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The most annoying bugs and their suggested workarounds:
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openSUSE 11.4 RC2

  • DVD&NET "Check Installation Media" always reports Checksum wrong (Bug #674609)
  • Computer does not hibernate when battery reaches critical low percentage (Bug #675405)..
  • NetworkManager fails to start on bootup. Workaround is to start it from console (Bug #675261).
  • Regression in Radeon graphics drivers leading to disabled GPU acceleration: Bug #675147
  • Firefox does not ask before closing a window with multiple tabs, even if it is configured to do it (Bug #669231)
  • The "New Mobile Broadband Connection" wizard in KNetworkManager crashes (Bug #673755). It is not possible to set up a new mobile broadband device via UI, but it can be used if a configuration already exists, and the config can be created by manually editing under ~/.kde4/ -- see comment # 13 on the bug report.
  • Crash under certain conditions of the "KDE System Settings" application when accessing the "Locale" module. Will probably happen if user preserves her home directory when installing; Requires manual edition of a text file as explained in Bug #671547, comment # 7.
  • Live upgrade by zypper dup can crash, leaving rpm broken, by uninstalling liblzma0 (Bug #677425). Workaround: Lock the package by calling zypper al liblzma0' and/or perform zypper up rpm beforehand.

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openSUSE 11.4 RC1

  • LiveCD KDE Broken - X desn't start, installer too... (Bug #671414).
  • Some application windows like the Firefox or the LibreOffice ones, have a very small size when launched in GNOME + Compiz. (Bug #671592).
  • Persistent Live-USB system hangs when installing some additional packages. (Bug #671593).
  • yast2-gtk busy looping forever in several yast modules (Bug #670625) - upgrade yast2-gtk to latest YaST/Head version
  • USB khubd kernel oops (Hotplugging Smartphone only works for the first time or not at all) Bug #647693, Bug #671369
  • Firefox does not ask before closing a window with multiple tabs, even if it is configured to do it (Bug #669231)

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 6 of 6

  • 64-bit DVD isos are broken and too big to burn on single layer DVD - workaround: use NET iso
  • USB-boot broken (Bug #666504) - workaround: use LiveCD from Milestone 5 of 6 or a Factory iso for install and afterwards run zypper up.
  • ksoftirqd 100% cpu (Bug #465039): critical as well as classical
  • kernel modesetting still problematic while radeon driver does no more support user modesetting -> radeonhd is currently the only escape (Bug #620439) - various monitor models are affected: see at kernel.org report
  • event queue overflows and lifelocks by Xorg cause complete system hang in various settings (FreeDesktop Bug 32393)
  • certain PCMCIA wlan cards no more supported (Bug #654261,Bug #654262)
  • USB khubd kernel oops (Hotplugging Smartphone only works for the first time) Bug #647693
  • lilo boot manager: systems like Windows, OS/2 and others can not be booted; infringed booting facilities for Linux (Bug #642401)
  • external display can not be configured using the nouveau driver (FreeDesktop Bug 33695)
  • root has by default no Xorg-access, KDE3-apps are not on Xstartup path (Bug #478633, resolution known)
  • Since 2007 KDM themes can not be applied through control center. Like 11.3, 11.4 M6, continues with this issue. Bug #267903

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 5 of 6

  • zypper is slow on Live-installs (Bug #659864) workaround: ln -s openSUSE.prod /etc/products.d/baseproduct
  • sntp does not set time (Bug #657626)
  • gnome-power-manager requests root password to adjust LCD panel brightness (Bug #650401)

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 4 of 6

  • zypp multicurl produces corrupted downloads from factory-tested repo (Bug #657605) - workaround: ZYPP_MULTICURL=0
  • intel [945G] Very poor compiz performance (Bug #656060) duplicate -> now as: Bug #655937 - Regression in kernel 2.6.37 with regards to i915 driver (Intel Graphics)

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 3 of 6

  • LibreOffice crashes on first start (Bug #652562) Workaround: Launch LibreOffice again.

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 of 6

  • X crashes on some hardware when KDE uses window effects (Bug #641297) - workaround 1: edit ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc and change the value of OpenGLIsUnsafe to true. workaround 2: use another windowmanager/desktop ; for NVidia using proprietary driver also helps.

openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 1 of 6

GNOME

  • No panel visible on first boot or when adding a new panel (Bug #637180). Workaround: restart gnome-panel (by logging out and in again, or with "gnome-panel --replace").
  • Main menu not visible in the panel (Bug #637229). Workaround: manually add the applet. Note that you'll have the applet twice once you get a fixed panel, though.
  • Some application windows like the Firefox or the LibreOffice ones, have a very small size when launched in GNOME + Compiz. (Bug #671592).