August 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Restore session no longer works - Seamonkey 2.20
by James Knott 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Seamonkey was recently upgraded. Since then "Restore Session" no longer works. Retore Session is normally used after Seamonkey was abnormally shut down and restores all the web pages that were previously open. Now, only a single window opens and previous sessions cannot be restored. A recent version of Firefox does not exhibit this problem. Anyone know of a fix for this? I'm running openSUSE 12.3 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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[opensuse] Dual /multiboot openSUSE
by michael norman 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I am running 12 3 64 bit. I am using Grub legacy installed in the root partition. I am thinking of adding Linux Mint in dual boot mode. I have a spare partition which I keep for installing other Os's which I usually use to test new versions of openSUSE. It is some time since I tried that with an non SUSE os. Are there any gotchas I should look for doing this with Linux Mint ? Where should I tell it to put its bootloader so that openSUSE will see it ? Anything else I should worry about ? Mike -- 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 - invalid HTTP request
by James Knott 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

I have Google Earth installed on two computers. On both, whenever I try to run a search, I get an error message "invalid HTTP request. I do not see this problem on Windows. I'm running version 6.0.3.2197-0, which is the latest, on openSUSE 12.3. This is a fairly recent problem, as it has work properly in the past. 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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Re: [opensuse] ddclient error
by Carlos E. R. 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Content-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1308280143130.9215(a)minas-tirith.valinor> El 2013-08-28 a las 06:54 +0800, George Olson (SUSE list) escribió: > On 08/28/2013 06:02 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: You forgot to email to the list :-) >> I have a trigger set on the router log; a script runs, and the IP is >> logged. I could use it to trigger a dynamic dns update if I used the >> service. >> >> > That sounds like a great idea, but I wouldn't know how to set up a > router log or how to trigger it. Can you point me in the right direction > to figure that out? I'm not at home, so I can't look up the details. The idea is as follows: First, you configure the router to send the log to the computer. Many can do that, but some can not. If yours can't, then this can not be done. You have to detect if the router logs a certain message when it loses the connection and reconnects, or if the IP changes. Some even write the new IP to the log, which is fantastic. Then, you configure the syslog daemon to accept those messages and write them to a file. How to do that depends on which syslog daemon you have, because openSUSE has set different ones by default on each release. Next step is to make the syslog daemon detect a certain message pattern on the log; this is normally quite easy. Typical actions are to save that entry to a file or not to; but you can also trigger a call to an external command: that's what we are looking for. Well, the idea is precisely to trigger an script when the router sends the message that it is recovering the connection... if the message contains the IP, good; if not, a simple call to links to a certain web page that answers with the IP, and some trickery with sed, and you have the IP. I can fill the details probably this Thursday. And, in case this fails, have cron obtain the IP every... 8 hours? And at boot. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIdObkACgkQja8UbcUWM1zhWAD/Yq0Mag2u54Tlg+k/6AP6ntdo DUi7xf62UCnFtCxKWooA/AlJnWxUayWnBawvgMo85fW2AxeRCCBew1aVtbojpCE0 =kWKL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] remote xfce4 through ssh
by jdd 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Hello, It's a long time I was out of openSUSE bussiness, but I hope to be able to come back, at least a bit :-) I'm setting up a new hosted server with openSUSE 13.3 and I uodate my own doc here: http://dodin.org/wiki/index.php?n=Doc.OpenSUSE-small-ThirdEdition every time I build a new one I have more power (for this one I7 processor, 24Gb ram!) and try do do some better config. Just now I try to have an xfce remote session. I could use VNC or freenix, but I had in the past problems with this (I have to run VirtualBox on the server and too many virtualization layers do not fit well), so I would like now to use simpler way, that is X remote. I connect to the server with "ssh -X -C root(a)xxxx.info". I can launch yast2, xeyes, but if I try "startxfce4" I get only a partial session (and lot of messages) I get the initial mouse logo, and the taskbar, but no desktop and the taskbar seems to reflect the local windows, not the server ones. is it at all possible to export the complete xfce session? how? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- 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] Repeated problems with libpango
by Bruce Ferrell 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

for some reason that I can't seem to locate, when performing zypper dup, during the installation phase libpango installation hangs (version: libpango-1_0-0-1.34.1-3.10) any thoughts on how to shoot this problem? -- 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] Tell system to use pm-utils
by Malte Gell 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

Hello, only pm-utils can run scripts after resuming. This is why I want the system (openSUSE 12.3) to use pm-utils. How can I do this? I suspend from the KDE menu. How can I make KDE use pm-utils? Malte

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[opensuse] recover an encrypted home from a previous install
by Peter 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

I have a spare user account on one machine which I later decided to encrypt using the option in YaST's User and Group Management. I simply selected 'Use Encrypted Home Directory', and allotted it 2000MB. When upgrading to 12.3, I did so by wiping the root partition and keeping /home intact. When I first logged into this spare account in 12.3, I thought things were as usual, then I noticed program settings were reset to defaults, even though some other system settings and old files were visible. I realised I'd not reinstated the encrypted home, and what I was seeing was just the remnants of early files and settings I'd configured before the encryption. Just to complicate things, whilst still on 12.2 I'd changed the 'spare' user ID from 1001 to 1010 and run a couple of commands to update all files found on the system (and in /etc/passwd). Now I'd like to get back into that encrypted volume since it holds a few files I cannot otherwise retrieve. How can I do it? The files 'spare.img' and 'spare.key' still exist, but if I simply re-checked the encryption box in YaST would it not try and create a new volume with a different key, or would it merely read the original one? I believe these two files are under user ID 1010 but the contents would I assume still remain as 1001, which might make it tricky. I am in the process of setting up a new machine and so I could create a user account called 'spare' with user ID 1001, then copy the .img and .key files over and update them to 1001. But I'm still not sure how to import the encrypted volume. Cheers, 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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Re: [opensuse] Google Earth - invalid HTTP request
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

On 08/29/2013 02:06 PM, John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On 8/29/2013 10:31 AM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote: >> On 08/29/2013 01:23 PM, John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote: >>> On 08/29/2013 10:14 AM, James Knott wrote: >>>> I have Google Earth installed on two computers. On both, whenever I try >>>> to run a search, I get an error message "invalid HTTP request. I do not >>>> see this problem on Windows. I'm running version 6.0.3.2197-0, which is >>>> the latest, on openSUSE 12.3. This is a fairly recent problem, as it >>>> has work properly in the past. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> tnx jk >>>> >>> >>> For the Record, I have Google Earth version >>> Google Earth >>> 7.1.1.1580 (beta) >>> Build Date >>> 4/19/2013 >>> Build Time >>> 7:38:45 pm >>> >>> installed from Google's own repository. >>> http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64 >>> >>> I have no search problem. >>> This is on OS 12.3, with KDE 4.1x >>> >>> >> >> Then the problem has been fixed in the beta but still exists in the stable version 6.0.3.2197. >> > > Yes, quite probably so. I know there is often a preference for using the OpenSuse repositories > but in this case, the solution seems to be obvious. The OS rpm is several releases behind > Google's repository. > > I use Google's stable repo for google earth it is not openSUSE's repo. As you stated you are using 7.1.1.1580 _(beta)_. Please keep replies on list. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- 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] KMail on 12.3
by Michael Hamilton 29 Aug '13

29 Aug '13

On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Mark Tinka wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm still running openSUSE 11.4 because the last time I attempted an upgrade to 12.1, it ended in tears where KMail2 was such a surprise, particularly how it got so bundled with Akonadi and friends. > > I ended up reverting to 11.4 and have been there since then. > > However, I can't help but feel like I'm not enjoying any advances in KMail and other applications on openSUSE, given I'm on a release that is no longer being supported. > > My main issue is KMail. Does anyone know whether the migration from KMail on 11.4 to KMail on 12.3 is now behaving? One issue I saw was some kind of problem between how KMail and KWallet are integrated in 12.3. > > Any useful feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks. > > Cheers, > > Mark. > I tried kmail2 a few times. But each time some problem has undermined my confidence and I returned to kmail/kdepim3. As I recall I think the most recent issue was lack of search or slow search. I'm now running the 12.3 KDE3 kmail that is available in 12.3 kdepim3 package. I did find converting to kmail2 is now fairly easy. I had kdepim3 kmail convert all mbox folders to maildir. I then moved the old dir to somewhere safe. After starting with a fresh kmail2, I imported the old folders. The only downside with this approach to conversion is that after importing all my folders I had to manually shift-click bunches of folders and mark all contents as read. I don't want desktop nepomuk desktop indexing, I think this is why I'm not getting along with kmail2. As long as kmail/kdepim3 is provided I think I will just stick with that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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