October 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] qalculate is brain dead
by Sid Boyce 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

I thought I was getting a usable GUI as on Kubuntu and Fedora. I tried building the Fedora source on 11.4 M2, but it didn't work out and I haven't had the chance to dig further. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff 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] rpmlint failing KMP packages (missing-supplements)
by Tejas Guruswamy 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

All, Lots of KMP packages seem to be failing on Factory atm because of rpmlint errors, specifically these ones usb-rndis-lite-kmp-desktop.x86_64: E: suse-policy-kmp-missing-supplements (Badness: 10000) usb-rndis-lite-kmp-xen.x86_64: E: suse-policy-kmp-missing-supplements (Badness: 10000) usb-rndis-lite-kmp-default.x86_64: E: suse-policy-kmp-missing-supplements (Badness: 10000) |usb-rndis-lite-kmp-default.x86_64: W: suse-policy-kmp-missing-enhances kernel-default usb-rndis-lite-kmp-desktop.x86_64: W: suse-policy-kmp-missing-enhances kernel-desktop| Despite my preamble containing: Requires: kernel-%1 Enhances: kernel-%1 Supplements: packageand(kernel-%1:%{-n*}) and rpm showing these as expected in the buildlog. What are these checks looking for, or are they broken? See for example Virtualization/virtualbox-ose. I've temporarily put a filter in rpmlintrc, but previously system:SynCE/usb-rndis-lite was also failing. Regards, Tejas -- 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] package autokey
by Roelof Wobben 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

hello, I submitted 7 days ago the package autokey to x11:common:factory. I wonder if this package is accepted or declined or if there any other news about it. Regards, Roelof Wobben -- 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] TCT Bug Screening/Mucking with Parameters
by Refilwe Seete 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

oS Devs, Would you find it agreeable for the Testing Core Team (general community even?) to triage and otherwise change major parameters for bugs in bugzilla? I assume the advice in the wiki pertaining to KDE bugs is generally applicable [http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_Screening_KDE] but I'd like to get an definitive answer for the rest of the distro. For example: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640584 It's a bug relating to Banshee. I can confirm the bug in early milestones, but I can also confirm that recent Factory builds fix it. Knowing this much I could just close the report as resolved. Or is such behaviour going to endanger somebody's ability to buy bread and new motherboards? In all seriousness, I'm just inquiring to make sure we enhance rather than break developer work flows. Refilwe openSUSE Testing Core Team -- 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] -lwrap
by Donn Washburn 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Be 64 years of age and having a bad memory I was in hopes someone could refresh my memory as to how to solve a " -lwrap ". problem. As I remember it came from a file starting with "net". Please note I had it saved from before but I had a hard drive take a long term vacation. zypper in net* didn't offer anything to solve the problem. It concerns Amarok compiling and gcc. -- 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] C implementation of update-alternatives
by Michal Vyskocil 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

Hi all, I noticed Debian folks reimplemented the old good update-alternatives command from Perl to C. That means your-favourite-program (like awk or vim) will no longer depends on Perl in openSUSE. Good think is - new implementation is backward compatible, so no changes in %scripts are required, no reinstallation and so. And what is better, the simple %post update-alternatives --install %preun update-alternatives --remove calls would work without a problem, which is the most common use-case. I found only two notable differences: 1.) more verbose by default - considering to change it, as all things are already logged to /var/log/alternatives.log zypper remove java-1_6_0-openjdk Removing java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b18-1.29 [done] Additional rpm output: update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0- openjdk/bin/java (part of link group java) doesn't exist. Removing from list of alternatives. update-alternatives: warning: alternative /usr/lib64/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk (part of link group jre_openjdk) doesn't exist. Removing from list of alternatives. ... and much more 2.) Don't allow the same slave alternative in more than one - bnc#648260 - even if it's a bug in openjdk packaging I prepared package is in OBS - home:mvyskocil:update-alternatives/update- alternatives [1]. Please test (at least) your package with newest update- alternatives and bug me in case of troubles, thanks. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=update- alternatives&project=home%3Amvyskocil%3Aupdate-alternatives Following list shows which packages use update-alternatives in some of %script. jsmeix: * gawk gnome-maintainers: * gobby * gobby04 * mozilla-xulrunner192 (pcerny?) * ntfs-3g * PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin * rarian * rarian-scrollkeeper-compat * scrollkeeper * vala makowski.opensuse(a)gmail.com: * firebird-classic * firebird-superserver hvogel: * gvim * vim werner: * ksh * pdksh mkudlvasr: * lftp * lukemftp pgajdos: * lua * lua50 guido+opensuse.org(a)berhoerster.name: * mawk mrueckert: * rubygem-rails-2_3 Thanks for your help Michal Vyskocil

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[opensuse-factory] KDE4 headache
by Donn Washburn 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Hey Group; Why does KDE4v2 and openSuSE 11.4 not allow a user to open a "Desktop Folder" sub-directory icon. This is a icon that worked earlier under 11.3. It now requires a "root" password to open it. I thought the root password was not to known by every user after X is started. -- 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] Audio problems with 11.4 Milestone 2 x86_64
by Sid Boyce 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

After a recent zypper dup. lancelot@slipstream:~> cat /jet.wav > /dev/dsp ### No sound ### lancelot@slipstream:~> aplay /jet.wav Playing WAVE '/jet.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:734:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: No such entity aplay: set_params:1123: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: U8 SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 8 FRAME_BITS: 8 CHANNELS: 1 RATE: 11025 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: (1378 1379) PERIOD_BYTES: (1378 1379) PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: (500045 500046) BUFFER_SIZE: 5513 BUFFER_BYTES: 5513 TICK_TIME: 0 lancelot@slipstream:~> paplay /jet.wav Stream error: No such entity lancelot@slipstream:~> kmix& [1] 7319 lancelot@slipstream:~> paplay /jet.wav Stream error: No such entity [1]+ Done kmix lancelot@slipstream:~> lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> ps fax|grep kmix 5476 ? S 0:00 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 1014714ddbd5000128745208400000058930020_1287619627_281959 7377 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep kmix lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> kill -HUP 5476 lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> ps fax|grep kmix 7384 pts/2 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep kmix lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> kmix QMetaObject::invokeMethod: No such method KMixApp::loadCommandLineOptionsForNewInstance() lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> slipstream:/home/lancelot # rcalsasound restart Shutting down sound driver done Starting sound driver: hda-intel emu10k1 done slipstream:/home/lancelot # aplay /jet.wav Playing WAVE '/jet.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono That was OK and so is this. lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> aplay /jet.wav Playing WAVE '/jet.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono lancelot@slipstream:~/ftp/oct10> No sound apps work. lancelot@slipstream:~> fuser -v /dev/snd/* USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: lancelot 5585 F.... pulseaudio lancelot 7388 F.... kmix /dev/snd/controlC1: lancelot 5585 F.... pulseaudio lancelot 7388 F.... kmix /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: lancelot 5585 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p: lancelot 5585 F...m pulseaudio kmix is running, but the GUI doesn't appear. lancelot@slipstream:~> cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xf7df8000 irq 16 1 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SB Live! 5.1 [SB0060] SB Live! 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102) at 0xb880, irq 20 I have shut down opera, firefox, thunderbird and konqueror. kmix doesn't start after doing "rcalsasound restart". slipstream:/home/lancelot # kmix <unknown program name>(8352)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." <unknown program name>(8351)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. May be I need to file a bug. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff 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] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hi, There is one rather important update to the way we build factory, that I didn't yet announce properly: We now only rebuild packages if their sources changed (they were submitted) or if we trigger the rebuild manually. This means that there might be cases where factory syncs out but some things do not yet work because e.g. (let's make up something here) sqlite3 changed it's default data format and all packages relying on sqlite3 need to recompile so that they figure the new default. In this case we need to learn this (someone has to report it e.g. here) and then we can rebuild all those. And in case you wonder the factory updates are still that large: this is because I wrote a script to retrigger all packages where I could find out they have problems in just emulating their installation. Unfortunately I made some mistakes along the way, so it triggered once or twice more packages it should have - but this is hopefully just a phase. I still plan to do a mass rebuild after every milestone release, so that we do not get outdated packages too soon (and build-compare will still catch the obvious). Greetings, Stephan -- 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] module compilation on kernel change
by jdd 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

One of the french forum user posted recently a script of interest: http://forums.opensuse.org/other-languages/francais-french/aide-et-support/… even if it's in french, the script is international langage The goal of this script is to recompile the necessary proprietary modules after a kernel update. I don't know if the script is well done, I have no knowledge of this kind, but it looks very interesting. In fact one of the most often asked question on forums is "why do my virtual box, nvidia card, ati card" don't work anymore this author seems not wanting to follow factory or OBS. So if somebody think this script is valuable, may be it could be included somewhere?? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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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