April 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Libre Offfice wopn't open documents.
by Bob S 12 May '11

12 May '11

Hello SuSE people, Running 11.3 with KDE3.5.10 Did an upgrade of 11.3 last night and Open Office was uninstalled and Libre Office installed in it's place. It ooens up and will accept input but will not open any existing documents. If I go to File > Open I do not get a list of any existing documents nor any in the Recent Documents. If I then close it, it will not open a second time. I must log out and then back in again. Then, if I go to a document and right click on it then choose Open with Libre Office nothing happens. Libre Office does not open. But, if I have logged out and then back in again, when I go to a document and right click it and choose Open with Libre Offfice writer, it then opens a dialog about recovering the document. Then I tell it to recover the document and it opens that document. After that, and after logging out and back in again, that document will whow up in the Recent Documents list and can be opened from within Libre Office. Clear as mud, right? Links maybe? Hope somebody can point me in the right direction here. The handling and editing of documents is an important part of my use. 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] VLC problem in 11.4
by Basil Chupin 12 May '11

12 May '11

A couple of weeks ago (I think) I posted a message stating that vlc will not even start under openSUSE 11.4. I just re-installed 11.4, as a totally new installation, and did all the necessary updates to all files. Still no vlc. xine works fine but not vlc. I then remembered that someone - I *think* that it was Mark Goldstein - responded to my original post with the suggestion to run vlc with the prefix of 'strace'; I just amended the properties for vlc and now it runs correctly for me. I don't remember thanking Mark for his suggestion which I now do: Thank you Mark for the 'fix', greatly appreciated. But before I remembered Mark's suggestion, I went looking for an answer and found that there is a bug in KDE4.6.0 and which, as implied, has been fixed in KDE 4.6.1. Which is quite nice to know....if you only one knew how to upgrade your current KDE 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 (let alone to 4.6.2!) to get rid of just one (presumably) small bug to make vlc work. As I have forgotten over time the mystical incantations required to manipulate the Repositories info in (?)YaST to be able to upgrade this current release of 11.4 with KDE 4.6.0 to KDE 4.6.1, would some kind person, using plain, simple English, please, if it is not too much trouble, tell me what I should do to add whatever necessary repos (NO runes and in abbreviated form please!-please) to my installation so as to be able to upgrade to KDE 4.6.1? And as it is, in my time zone, Good Friday, A Happy Easter to everybody. BC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 / mysql does not start automatically
by Stefan Gofferje 11 May '11

11 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I recently upgraded my home server from OS11.2 to OS11.4 (fresh install). Since then, the mysql doesn't start automatically any more. mysqld.log says: 110419 15:06:32 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid ended 110419 15:26:52 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /server/mysql 110419 15:26:54 [Warning] '--skip-locking' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use '--skip-external-locking' instead. ^G/usr/sbin/mysqld: File './mysql-bin.~rec~' not found (Errcode: 13) 110419 15:26:54 [ERROR] MYSQL_BIN_LOG::open_purge_index_file failed to open register file. 110419 15:26:54 [ERROR] MYSQL_BIN_LOG::open_index_file failed to sync the index file. 110419 15:26:54 [ERROR] Aborting 110419 15:26:54 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete If I try starting it manually with rcmysql start after the machine has booted up, is goes without problems. Any hints? - -S - -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2tz6sACgkQbQKZlCdPOMPayQCgstJwFtuN7IPp7VoTVoV1xD7H LRAAnj4KKymBSVfbCVeSxxRKKDFNw/9x =cEbD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] help with ATI Radeon 5470
by Leonardo 08 May '11

08 May '11

hello everyone, i have there 3 ati machines: one with mobility radeon 3200, another with mobility radeon 4200, but the new one has mobility radeon 5470 and i am unable to configure it as i've made with the others: just click on http://opensuse-community.org/ati.ymp and the it adds the correct mirrors. but not on this new machine, if i do that i'll lost X forever, will have to use failsafe and then remove/purge the package and the mirror. If i try the proprietary driver directly from the ati site things gets even worse. i want to use all features from this video card, any help is welcome. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] opensuse on a macbook
by lynn 04 May '11

04 May '11

What version do I download? Any? Is it the same procedure as on a pc? I don't want to keep any partitions on the faulty hard disk. I want to install onto an external usb drive. I can do it easily on a windoze box. Is the method the same for a mac? Thanks. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] I'm stuck - SSL Certs / email server
by Jim Flanagan 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hi Guys, I really could use some help here, I'm kind of stuck. Trying to get my SSL certs to work right with postfix/cyrus imap. I think I'm very close, but something is still not quite right. I've got a signed SSL cert, but my email client does not recognize it as being signed by a trusted authority. There is a CA cert in my mail client from StartSSL so it should recognized the signed one on my server. Also, I'm getting ssl errors saying the ssl rx record too long. I've googled all over and find references to that, but nothing that helped my case. I'm starting to think SSL is not set up or working properly here. Sending email via TLS works ok (except for not recognizing the cert as signed by trusted authority), but chekcing email via SSL does not work properly, and presents both errors as described above. I've mainly been using Trhunderbird, but tried setting up Kmail to try another program. It auto-detected TLS as being offered by the server, but did not detect SSL as being offered. (Specifically, no security and TLS, with plain text passwords, but not SSL). Perhaps I don't need SSL and can use TLS?? This defaults to port 143. Previously I used my firewall to limit plain text access to port 143, but I suppose I can force TLS on both smtp and imap? I'd be happy to supply any setup info you might need, but I've done so much I don't want to clog up this email with everything. I did question the StartSSL guys who advised to combine 2 files, there main CA and a Sub-Ca into one file. I did that but it didn't resolve anything. The CA and Sub-CA certs are in the same dir as my signed cert and private key. Private key is set to chmod 400 and everything else is 644. Localhost is reporting as follows: user@jimmee:~> telnet localhost 25 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 jjfiii.com ESMTP Postfix ehlo localhost 250-jjfiii.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN As I said I think I'm very close to having this set up right. Something I'm missing. Not sure what. Thanks for any help. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What is the currently recommented firwall settings recommended for FTP?
by Carlos E. R. 02 May '11

02 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I had this working time ago, with this same configuration, but now it doesn't work now. I'm testing FTP with two local linux machines (oS 11.2). The server has: FW_TRUSTED_NETS="192.168.X.Y,tcp,ftp 192.168.X.Y,tcp,ftp-data" The client firewall has not been touched. Both machines have nf_conntrack, nf_conntrack_ipv4, nf_conntrack_ipv6 loaded /automatically). With anonymous ftp from client, default settings (Extended Passive Mode), a "dir" doesn't work unless I bring down the server firewall. Passive mode doesn't work either, until I bring down the firewall on the client. Yes, this is contrary to design, passive mode should be easy on the client side. It doesn't even work even if I put in the client side firewall: FW_TRUSTED_NETS="192.168.X.Z,tcp,ftp 192.168.X.Z,tcp,ftp-data" But the client firewall drops it: Apr 30 00:37:47 minas-tirith kernel: [21595.671840] SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=0c:ee... SRC=192.168.X.Z DST=192.168.X.Y LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=33999 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=20 DPT=35556 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B40402080A175CEDB70000000001030307) This is contrary to the rule above, port 20 is ftp-data. ftp> passive Passive mode: off; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> dir 200 EPRT command successful. Consider using EPSV. ^C ftp> passive Passive mode: on; fallback to active mode: on. ftp> dir 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||30054|) ^C Althoug I think it is not really using passive mode. Active mode I can not try, because: ftp> active ?Invalid command. ftp> I know that it is the ftp data connection which is not working. But I have no idea how this has to be set, currently. Yes, I know, I should use sftp/ssh. That works. The question now is how to configure the SuSEfirewall on both sides for ftp to work, preferably on all modes. For knowledge sake :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk27QOIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V0ywCeP6vPYJaFRzSGg9GnVCGmsxz9 FEwAmwYLQOpINpjVyyHQhfoNFgmKaOo1 =EVcm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Public Apology to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore
by "Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang E nming) 张恩鸣 " 02 May '11

02 May '11

I was misconstrued as having insulted Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. My words were twisted and misinterpreted and I feel that there is a need to explain myself and set the record straight. [b]What really happened[/b] It was sometime in Aug/Sep in the year 2009. The setting was in the Tampines Central office of Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd. I was having a ***verbal*** conversation with Melvin Lee, my new I.T. department manager, when he challenged me to complete an I.T. assignment within a specified period of time. In response to his challenge, I replied in Mandarin: "If I cannot complete the I.T. assignment within a specified period of time, then Lee Kuan Yew is wang ba dan". I used to be fond of using other people's names to "bet" with people but now no more. The Minister Mentor's name came into my mind spontaneously and I used it to "bet" with my I.T. department manager. [b]Explanations[/b] 1. It was not my intention to insult the Minister Mentor at that time. Please note the use of the IF... THEN... statement in my verbal conversation. 2. I did not know wang ba dan [hanyu pinyin] means bastard at all until I consulted Goh Meng Seng much later. I would like to apologize to the Minister Mentor and the Prime Minister of Singapore if I have offended them in any way. I swear it was not my intention to insult the Minister Mentor. Please forgive me for using your name carelessly to "bet" with my former I.T. department manager. Yours sincerely, Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip BEng(Hons) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic (2) National University of Singapore ------------------------------------------------- This message sent via VFEmail.net http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 Lifetime accounts! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Opening attachments in Thunderbird
by Koenraad Lelong 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi, I don't know how I did this, but since a while I can't open e.g. pdf-attachments in thunderbird (maybe it was there from the start, but now I find it annoying). I have to save it, or open it with the gimp. I would like to open it in a regular pdf-viewer. The list in "edit/preferences/attachments" is empty. Is this normal ? Do I just search for the binaries for adobe reader or okular when asked how to open it ? I'm using TBird 3.1.8 on OS 11.2 Thanks, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: [opensuse] What is the currently recommented firwall settings recommended for FTP?
by Andrew Joakimsen 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Oops, broken mailing list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 18:14 Subject: Re: [opensuse] What is the currently recommented firwall settings recommended for FTP? To: "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r(a)opensuse.org> I always ensure the SUSE firewall is turned off and never have any issues that way. -- Med Vennlig Hilsen, A. Helge Joakimsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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