255.255.255.0 as shown in the image below. You can delete the bridge to configure two interfaces directly. LTSP is concerned with interface connected to internal network only.
 Note: If you do not wish to keep LTSP server IP as 10.0.0.254, you would need to change''' ''/etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp''''' with IP address, netmask and DHCP range.

 :If you are thinking ping is such a simple command and why do I need 15 examples, you should read the rest of the article. "
  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 10:10, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 ;[http://seife.kernalert.de/blog/2009/12/02/recovering-your-data-from-clicfs-aka-opensuse-live-usb-stick/ '''Stefan Seyfried: Recovering your data from clicfs (aka openSUSE Live USB stick)''']
 : "Today I wanted to recover some of the data I had saved on my openSUSE 11.2 live USB stick, just to find out that it was not really trivial. It actually included reading the manpage of coolo’s clicfs, so I’ll write it down here to save others the hassle ;)"
  --[[User:Saigkill|Sascha Manns]] 17:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
+; [http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/linux_unix/article.php/3850636/ '''Enterprise Networking Planet/Charlie Schluting: Understanding NIC Bonding with Linux''']
+: "Network card bonding is an effective way to increase the available bandwidth, if it is done carefully. Without a switch that supports 802.3ad, you must have the right hardware to make it work. In this article we will explain how bonding works so you can deploy the right mode for your situation."
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 03:14, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 ===New/Updated Applications @ openSUSE===
 : "I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article."
  --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 02:30, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
+; [http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/254610-desktop-search-engines-compared '''Linux.com/minaev: Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared''']
+: "I have a large electronic library (over 15,000 books) and I was looking for a way to cope with this mass of information. I didn't like the idea of a special catalog, since it would take a lot of manual work to enter the metadata. Besides, my books are in various formats, from HTML, to RTF, to DOC, to PDF, to DjVU. These files lack metadata way too often and I thought a local indexing service with a full-text search might solve my problem. I knew there are more options to choose from than just Google, but I could not find a good modern comparison. Even the table in Wikinfo's Comparison of desktop search software contained too many errors, as I discovered."
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 02:43, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
+; [http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3850561/ '''Datamation/Bruce Byfield: Open Source Projects and the Meritocracy Myth''']
+: ""This is not a democracy, it's a meritocracy." - The statement comes from the Ubuntu Governance page, but you can find similar statements in the Fedora Release Notes, the Why Debian For Developers page, and just about anywhere else were free and open source software (FOSS) projects discuss their core values."
+ --[[User:HeliosReds|HeliosReds]] 03:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 ====Warning!====

   zypper rr repo-oss-temp repo-non-oss-temp
 Done. Continue as above.
+===Changing Zypper Download Directory===
+* Close already running zypper or YaST program.
+* Open file <code>/etc/zypp/zypp.conf</code> as user root.
+* Edit or add a new line for <code>packagesdir</code> option. In example:
+  packagesdir=/home/src/opensuse.org/repo
+* Save the file and exit.
+: After configuring this option, all downloaded packages by zypper or YaST will be saved in directory pointed by <code>packagesdir</code>.
 [[Category:Software Management]]
 [[Category:Upgrade]]

   zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ repo-update
-: The last argument sets an alias (a shorthand), you can choose another alias, like 112-oss, 112-non-oss, or 112-update, for the new repositories in the above command.
+: The last argument sets an alias (a shorthand), you can choose another alias, like 112-oss, 112-non-oss, or 112-update; for the new repositories in the above command.
 * Search for updated openSUSE 11.2 compatible third-party repositories and add them.
 . Now execute full distribution update.
+: Before proceeding to an upgrade, please double check that the relevant partition holding <code>/var/</code> or root (/) does have enough free space (as reported by the above command). If your root or var partition is almost full you can change the directory of downloaded packages for upgrade procedures in zypper configuration to point to another partition or disk. See [[Upgrade/Supported#Changing_Zypper_Download_Directory | how to change zypper download directory]].
 : First, let zypper download all required packages:
   zypper dup -d
-: Please double check that the relevant partition holding /var/ does have enough free space (as reported by the above command).
 : After all the required packages have been downloaded, we can do a system upgrade safely:
 ==Workarounds==
 * Adding the repo-oss and repo-non-oss repositories as above resulted in an error during 'zypper refresh':
   Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-11.2 Non-OSS' metadata [error]
   zypper rr repo-oss-temp repo-non-oss-temp
 Done. Continue as above.
-===Changing Zypper Download Directory===
-* Close already running zypper or YaST program.
-* Open file <code>/etc/zypp/zypp.conf</code> as user root.
-* Edit or add a new line for <code>packagesdir</code> option. In example:
-  packagesdir=/home/src/opensuse.org/repo
-* Save the file and exit.
-: After configuring this option, all downloaded packages by zypper or YaST will be saved in directory pointed by <code>packagesdir</code>.
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