[Mageia-dev] First impression on Cauldron

Fri Feb 10 01:17:44 CET 2012

Hi,
+
+It's only now that I'm installing Cauldron for the first time (yep, I
+know, shame on me!)
+In a few words - you've done a great job guys! The distro is quite
+usable, Alpha 3 DVD installs without a glitch. Upgrade from Alpha 3 to
+Cauldron also went smooth, with the exception of some failing %post
+scripts (namely, for at, cronie and speech-dispatcher). Though, of
+course, I've found several issues, which I decide to dump here first,
+prior to filing Bugzilla bugs. Maybe somebody recognizes the bugs that
+have already been reported. So, here we go:
+
+1) URPMI didn't work with DVD media after installation, complaining on
+some udisks problem. After upgrade to Cauldron, though, everything seems
+to be OK;
+2) Totem was not capable of playing any single video from my collection,
+until I've installed gstreamer0.10-{ffmpeg,faad,a52dec,dts}. Probably
+these packages should be suggested by totem, because video player is
+pretty useless without codecs;
+3) adding a VPN interface in GNOME 3 network settings doesn't work. And
+I wonder why doesn't it allow to add broadband or PPPoE connection? Is
+it just unimplemented or what?
+4) Russian input in framebuffer console doesn't work, and I remember it
+worked pretty good in Mandriva. /etc/sysconfig/i18n contents are the
+same. Ctrl-right/left command line navigation in bash doesn't work, too;
+5) if any /etc/fstab entry becomes unavailable (for example, after
+secondary disk having been pulled out), the system fails to boot - first
+waiting for about a minute, and then bailing into a recovery console;
+6) network-up service slows down boot process, always waiting for about
+a minute and failing afterwards. The network is actually up and running.
+Had to disable it with chkconfig;
+7) audio is suspended when you switch to console from X (unless you are
+logged on to this console). This affects Rhythmbox, Totem and any other
+application that plays back audio (play, paplay, ffplay etc.). This is
+due to ConsoleKit doing nasty things to /dev/snd/* entries' ACLs (though
+adding a user to "audio" group doesn't help either). The problem is
+described in detail here:
+http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/464721-audio-stops-playing-when-switching-console-xorg.html
+8) after upgrading to Cauldron, gnome-terminal started to pop up a menu
+upon pressing F10 (to quit Midnight Commander, for example - this can be
+very annoying), though accessing menu with F10 is turned off in the
+profile;
+9) Cantarell font, used by default in GNOME Shell, doesn't cover
+Cyrillic glyphs at all, so for Russian messages it gets substituted with
+default sans-serif font. This mixture of fonts looks really ugly. Maybe
+some other quality free font could be considered when using Cyrillic
+locales, like, for example, PT Sans:
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT_Sans
+10) sending mails in Evolution is broken - Evolution (3.3.5) doesn't remember authentication settings for SMTP anymore;
+11) finally, the least significant, but the most annoying for me - can't
+turn off NumLock in GNOME! Neither with the NumLock key itself, nor with
+numlockx. The LED just dims for a fraction of second, and goes back
+again tauntingly :)
+
+So, if anyone notices an issue that has already been reported, please
+let me know so I don't file a duplicate. Again, thanks guys for great
+distro! Won't be coming back to Mandriva :)
+
+Mitya
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