Novell® Linux Point of Service 9 is based on SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 and is the subsequent release of SUSE Linux Retail Solution (SLRS) 8.
The Novell Linux Point of Service Administration and Installation Guides are available on the Novell Documentation Web site.
For complete instructions on installing Novell Linux Point of Service 9, see the Novell Linux Point of Service Installation Guide.
IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend that you review the installation instructions in the Novell Linux Point of Service Installation Guide before installation.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release provides a new image description diff tool (xdscr). xdscr compares two image description trees and generates a script file that can be used to test and update an install image.
The basic syntax is as follows:
xdscr [-i|--image] Image_Tree [-w|--with] baseline_Image_Tree [-d|--destdir] directory
For example, the following syntax compares the minimal-2.0.21 Image Description Tree with the browser-2.0.21 Image Description Tree and saves the diff file to the /home directory:
xdscr -i minimal-2.0.21 -w browser-2.0.21 -d /home
The following is a sample diff file:
#!/bin/bash## Automatically generated by xdscr image diff tool# /opt/SLES/POS/dist/NLD9/FCS/CD1/suse/i586/cabextract-1.0-17.2.i586.rpm# /opt/SLES/POS/dist/NLD9/FCS/CD1/suse/i586/freetype2-2.1.7-53.6.i586.rpm# /opt/SLES/POS/pac/IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.2-0.51.i586.rpm# /opt/SLES/POS/pac/IBMJava2-JAVACOMM-1.4.2-0.21.i586.rpm rpm -Uh cabextract-1.0-17.2.i586.rpm \ freetype2-2.1.7-53.6.i586.rpm \ rpm -Uh --nodeps IBMJava2-JAVACOMM-1.4.2-0.21.i586.rpm \ IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.2-0.51.i586.rpm
The issues listed in this section are resolved in Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release adds code to the config.system file that creates the /usr/X11R6/X11/lib/fonts/truetype/encodings.dir file for the Java, Browser, and Desktop images. This file is required to provide full language support for these images.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release adds an Automatic Refresh feature that updates the system without creating conflicts with the installation source.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release adds a new setserial file to support IBM* hardware.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release reduces the time required for linuxrc to detect the config.MAC_address file.
When a diskless terminal attempts to load an uncompressed image and the checksum fails, Novell Linux Point of Service Patch Release uses freeramdisk when it repeats the cycle so the terminal doesn't run out of memory.
When you add the GNOME* desktop to an image, Novell Linux Point of Service Patch Release includes the GNOME Display Manager (gdm).
When you add the KDE desktop in an image, Novell Linux Point of Service Patch Release includes the KDE Display Manager (kdm).
During a CDBoot installation of a Point of Service image, Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release runs fsck on all partitions.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release adds the following Java and Browser Image Specification documents for the Japanese locale:
The Java and Browser images include a patch to the XFree86 script so you can build the images with non-en_US locales.
The scr and xscr ImageBuilder tools provided with the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Patch Release can build images if the SCR_BUILD_DIR and the current working directory are the same location.
xterm does not launch with Unicode Best enabled. Therefore, some international characters (Chinese) do not display correctly.
Use the following commands to launch xterm with Unicode Best enabled:
xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 \ -fw -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
If xterm is running, you can press Ctrl+Mouse Button 3 to switch xterm to Unicode Best.
When the VNC 4 Remote Control Client is deployed on a Point of Service terminal with a 4810 Trident on-board video card in a dual display configuration, the system returns a Signal 11 error when starting X.
The problem does not occur with single display or if the Trident is disabled and two ATI cards are used. The problem also does not occur if the VNC 4 Remote Control Client is added to the ATI cards in a Trident/ATI* configuration (a configuration that allows remote control of the secondary screen).
To resolve the issue, you can do one of the following:
When using the ATI driver on the 4800-753, 4800-2xx, 4800-733, or 4800-732 with a 4820-48T display, the driver does not go into 800x600 mode. Instead, it displays in 799x600.
To resolve the issue, modify your XF86Config file as follows:
Go to the Screen > Display section under depth 16.
Take out the 720x400 and 640x480 options so that 800x600 is the only option under depth 16.
This allows your screen to display 800x600; however, the display still says 799x600.
When the power off command is used on the active node of a High Availability (HA) system, the keyboard layout might be incorrect when the node is restarted.
If this occurs, you can resolve this issue by resetting the keyboard configuration in YaST2 as follows:
To include the Brazilian Portuguese locale in a Point of Service image, you must include the
kde3-i18n-pt_BR RPM in the Image Specification document's IncludeRPM element. For more information, refer to "Adding RPMs" in the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Administration Guide.
For information on adding other locales to a Point of Service image, see "Changing the Image Language" in the Novell Linux Point of Service 9 Administration Guide.
Switching from Runlevel 5 to Runlevel 3 causes the system to hang on the following Point of Service terminals:
The user is forced to use the power button to cycle the Point of Service terminal.
A possible workaround is to issue the init 3 command F3 from a text terminal session rather than the X-session. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 to switch to Runlevel 3.
If an error occurs during a copy procedure with POSCDTool or POSCopyTool, the Abort option does not function. You must manually terminate the procedure.
The POSCDTool and POSCopyTool do not recognize an incomplete copy procedure. If a copy fails or is abnormally terminated, POSCDTool and POSCopyTool do not validate the previous copy results, Instead, the utilities list all previously copied CDs in the copy list, even if one of the copy procedures was incomplete.
To restart a failed CD copy procedure, you must delete the CD that failed from the distribution directory structure, then start the copy again.
By default, Novell Linux Point of Service 9 includes i586 and i686 versions of glibc for SLES and NLD distributions in the /opt/SLES/POS/maintenance directory. For a detailed breakdown of the maintenance directory structure, see "Novell Linux Point of Service Files and Directory Structure" in the Novell Linux Point of Service Administration Guide.
If you require pthreads or signal support for an i586 machine, you must copy the i686 version of glibc to the i586 directory before you build the Point of Service image. For example, if you are building a Desktop image for an i586 machine that requires pthreads support, you must copy glibc-2.3.3-98.47.i686.rpm from the /opt/SLES/POS/maintenance/nld/suse/i686/ directory to the /opt/SLES/POS/maintenance/nld/suse/i586/ directory.
Likewise, if you are building a POSBranch image for an i586 machine, you must copy glibc-2.3.3-98.47.i686.rpm from the /opt/SLES/POS/maintenance/sles/suse/i686/ directory to the /opt/SLES/POS/maintenance/sles/suse/i586/ directory.
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 does not currently support token ring networks.
The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 SP1 kernel that currently ships with Novell Linux Point of Service 9 fails when writing to some USB 2.0 devices. This issue is resolved in SLES 9 SP2. Novell Linux Point of Service 9 will soon incorporate the SLES 9 SP2 kernel in a service pack release.
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