May 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache
by Chuck Payne 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Brother w/ Epson printer language support?; &?OT/admin
by Felix Miata 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

Mailing lists have been so low in volume I've wondered if it's the USA holiday, broken internet, a fluke, or something else. I'm a subscriber to over 70 mailing lists. Mondays are usually the busiest day of the week, typically well over 500 inbound. This one was no more than half normal for a Monday, across the board. My 68 month old Canon is now curbside in pieces in two garbage cans waiting for trash pickup, dead after not having used up one complete toner cartridge. I only bought it because right on the box it had "Linux" in its supported OS list. Little idea did I have what that really meant - never again Canon. Anyone own a laser Brother MF of any type, and know if it, or any Brothers, support the Epson 9-pin (FX, IIRC) printer language, as Brothers of yore (all?/mostly?) did. Something no HP ever did AFAIK, and AFAIK no Canon ever did, was support the printer language I learned when Lotus 1-2-3 was at v1.0. I still have spreadsheets with embedded printer codes. I would *like* to be able to print some of them on occasion without having to dig an Epson-supported parallel port dot matrix printer out of the cobwebs, rejuvenate its ribbon, boot DOS, and wait 10 minutes per page in order to get pseudo-satisfactory printer output of the plain text, plus Epson printer control codes (font selection, margin, page length, etc.), that they contain. Converting the spreadsheet themselves is not a practical option, because they are Quattro Pro for DOS native format, which AFAIk nothing imports, while exporting from QPD is limited to WK1 format, which loses far too much via the export process. What I have been doing is printing to a text file, loading it in web browser, and scaling until the overall width approximates sane, which typically wastes 5-15 sheets of paper figuring out each time, and rarely gets the margins or line spacing close to optimal. Is this a pipe dream? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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] Lenovo T550 (Intel HD5500) experience?
by Andrei Borzenkov 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

I'm considering renewing my notebook and look for Lenovo T550 with Intel HD5500 and Full HD 19200x1080 display. I do not know what wireless is inside (this information is mostly unavailable on web sites). I have Lenovo product number but it is not present in product lists I can see on Lenovo site (not much surprised); in case someone knows it, it is 20CK001WRT. Anyone has practical experience? Question is mostly about video, wireless and touchpad/track point compatibility . Support for internal card reader is of course a bonus. Thank you! -andrei -- 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] Thunderbird quirk - something new or something I never noticed in the past?
by Basil Chupin 06 Jun '15

06 Jun '15

Using TB 31.6.0. When one responds to an e-mail message and sends it without at any time saving it to the DRAFT folder then, on the main page of TB, a little arrow appears at the beginning of the Subject header of the message being replied to; this indicates that one has replied to that message. However, if one first saves the response which one is writing to the DRAFT folder and then completes the message at a later time and sends it then no 'little arrow' appears at the beginning of the Subject header. This lack of the "little arrow" a new development or something which has "always been' and I have never noticed it? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.0.4-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 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] raid use case
by jdd 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Hello, I never used RAID, or nearly (I used hardware raid on a big server, but it was completely software transparent). I just made an exact copy of the 1Tb of my main computer. In this disk I have a ~500 Gb partition for my day to day data. is is possible to make the two partitions (one per disk) member of a raid 1 (mirror) system without fuss? I mean that I want to be able to access any partition alone if one of the drive fails (without changing the failing disk) and to revert to standard system if necessary. (I can also make an hourly rsync crom job if raid is overkill) thanks jdd -- 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] printer recommendation
by buhorojo 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

13.2 Hi We currently have a HP printer which only works when the computer it is connected to is on. Is there a wifi printer we could use instead for laptops and phones? Whilst I can find information about the 'phone, no one has any information as to whether it will work from an opensuse laptop. Any recommendations based on experience using this setup? Thanks, B -- 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: Mix NewtorkManager and traditional ethernet configuration
by Carlos E. R. 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-05-22 22:23, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > On Friday, May 22, 2015, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > In NetworkManager you can have connections that start on system > start, "shared" for all users, that require the root password to > change. But the user can add/remove/configure his own connections. > > is that the case in 13.1? if so, I will have to check this out. I > don't recall the root password thing. I recall that you could > change everything. Yes, absolutely. The user can connect and disconnect, but for configuration it requires the root password. And it starts automatically on boot. 13.2 I haven't tested. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlVfrYIACgkQja8UbcUWM1yRCwD+L+et7gwUSRW99Bf4i7CPAbvu wTYQ4mrJf/+S2i5lWlsA/0RvaqtM6VK2XxKEgwWw44vcZJWbk03YSCuk+oeIs1Qt =FMK7 -----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] vfat timestamp again
by Istvan Gabor 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Hello: I took photos with a digital camera which saves the photos to a vfat formatted sdcard. The camera's clock is set correctly according to my local time. When I mount the vfat filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 using a card reader, the timestamps the photos are 2 hours ahead. (OpenSUSE 13.2 system time is set to UTC.) Eg. timestamp shows 18:20 instead of 16:20, the time when the photo was actually taken. I find this behavior - again - unacceptable, ridiculous, and annoying. Isn't there any option with which this stupid behavior could be changed so that the filesystem times would be interpreted as the user's local time? Is this so big expectation? I would like to archive the images, and therefore the timestamps applied at mounting will be preserved. I don't want to archive wrong timestamps, because it is important when the photos were taken. I know I can look at metainfo, but it is not real a solution. What I want is changing the timestamps applied when the filesystem is mounted. 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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Re: [opensuse] raid use case
by Linda Walsh 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Greg Freemyer wrote: > Depends... you can have a background task run and read through the > entire > disk. If anything comes up as different between the two copies, you'd > know -- at least that's what my lsi card does about once a week.... --- > > > I don't know if your also card does this, but mdraid does better than that. > > If the scan detects a media error, mdraid recreates the data from via > raid1/5/6 redundant raid members and re-writes the bad sector. The > drive itself should use the rewrite of a known bad sector to force a > sector reallocate, thus the member drive is restored from silently > degraded to "perfect" in short order. ---- Practical issue: you can't do RAID5 or RAID6 with 2 disks, which is what I thought the original poster had. Secondly when you remap sectors, it slows down the drive -- so that drive won't be within 'tolerance' for hardware RAID, so you'd need to replace the drive most likely (if you had a hot spare in the machine, it could immediately start a rebuild). Third -- RAID1 is safer than RAID6 for the same # of total disks in all cases w/same # of even spindles (need an even number for RAID1, obviously). If you only have 3 disks total, you could probably do RAID6 and it would be safer, but 1 data + 2 parity...ouch. But the 1st minimum size demonstrates the problem (and it gets worse w/more disks). With min number of spindles that will work for both: 4, RAID6 would have 2 data disks and 2 parity. while raid10 would have 2 data disks and 2 mirrors. If your failure rate is 'x', then the no-fail rate is 1-x per disk. In the raid 6, if any of the other 3 disks fail (in addition to 1st failure), the raid is toast. With a RAID10, there is only 1 disk that can cause the whole array to fail (the mirror of the one that went bad). If you get a 2nd fail on another pair, you can still rebuild. With only 1 disk "exposed" on RAID10, the % chance of the whole RAID failing is the %chance of 1 disk failing. However, w/raid6, there are 3 disks that are critical to rebuild the bad one -- their "no fail case is (1 - x)**3. I.e. say it was a 1% fail, 99% nofail. In RAID10 chances of whole RAID being safe would be 99% (the no fail rate for the 1 partner of the one that failed). In RAID 6, though it's .99**3 -- or .970. In that best case RAID6 has 3x the 'total fail' chances as the RAID10's. If you have 8 total spindles (6 data/2parity for raid6 vs. 4data+4mirror for raid10), then 1 disk goes. For RAID10, the total fail case only happens if the failed-drive's pair go's so it's still 99% chance of not failing. Vs. RAID6, .99**7 == .932) -- or a almost a 7% chance of a total fail vs. RAID10's 1% chance. The next point up is moving from 512-byte sect disks to 4k... It takes less space for a more power ECC on 4k than the one on 512: (from a Hitachi brief:) .... The second benefit is that a larger and more powerful error correction code (ECC) can be utilized, providing better integrity of user data.... > Only if you are using media scrubbing routinely can you have confidence > that the member drives go from "perfect" to failed without a silently > degraded state in the middle. --- LSI defaults them to once/week. > > When TB size drives first hit the market, a lot of raid5 rebuilds were > failing due to the silent bad sector degradation. That's when the > community started strongly urging everyone to either use media scrubbing > or raid-6. (Raid 6 has 2 redundant drives so it can rebuild a failed > member drive even in the presence of media errors on the surviving members). ---- But w/raid6 after 1 drive fails the chances of non-failure have to be multiplied by # drives left. With RAID10, it's a constant. (Combinatorics) -- 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] network manager only connects after 2nd or 3rd attempt
by Daniel Bauer 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Hello, on my laptop with OS 13.2, after booting the network manager shows that it is connected to my wifi, but there is no connection to the internet, i can't even get to the router (192.168...) Then I click on disconnect and then on connect again and it usually works. Sometimes I need a third or a fourth attempt. It looks to me that if "connecting" takes a longer time, then the connection does not work, although shown as connected, and when it goes fast, it works... It does not depend on the distance to the antenna. What could be the reason for this? Where can I search and for what should I look? thanks for hints Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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