Ben Kevan’s Blog

My beta 5 woes - :(

Boy Oh Boy.. have I been having some issues after updating to the second sync of Beta 5 this morning.

#1 OpenOffice will not open anything over smb protocol.. Bugzilla 443467
#2 With Compiz when I close krdc (on KDE 3.5.10) it kills my whole X session (this is with xrdp and dmx packages installed) Bugzilla 444249
#3 KSnapshot kills my X session much like krdc (on KDE 3.5.10) Bugzilla 443819
#4 xrdp isn’t working with KDM due to pam issues, also when I have gdm I am still getting other errors Bugzilla 441750
#5 After installed the newest sync of beta 5 (as of this morning) the Kernel 2.6.27.5-2.2 seems to have killed my NVIDIA driver, and NVIDIA driver will not work as previous (I suspect kernel upgrade did it, as the other packages installed don’t seem to have anything to do with it) Note: This actually seems to be a compiz issue, where GLX will not stay loaded
#6 Ok.. not really a bug.. but some direction would be nice: removal of emerald or fix for emerald to work with NOMAD patch for X to get xrdp working Bugzilla 431846

All in all, this build of Beta 5 .. has given me quite the headaches..

How are other fairing with Beta 5?

Tags: 11.1, beta, broken, compiz, opensuse

openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 Reminder - OpenOffice

This is just a quick reminder to people that are considering the upgrade from 11.1 B3, or 11.X to 11.1 Beta4 that openoffice is broken.

So if you rely on openoffice and this is a production box, to not upgrade until RC1.

Tags: beta, openoffice