October 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] open source software for interactive whiteboard
by Josep M Sole 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

As a teacher I've to manage with interactive whiteboards. Fortunately there is a nice open source project called open-sankoré (former uniboard) with versions for linux. But only for Ubuntu and Devian. Is there any way to get it in opensuse related repositories? or any other way? Thanks in advance -- Josep M Solé

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[opensuse] Logrotate fails for mysql
by Carlos E. R. 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I get this in the log: <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - ALERT exited abnormally with [1] <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - #007/usr/bin/mysqladmin: refresh failed; error: 'Unknown error' <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - /etc/logrotate.d/mysql failed, probably because <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - the root acount is protected by password. <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - See comments in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql on how to fix this <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - error: error running non-shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log of '/var/log/mysql/mysqld.log ' <9.4> 2012-05-17 22:19:14 Telcontar logrotate - - - Reload syslog service..done Those comments say: # If the root user has a password you have to create a # /root/.my.cnf configuration file with the following # content: # # [mysqladmin] # password = <secret> # user= root # # where "<secret>" is the password. # # ATTENTION: This /root/.my.cnf should be readable ONLY # for root ! And I do have that file with the right permissions: Telcontar:~ # l .my.cnf - -rw------- 1 root root 202 Mar 27 2011 .my.cnf and they have the specified contents: [mysqladmin] password = mypassword user= root So, what happens? This has started right after the last mysql upgrade. Another bug? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk+1hWMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XnMQCfUjpQaBLSblmpLrwM8PoTOa32 QaUAnRr1S5gY4o2jcRAx+XPh53BhUken =RHcd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] libreoffice fodt format omission
by e-letter 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Readers, The installation of libreoffice that is provided with opensuse does not allow documents to be saved in flat odt format (beneficial to use LO with version control such as subversion). Is there a reason for this? How to add fodt format option to opensuseLO, or is it better to remove opensuseLO and install LO from their web site? libreoffice35 opensuse122 P.S. please reply directly and to mailing list; am a 'nomail' subscriber. 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] Unnecessary Packages in Yast: Can they be removed without consequence?
by Oddball 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Op 10/31/2012 8:38 PM, Felix Miata schreef: > On 2012-10-31 19:59 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. composed: > >> Oddball wrote: > >>> How to mkinitrd from here if there is no kernel booted? Is it >>> possible to boot the kernel from minimal cli? > >> - From grub console, no, not that I know. > > Menu.lst is script. Anything in it can be entered at a grub> prompt. > If you have a grub> prompt, and there is an installed and functional > kernel and initrd, grub can find it/them, and get you booted by > entering appropriate kernel, initrd & boot commands. that cli is minimal, and lacks the command: find. -- 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] boot.lvm not being executed ?
by Per Jessen 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

I seem to remember having seen this before, but I'm not sure. On my newly upgraded 12.2 system, /etc/init.d/boot.lvm is, afaict, not being executed on startup, so all LVs remain inactive. stork1:/etc/init.d # find . -iname \*lvm\* ./boot.d/K05boot.lvm ./boot.d/S09boot.lvm ./boot.lvm When I run it manually, it works fine: stork1:/etc/init.d # ./boot.lvm start redirecting to systemctl Waiting for udev to settle... Scanning for LVM volume groups... Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "xxxxxxxxx" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "xxxxxx" using metadata type lvm2 Activating LVM volume groups... 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "xxxxxxxxxxx" now active 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "xxxxxx" now active Before I go and open a bugreport, I was just wondering if anyone else is seeing a similar behaviour? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.1°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] add prompt to rm command
by e-letter 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Readers, How to add a verification prompt to the command 'rm', asking whether the file is really to be deleted? opensuse122 gnome -- 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] 12.2 on a Windows 7 machine
by Jim Sabatke 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

OK, I've been using Suse for about 15 years now, but I am not a network or systems guy. My education and background is in software. I've learned a lot about managing systems because I've had to and I don't mind learning. The changes from version to version can really throw me, for example, it took me weeks to get SAMBA working on the Linux end, but then it worked great (version 11.1). When I upgraded to 11.2, I saved the SAMBA data and copied it back in and it worked fine. With 12.1 it no longer works and I haven't been able to figure it out. I understand and accept the limits of Suse documentation and have learned a lot struggling with services, but on the other hand, after 15 years, I still don't understand what "routing" tables are or how they work, and I've read a lot on it. Those aren't my issues today, I just want to set your understanding of where I am and my own limitations. I want to setup my HP laptop for Windows 7 and Suse 12.2 dual boot. I would go completely Linux if I knew I could get everything, including camera and networking working. I also need at least one computer setup with Windows internet access for online setup of a couple of device configurations, including my entertainment center remote, which only works under Windows. I also have a lot of files on the laptop that I cannot risk losing, but I don't have any easy means to back them up, especially since SAMBA no longer works on my desktop system. That brings up the following: My laptop has only one partition of the type needed to load an bootable operating system. I forget the type, but when I tried to load Suse a year ago I trashed the computer and lost everything. Like some other things, I don't really understand this aspect really well. I can certainly setup up partitions otherwise and have been doing it for many years, including on Windows/Linux computers. Documentation says "just use gparted," but then no help from there, and again, I don't want to trash my computer with a mistake from limited knowledge. I know this is a common issue, and people who do understand all the issues together have some trouble getting it to work, but eventually do, but nobody gives a step-by-step, which shouldn't be that long a document, on how to prepare a system for loading Linux for dual boot. Like others on google searches, I can't find anything that makes sense and I just don't know enough to pull the trigger, and I don't really know how to acquire the knowledge because there are so many incomplete and conflicting essays on the subject. So, I'm asking: - Is there any help for SAMBA, especially changes since 11.2? That way I could back up my system and not be so worried. Otherwise, the home edition of Windows 7 is extremely restrictive about network connectivity. - Is there any comprehensive documentation for installing a dual boot system like I want to do? Thanks in advance, Jim -- 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] CINELERRA for 12.2 x86_64
by Basil Chupin 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Are there any Cinelerra users reading this list or can you answer these vexing questions for me, please? In YaST the latest installable version of Cinelerra is 2.2CV - and I have it installed. However, on the heroinewarrior.com site I see that there is version 4.4 released. My questions thererefore are: 1. Has anyone compiled this 4.4 version for oS 12.2 AMD64 from source tar.xz - and perhaps the rpm is available in one of those private repos on opensuse.org? 2. I have downloaded the source code for 4.4 but wonder if it is safe to simply use the instructions given in the tar file to compile it (ie, just run '/.cinlelerra'? Thanks for any feedback. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.9.2 & kernel 3.6.4-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- 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] /media/floppy
by Istvan Gabor 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hello: From SUSE 9.x through openSUSE 11.2 I had this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,async,shortname=winnt,iocharset=utf8 0 0 I also created /media/floppy directory manually. This worked in all suse versions mentioned above. In oS 12.1 I have the same setup, but the manually created /media/floppy directory is always removed at boot. Why is this difference, where is it documented, and how could I fix it, prevent the removing /media/floppy? Thanks, Istvan -- 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] Shutdown sometimes hangs
by Andrea Turrini 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi all, sometimes I face a strange problem on shutdown: it simply hangs until I press Ctrl-Alt-Del several times (the required number of times is random). At screen I see that plymouth fails and log contains: Oct 07 22:41:57 orodruin.lotr xdm[28730]: Shutting down service lightdm..done Oct 07 22:41:57 orodruin.lotr vboxdrv[28808]: Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules..done Oct 07 22:41:58 orodruin.lotr network-remotefs[28789]: Shutting down (remotefs) network interfaces: Oct 07 22:41:58 orodruin.lotr network-remotefs[28789]: Shutting down service (remotefs) network . . . . . . . . ...done Oct 07 22:41:59 orodruin.lotr network[29301]: Shutting down (localfs) network interfaces: Oct 07 22:41:59 orodruin.lotr network[29301]: eth0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8131 Gigabit Et Oct 07 22:41:59 orodruin.lotr ifdown[29631]: eth0 device: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8131 Gigabit Et Oct 07 22:41:59 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[29675]: eth0: dhcpcd not running Oct 07 22:41:59 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[29675]: eth0: exiting Oct 07 22:42:00 orodruin.lotr network[29301]: ..done wlan0 device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Oct 07 22:42:00 orodruin.lotr ifdown[29775]: wlan0 device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Oct 07 22:42:01 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[29819]: wlan0: dhcpcd not running Oct 07 22:42:01 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[29819]: wlan0: exiting Oct 07 22:42:03 orodruin.lotr network[29301]: ..doneShutting down service (localfs) network . . . . . . . . ...done Oct 07 22:42:41 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=69 Oct 07 22:42:41 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-reboot.service entered failed state. Oct 07 22:42:51 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=69 Oct 07 22:42:51 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-reboot.service entered failed state. Oct 07 22:43:09 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=69 Oct 07 22:43:09 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-reboot.service entered failed state. Oct 07 22:43:13 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=69 Oct 07 22:43:13 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-reboot.service entered failed state. [the same messages repeated several times] Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service: control process exited, code=exited status=69 Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit plymouth-reboot.service entered failed state. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: systemd-random-seed-save.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: alsa-store.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: systemd-random-seed-save.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:21 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: alsa-store.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:22 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. [the same messages repeated several times] Oct 07 22:43:24 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: plymouth-reboot.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:24 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: systemd-random-seed-save.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:24 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: alsa-store.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 07 22:43:27 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: dbus.service stopping timed out (2). Killing. Oct 07 22:43:27 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Unit dbus.service entered failed state. Oct 07 22:43:27 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Shutting down. Oct 07 22:43:27 orodruin.lotr systemctl[30129]: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Connection terminated during authentication. Oct 07 22:43:27 orodruin.lotr systemd-journal[282]: Journal stopped (the line at 22:42:03 is as reported by systemd-journal, it is not a copy&paste problem) The first message at 22:42:41 should correspond to my first Ctrl-Alt-Del as the splash was not animated, so I pressed Esc to see the messages, the shutdown sequence was hanged and then I started to press Ctrl-Alt-Del repeatedly (with shorter and shorter interval) to force the shutdown. On a regular shutdown, I obtain: Oct 06 23:24:46 orodruin.lotr network[31080]: ..done wlan0 device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Oct 06 23:24:46 orodruin.lotr ifdown[31558]: wlan0 device: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 Oct 06 23:24:46 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[31602]: wlan0: dhcpcd not running Oct 06 23:24:46 orodruin.lotr dhcpcd[31602]: wlan0: exiting Oct 06 23:24:48 orodruin.lotr network[31080]: ..doneShutting down service (localfs) network . . . . . . . . ...done Oct 06 23:24:49 orodruin.lotr systemd[1]: Shutting down. Oct 06 23:24:49 orodruin.lotr systemd-journal[276]: Journal stopped So, since this is clearly a subject for a bug report, the question is: against which component? Best, Andrea PS: nothing has changed at system level between the two shutdowns since no package has been installed/removed/updated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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