February 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Some errors keep cluttering the screen while booting...
by Oddball 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi, There was a mention in this list about this some time ago...anyway i was not able to get it fixed. Very little time to look into it. I have the systemlog attached. I had difficulties getting into bugzilla lately, no time to look into that also... :-( Any idea where to go with this? (meaning: to who this is usefull?) -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.32-3-desktop x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-SFN1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.3.90 (KDE 4.3.90 (KDE 4.4 RC1)) "release 2"

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[opensuse-factory] pulseaudio
by Sid Boyce 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

On linuxtoday.com I just read review of "Pulseaudio and Kmix 4.4 in Sabayon 5" saying that the issues with pulseaudio and kde 4.4 have been fixed, something along the lines that kmix 4 has pulseaudio integration. I wonder if openSUSE has fixed it in Milestone 1/2. There was a problem where some programs would not run if kmix and pavucontrol were both running, e.g skype would only run with pavucontrol running. On one box skype was working with pavucontrol, then it refused to work. Every box seemed to have a pulseaudio/kmix quirk, so I shifted work around to where things were happy running. I haven't touched what worked after upgrading to Milestone 1 and Milestone2. One comment on the article - a guy says that pulseaudio is the one thing driving him away from Ubuntu, another guy says his cure was "mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio /usr/bin/pulsesucks" - and some guys on here have said something or other similarly is driving them away from openSUSE. It looks like every perfect distro has its critics and frustrated users. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Unusual directory
by Jon Cosby 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

I noticed a directory in M2 with an unusual name, "/Œ^," owned by GDM. There are no files or sub-directories in it. Does anyone know what this might be? GDM crashed on me when I updated to M2, and it could have been created then, but I'd like to find out what it is before removing it. Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Open Office
by Donn Washburn 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Why is that the high lighted and pull down cell information fails to copy down. This has always been a very useful function. You could copy down formulas and increment the cell numbers as you pulled them down. Doing the same thing now just does nothing. command~> rpm -qa | grep OpenOffice OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts-3.0-3.29.noarch OpenOffice_org-filters-optional-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-base-extensions-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-crystal-3.2.0.5-1.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-3.2.0.5-1.1.i586 OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-oxygen-3.2.0.5-1.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-pyuno-3.2.0.5-1.3.i586 OpenOffice_org-mailmerge-3.2.0.5-2.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-math-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-letter-1.0-7.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-hyphen-20080929-39.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-hicontrast-3.2.0.5-1.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-libs-gui-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-libs-core-3.2.0.5-2.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-gnome-3.2.0.5-2.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-templates-en-3.0-3.29.noarch OpenOffice_org-components-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-l10n-extras-3.2.0.5-1.2.noarch OpenOffice_org-impress-extensions-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-libs-extern-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-base-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-thesaurus-en-20060111-6.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-tango-3.2.0.5-1.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-calc-extensions-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-ure-3.2.0.5-1.3.i586 OpenOffice_org-kde4-3.2.0.5-2.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-a4-1.0-7.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-branding-openSUSE-3.0-27.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-draw-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-help-en-US-3.2.0.5-1.2.noarch OpenOffice_org-filters-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-writer-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-galaxy-3.2.0.5-1.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-impress-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-calc-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-writer-extensions-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 OpenOffice_org-converter-3.0-7.1.noarch OpenOffice_org-draw-extensions-3.2.0.5-1.2.i586 -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] grub2: Help needed
by Andreas Jaeger 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

The grub2 package (version 1.97.2) has just been checked into openSUSE:Factory and will therefore be in the next milestone (and the next factory snapshot). We will leave the old grub package as default for now. I'm looking for volunteers that install the package, test it and help improving it. I expect it still has some rough edges, so welcome any help and polishing up of it. If you like to (co)maintain the package as well, please speak up, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Use of smolt
by Vincent Untz 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, While having fun with a gnome-packagekit update, I noticed that we patch it to launch smolt on startup if needed. This is, hrm, wrong -- it's better to have an autostart file for this. However it got me thinking about smolt in general. Currently, as far as I can tell, the user is prompted to send his smolt profile on installation only. I would guess that this means the user won't submit his profile after an upgrade to a new openSUSE version, which sounds wrong to me. Am I understanding things right? Should we change this? Also, by default, at least in GNOME, we just launch smoltGui which, hrm, is not what is most interesting to submit the profile. I think what we'd want here (at least for GNOME, again) is a really simple UI that asks you if you want to submit your profile, and gives you the URL/password afterwards. Any opinion? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] unbound security update... does someone like to take care?
by Thomas Biege 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, if someone likes to make a security update for opensuse, please have a look at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546086 The security-team is happy to assist you. Bye Thomas -- Thomas Biege <thomas(a)suse.de>, SUSE LINUX, Security Support & Auditing SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- Wer aufhoert besser werden zu wollen, hoert auf gut zu sein. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -- Thomas Biege <thomas(a)novell.com>, SUSE LINUX, Security Support & Auditing SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] openSUSE11.3_MS1 Policy kit problem I Think
by upscope 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

I installed MS1 a couple of weeks ago. Since then the user cannot access the DVD/CD drives (2) on /dev/sr0 and sr1. I checked permissions and they look the same as my 11.2 installation. On sr0 and sr1 advance permissions show the user as a named user and a Mask permission. brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-02-17 10:03 /dev/sr0 brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-02-17 10:03 /dev/sr1 for both sr0 & 1. Mask 660 rw- Named User finemanruss 660 rw- cdrom &cdrom1 root:cdrom Link for owner, group and other. cdrw & cdrw1 root:cdrom Link for owner, group and other. dvd & dvd1 root:cdrom Link for owner, group and other. dvdrw & dvdrw1 root:cdrom Link for owner, group and other. 11.1 Fixes: In 11.1 there was a fix to the PolicyKit as temporary fix until upgrade came out: /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.policy change <action id="org.freedesktophal.device-access.removable-block"> Then a change is made. Another way was to make user of group cdrom and add a rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-my.rules file. KERNEL =="sr*[0-9]", GROUP="cdrom", Mode 0660" 11.2 worked out of box by just adding user to group cdrom, audio, Video. and disk. Not sure all are necessary. PolicyKit policy and rules.d entry to not exist on 11.3 by those names. On 11.3 user is member of groups mentioned for 11.2. In process of downloading 11.3 MS2 to see if fix is there? Show I completely delete MS1 or update? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Failed to install live cd´s M2 in VirtualBox
by Roman Bysh 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

On February 17, 2010 4:32:15 am Rastislav Krupanský wrote: > Hi all. > > After unsuccessful attempts in VMware with M1 and M2, i tried M2 in > VirtualBox. Start into desktop environment works, but installation hangs > before performing of automatic configuration, after reboot. > Direct installation from bootloader doesn´t work also. It seems i´m out of > luck with 11.3 Milestones :-( > Does installation work for anybody in VirtualBox? > Note, RAM has allocated 1,5GB. > I ran into a similar problem. After the first reboot the screen goes to black except for the mouse pointer. The thing that is holding up the completion of the installation is a warning message that lirc is missing or has not been installed. If you do not click on the OK button on the notification window, the install will not finish. It's hard to do if the entire screen is black. A work around for this is to use a live CD i.e. Parted Magic. Create and format the partitions first. Then, install Milestone 2 and you will be able to see the entire installation. Good Luck! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Failed to install live cd´s M2 in VirtualBox
by Rastislav Krupanský 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi all. After unsuccessful attempts in VMware with M1 and M2, i tried M2 in VirtualBox. Start into desktop environment works, but installation hangs before performing of automatic configuration, after reboot. Direct installation from bootloader doesn´t work also. It seems i´m out of luck with 11.3 Milestones :-( Does installation work for anybody in VirtualBox? Note, RAM has allocated 1,5GB. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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