[sles-beta] KDE Desktop not available?

[Waite, Dick]

Hi Thorsten,

        No I'm talking about x86_64, we have issues with s390x but that's in a new install, we have only tried one Update and that did not get too far. We have in the past waited until x86_64 Updates clean before switching to s390x. So just new installs on s390x.

        Why we update production machines is because all the real "beef" we use is working well with the current GA. So we clone the production to its new enviroment and then run Update on the clone. We want to make sure all our "stuff" is working with all your new "stuff". The "original" production runs on your current GA until the new version checks out with our QE tests.

        Can you try a simple SLE 11-SP3 machine; KDE and one Ethernet connection, running in say VMware Workstation v10.  This for us gets one burp in the Upgrade pass of:

[ Internal Error: Details:undefined method '+' for nil:NilClass Caller: /mount/mp_0001/usr/share/Yast2/modules/Kdump.rb.510:in "BuildCrashKernelValue" ]

        As you say, keep going and then the system re-boot's into the new enviroment. Here one can get a GRUB issue and you stop quickly, or you get to the issue attached. This is all in Service Request: 10884981671

        I would 100% agree it's got better, but until I can get my working "cloned" production machines onto the v12-SP0 beta I'm a bit stuck. I can run new compiles and builds etc, which we do and other good stuff but both your company and mine want to give a "stamp" that current GA machine will works seamlessly on SLE 12 SP-0. When that's working then one can enjoy all the new features of SLE 12

Regards,


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-----Original Message-----
From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kukuk
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:19 AM
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] KDE Desktop not available?


Hi,

On Thu, Apr 24, Waite, Dick wrote:

>       To be honest at the moment it's not the choice of Display Manager that is holding us back testing SLE 12 SP-0 it's not being able to Upgrade our QE enviroment from SLE 11 SP-3, even very simple machine configurations fail either in "network", "grub" or "Display" on the re-ipl of the new enviroment. Looking forward to beta6 fixing the Upgrade issues otherwise we might not have enough time left before SP-0 is cast in stone.

Since you always write "re-ipl" I assume you are speaking about SystemZ?
I can only test x86-64, and there upgrade works since several Betas without real problems (means there are only cosmetic ones and that you cannot register yet). And yes, you can ignore popups that the network configuration couldn't be adjusted, you don't want that this works.

But I cannot find any bug report for System Z upgrade problems.

Beside that: I did never understand and I think I will never understand why people wants to make an upgrade of production machines from one major release to another.
Upgrade always needs much more time and the machine is out of production during that time.

  Thorsten

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