December 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 11.4, problem with printer install
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

After the repair of my trusty HP DeskJet 400 I was planning to install that printer again on my opensuse 11.4. Much to my chagrin, the install with cups or via yast did not find the driver for this printer. Googgling brought some information why this printer has some difficulties. The HPlip from Hewlett and Packard does not include this printer. But generally it was mentioned that Gutenprint should have the driver. Gutenprint is installed. The printer not detected. I found some sites where the pdd file for this printer was offered. The result of the download showed a .bin file. Somewhere it was mentioned to rename the bin file into a ppd file which I did. Still no recognition of the printer.The Printer is found by cups oas HP Deskjet 400 on USB://HP/Deskjet%20400 Is there some mistake in the addressing? What else should I do to get the printer running? The USB information reads as follows: ~> lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at43301 4-Port Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0c45:613e Microdia PC Camera (SN9C120) Bus 003 Device 004: ID 08dd:8001 Billionton Systems, Inc. Bus 003 Device 005: ID 2188:0ae1 -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.2.0-rc6-3-desktop setting up openSUSE 12.1 (i586) LXDE WM& KDE Development Platform: 4.7.4 (4.7.4) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE crashing bug not fixed in openSUSE
by Karl Ove Hufthammer 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

I get hit by the following crashing bug almost every time I log out: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275286 I usually just click ‘Close’ and be done with it, but this I decided to let DrKonqi figure out if it was a known bug. And it turned out to be *very* well known, with tons of duplicate reports. And apparently fixed. But not in openSUSE. One of the more recent comments in the bug is: There is no need for intermediate fixes as this has been properly fixed for a while by now, just look at the bug status. For some reason the fix doesn't get shoved to the distros, therefore we still see bug reports from Ubuntu and SuSe. It feels like distros want to display KDE in the worst possible light (and KDE doesn't miss a chance to help them). So my question is *why* doesn’t a bug like this get into openSUSE? (This is not meant as a rhetorical question; I’m genuinely interested in the answer.) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer E-mail: karl(a)huftis.org Jabber: huftis(a)jabber.no -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Search on the web
by Rajko M. 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Inspired with: * advices "google that", "ask Google", "search" in our communication media * importance that search has to find information, * abundance of quality and bad information sources, which makes easy to find answer or fall in a trap, I decided to initiate creation of article about that topic. I can't do all that by myself, so it is called "creation". Initial location is: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Search_the_web and later if and when content on that page justifies broader approach it can be moved to a new title [1]. The main purpose it to help experienced users recognize what new openSUSE users don't and can't know, and vice versa. [1] Note that in our wiki title is part of URL, so it must satisfy basic rules for article title (short and still descriptive) and good URL (easy to guess and persistent; no changes after creation without link to new location). PS. If you or anyone reading this have more tips how to safely and efficiently search the web, please add to the list, either here, or directly on: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Search_the_web I can take responsibility to keep article tidy, one day when this one will have enough content, create http://en.opensuse.org/Search which will be dedicated to advices how to search for the information, in opensuse.org domain and on the web, and as additional -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: YaST lilo support
by Per Jessen 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Time of a new thread: Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2011-12-08 17:39, Per Jessen wrote: >> Carlos E. R. wrote: > >>> I'm not fudding. I remember the discussion here when it was decided >>> to drop lilo. Yes, the package can be installed, but the >>> configuration section was reported dropped from yast bootloader >>> code. >> >> I argued that we keep the code, but mark the functionality as "might >> not work". It still works quite well, but does need some fixing. > > So they just left the code there as it was at the moment. And I assume > that bugs are not attended. Yes, there is no active developer to take care of them. I have however been using since yast lilo config since it was deprecated (which I think is the correct expression). It has bugs (lack of updates rather), sure. I did consider taking over support myself, but with general interest being quite low, sofar I have just used the proposed config, and fixed the rest manually when I install. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] No mails after kmail2 migration
by Christoph Bartoschek 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi, after installing 12.1 I tried to start kmail for three users. In all three cases migration failed immediately. I was then able to run the kmail-migrator tool by hand and my accounts and folder structure got migrated. However all folders are empty. Kmail2 does not show any mails after migration. How can this be fixed? I still see the mails in my $HOME/Mail directory. Kmail just is not able to read them. What to do? Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] running a virtualbox vm with network adapter host in 12.1
by jdd 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hello, I just updated a 11.2 server to 12.1. I had a running VM and as far as I remember I used it with host only networking (access to it is done by SuSEfirewall2). I can't anymore. I use it as user "virtual". When I try to launch it I just have an error message "VBoxHeadless -startvm s-r Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.1.4_OSE (C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Error: failed to start machine. Error message: Nonexistent host networking interface, name '' (VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR) " in yast I don't see any VirtualBox network (on the host, of course I can't connect to a non running guest) now I'm at home, with only ssh access, but I can manage to have VNC if necessary or even to move to the server location :-( thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] running a script at end of boot with systemd
by jdd 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hello, I need to launch virtual machines at the end of the server's boot; I can do it manually ("VBoxHeadless -startvm s-r", s-r is the virtual machine name) But I want to: * start the virtual machine automatically * close the machine gracefully on shutdown (UPS warning) with inits, I have a "boot.last", but now I'm on openSUSE 12.1 with systemd and I don't know anymore - it's not really "a service" - I beg. any link or hint? thanks jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Google Earth making work
by A. den Oudsten 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I installed the latest version of Google Earth on my 12.1 OpenSuse, but it does not start. Is there a trick to make it start? Thanks in advance André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Why openSUSE is less popular than Ubuntu?
by LinuxIsOne 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi, I was just thinking that though openSUSE is more smooth and works better and has more clean architecture than Ubuntu but still why Ubuntu is more popular? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Error after updating libGLEW (for Clementine)
by Marco Calistri 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi List-members, I installed Clementine from the openSUSE multimedia repository, which forced me to install libGLEW1_7 as dependency requirement, then Clementine was usable and perfectly working for awhile until I received a warning by zypper about newer libGLEW1_7, which I provided to install. After such update however Clementine stopped to work and by trying to launch it through the command-line I seen an error on a reference which seems a translation error of a particular statement in the code (my system language is Italian). The newer libGLEW package which contains the broken files/statement is: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_12.1/x86_64/libGLE… Thus I revert back to older Clementine version which uses libGLEW1_6. Thanks for any eventual comments/suggestions. Happy new year! -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.1 (Aspargus) - Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64 Gnome 3.2.1 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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