Suse Linux 9

Using Suse Linux 9.1 and 9.2, I had for a long time problems with installing additional printers using Yast2. Since I had free installation support for 9.1 I contacted Suse, but to no avail. Printer installation is not covered by the free installation support. The advice they gave me was trivial and did not work (uninstall CUPS and reinstall it again). Additionally most of the installed printers were stopped (a red cross over the printer icons under Start Menu > Utilities > Printing > Printing Manager) and could not be started again.

After the 9.3 install KDM was replaced by the ugly grey XDM by some unknown magic. To fix it change in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" into DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm".

I have one encrypted partition that was created under SuSE 9.2. After a fresh install of 9.3 (not an update) the mounting of that partition during bootup failed. I could, however, still mount it manually later using another loopdevice. To fix this, I had to change the encryption algorithm in /etc/cryptotab from twofish256 to twofishSL92. More detailed information.