April 2010 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Time to think about revert default behavior PKGMGR_ACTION_AT_EXIT - openFATE#307942
by Rastislav Krupanský 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi. I can´t still see any benefit in the default behaviour of package manager at exit. There are no negative votes in toggle statistic in this feature #307942, so could you finally change this default behaviour, please? Current status is annoying. -- 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] Milestone 5 on x86-64 broken or not?
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

So, has everybody tested milestone 5 on i586 - like me - or is it working for some on x86-64? Did anybody succeed installation on x86-64? Should we send a warning out that this is a 32-bit only milestone? what to tell people? I'm speaking about the libzypp/zypper bug here: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595545 Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Unable to launch Evolution in M5
by Rastislav Krupanský 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi. Are you aware it's unable to launch Evolution, or should i file a bug? Here you are terminal output: linux@linux:~> evolution (evolution:3800): e-data-server-DEBUG: Loaded default categories (evolution:3800): e-utils-WARNING **: Lock file creation failed: No such file or directory Segmentation fault -- 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] M5 on x86-64
by Stefan Seyfried 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi, Has anybody been able to install Milestone 5 on x86-64? I'm pretty sure that https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595545 is preventing it, but maybe it's just my machine. Thanks, seife -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." -- 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] openSuSE 8.4 postgres.rpm install
by Donn Washburn 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Acording to postgres list I need to "su - postgres" user. However, it ask for a password. The above statement fails due to needing a password. What is the default password set to? -- 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] [opensuse-gnome] GTK interface of software installer in YaST [yast2-gtk] in Factory
by Atri Bhattacharya 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Dear milestone testers! openSUSE 11.3 looks to be getting in good shape, and there are about two months to go [1] before the first of the RC releases and three until the final release. There are numerous things to be excited about with 11.3 as has been the case with every prior release. One of these is definitely the gtk interface to YaST Sotware Management module [2,3], much revamped since 11.2. It would be very nice of you to test this thoroughly for bugs, but also for usability issues and suggest improvements and peeves :) here and over at bugzilla [4]. In the following I would like to run you through some of the more notable changes in the interface. Please note that there is enough time yet to make minor modifications in the design if required. 1. Main interface revamp: The package-list shown by default is now categorised by (Packagekit) groups and further separation into "Available", "Upgrades" and "Installed" tabs has been done away with. Instead this has been implemented as a separate "Status" filter (below the Category box). By default this filter is set to "Any Status". Selecting the "Upgradeable" filter here for example shows all those packages which have upgrades from the subscribed repositories and brings out an "Upgrade all" button just below the package list. The package-list can now show various columns like repositories, etc. The columns shown by default are Tick-action, package-name, and package-version. Selecting a package for installation is now much easier. For packages that are not installed, check the tick-box to the left of the package-name in the main list and it is selected for installation. Installed packages are already ticked, you have to un-check it to have the package removed. The upgrade button appears just beside the version column for every package that has an update candidate. For such packages both the installed and latest available versions are shown in the version column. When one selects a package for installation/update/removal it brings up a summary line in the status bar along with an Undo button (that undoes this installation/removal request alone) and a link to a "Summary of changes" box [see point 2]. There is a menu-bar at top that largely mirrors the menu-bar in the qt version. 2. A "Summary of changes" box: that contains all the packages selected during the session for installation/update/removal alongwith Undo buttons for the manually selected packages. Selecting "undo" also applies the changes to the corresponding dependencies pulled in automatically by the dep-solver. This replaces the list of changes sidebar implementation which was a part of the package-manager in its 11.2 and previous avatars. Also with a button to access the "History" viewer [see point 3]. 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]. 4. When one switches to the "Repository" categorisation (left-sidebar, select Repositories from drop-down header), the button "Switch all packages to that from this repository" shows up just below the main interface. All the development work thanks to the yast2-gtk maintainers. Discussions pertaining to all points have been taking place at http://groups.google.com/group/yast2-gtk. There is enough time yet for your suggestions regarding the design and usability of yast2-gtk to be given thorough consideration for implementation. Please do use it and let us know what you think of it and the changes you would like to see to make yast2-gtk more useable. You may reply to this mail for general feedback and/or put in a bugzilla report if you meet a crash, etc. Better still you may subscribe to the above google-group and post your suggestions there. Happy testing! Bye -- Atri [1] http://www.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_11.3/ [2] http://en.opensuse.org/YaST2-GTK http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/trunk/gtk/ [3] Installed and used by default on GNOME; KDE users may install the package yast2-gtk using zypper > sudo zypper install yast2-gtk and use the interface by issuing the following command as root > yast sw_single --gtk [4] https://features.opensuse.org/305859 [5] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/YaST:/Head/ look for yast2-gtk > 2.21.36 [6] https://features.opensuse.org/300758 -- 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: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back
by Jakub Rusinek 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi, I've got one question. You're enabling KMS for Intel and nVidia through nouveau. Does it mean you're enabling it for ATI too? And does it mean, you're kinda preparing for plymouth inclusion? -- Best regards, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek http://blog.jakubrusinek.pl/ -- 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 Release Notes published.
by James Mason 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Release Notes for openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5 are (finally) up on News.o.o. : http://news.opensuse.org/2010/04/14/opensuse-11-3-milestone-5-the-community… Please head over to the Annoying Bugs list and make any necessary updates: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_11.3_dev#openSUSE_11.3_Miles… ----- openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 5: The Community Strikes Back Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by James Mason Milestone 5 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE Community, and the larger Linux community. We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented. Release News: * Update to Perl 5.12 (release notes) * Update to parted 2.2; M5 has a complete toolkit for supporting 4K phyisical sector disks. (openSUSE-factory list) * KMS integration for Intel and Nvidia (via nouveau driver) graphics, and the ability to disable it. (bugzilla 591400) * Update to PackageKit 0.6.2, requiring revisions to KPackageKit (openSUSE-factory list) * Added librcd and librcc, which provide on-the-fly language translation/detection, from the RusXMMS project. (openSUSE-factory list) * Added xdiskusage, a visual disk-space analyzer. (openSUSE-factory list) * A bug in OpenOffice.org that caused crashes when copying spreadsheet cells has been resolved. (bugzilla 588957) * Access to the official SUSE manuals has been improved. (bugzilla 586682) * Documentation has been corrected for the smbfs to cifs changes. (bugzilla 561993, bugzilla 578621) * The installation slideshow now talks about version 11.3 instead of 11.2. (bugzilla 588396) * Lithuanian keyboard layout added. (bugzilla 569554) * Encrypted swap volumes no longer need to be formatted during install; YaST will prompt for LUKS volume passwords. (bugzilla 581341) * A locking issue with reiserfs has been resolved and no longer prevents installs. (bugzilla 591807) * An M4 annoyance with udev init scripts has been fixed. (bugzilla 592445) System Administrators: * ssh now shows a visual fingerprint on all relevant activities, and the .ssh/known_hosts file is hashed for increased security. (openSUSE-factory list) * cron has been replaced by cronie, which ships as cron-1.4.4 (openSUSE-factory list) * pam_mount updated to the latest stable version (1.2.4, libHX 2.7). (openFATE 305351, bugzilla 438457) * KVM/qemu SDL windows no longer freeze. (bugzilla 586260) Developers/Packagers: * Update to rpm 4.8.0 (release notes) * Update to zypper 1.4.1 resolves issues with ‘zypper ref’ and ‘zypper up’. (bugzilla 586979, bugzilla 591760) * Update to NetBeans 6.8 in Java:packages. (bugzilla 593600) * rpmlint properly finds RPM_BUILD_ROOT again. (bugzilla 584952) Multimedia Authors: * The JACK team is coordinating with openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian, among others, to upgrade to jack 1.9.5 (JACK2) during the spring/summer release cycle. (openSUSE-factory list) * lilypond is now in multimedia:apps, to support rosegarden4. (openSUSE-factory list) GUI Users: * Update to X11 7.5 & xorg-server to 1.8.0. (openFATE 306903, bugzilla 586157, bugzilla 586350, bugzilla 587514, bugzilla 576481, bugzilla 593878) * Added nouveau driver for Nvidia graphics. (openFATE 307588) * VMWare mouse drivers are functioning again. (bugzilla 574857, bugzilla 592193) * Update to gutenprint 5.2.4 with support for many new printer models. (openFATE 309091) * An hplip update resolves deprecation issues related to udev. (bugzilla 577035) * Update to PCManFM’s (a lightweight file manager) libfm-0.1.9beta resolves some file access issues. (bugzilla 591731) * xscreensaver-recommended only installs a recommended subset of screensavers, and is selected by default instead of xscreensaver-extras. (openFATE 308474) * iwl3945 (an Intel Wireless LAN driver) no longer needs to be reloaded after NetworkManager startup. (bugzilla 586711) * Gnome 2.30 ’About Me’ no longer looses information. (bugzilla 588172) * gnome-keyring works properly under LXDE. (bugzilla 580043) * Update to gnuplot 4.4. (bugzilla 592563) * Update to seamonkey 2.0.4. (bugzilla 592587) Mobile Users: * Update to pm-utils to 1.3.0; power management utilities now use udisks/upower and have no dependencies on HAL; video quirks are included. (openSUSE-factory list) * NetworkManager has support for PEAP with Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC). (openFATE 309158) * Uacklight controls are working in MacBooks with Intel graphics. (bugzilla 581474) Gamers: * Added Dungeon Crawl (a nethack clone) to the Games repository. (openSUSE-factory list) Testing! Testing! Testing! As this is a milestone release, 11.3 M5 does contain bugs that we know about, but should not stand between courageous contributors and release testing. Some of the most critical bugs are listed on the wiki. Get Milestone 5 Today! What are you waiting for? Grab the milestone release from software.opensuse.org/developer today! ----- - James Mason 'bear454' -- 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] Test version of sysvinit 2.88dsf
by Dr. Werner Fink 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

For the lion-heartedout there ... you'll find the new version 2.88dsf of sysvinit at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Base:/System:/Test/openSUSE_Facto… from the Changelog of the tar ball: sysvinit (2.88dsf) world; urgency=low [ Petter Reinholdtsen ] * Mention new home on Savannah in README. * Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch from Bill Nottingham. * Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created before files are copied into them. * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo. * Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on report from jakemus on freshmeat. * Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues. * Change tty handling in init to make sure the UTF-8 flag is not cleared on boot. Patch from Samuel Thibault. * Add Makefile in toplevel directory. * Print usage information when shutdown is used by non-root user. Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo. * Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo. * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via Mike Frysinger and Gentoo. * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/. Patch from Debian. * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian. * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian. * Add compatibility code to handle old path "/etc/powerstatus" for a while. * Incude definition for MNT_DETACH which is missing in older GNU libc headers. * Do not strip binaries before installing them, to make it easier to get binaries with debug information installed. [ Werner Fink ] * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct place of setting the default childhandler within spawn(). * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even if an utmp record entry is truncated. * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable. * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures. * Add option -w to the last command to display the full user and domain names in the output. Patch from Petr Lautrbach. * Add a manual page for utmpdump as this tool is sometimes very useful even if not intended for normal use. * Use paths.h macros for wall * Change path "/etc/powerstatus" to "/var/run/powerstatus" * Detected also removable block devices at halt/reboot to be able to flush data and send them the ATA standby command. This should avoid data loss on USB sticks and other removable block devices. * Flush block devices on halt/reboot if not done by the kernel. * Set SHELL to /bin/sh in the environmant of shutdown. * Retry to write out shutdown messages if interrupted. * pidof/killall5 - make omit pid list a dynamic one. * pidof - provide '-n' to skip stat(2) syscall on network based FS. * init - avoid compiler warnings * init - initialize console by using the macros from ttydefaults.h * init - add the possiblity to ignore further interrupts from keyboard * init - add the possiblity to set sane terminal line settings * sulogin - add the possibility to reset the terminal io * Fix some minor problems * init - enable is_selinux_enabled() to detect selinuxfs * Add fix for Debian bug #536574 -- Can be enabled by -DACCTON_OFF * Add helper program fstab-decode to make it easier to handle /etc/mtab content. Patch by Miloslav Trmac and Fedora. * Add fix for Debian bug #335023 - Make sure TERM is set on FreeBSD. * Add fix for Debian bug #374038 - Make it clear that shutdown -c can only cancel a waiting shutdown, not an active one. * Add note to pidof manual page about the use of readlink(2). Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora. * Add PAM patch contrib/notify-pam-dead.patch based on Debian bug #68621, which will add PAM support for programs spawned by init on the console like sulogin. Based on patch by Topi Miettinen. This patch is not applied by default yet while we review its usefullness. It is only helpful for session handling, as sulogin do not use and will not use a PAM conv() function. The current sulogin is able to handle DES as well as MD5, SHA, and Blowfish encrypted passwords due using getpwnam(3). * Move utmp/wtmp before the execvp() in spawn() to be sure to use the correct pid even on a controlling tty * Remaining problem is that the pid of the second fork() for getting a controlling tty isn't that reported by spawn() * Re-enable writting utmp/wtmp for boot scripts * Extend sulogin to support additional encryption algorithms * Re-enable maintenance message of sulogin * Enable the sulogin fallback password check to handle MD5, SHA, and Blowfish encrypted passwords in case of getpwnam(3) fails. * sulogin picking the SELinux context was broken. Patch by Daniel Walsh -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere(a)hungry.com> Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010 sysvinit (2.87dsf) world; urgency=low * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages. * Correct section of mountpoint(1). * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8). * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file. * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing. Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora * Adjust output from "last -x". In reboot lines, print endpoint of uptime too. In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than the time between downs. Fix typo in string compare in last.c. Patch by Thomas Hood. * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last. Patch from Fedora. * Document last options in usage information, previously only mentioned in the manual page. * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead of the short form provided by default. Patch from Olaf Dabrunz and SuSe. * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries are stripped. * Increase the compiler warning level when building. * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms. Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora. * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump. Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora. * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to the new process. Patch from RedHat. * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across re-exec. Patch from RedHat. * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during boot. Patch from SuSe. * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6. Patch from Thomas Hood. * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink. Patch from Thomas Hood. * Improve error message from init if fork() fail. Patch found in Suse. * Add support for SE Linux capability handling. Patch from Manoj Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora. * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same process root. Ignore -c when not running as root. Patch from Thomas Woerner and Fedora. * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that process name can be one character longer. Patch by Kir Kolyshkin. * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of the child successfully. * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of fdatasync(). Patch from Thomas Hood. * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does not exist. Patch from Thomas Hood. * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA. Patch from Thomas Hood. * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH value is usable on re-exec. Patch from Thomas Hood. * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel to reschedule. Patch from SuSe. * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found. * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option. Patch from Samuel Thibault. * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves. Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora. * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly. Patches from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe. * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded string lengths. Patch from SuSe. * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output. * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake. Patch from SuSe. * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any processes to kill. Patch from Debian. * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip some pids during shutdown. Based on patch from Colin Watson and Ubuntu. * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages. Patch from Debian. * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and avoiding stat() when the value isn't used. Also, lock process pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped. Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel Modderman. * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag, and document this requirement in the manual page. * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell. Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora. * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots shell and /bin/sh fail to execute. -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere(a)hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200 the new home of the sysvinit project is now at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit/ Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- 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 M4
by Donn Washburn 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Include are two reoccurring errors the zypper error happens over and over. The mkinitrd error shows up every time it is run. It does seem to at least 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

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