February 2011 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re:[opensuse-factory] sane-backends 1.0.22 late version upgrade for openSUSE 11.4
by John Kilgour 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

I have installed the 11.3 files and all seems well with a HP Scanjet 3300C. I hope this helps. John Kilgour -- 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] Progress on USB bootable DVD iso for 11.4?
by C 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Has anyone been able to make any progress on this Feature request for 11.4? https://features.opensuse.org/310123 I'm just trying out the various 11.4 RC1 builds, and Studio Image Writer still cannot write the DVD iso to USB... ie the hybrid iso thing isn't in place for the DVD iso. I'm using unetbootin as the fallback for this, but it's a poor quality workaround. C. -- 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 lastime
by Donn Washburn 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hey Group; Fixed Firefox I totally removed /usr/lib/firefox/* and then installed Mozzila's 4.0.11 and up it came. Surprise, surprize. -- 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] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi, We created openSUSE:11.4 now and will produce RC2 from there. For this I'll forward fixes I consider worthy from factory to 11.4 and will decline any direct submits to 11.4 to avoid people forgetting factory. Make sure your fixes are documented well enough, so I have a chance to figure the update is important - my default is factory only. Factory will see checkins, but I only care for it as time permits and concentrate on 11.4 for the next weeks. 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] libreoffice from Tumbleweed and remainig OpenOffice_org pieces
by Lars Müller 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Hi, after libreoffice got included with Tumbleweed huge parts of the former OpenOffice_org-* packages got sucessfully replaced with calling zypper dup --from Tumbleweed On my system there are nevertheless remaining OOo pieces. These are: OpenOffice_org-LanguageTool-de OpenOffice_org-LanguageTool-en OpenOffice_org-LanguageTool OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter OpenOffice_org-converter OpenOffice_org-hyphen OpenOffice_org-icon-theme-galaxy OpenOffice_org-templates-de OpenOffice_org-templates-en OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-letter OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-a4 OpenOffice_org-thesaurus-en-US OpenOffice_org-thesaurus-de Is something missing or do we have to document how to get rid of these traces? Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

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[opensuse-factory] RFC: Staging driver communication
by Jeff Mahoney 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all - One of the things I've seen cropping up lately is the number of bug reports that involve staging drivers. For the uninitiated, staging drivers are drivers that have been included in the kernel but are known to be of insufficient quality to be considered for "true" inclusion. Sometimes drivers in staging are improved and "promoted" to full inclusion and other times they are considered abandoned and are dropped entirely. One common example is the rt2860 driver. When I find the time, which is becoming rarer these days, I try to backport fixes to this driver to the 11.3 kernel since the hardware seems common enough. The issue as I see it is that we have no way to communicate to the user that the driver they're using is of dubious quality. In an ideal world, we could take the bug reports and fix the upstream driver. In reality, most of us don't have the time to tackle improving a driver for hardware we don't have. So, what's the best way to communicate this to the user? Here's my list but I'm open to suggestions: 1) Move staging drivers to a separate package that isn't installed by default 2) Issue a warning during install or first driver load that the driver is of dubious quality 3) Use something like the flags we use in the SLE kernels to document a driver as supported or not to prevent the driver from being loaded without explicitly enabling it (preferably combined with #2) 4) Add a release note documenting which drivers are staging and hope that users actually read it (unlikely) 5) Don't change anything - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1StIYACgkQLPWxlyuTD7LNoQCeLZMvEOfv4dEqeZ5INr8kCFkc y40AoJIdXIZceIIEj7liktJtzSl4+7QY =NaWq -----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] LibreOffice with 11.4 M6
by Donn Washburn 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Problem with a Qwerty US 104 Keyboard and Mouse with LibreOffice in 11.4 M6. I need to cut and paste some data which SCALC did do. I then moved that data to the new location and pasted it with no obvious problem. I clicked on one cell of the pasted data and attempted to change it when the problem showed up. I could not delete or alter any part of the pasted information. That included to edit from the cell or the subject line. I was going to correct the date fields -- 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] Old library lying around
by Sid Boyce 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Building xine-lib-1.1.19 on 11.3 x86_64, I hit this error. /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libxcb-shape.a(shape.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib64/libxcb-shape.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [xineplug_vo_out_xcbshm.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/ftp/dec10/xine-lib-1.1.19/src/video_out' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/ftp/dec10/xine-lib-1.1.19/src/video_out' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/ftp/dec10/xine-lib-1.1.19/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 It was a rogue library lying around from 2009 "zypper rm xorg-x11-libxcb-unstable-devel" fixed it. When zypper upgraded it installed xorg-x11-libxcb-devel and left files from the old one in place. It seems it's not able to detect and deal with a package name that differs but offers largely the same files, so it leaves any file that isn't part of the current package in place. In fact it leaves the old package installed. I shall open a bug later. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- 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] LibreOffice
by Petr Mladek 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Donn Washburn píše v St 16. 02. 2011 v 11:18 -0600: > On 02/16/2011 10:56 AM, Petr Mladek wrote: > > Hi Donn, > > > > Donn Washburn píše v St 09. 02. 2011 v 21:29 -0600: > >> Hey Group; > >> > >> No one offered a idea on how to fix libreoffice scalc. So I found it > >> source.rpm > >> I installed it a guess what is working - SCALC. RPM -e in a script > >> removed the defective one. > > I am not sure that I understand it. What have you actually removed? > > An older LO version or LO at all? > > > > I am not able to reproduce the cut&paste problems with the last build > > from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/ > > project. > > > > Best Regards, > > Petr > Thanks Petr for looking into this problem > > Well I upgraded from 11.4 6 to RC1 and LibreOffice is still screwed up. > I pulled up scalc on RC1 and it will not even allow any input from a > working (right here now) keyboard and mouse. I didn't even try cut and > paste on RC1. Also not I pulled down from the source and installed > after removing openSuSE's version of LibreOffice and Sun's worked just fine. > I used vi and rpm -qa | grep Libre to remove it. > > This is a i586 NET system load problem. What is your system? i586 or > x86-64? from the NET or DVD I did a fresh installation of openSUSE-11.4rc1-x86_64 from DVD. > It seems to me that so much of the NET load i586 programs do not work. > May be the same with a DVD > > Like permission was not set correctly on /usr/bin/Xorg and many audio > related /dev/. > Xorg was set so that a user could not use it. > Here now Blender hangs and kill -9 gets it. Hmm, it looks like your whole system is somehow screwed up. Do you remember when you noticed all these problems? Was it after the update from 11.4-m6 to RC1 or was it after the update to 11.4-m6? What was the original system that you updated to 11.4-m6? It think that it might be a bad luck or too complicated update scenario. I think that it is not a common problem. Otherwise, much more people would report non-working systems. BTW: Sun's OOo has its own copy of many system libraries. Also it does not have KDE4 integration. So it is less affected by a broken system. It might be the reason why it works. Best Regards, Petr -- 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] PackageKit, zypper and friends... Multi-repositories!
by Nelson Marques 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear all, I'm experiencing a small problem here (GNOME/PackageKit) and I seek guidance... If I had a repository which contains modified versions of packages already distributed in openSUSE and set it with higher priority so those packages are installed through 'zypper dup' all seems to go ok. As long as I use zypper update, it doesn't bring me any problems. The only problem is that PackageKit seems not to understand this multi-repository setups and is always complaining that there are updates, and eventually if I install such updates it just ignores repository priority and installs the stuff I don't want installed. This behaviour as led me to disable PackageKit agent on GNOME. Though this isn't much of a big deal for me, if we try to get users to install repositories like the ones I am using, this can lead to erratic behaviour from PackageKit. From my understanding this can be a bit bad karma and tackles the functionality that openSUSE offers, specially when it's repository based. Any thoughts on how to go around this behaviour from PackageKit? I apologize if this isn't the right list for such question. Nelson -- nelson marques nmo.marques(a)gmail.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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