Update-Related Notes
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The order in which network interfaces will be started has changed. The new order is now bond interfaces
first, then vlan, dialup tunnel and finally bridge interfaces.
6.3. Update from SUSE LINUX Enterprise
Server 9
• Becoming Superuser Using su
By default, calling su to become root does not set the PATH for root. Either call su - to start a login shell
with the complete environment for root or set
ALWAYS_SET_PATH
to
yes
in
/etc/default/su
if you want to change the default behavior of su.
• Forwarding xauth keys between users with sux
The shell script sux was removed. The functionality of forwarding xauth keys between users is now
handled by the pam_xauth module and su.
• NTP-Related Files Renamed
For reasons of compatibility with LSB (Linux Standard Base), most configuration files and the init script
were renamed from
xntp
to
ntp
.
• Changed tar behavior in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Under SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, when extracting a directory from a tar archive that already
existed as a symbolic link in the target directory, tar would overwrite the symlink with an actual
directory. Under SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, tar leaves the symlink and places the contents of
the archive within it.
To enforce the old behavior please use the option
--no-overwrite-dir
when extracting an archive.
• ulimits
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 set up the user environment with an unlimited stack size resource
limit to work around restrictions in stack handling of multithreaded applications. With SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server 10, this is no longer necessary and has been removed. The login environment now
defaults to the kernel default stack size limit. To restore the old behavior, add
ulimit -Ss unlimited
to
/etc/profile.local
. If you want an automatic configuration of your resource limits suited to
protect desktop systems, you may want to install the
ulimit
package.
• Mounting Encrypted Partitions
With SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, we switched to "cryptoloop" as the default encryption module.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 used twofish256 using
loop_fish2
with 256 bits. Now we are using
twofish256 using
cryptoloop
with 256 bits. The old twofish256 is available as
twofishSL92
.
• Reconfiguring Intel and Nvidia Sound Drivers
When updating a system with the
snd-intel8x0
module (for Intel, SIS, AMD, and Nvidia on-board
chips), the system might be unable to load the module at reboot, because the module option
joystick
was removed from the newer version. To fix the problem, reconfigure the sound system using YaST.
