I've just updated my SuSE 9.1 via YaST from CD (kindly supplied by Volker). Unfortunately it appears to have done something to my kpp dial up.
As said numerous times before, on SuSE, ignore that kppp even exists. There's a much better replacement for it called kinternet (and yast, smpppd, wvdial, but that's not user-visible). kppp isn't installed by default, why did you install it?
Notwithstanding the fact that Ralph is not actually talking about kppp here (see his reply to Volker in this thread), I have recently installed SuSE 9.1 at home (and at work) and have had problems with dialup. In particular, there was no way I could manage to get kinternet to work. In the end, I gave up and went back to kppp which I had used on RH9. For this to work successfully for users other than root, I had to "chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd". Then, of course, SuSE's nifty yast tool runs the suseconfig.xxxxx files whenever there's any update, and resets the setuid bit on pppd. I fixed that by changing the /etc/permissions.something file.
A few other niggles as well: I like how the nvidia driver can be installed from yast. Very nice. 3D accel all worked without any problems. But why oh why did it not work after a reboot? Fortunately I knew exactly where to look, and changed "nv" to "nvidia" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Then there is the sound. On bootup, everything looks fine in the sound department, but no sound. I need to issue the incantations as root after every boot:
rcalsasound stop
rm /etc/asound.store
rcalsasound start
I haven't found a permanent fix for this one yet; need to google more.
Then there is the mouse. My usb mouse suddenly didn't initialise at bootup a couple of days ago. I rebooted and it worked fine. Only happened once. I got to work this morning, and the acceleration settings on my mouse had mysteriously been changed. It was more like a snail than a mouse.
And sax didn't detect the second screen on the dual-head video card at work. Had to hack the XF86Config file - the one with "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY" at the top. But who heeds those warnings anyway? Now, I must back up that file sometime....
And now, a rant about ant. Ant is a build tool for Java: it helps you to organise the compile process. After upgrading to SuSE 9.1 at work, the jar file created by ant suddenly did not run. I was using the same version of ant, the one installed in my /home partition. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, I finally discovered that the concat action of ant was now broken. Two files had been incorrectly concatenated. Now, I'm not much of a fan of ant, but a broken concat? con freaking cat! How on earth is it possible to break concat? I downgraded ant, and it all works fine now. Oh that I had the generic conciseness of make, rather than the specific verbosity of ant!
Right, I feel better after having got that off my chest. Cheers, Carl.
