[CS-FSLUG] Suspicious SUSE issues

[N. Thompson]

Do the CD sets get updated or does every boxed set of SUSE Linux 9.1 
professional have the same problems as the first ones to come out.

It may be advantageous to wait a month or two before purchasing the latest 
Linux distributions if this is whats slipping through SUSE's quality control.

On July 21, 2004 11:54 pm, Mark Dalton wrote:
> You probably had the SuSE 9.1 pro version that had the original drivers and
> the person did not come out until a month or two later.
>
> I had various problems with SuSE 9.1 pro (CD version) including:
>     XFS was severly broken on the release (they did provide a patched CD
>            to update the the broken drivers)
>     The x86_64 was only on DVD, and did not provide a network install
> version
>            or a CD until at least months later. (I had to purchase a DVD
> player)
>     Problems with a notebook upgrade from SuSE 9.0 pro to SuSE 9.1 pro
>            scanning, CD burning did not work until I fixed permissions
> problems.
>            (everything had worked with 9.0)
>     Video problems with the Nvidia.
>
> If you use YaST2 and do a on-line update and get the latest XFree86 and
> Nvidia
> drivers, then everything worked very well.. I did hand tune the
> monitor/display
> setup since it got messed up with the upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to 9.1.
>
> But now my notebook happily boots, (rarely Windows XP, SuSE 9.1, RedHat
> ES WS 3.0, Debian)
> I have Fedora Core 2 on some also.
>
> I did not have USB issues though..
>
> On 32bit platforms I have installed SuSE 9.1 pro from CD, DVD, and network.
>
> I have also noticed a bug in SuSEs distribution as a NFS client in SuSE
> 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1.
> It mostly seems to happen with the NFS server is Irix.
>     cd /Some_Irix_NFS_directory
>     mkdir -p x/y/z
>     touch x/x x/y/y x/y/z/z
>     rm -rf x
> (Normally it should do a recursive remove without any errors.  It works
> on RedHat since 6.2.
>   But it fails on SuSE in 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1)
>     mwd at bwraid:~> cd /cray/iss/a5/mwd
>     mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> mkdir -p x/y/z
>     mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> touch x/x x/y/y x/y/z/z
>     mwd at bwraid:/cray/iss/a5/mwd> rm -rf x
>     rm: reading directory `x/y/z': Unknown error 525
>     rm: reading directory `x/y': Unknown error 525
>     rm: reading directory `x': Unknown error 525
>
> Mark
>
> N. Thompson wrote:
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