April 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Open Office 3.2.0
by Donn Washburn 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Then one that came from a zypper up recently fails to work on a spreadsheet. It comes up with a boot splash, a start menu and select the spreadsheet option. ps ax out - /usr/lib/ooo3/program/soffice.bin -splash-pipe=5 up come the spreadsheet. Open file, it comes up with data and it locks up. The end Minimize it and call it back up. The frame is all that comes up with no data. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Live install (LVM) broken in Factory?
by John Beranek 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

I downloaded the M5 Gnome Live CD in order to give it a go, and then attempted to do a live install. I chose an LVM partition setup, and at the point the installer attempted to mount the root partition it failed, saying it had failed to mount "/dev/system/root on /" (apologies I'm getting this from memory rather than a log file). I'm now trying an install from the Live CD using a partition-based setup, and it appears to be working. So, can anyone confirm my problem? (I can't find anything in Bugzilla) Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake

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[opensuse-factory] xdiskusage in Factory?
by John Beranek 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

The release notes for M5 featured the text "Added xdiskusage, a visual disk-space analyzer." but as far as I can tell it _hasn't_ really been added. It's available in the dev project X11:Utilities, but it's not available in the factory distribution, and it doesn't even appear as a package in "osc ls openSUSE:Factory". So, should it be in Factory? Will it make it to Factory, given the version/feature freeze? Cheers, John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake

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[opensuse-factory] What is the plan for HAL in 11.3 - HAL or What?
by David C. Rankin 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Guys, I've read several development threads about the security fundamentals of the present HAL implementation and I have read that HAL is being completely removed from the picture. (i.e. HAL free Xorg 1.8, etc...). The issue seems to be some fundamental flaw in the present implementation and the argument is whether it requires tossing the complete HAL stack or if a low level redesign to remove the flaw can be done while preserving most of the current way HAL works (the details of which pass well over my head) But that does prompt the question: "What is opensuse doing in this regard and is there a plan to address it?" What's the current line of thinking for 11.3? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] svn problem
by Donn Washburn 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

as root or user. The complete error message given as help It impacts any svn site. svn co https://freeglut.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeglut freeglut Error validating server certificate for 'https://freeglut.svn.sourceforge.net:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: *.svn.sourceforge.net - Valid: from Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:21:55 GMT until Sat, 05 Feb 2011 10:03:23 GMT - Issuer: Equifax Secure Certificate Authority, Equifax, US - Fingerprint: ea:d1:3e:01:cc:16:e9:9b:c2:ab:4b:0c:cc:26:5f:25:78:ea:89:b4 (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p svn: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libneon.so.27: undefined symbol: SSL_SESSION_cmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-04-20 00:29 /usr/lib/libneon.so -> libneon.so.27.1.4* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-04-20 00:18 /usr/lib/libneon.so.27 -> libneon.so.27.1.4* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154340 2010-04-15 06:10 /usr/lib/libneon.so.27.1.4* -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Re: GTK interface of software installer in YaST [yast2-gtk] in Factory
by Atri Bhattacharya 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 19:48 +0530, Atri Bhattacharya wrote: > Dear milestone testers! > > 3. A "History of changes" box: that is accessible from either the > top-menu "Extras" or from the "Summary of changes" box. This shows the > entire history of installed/upgraded/uninstalled packages, and > subscribed/removed repositories, categorised conveniently by date (the > full history-viewer in all its glory has not made it into M5, it should > be in factory [5] soon however and you can already try it from svn [2] > if feeling adventurous :) ). You can select a package and hit the > "jump-to" button to switch to the package in the main interface and > uninstall/re-install a removed package from there. This is in response > to feature # 305859. It enables the user to look up a package installed, > say, recently that he/she does not like or finds unuseable and remove it > and the dependencies it pulled in easily. This should go extremely well > if the Unneeded packages group is implemented later [6]. The recent factory sync has brought in an updated YaST2-gtk interface with the history manager now complete feature-wise. Please do test and let us know your thoughts, good, bad and ugly :), on the interface. -- Atri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Fedora 13 Desktop Features
by Rastislav Krupanský 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Just for info, especially Mono status seems to be interesting ;-) http://mether.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/fedora-13-desktop-features/ -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 11.2 parted bug?
by jdd 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Before writing to bugzilla, just to see if you know this already demo dvd, openSUSE 11.2, 32 bits on an old IDE disk, HP/Compaq system with IDE/SATA, gparted and YaST are not able to open the disk to change partitionning when fdisk and cfdisk can do very easily. Parted sees no partition. same system, YaST boot manager from install dvd or running session can't make a good GRUB boot, when the recovery system of the same dvd can (seems related with disk order) reproductible. Details at hand if necessary thabks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-support-the-Linux-Documentation-Project/372… http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-fan-page-of-Claire-Dodin/106485119372062?… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Firefox updated by zypper
by Donn Washburn 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Hey Group; I have again found that openSuSE's version of Firefox is missing functionality. It is missing many file.so or atleast the count of files differs. Download Firefox from mozilla.org, install it and things work. And example of the lack of function is from Thunderbird call up a URL from an email. openSuSE's version of Firefox fails to come up but mozilla's version comes right up and displays the URL that is quoted in an email. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] M5 - post-prompt messages on tty1, & after login
by Carlos E. R. 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-04-20 21:00, Donn Washburn wrote: Please remember to post on-list, specially as your ISP bounces my direct replies as spam.(554). >> Hey Carlos; >> >> Just for a try see if /boot/grub/menu.lst has a "vga=" set. If >> yes change it to "vga=ask" and boot up on it. I had a similar >> problem. I never found the problem but I think it may have been >> a lack of nouveau. Mine would just come up with huge letters >> and then black. >> It has the same setting as it has in the working 11.2 partition, ie, 0x317. Letters are correct, just no prompt. Nouveau does not apply to an intel chip - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkvOA2oACgkQja8UbcUWM1ww3QD/euge0pLe1PmvHqMKJ0512Ht4 dVmHeE8SK/9YeYGzXMIA/Rwk9Kpkvk1aa9FCdhYM2sSAaU1GD/0jamOIv9eg+tYU =zsVp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Stopping a module from loading with "BrokenModules="
by Richard (MQ) 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

I recently filed a bug (#597299) regarding a problem with bluetooth / WiFi module vt6655-stage crashing the kernel with an Oops during boot. No response to the bug report yet (still at NEW, not assigned - I imagine the team is very busy at the moment, so no surprise there). So to try to debug this I thought I could use kernel parameter "BrokenModules" to stop this module vt6655_stage.ko from loading. However, none of "BrokenModules=vt6655", "BrokenModules=vt6655-stage" and "BrokenModules=vt6655_stage" have any effect, the module still loads and crashes the system. I can see this by using a serial console. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong / why it doesn't work? BTW: it's not in the initrd (checked /etc/sysconfig/kernel & confirmed by opening up the initrd with cpio to check). Renaming the module e,g, to vt6655_stage_DONOTUSE.ko initially worked and phase 2 of the installation ran, somehow it reinstated the module though and now it's failing in exactly the same way. Now I really am stumped! -- Cheers Richard (MQ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] sax2 in M5
by Felix Miata 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Does this still work for anyone using Radeon? It works interactively for me, except on selecting to save configuration it exits without saving anything to /etc/X11 or /root. :-( kernel 2.6.34-rc3-3-desktop on socket 462 Sempron cmdline: root=/blah noresume splash=off vga=0x305 3 radeon.modeset=0 With rv200/7500 if after booting runlevel 3 I try to start runlevel 5 without any xorg.conf the system locks up requiring reset button to continue. My display has no DDC/EDID. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/113/saX.log-m7ncd-M5-radeon-rv200 http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/113/xorg.0.log-m7ncd-M5-radeon-rv200 -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Seamless Boot Experience for OpenSUSE Factory.
by Egbert Eich 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Seamless Boot Experience for OpenSUSE Factory. ============================================== With KMS (kernel mode setting) and a KMS aware X driver we can greatly improve the boot experience on OpenSUSE and offer the user a seamless transition from the moment the kernel takes over graphics to the login screen of the display manage. Currently there are a few pieces missing on Factory to do this, I've created a project on home:eeich:BootProj which adds those pieces to the respecitve packages. Please add: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eeich:/BootPrj/openSUSE_Fac… to try this out. For the implementation I've looked at the Plymouth project to see if this is already feasable to use. The feature of Plymouth are: * It provides a fully user space implemantation of a boot splash for a system running in KMS. * It supports various splash plugins. * It provides a way to enter passwords duing the boot process. I found some deficiencies: * It falls back to text mode (no splash image) in VESA-fb mode (ie, when KMS isn't active). * It doesn't allow control over the progress bar. * I the password entry facility was working unreliably for me. * It requires considerable modifications to initrd and the bootup scripts. All in all Plymouth doesn't appear to be in a stage where I feel comfortable to deploy it on the OpenSUSE, yet. Instead I decided to check what needed to be done to support "flicker free" boot using the kernel based OpenSUSE bootsplash. Here is what I had to do: 1. Extend the OpenSUSE bootsplash /proc/splash syntax to a. support copying a bootsplash image from one vt to another: echo "copy 0 6" > /proc/splash copies the splash image from vt1 to vt7. b. turn off the progress bar entirely echo "@6 show -1" > /proc/splash turns off the progress bar on vt7. c. finally bump the version number on the bootsplash code so that the presence of those extensions can be checked, The required patch is contained in the various kernel packages in the BootProj project in my OBS home. 2. Add support for 'rootless' X: with these patches the Xserver will start without an initial root background ie. it will use whatever data is presently in the framebuffer. This feature can be enabled with the '-nr' command line option. Patches for the core server and the Intel driver already existed in the Moblin project. I ported them over to the latest version of X and fixed some bugs. The required changes are part of the X11:XOrg package and thus in Factory already. 3. Extend the displaymanager startup script to a. test for the presence of the 'copy' command, and if present copy the bootsplash image to vt7 if the displaymanager is either kdm4 or gdm. This patch is part of the xorg-x11 package and already checked into X11:XOrg (and thus Factory). 4. For kdm4 I modified the name of the background image in the SUSE theme to SUSEBackground.jpg and created a soft link from Background.jpg to that file in the same directory. [Package kdebase4-openSUSE_11.2] The kdm sysconfig script now checks for the presence of the bootsplash image, if one exists, it creates a link from Background.jpg to this image (size 800x600). Otherwise it will restore the link to SUSEBackground.jpg. It also checks for the presence of KMS (cat /proc/fb | grep -q drm) and adds the '-nr' command line option if KMS is enabled. [Package kdebase4-workspace] So far these steps have only been done for kdm4. gdm requires more enxtensive changes as it doesn't allow to configure additional command line options for the Xserver. Also I've not yet found out how to modify the gdm background image. Please feel free to beat me on that ;) Cheers, Egbert. -- Egbert Eich (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X Window System Development Tel: +49 911-740 53 0 http://www.opensuse.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N�rnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [ANNOUNCE] kalsatools to be deleted
by Dave Plater 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi, is anybody going to miss kalsatools? It's functionality is included in it's successor alsamodular the openSUSE name for AlsaModularSynth. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [Announce] I want to delete fftw
by Dave Plater 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi, fftw has been renamed fftw3 but it still remains in factory, the only package in factory which doesn't build without it is kalsatools which is replaced by alsamodular anyway. I've submitted updated packages, replacing the buildrequires fftw-devel with fftw3-devel to :- hugin (sr 38323), perl-PDL (sr 38321) and xmms2 (sr 38322) in anticipation. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] M5 - post-prompt messages on tty1, & after login
by Felix Miata 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Are these ever supposed to happen? On my 2nd boot after dup from M4 to M5 I was away from the machine when boot completed. When I returned, the login prompt looked thus: hostname login: [210.005007] eth0: no IPv6 routers present WARNING: Number of errors: 0, skipped probes: 361 Is this expected behavior? I logged in on tt2, then executed an alias that mounts some NFS shares, which (abnormally) dumped the following to screen: [ 626.619099] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 626.619230] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. [ 626.619346] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. [ 626.669489] Slow work thread pool: Starting up [ 626.669697] Slow work thread pool: Ready [ 626.669853] FS-Cache: Loaded [ 626.712632] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching Is that a new expected result of nfs mounting from script or cmdline? -- "Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] New factory synced out
by Stephan Kulow 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Hi, Just to let you know: the latest factory tree has synced, so you should be able to test post-M5 now. Hope your testing works better this time ;) The live cds are mostly done too, but somehow the build service does not like to start the last one of them. With almost 100 build failures, it's clearly not time for a beta though, but I'm not sure how to handle it. It would be great if more people would help fixing - as the time for version updates is over, it would be good if you get your hands down fixing. https://build.opensuse.org/stage/project/status?project=openSUSE%3AFactory&… Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] mkinitrd
by Donn Washburn 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

I was downloading a program via "zypper in bootchart" this comes after having to completely reload 11.3 M5. That came from mkinitrd not writing the MBR correctly. Bad news is that zypper script ran mkinitrd. I sure hope it works correctly. It will be no fun to reload 11.3 M5 for the third time on one machine. I removed a bunch of modules to save bandwidth. Copy of the mkinitrd output from zyppers script Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-rc3-3-xen Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.34-rc3-3-xen /lib/mkinitrd/setup/01-splashy.sh: line 67: directfb-config: <<---- command not found Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500641A_3PM2162S-part7 (/dev/sda7) (mounted on / as ext3) Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500641A_3PM2162S-part5 (/dev/sda5) Kernel Modules: hwmon thermal_sys thermal scsi_mod libata pata_amd pcmcia pata_pcmcia sd_mod usbcore ohci-hcd ehci-hcd uhci-hcd hid usbhid Features: block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel Bootsplash: openSUSE (1600x1200) 42285 blocks 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 2. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 4. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 2. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 7. 2010-04-18 20:33:30 WARNING: GRUB::GrubDev2UnixDev: No partition found for /dev/sda with 4. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] i810
by Joachim Reichelt 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi, I've an old laptop with PIII and an i810 chipset. Staring with kernel 2.6.33, loading the i915.ko will blank the screen. This is on all 11.3 milestones and ubuntu lucid All screens are blank, console and X11, but remote access is fine. What to do? -- Joachim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [ANNOUNCE] zypper-1.4.2 - rewritten package selection, please report any regressions
by Jano Kupec 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi all, zypper has undergone a major refactoring of its package selection code recently. This was mainly to enable automatic testing and to make it easier and safer to add new features. I'll submit zypper 1.4.2 including this change to Factory soon. It seems to work fine for the most part, but if you spot something that used to work for you in 1.4.1, please let us know via bugzilla. Don't forget to attach both zypper.log and solver test case [1]. The new version already enables use of unified package arguments (in install, update, and remove commands) in the form of: [+/-][repo:][type:]name[.arch][OPevr[.arch]] +/- (or ~|!) ; install/remove modifier repo = ; repo alias, number, or name type = patch|pattern|product ; if not specified 'package' isimplied name ; can even be a glob OP = -|=|>=|<=|>|< ; version operator evr = [epoch:]version[-release] ; edition (version) E.g. $ zypper in packman:xine-ui-0.99.5cvs20091115-0.pm.1.4 (don't forget to quote the args, if they contain ?/*/</> or spaces) More about all this later ... There is still some work to do to fully support this (especially don't try foo.arch :O), but the main focus now is to make sure that all that used to work before works also now. For future plans see [2] and comments at [3]. Don't hesitate to send feedback to or discuss this stuff on zypp-devel(a)opensuse.org. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Troubleshooting#Solver_Test_Case [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Roadmap [3] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/zypper/blobs/master/tests/SolverRequester_tes… -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)---

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[opensuse-factory] M5 and Yast2 console
by Donn Washburn 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

There is an error message that happens just before every Yast2 screen. Yast2 NTP complains about "Cannot update configuration policy" Yast2 Hardware Sound fails to allow setting of the volume. It just does nothing. Yast2 Hardware Joystick - just fails and dumps you in Sound Yast2 Hardware TV fails to work like predicted. So far this is a list of things that have worked correctly but now are failing -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] slow system reaction
by Donn Washburn 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hey Group; What would be causing M5 to be very slow when removing a directory of old files and or coping those files. This is something new because it is the same process I have been using. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Factory off-line upgrade
by Carlos E. R. 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, For years I have been doing "off-line" factory upgrades. I explain. Let's assume that factory is in /dev/sda9, and the production system is in /dev/sda7. Instead of booting factory, I boot the production system, which I continue using, and attempt to upgrade the factory partition from the running stable system. I do it that way because it can take 10 hours to run (slow internet), and days if it fails with repeated attempts and half upgraded system. The procedure is this: mount /other/ mount --bind /proc /other/proc mount --bind /sys /other/sys mount --bind /dev /other/dev cat /other/etc/SuSE-release echo echo " Copy paste the next line to activate prompt change:" echo echo "export PS1=$'\\[\E[1m\E[31m\\]Anor_chrooted_on_\\h:\\w # \\[\E(B\E[m\\]'" echo "export PBL_SKIP_BOOT_TEST=1" # http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Failover echo "export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1" echo "cd" echo chroot /other/ /bin/bash --login Once I run that in an xterm, I can run "zypper up", then dup, etc. This I have done for several versions... till 11.3, it does not work. This is what I get: Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # The file exists, but it doesn't work, not surprisingly. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # l /var/run/dbus/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 messagebus messagebus 4096 Apr 18 04:38 ./ drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Apr 18 21:30 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 18 04:38 at_console/ srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 18 03:45 system_bus_socket= I wonder if I should bind that directory to the "host" equivalent directory? Would that work? Is it dangerous? I tried, and it appears to run: Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. Anor_chrooted_on_minas-tirith:~ # Well, the nothing to do is because M5 has the distribution repos, not the factory repos. I'll change that and report. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkvLYBoACgkQja8UbcUWM1zlFQD+K6Q+bheILcACb+O1c2kaHHzm 9Q6wJCzt5swq1pRbpAgA/jx1GFIcIAf5kkTXcTXuLxx8fbjY2vxqa1YLdxPj30Dh =qK3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] mkinitrd
by Donn Washburn 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

mkinitrd in 11.3 M5 complains about missing "directfb.config" in splashy.sh on line 67. Otherwise it seemed to work. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 11.3 M5 Audio Mixer
by Donn Washburn 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

11.3 M5 Well kmix just does nothing and gmixer has a bunch of errors like ** (gmixer:17969): CRITICAL **: _wrap_gst_mixer_list_tracks: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (self->obj)' failed So what audio mixer should I try -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5xwb(a)comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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