July 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] VLC strangeness
by Peter Nikolic 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi .. Well i dont even know how to begin this one as i have a feeling it is very region specific but here goes anyway. I am using VLC to view TV my card is one of the Haupague cards i will be watching tv perfectly ok then for no reason it just stops displaying certain channels , These are all the BBC channels and it is spread across Tv and Radio but as i say only BBC stuff if i shut down VLC open it up again then rescan the channels it will be ok for maybe a day or so then the same thing happens . No matter what i do it will not work with the previous playlist file nor using the xine channels.conf file I have reported this on the VLC Linux forum as well any ideas at all ? makes no sense at all to me .. purley because it only effects BBC stuff .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2" 22:29 up 1 day 1:12, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.15, 0.04 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How do I make a Wifi connection
by A. den Oudsten 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I have been struggling to configure my Wifi connection. I understood from previous threads that I have to remove NetworkManager.state and to do rcnetwork restart to be able to configure the Wifi connection with NetworkManager. This did not lead to success. So now I intend to make a fresh 11.3 installation, remove NetworkManager.state and do rcnetwork restart. Then I'll do a NetworkManager guided install. Can anybody tell me what's wrong in this approach? André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Akonadi problem
by 911 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello SuSE people, Recently upgraded to KDE4.4 andI now receive the following message: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to rectify this have failed. Therefore indexing of all data stored in the Akonadi PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the capabilities of any application using this data. The following problems were detected: Nepomuk is not running. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, remember stuff on this list talking about Akonadi/Nepomuk but can't recall or find what it is about. There was a solution. Just don't know what it was about. Please remind me. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] why no "cups" entry in YaST Firewall Allowed Services in 11.3?
by Carlos F Lange 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

In the Firewall Configuration of YaST, the list of services to allow for the External Zone no longer contains "cups". Instead, When setting up the Printer Configuration to accept printer announcements from CUPS servers, YaST pops up a recommendation to open UDP port 631 in the firewall. Any sane reason to make this process less convenient? -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kmail not retrieving all POP3 emails
by ianseeks 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

HI I've just logged into my webmail to find i have 32 emails going back over a 2 year period. Some of them have been retrieved by kmail and some haven't. Is there anyway to force kmail to re-attempt getting the ones that haven't been retrieved? Currently it checks the mail box but ignores them. regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper up not showing updates that YaST2 does
by Carlos F Lange 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

When I open YaST2 Software Management after a fresh install and after adding a few repos, including Packman, I have about 20 updates, mostly libs, such as libavcodec52 from Packman, preset as automatic updates. If I do zypper up, I get "Nothing to do". Why are they behaving differently and how can I get zypper to match YaST2? I am creating a few scripts for streamlined installation in my lab computers and I am counting with zypper to by-pass the GUI. Thanks. -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] how to diagnose disk-related problem?
by Dave Howorth 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I have a problem on a new server that I'm bedding in. I'm trying to copy data onto it from an older machine and the new machine is going into a strange 'locked-in' state. I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to investigate the problem. On an old server, there's some data that I want to copy to the new server. The way I'm doing that is to nfs export the data on the old server, nfs mount it on the new server and then use cp to copy it to its new home, something like this: cp -uax /nfs/old-host/data /new-directory I actually have two of these running, for different subsets of the data. BTW, I'm executing all these commands via ssh from my desktop machine. That works fine for a couple of hours and then when I try to execute another command (ls) in another ssh shell it tells me that the new server has closed the connection. The two cp commands are still apparently running but when I try typing ^Z, those ssh sessions are terminated as well. If I go to the new server's screen, it is blank and I haven't found any key sequence that makes anything appear on it (specifically, CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't, for example). So it's beginning to sound like it's crashed, yes? But it hasn't. The disk activity lights for the drives where /new-directory lives are still flashing and running top on the old server shows me that a couple of nfsd processes are busy and that system is spending a lot of time accessing its disks (there's not much else running) so it seems like the cp processes are still running. At this point I don't see any alternative to rebooting but I thought I'd ask first to see if anybody had any other ideas on ways to gather information? These symptoms have occurred once before. When I rebooted that time, the system came up without one of the data disks - the system said the interface wasn't responding. But when I unplugged the disk and plugged it back in and rebooted, it came back. There was actually a lot else happened at that time, so I can't be sure it was as simple as it sounds. I'll see if the same happens this time. I wasn't able to spot anything useful in the logs and smart said the disk was OK, AFAICT. The new data directory is in an ext4 filesystem in an LVM volume on an mdadm RAID10 all on openSUSE 11.2 so another possibility is some kind of problem in one of those systems. The drive is in a SATA hot swap cage connected to a port on the motherboard; it's a WD RE4 1.5 TB. All ideas gratefully received! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Change desktop background KDE4
by James Knott 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

How does one change the KDE4 desktop background to something that looks decent? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] First impressions on OpenSUSE 11.3: 11.0 was better...
by Martin Mielke 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Hi all! it's been a while since I last watched the list and a while since OpenSUSE 11.3 hit the market so I installed it yesterday on my desktop PC at home, the same one I used with OpenSUSE 11.0 + patches before the installation: HP xw4200 (3 GB RAM, 64bit dual-core, etc). It was an installation from scratch so I backed up my account and installed everything as new... the installation process went fine (only an error message for a repository, can't remember which one now, sorry) and the system booted. I've been using SuSE since version 5.3 back in 1995-6 (?) and for the first time in so many years I have to say: I'm disappointed with the final result. Reasons for such a bold statement could be many but here I'll list just a few in random order: * I expected KDE 4.x to be faster and lighter but it's not... maybe the next lines are related to this behavior... please read on. * SaX2 is missing in action - if not, please tell me where to find it as YaST2 can't either. The only way to get a dual-head setup up and running with Xinerama on a supported nVidia gfx card with the latest official nVidia drivers/modules (1) was to dig into forums for infos and using some nvidia-* tools I never heard about before. At least I learnt something new in the meantime :-) although I don't know where/how to activate the 3D acceleration... (1) nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-256.35_k2.6.34.0_12-14.1.x86_64 and x11-video-nvidiaG02-256.35-15.1.x86_64 * some "basic" effects such as the bouncing mouse pointer to provide feedback of an application starting leave a trail across the screen which goes away after a while * similar to the previous point, moving a window across the screen causes the same effect, even with the "don't show contents", etc * in average, the box is much slower when compared to its performance running OpenSUSE 11.0 - even running Folding@Home with 11.0 wasn't that heavy load and it allowed me to run lots of applications, as expected. Changing from one virtual desktop to another or waiting for the menus appearing when you right-click on the Desktop takes ages now... * Kopete, Pidgin and Empathy (haven't tried with aMSN yet) still fail when it comes to using the audio & video features. According to the "About"-menu, those have been compiled in but are shown as grayed out so you cannot select them. No idea why this happens... any library missing? * OpenGL screensavers won't start at all and, as a Hellraiser fan, I'm missing KLament =:-) and many other OpenGL ones... * all the nice Composite effects (wobbly windows, transparencies, etc) are gone and the error message is: --- Compositing is not supported on your system. Required X extensions (XComposite and XDamage) are not available. --- Although I found some links pointing to a solution. i.e.: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=10337 I still can't get them to work. Follows my xorg.conf file: --- $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 256.35 (buildmeister(a)builder97.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 16 19:15:05 PDT 2010 # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 256.35 (buildmeister(a)builder97.nvidia.com) Wed Jun 16 19:14:45 PDT 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "1" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "HP LP2065" HorizSync 30.0 - 92.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 85.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "HP LP2065" HorizSync 30.0 - 92.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 85.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7950 GT" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 7950 GT" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "DynamicTwinView" "True" Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Damage" "True" Option "Composite" "Enable" EndSection --- maybe someone can shed some light and tell me why the X-server is eating up between 40% and 70% CPU all the time in average... --- top - 01:58:54 up 5:18, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 1.18, 1.91 Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 14.6%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 81.1%id, 1.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 37.5%us, 2.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 59.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3219624k total, 2940300k used, 279324k free, 38360k buffers Swap: 2103292k total, 3068k used, 2100224k free, 1945808k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 21316 root 20 0 397m 131m 16m S 44 4.2 3:10.42 Xorg --- ...it's "just" a 44% for this snapshot... Needless to say that all kind of help is more than welcome. Thank you very much in advance! and please apologize this long email... Regards, Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] webpin for 11.3 - does it work?
by David C. Rankin 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Guys, I have run webpin several times on 11.3 and it always comes back with "No results ..." Is it set up yet? Example: 11:30 zephyr:/home/backup/rpms/suse11.3> webpin kdelibs3 ... performing request on http://software.opensuse-community.org/ws/searchservice/Search/Simple/openS… results found for "kdelibs3" in openSUSE_113 Now I know kdelibs3 is in OBS, I installed it earlier and I can look at it here: http://opensuse.ca.unixheads.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.3/i586/… but it doesn't show up in webpin.... What's up with that? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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