May 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] zypper dup getting stuck installing new desktop kernel
by ellanios82 12 May '13

12 May '13

Hello List " Computing distribution upgrade... The following NEW package is going to be installed: kernel-desktop 1 new package to install. Overall download size: 39.3 MiB. After the operation, additional 117.6 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y (1/1) Installing: kernel-desktop-3.8.9-5.1 ................................<100%>[\] " - at this point zypper freezes : gets stuck, and does not install the new kernel in grub boot menu ......................... - any ideas please as to where the process might be getting stuck ? thanks best regards -- 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] {MCP?} openSuSE 12.3 changes default XFS mount options
by Lew Wolfgang 12 May '13

12 May '13

Hi Folks, We were smitten by a rather subtle change in how 12.3-64 mounts XFS files systems. The first indication was a failure of acroread to start for a particular user. Other users on the same system weren't affected. It turns out it's an old problem talked about here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4721987 We then encountered another problem with an old cross-compiler that was caused by the same issue. It seems that when an XFS file system is mounted with the inode64 option, and the file system exceeds 1-TB, inode numbers exceeding 32-bits can be created. Without the inode64 mount option, inodes are clustered to be addressable by 32-bits. 12.2 and earlier mounted XFS without the inode64 option, as shown here: (12.2 mount command) /dev/sda7 on /export/home type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,delaylog,noquota) While on 12.3: /dev/sda7 on /export/home type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) Our workaround is to stop using XFS for home directories. We'll continue to use XFS for huge RAID arrays handling lots of large files. This isn't a bug in openSuSE, IHMO, just a change that illuminates bugs in other 32-bit packages. My thanks to Dan L. who "found" the solution. (Dan isn't on this list) Regards, Lew -- 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] nvidia conflicts today
by Carl Fletcher 12 May '13

12 May '13

Anyone else seeing this? #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2013-05-12 04:53:41 #### nothing provides ksym(desktop:init_timer_key) = fb0e29f needed by nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-319.17_k3.4.6_2.10-12.1.x86_64 [ ] break nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-319.17_k3.4.6_2.10-12.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies [ ] do not install nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop-319.17_k3.4.6_2.10-12.1.x86_64 nothing provides ksym(default:init_timer_key) = fb0e29f needed by nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default-319.17_k3.4.6_2.10-12.1.x86_64 [ ] break nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default-319.17_k3.4.6_2.10-12.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies [ ] do not install x11-video-nvidiaG03-319.17-12.1.x86_64 #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### -- 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] watch /var/log/messages interactively
by lynn 11 May '13

11 May '13

12.3 Hi Is it possible to watch the log in real time? L x -- 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] tumbleweed : gtk2 problems
by ellanios82 11 May '13

11 May '13

Hello List - in case of interest : __________ gtk2 problems fixed by removing opensuse branding, & Installing gtk2-branding-upstream gtk3-branding-upstream gio-branding-upstream ................ many thanks to Greg KH ............... best regards -- 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] dual monitor (vga and dvi) on ATI chipset
by Damon Register 11 May '13

11 May '13

Recently I installed SuSE 12.3 64 bit on my new computer. I even got Thunderbird working and am able to check my e-mail. There is still one thing that I haven't yet figured out. The onboard video is ATI. There is both a vga and dvi port. I have the vga connected to a standard monitor and the dvi connected to my TV. This PC is dual boot with Windows 7. In Windows I have the same display on both the monitor and TV. I can see the same bios info on both screens during boot. I can see the same info on both screens during boot of SuSE but when I finally get the KDE desktop, the TV reports no signal. I have seen a small amount of discussion about this some months ago with Nvidia. If I understood that discussion correctly, the solution was in getting Nvidia's driver instead of the default one. Is it likely that I will have to do the same with ATI? Can anyone please tell me what I need to do to get both screens working? Damon Register -- 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] hibernate preventing run of cron.daily; how to solve this?
by Julien Michielsen 11 May '13

11 May '13

A script of mine used to run in cron.daily, to do the necessary things that have to be done every day (eg. backup). This used to work fine. At present however, I usually switch off my machine with hibernate, and I suspect it doesn't run /etc/cron.daily/mydailyscript after starting up in the morning. Apparently in the morning it still is at the same time-point where it was the evening before. I searched the web and found I should add anacron to "Restart Services" in common.conf. However, my knowledge is too basic to understand what I should do. Someone at the list (or from SuSE professionals) who knows what I'm looking for, and could give me a hint? Thanks a milion Julien -- Julien Michielsen julien_at_michkloo.xs4all.nl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] LXDE does not restart after logout
by Peter 11 May '13

11 May '13

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:51:42 +0000, John Hearns wrote: > I am having a problem with the LXDM display manager on OpenSUSE 12.1 > I did post on the Opensuse forum, but no answers yet. Any help > gratefully received! > > I can start it fine, log in and start a session etc. > But when I use lxsession-logout and logout the display manager does > not restart. I was using LXDM to login to xfce and raised this issue on the xfce mailing list, but it turned out not to be a desktop issue. See this thread: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xfce/2013-03/msg00012.html There's a couple of bug reports I linked to in that thread, but there's no fix and no action on them for some months. As a consequence, I recently just tried changing to LightDM and I can logout/login okay. I was using LXDM previously because it had working language selection, but that has now been fixed in LightDM too. Peter -- 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 /var/run and /run these two directories have absolutely the same contents?
by bruce 10 May '13

10 May '13

i know /run is a new cross-distribution location for the storage of transient state files, and /var/run is replaced by /run. but 1, why /var/run still have contents just as the same as /run ? just for backward compatibilty ? 2, if a program want to write some data to /run, is it supposed to write the same data to /var/run ? 3, it seems /var/run is not a symlink to /run, so /var/run occupy harddisk space, just like /run does? -- 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 IP not recognizing IPv6 path not available
by James Knott 10 May '13

10 May '13

In some experimenting with IPv6 vs IPv4 with my notebook, I have noticed that openSUSE does not recognize that an IPv6 path is not available. When I have an IPv6 connection, the IPv6 connection works as expected, but when it's not, protocols such as ssh still try to use the IPv6 address. The hosts command returns both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, even when there is no IPv6 connection. When there is no IPv6 connection, ip -6 route sh shows "fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256. While I don't know the details with openSUSE, a maximum metric number generally indicates an unreachable route which should be ignored. Any ideas? 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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