February 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Is it possible to flag or report posts on this list for removal when off-topic?
by Donovan Cameron 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I find the mailing lists and its archives an invaluable resource when I need to fix a specific problem. Chances are someone has experienced that same problem as me and has a solution that I can build off of =) I find some threads go off topic with people trying to have other debates or discussions. This makes it hard to read through a thread and catch the on-topic posts and see the solution to the original problem. Don't get me wrong, when help comes, it is usually more than what's needed and becomes insightful as I learn more about Linux and openSUSE in general. In fact, I'm not reading this list for much help anymore, but just to entertain myself and watch people flame or bicker at each other. I even look forward to it on Sunday and know what users to look for to read an amusing argument =) I don't think there is a reporting mechanism (at least couldn't find one searchable through the archive) to report a topic as off-topic and get it removed. What can I do to help this situation when it comes up and I find topics going off the radar? Do end users like me maybe just post to that thread and reference some guidelines for posting on the mailing list that would include "staying on-topic"? Is there a link I can use with best-practices or guidelines? I couldn't find one at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels - I have trouble seeing the little things so if it is in a corner of the page in text with a size of pt 6 in grey italics, please forgive me =) SaultDon -- 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] vice for oS 12.1
by Istvan Gabor 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello: I would like to use vice on 64 bit openSUSE 12.1. I installed vice vice-2.4-2.1.x86_64 from lemmy04 repo. (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lemmy04/openSUSE_12.2/x86_6…). When I start x64 I get: > x64 ... C64MEM: Error - Couldn't load kernal ROM `kernal'. Error - Machine initialization failed. It seems kernal roms are not installed. I tried the other available repo, gberh, it has the same issue. How can I make it work? (( Just in parenthesis: I tried to build it on my system (as always before) but this time I got error messages: In file included from ffmpegdrv.c:35:0: ffmpeglib.h:83:55: error: unknown type name ‘AVFormatParameters’ ffmpeglib.h:87:29: error: unknown type name ‘ByteIOContext’ ffmpeglib.h:88:30: error: unknown type name ‘ByteIOContext’ ffmpeglib.h:121:5: error: unknown type name ‘av_set_parameters_t’ ffmpeglib.h:125:5: error: unknown type name ‘url_fopen_t’ ffmpeglib.h:126:5: error: unknown type name ‘url_fclose_t’ etc. On all previous openSUSE systems (from 9.x to 11.2) I could build it with no problem. en of parenthesis)) 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] yast - command line argument to disable last time-out?
by Per Jessen 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Is there a way to prevent Yast from timing out and automatically rebooting when the installation is complete? I normally really like that I can just "fire and forget", but occasionally I'd like to make the installation wait. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-1.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- 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] screenshot including mouse pointer
by Istvan Gabor 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Hello: I have openSUSE 11.2 with KDE 3.5.10. I'd like to take screenshots showing current position and form/type of my mouse pointer/arrow. I tried ksnapshot but the shots it takes do not include mouse pointer. Any solution? 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] Suse 12.3 RC1 is a BIG improvement over 12.2 (which was buggy unstable)
by Martin Biermann 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

When the last Suse Online Update killed the X-server on my Dell M4600 notebook PC last Thursday, 14 Feb 2013, I had enough: Instead of fiddling around with 12.2 yet another time, I took the plunge and installed 12.3 RC1. I was pleasantly surprised! The system worked out of the box. The Graphics for the nVidia Quadro were fine. Firefox, thunderbird, chromium - no problem. Only two issues: 1) One minor bug in partitioner 2) My Logitech M555b bluetooth mouse is recognized, but does not work. I have registered both issues in Bugzilla - let's hope they are fixed when the final release comes out. Keep up the good work! Martin -- Martin Biermann martin.biermann(a)kir.uib.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] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
by James Knott 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Tanstaafl wrote: > But this isn't a political list, so lets leave politics out of it, eh? Not so much political as perspectives and actions of 2 men. One was forward looking and the other not. -- 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] e2fsprogs 1.42.7 incompatible with OpenSuSE?
by Postmaster 22 Feb '13

22 Feb '13

Are there incompatibilities between e2fsprogs 1.42.7 (.7 = the latest version) and OpenSuSE? The reason I ask: e2fsprogs .7 is out for a while and exists for all major distributions - except OpenSuSE. Key packages like this usually appear in the OpenSuSE package search fairly quickly, but not this one. So I wonder: Is there a technical reason for that? Background: I have a 19TB ext4 file system with bigalloc that I need to resize to 23TB. e2fsprogs 1.42.6 has a bug in the resize tool that corrupts the file system when resizing. Earlier versions cannot do that at all. 1.42.7 fixed this, so I really need this version. Of course I could try to compile it myself, but if this version is known to cause problems openSuSE, then I guess I should not. Thanks! & Regards, Torsten -- 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] PostgreSQL password
by Roger Oberholtzer 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Disclaimer: I am new to PostgreSQL. My previous experience is MySQL and SQLite. I am attempting to set up a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database server on openSUSE (12.3 - but I do not think that matters at this point). I have installed the server and what I think to be reasonable packages. I have made no changes to any configuration files, so it is pretty much out-of-the-openSUSE-box. The postgresql server is running: postgres 4937 1 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/postgresql92/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data postgres 4938 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: logger process postgres 4940 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: checkpointer process postgres 4941 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: writer process postgres 4942 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: wal writer process postgres 4943 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process postgres 4944 4937 0 10:59 ? 00:00:00 postgres: stats collector process Now I want to do something along the lines of this: $ createuser <username> $ createdb -E UTF8 -O <username> gis To do this, I must log in as the postgres user. The problem is I do not know the password. Now, of course I can change the Linux user password for postgres. But will that effect the starting of the PostgreSQL server? I surely do not want to change the password and mess up starting the server again. And there are no backsies here. The second question is, after I have changed the Linux password and can run commands, won't I need the password for the database cluster? Or, in the openSUSE install, is that the same? I understand that PostgreSQL can use PAM authentication. But does it in the openSUSE RPMs? The SUSE docs in these packages could perhaps give a hint of what they have and have not done in the installation process so a user knows where to pick up the ball. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- 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] 12.3 RC1 install mysteries
by Roger Oberholtzer 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

I am installing 12.3 RC1 on a machine that happily runs earlier versions of openSUSE. The graphics is, admittedly, an older ATI Rage XL (MACH64). It runs as a server, and this is on the MB. It is usually only seen during install. The install was a bit of a PITA because, no matter what display I used, I could not get a graphic install to work. I tried setting various resolutions and even 'No KMS' in the initial install screen. The screen would go black, and I could do nothing. No virtual terminals. Nothing. Eventually I had settle for the text install. The text install went rather okay. Quite impressive. I expected that when I did a text install, perhaps the installed GRUB2 would also be set up to be text based. This seems not to be the case. So, when the system rebooted to do the second part of the install, where things like the root password are set, I just got a blank screen. The second part did not happen. So I now have a machine where: * grub2 is installed, but it will not provide a menu. Eventually it does the default and boots, resulting in a graphic login screen - which works - even though grub2 does not manage it's graphics. * there is no root password, so I cannot do any system configuration. I can log in as a user (made during the first phase of the install) and run KDE. What I would really like to do is (1) get grub2 to work, perhaps in text mode and (2) set a root password so I can proceed to set things up. Any suggestions? Especially the root password part. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- 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] SSH & firewall masquerading
by James Knott 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

I'm trying to use ssh to connect to a computer behind my firewall. Since I also ssh to my firewall, I tried to use port 21. I configured masquerading in SUSE firewall to pass port 21 to port 22 on the target system. When I try to connect, it seems to get stuck part way through the ssh key exchange init. Is there something in ssh that prevents using masquerading? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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