openSUSE 13.1 Release Notes

Version: 13.1.6 (2013-11-07)

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1. Diverse
2. Instalare
2.1. For Detailed Installation Information
3. General
3.1. Documentația openSUSE
3.2. Dropped YaST Modules
3.3. UEFI—Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
3.4. Adobe Reader (acroread) and Other PDF Readers
4. Actualizare sistem
4.1. Upgrading with Zypper (dup) Requires /etc/fstab Cleanup
4.2. SYSLOG_DAEMON Variable Removed
5. Detalii tehnice
5.1. Inițializarea graficii cu KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
5.2. Samba version 4.1
5.3. Configuring Postfix
5.4. xinetd: Logging to the System Log
5.5. Apache Version 2.4
5.6. tomcat: Logging to the System Log
5.7. Darktable: Refreshing Cache Files Needed
5.8. KDE and Bluetooth

Dacă actualizați o versiune mai veche la această versiune openSUSE, consultați aici notele de lansare anterioare: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Release_Notes

Aceste informații despre produs acoperă următoarele aspecte:

1. Diverse

Indisponibil

2. Instalare

2.1. For Detailed Installation Information

For detailed installation information, see Secțiune 3.1, „Documentația openSUSE”.

3. General

3.1. Documentația openSUSE

In Start-Up, find step-by-step installation instructions, as well as introductions to the KDE and Gnome desktops and to the LibreOffice suite. Also covered are basic administration topics such as deployment and software management and an introduction to the bash shell.

Find the documentation in /usr/share/doc/manual/opensuse-manuals_$LANG after installing the package opensuse-startup_$LANG, or online on http://doc.opensuse.org.

3.2. Dropped YaST Modules

The following YaST modules were obsolete and rarely used these days:

  • yast2-autofs

  • yast2-dbus-client

  • yast2-dirinstall

  • yast2-fingerprint-reader

  • yast2-irda

  • yast2-mouse

  • yast2-phone-services

  • yast2-power-management

  • yast2-profile-manager

  • yast2-sshd

  • yast2-tv

The main reason for dropping was to decrease the maintenance effort and better focus on other more used modules.

3.3. UEFI—Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

Prior to installing openSUSE on a system that boots using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) you are urgently advised to check for any firmware updates the hardware vendor recommends and, if available, to install such an update. A pre-installed Windows 8 is a strong indication that your system boots using UEFI.

Background: Some UEFI firmware has bugs that cause it to break if too much data gets written to the UEFI storage area. Nobody really knows how much "too much" is, though. openSUSE minimizes the risk by not writing more than the bare minimum required to boot the OS. The minimum means telling the UEFI firmware about the location of the openSUSE boot loader. Upstream Linux Kernel features that use the UEFI storage area for storing boot and crash information (pstore) have been disabled by default. Nevertheless it is recommended to install any firmware updates the hardware vendor recommends.

3.4. Adobe Reader (acroread) and Other PDF Readers

Adobe no longer provides (security) updates for Adobe Reader (acroread). Therefore the acroread package was dropped from the distribution to protect openSUSE users.

openSUSE includes various PDF viewing tools like Okular, Evince, and xpdf-poppler. These tools are actively maintained and get security fixes from openSUSE and their upstream authors.

4. Actualizare sistem

4.1. Upgrading with Zypper (dup) Requires /etc/fstab Cleanup

When upgrading with zypper dup (YaST upgrade handles it automatically) users should remove the following /etc/fstab entries if present:

tmpfs   /dev/shm
devpts  /dev/pts
sysfs   /sys sysfs
proc    /proc proc

This is especially important for Gnome users, otherwise the Gnome terminal will fail with "grantpt failed: Operation not permitted". These mount points are managed by systemd and should no longer be present in /etc/fstab.

4.2. SYSLOG_DAEMON Variable Removed

The SYSLOG_DAEMON variable has been removed. Previously, it was used to select the syslog daemon. Starting with openSUSE 12.3, only one syslog implementation can be installed at a time on a system and will be selected automatically for usage.

For details, see the syslog(8) manpage.

5. Detalii tehnice

5.1. Inițializarea graficii cu KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)

With openSUSE 11.3 we switched to KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) for Intel, ATI and NVIDIA graphics, which now is our default. If you encounter problems with the KMS driver support (intel, radeon, nouveau), disable KMS by adding nomodeset to the kernel boot command line. To set this permanently using Grub 2, the default boot loader, add it to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT kernel default load options line in your /etc/default/grub text file as root and running the terminal command

sudo /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig --output=/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

for the changes to take effect. Else, for Grub Legacy, add it to the kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst, also done as root. This option makes sure the appropriate kernel module (intel, radeon, nouveau) is loaded with modeset=0 in initrd, i.e. KMS is disabled.

In the rare cases when loading the DRM module from initrd is a general problem and unrelated to KMS, it is even possible to disable loading of the DRM module in initrd completely. For this set the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD sysconfig variable to yes via YaST, which then recreates initrd afterwards. Reboot your machine.

On Intel without KMS the Xserver falls back to the fbdev driver (the intel driver only supports KMS); alternatively, for legacy GPUs from Intel the "intellegacy" driver (xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy package) is available, which still supports UMS (User Mode Setting). To use it, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and change the driver entry to intellegacy.

On ATI for current GPUs it falls back to radeonhd. On NVIDIA without KMS the nv driver is used (the nouveau driver supports only KMS). Note, newer ATI and NVIDIA GPUs are falling back to fbdev, if you specify the nomodeset kernel boot parameter.

5.2. Samba version 4.1

Samba version 4.1 shipped with openSUSE 13.1 does not include support to operate as an Active Directory style domain controller. This functionality is currently disabled, as it lacks integration with system-wide MIT Kerberos.

5.3. Configuring Postfix

With openSUSE 12.3, SuSEconfig.postfix was renamed as /usr/sbin/config.postfix. If you set sysconfig variables in /etc/sysconfig/postfix or /etc/sysconfig/mail, you must manually run /usr/sbin/config.postfix as root.

5.4. xinetd: Logging to the System Log

The new default for xinetd changes the default target for logging from /var/log/xinetd.log to the system log. This means all messages from xinetd will appear in a system log as a facility daemon and log level info.

If you want to switch back the the old way, find a proper snippet in /etc/xinetd.conf. The template for the logrotate script for xinetd.log can be found in /usr/share/doc/packages/xinetd/logrotate.

5.5. Apache Version 2.4

Apache 2.4 features various changes in the configuration files. For more information about upgrading from a previous version, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html.

5.6. tomcat: Logging to the System Log

The tomcat startup scripts doe no longer write the output to /var/log/tomcat/catalina.out. All messages are now redirected to the system log via tomcat.service (tomcat-jsvc.service) and log level info.

5.7. Darktable: Refreshing Cache Files Needed

If upgrading from a previous release to openSUSE 13.1 old cache files may no longer work. In this case removing ~/.cache/darktable/mipmaps is necessary.

5.8. KDE and Bluetooth

The Bluetooth stack is provided by Bluez 5 (a major, backwards-incompatbile version), a necessary upgrade for GNOME desktop and some other components of the base system. Unfortunately, the KDE workspace only supports Bluez version 4 in its currently-released versions.

Therefore, the openSUSE KDE community team offers an unofficial Bluedevil package providing at least basic functionality such as device pairing or support for bluetooth mice; Some other features are known not to work jet, like file transfer.

For the moment, bugs should not be filed against Bluetooth support in KDE as the Bluez 5 port of Bluedevil is still ongoing.