The Doors are Open on openSUSE 11.0
June 20th, 2008 by Justin Ryan
For all the Novell fans out there who have been waiting with baited breath to get their hands on the latest and greatest offering from openSUSE, your wish came true yesterday as version 11.0 ventured into the light of day.
Among the features offered up in the latest release include the choice of GNOME 2.22, both KDE 3.5 & 4, or Xfce, as well as having Compiz Fusion default on 11.0 installs. Also included is Firefox 3.0 — Beta 5 for now, with an update to Tuesday's final release provided via online update — the equally-fresh Banshee 1.0, OpenOffice 2.4, while in the boiler room is the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. Interested parties can pick up a copy from the openSUSE download site.
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OpenSuse 11 automount problems
On August 6th, 2008 Keith Daniels says:
People are having various problems with usb drives and CD/DVDs automouting properly. If you made a clean new install or upgraded to OpenSuse 11 makes no difference.
One of the more common problems is that automount works as root but not as a user.
The typical error messagae is:
"org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removeable no <-- (action, result)"
After several days of searching the web (I found nothing useful) and changing configuration files just to see what happens :-) I managed to fix the above problem by doing this:
In the file /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy
In this section:
<action id="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
Change:
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
To this:
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
Then in a console terminal (logged in as root) execute this command:
rchal restart
to restart hal.
Why this is necessary (or even works) I have no idea.
I hope this saves someone all the time I spent researching the problem.
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I like it
On June 23rd, 2008 mikesd says:
I did an Internet install. First time I got it to work on any distro. I'm impressed with how fast Yast is now. And ncurses Yast has neat function keys added (The Fx keys). The install was quick and effortless. I did the complete install in 2 hours. I installed KDE4, but it doesn't completely like my video card. Sometimes in Yast, it reported a crash, but never really crashed. None the less, I do like KDE4, but reccomend 3.5 right now for deployment. They tell you right in the install thet 3.5 is more mature. You do have to be careful during the install, it asks if you want the password for the main user to be the same as root (I said no). Yast is less of a resource hog now. One thing I noticed is ssh's PermitRootLogin is defaulted to yes. There is now a yast for QT and yast for GTK. They default to respective windows manager, but you can invoke either with --qt or --gtk command @ command line. The install feel is much nicer. X server now beeps if you hit Ctrl+Alt+BS once (twice in rapid sucession to quit) but this can be stopped. Read the release notes. All in all, I'm happy with it.
Basic flaw
On June 22nd, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
The problem is that with all the good work OpenSuse does, all that work is undermined by the microsoft time bombs woven into the Novell version.
REL Basic Flaw
On June 23rd, 2008 mikesd says:
Elaborate please.