May 2011

[opensuse-factory] RFC: forbid _service files
by Stephan Kulow 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi, After a series of broken packages because of _service files I would like to forbid them in openSUSE:Factory. So far I've seen the use of _service files in factory as an experiment (I happily joined), but I see this experiment as failed. What I would like to propose is: - ban recompress, download and tarscm as _services (everything else should have been banned before) - instead we verify the Source urls and make packages that have invalid URLs "broken", so you can't SR them to … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed KDE problems being reverted
by Greg KH 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi all, Well, so much for the KDE update in Tumbleweed. Due to some problems with it (i.e. I messed up and accidentally updated some packages to the 4.6.3 version while the rest were at 4.6.2), I've reverted it all, so soon everyone will see a big "downgrade" to the openSUSE 11.4 version of the KDE packages. I'll watch the 4.6.3 update and wait for that to settle down before adding it to Tumbleweed again. Sorry for the churn, but hey, due to the magic of zypper, this all "just works" even … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] [Tumbleweed] Missing KDE packages
by Sven Zallmann 05 May '11

05 May '11

Howdy folks, As of today, the KDE packages in Tumbleweed seem to be incomplete and/or some of them obsolete. Upon wanting to 'zypper dup' I found two packages making trouble: * libqt4-sql 4.7.3 (required by libqt4-sql-mysql 4.7.3, which is present in the repo). Tumbleweed repo carries libqt4-sql 4.7.2. * konqueror-plugins-lang 4.6.1, not present. Please provide this or any other version to match konqueror-plugins 4.6.1 present in the repo. Hearing about the status of these packages … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] new package js for Factory
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi, because of the changing release and focus changes within the Mozilla project, (it's likely that) Mozilla XULRunner won't be maintained anymore. Therefore we are going to ship a pretty static Firefox again (even with libmozjs compiled into the the big xul blob). In the past some people expressed interest to have a decent standalone JS interpreter library available for linking into certain packages. With the above mentioned changes it's now time to create that one instead of exposing the … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Call for Participation: FHS Relaunch
by Robert Schweikert 05 May '11

05 May '11

The LSB workgroup is preparing FHS 3.0, which will be the first FHS release since 2004. As part of that release, we are soliciting contributions from all interested parties. Our goal is to release FHS 3.0 by July 1 if possible. How to contribute: - We are continuing to use the old FHS Bugzilla, at http://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/. Please file any new bugs under the "FHS" product. If you have filed a bug there in the past, we will evaluate it shortly. If you have any additional … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] GCC 4.6 for 12.1
by Jeff Mahoney 05 May '11

05 May '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all - I know someone else mentioned this briefly WRT to Tumbleweed, but I'd like to bring up for discussion the adoption of gcc 4.6 for Factory. A bit of background. We currently maintain a kernel-trace flavor to allow people to make use of the tracing facilities. Historically, there has been overhead associated with these, which is why they were in their own flavor. Most users don't care about them, so there's no sense in slowing everyone … [View More]down to satisfy them. Over time, the maintainers of these facilities have worked to lower the overhead to the point where now dynamic ftrace only adds memory overhead. It uses gcc's profiling facility to call out to a function at the beginning of every function call to allow tracking. At boot, this is a function that returns immediately but during the boot process those calls are hot-patched to nop operations so that they carry virtually zero runtime overhead. This sounds great, right? There's one last bit, and that is actually the reason why ftrace is still disabled in our regular kernel flavors. The compiler's profiling feature calls the profiling function after the function prologue. That means that the stack pointer has already been advanced and since it can advance a different amount based on the needs of each function, we don't have an easy way to get the caller's stack frame back. It's needed to resolve where the caller was called from and the only way to do that is to dedicate a register to track the start of the current stack frame. Dedicating a register for this increases register contention and forces more accesses to CPU cache or main memory, slowing everything down. So, it's not worth it when most users will never actually take advantage of the feature that requires it. For some time, I've been trying to come up with ways to work around this so that the fast path stays fast and the tracing path takes any performance hit necessary. Until recently, the performance hit would've been too big to make it worthwhile. With gcc 4.6, we have the -mfentry option which moves the call to the profiling function *before* the function's prologue. This means that the caller's stack frame is still intact and we can resolve the caller's parent without issue. I've spent the past few days working up a proof of concept that takes advantage of this and doesn't require a dedicated register. It turns out that Steven Rostedt has already posted a patch set to do exactly this and he's targeting 2.6.40 for inclusion in the mainline kernel. For now it looks like it's x86-64 only but it should be ok for i386 as well. This would go a long way to eliminate the -trace flavor from our kernel packages. The benefits are multiple: It eliminates the maintenance of another kernel flavor, but it also allows everyone to use tracing facilities without installing a separate kernel release to do so. One last bit is needed, though, and that is for gcc to allow using -pg - -mfentry with -fomit-frame-pointers. Once that bit is taken care of then we can rid the kernel of the frame pointer requirement for ftrace and eliminate the -trace flavor entirely. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk263RwACgkQLPWxlyuTD7JhyQCfXcCcDjH0dYmnoguTCe+7J2FH YWkAn3+K1qintX3acivGSmUYCDVnDuqi =3BMz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-factory] Dependency problem in Tumbleweed min repo
by John Andrews (swerdna) 05 May '11

05 May '11

Hi I've got 11.4-based Tumbleweed (with KDE 4.6.2 and also 64 bit) and have just updated with "zypper dup --from Tumbleweed". All went well except for this statement from zypper: Problem: nothing provides libqt4-sql = 4.7.3 needed by libqt4-sql-mysql-4.7.3-166.1.i586 Solution 1: deinstallation of libqt4-sql-mysql-4.7.2-165.1.x86_64 Solution 2: keep obsolete libqt4-sql-mysql-4.7.2-165.1.x86_64 Solution 3: break libqt4-sql-mysql by ignoring some of its dependencies I can't find libqt4-… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] every TV app fails
by Donn Washburn 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hey Group; Does anyone have a TV app that works. TVtime, xawtv, motv (KWintv is not available to try) are just some that fail. It seems they all fail due to framebuffers and/or KDE volume control. So does anyone know of one that works with a pci analog tv card on openSuSE 11.4 -- 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 Skype:n5xwbg BMWMOA #:4146 Ambassador … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] perl-Bootloader log is HUGE (slow kernel installation?)
by Felix Miata 04 May '11

04 May '11

http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/114/pbl-tail-gx150-114.txt This is roughly 95% of a 20,000 line tail from a 11.4 /var/log/YaST2/perl-BL-standalone-log, the portion created by today's zypper rm one kernel followed by zypper in one kernel. It's 1783595 bytes. That seems outlandishly large. The whole file dates back to 11.0, since this has been a Factory installation only upgraded in all that time. It's total size is 33403K. Notwithstanding that it would be a fraction of that size if ever 11.4 … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] http://www.suse.de/~coolo/opensuse_12.1/
by Stephan Kulow 04 May '11

04 May '11

Hi, I took the dates from above and put them as preliminary schedule into http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap, but I know already that 2 of the milestones are when I'm out of office. So I need volunteers to drive those releases. 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] USB devices not enumerated
by Bruce Ferrell 04 May '11

04 May '11

I have a system running 11.4/Tumbleweed with the following kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux No USB devices seem to be recognized by the running system, but are recognized at boot time as storage devices seem to screw up the boot sequence in the initrd so I think the hardware is running. lsusb shows the roothub as 1.1 but nothing else. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can look at to diagnose this further? Thanks … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Where to file bugs against licensedigger?
by Vincent Untz 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hi, There's a new review step done when packages are submitted to Factory (maybe just for updates that look like a new branch of a package), that checks the licenses of the package. That's all call, except that it doesn't handle well forwarding packages with a _service: "reject": "checkout failed: _service file without _service:* files" That's most probably because the review script was run before the build service ran the services. A potential solution for that would be to try again five … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] gtkglextmm-devel and 11.4
by todd rme 03 May '11

03 May '11

I need the gtkglextmm-devel package to build a program I want. It seems to be available for every openSUSE release besides 11.4. Is there a particular reason this package is incompatible with openSUSE 11.4? -Todd -- 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] grub 2 for 12.1??
by jdd 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hello, Do you know if grub 2 will be used in 12.21? (I have a lot of problems with grub that I wont try to fix if it become obsolete :-) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.youtube.com/user/jdddodinorg http://jdd.blip.tv/ -- 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] Tumbleweed kernel - warning no X
by Greg Freemyer 03 May '11

03 May '11

All, Just a warning that I just updated my Tumbleweed install today. It has been a few weeks since I did it last, but the 2.6.38.4 kernel failed to allow X to work. See my new bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691322 Resolution was as simple as rebooting and selecting the 2.6.38.2 kernel which Tumbleweed left in the grub menu. Thanks Greg -- 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] incomplete tumbleweed instructions
by Felix Miata 02 May '11

02 May '11

picture worth many words: http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/opensusedotorg-too-narrow.jpg IOW, rhetorically speaking, what URL goes in the repo file? I just copy a copy of http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tumbleweed/standard/ope… from my network server to whatever 11.4 installation needs Tumbleweed added. But, what about new people not fully knowledgeable about overcoming dumb web page design? Why do web page designers insist on arbitrary widths that can't hold their content, and … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Problems connecting from Factory, through SSH, to Windows servers
by Silviu Marin-Caea 02 May '11

02 May '11

I'm having problems with connection through ssh to Windows servers (for example CopSSH and F-Secure SSH) It only happens on my Factory machine. It'a clean installation, clean home-directory. Connections from Factory machine to other Linux servers (SLES9,10,11) work fine. Connections from other Linux machines (SLES9) to those Windows servers also work. The error message is: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer Port is open, "… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Package xlogmaster
by Sascha Manns 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hello Mates, as you maybe heard, we're excluding the openSUSE:Factory:Contrib packages to different devel projects. Now i'm thinking about the package xlogmaster. This package based on gtk1 which we doesn't provide in 11.3, 11.4 and Factory. So my question is, should we just remove it? Do you know persons who using this? cu Sascha -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] How to push GNOME 3 to Factory?
by Vincent Untz 02 May '11

02 May '11

Hi, Today, hopefully, we'll finish the review of GNOME 3 packages for G:F. There's some integration work to do and patches to rebase (we filed bugs for all of those), but I believe none of this should block a push to Factory. If the testing of G:F goes well this week, I'd like to do the push at the end of the week. I'd like to hear what people think is best to deal with this push, as it will be a big push, that needs to be handled with some care: + some package have really a lot of changes,… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] download.opensuse.org permissions problem
by Anders Johansson 02 May '11

02 May '11

http://download.opensuse.org/YaST/Repos/openSUSE_114_Servers.xml gives 403 - Permission denied. This means the "add community repository" feature in YaST doesn't work. Could someone take a look? Anders -- 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: NetworkManager 0.9 in Factory soon-ish (was Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of April 9, 2011)
by Frederic Crozat 02 May '11

02 May '11

Le vendredi 29 avril 2011 à 08:37 -0700, Greg KH a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:48:24AM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote: > > Le jeudi 28 avril 2011 à 19:14 +0200, Raymond Wooninck a écrit : > > > Hi Frederic, > > > > > > Yes, KNM has not been rewritten yet for NM 0.9 (and I am not sure about the > > > timeline for it either). This is up to Will. > > > > > > For now we are using the patches for KDE that Dan Williams created, … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Update to xf86-video-ati-6.14.1 DDX
by Vincent Lejeune 01 May '11

01 May '11

hello, I submitted a request to X11:Xorg (sr:68972) to update xf86-driver-video-ati to 6.14.1. Currently the version of this driver is 6.14.0. However it does not support the gpu on my netbook (the "fusion" cpu/gpu zacate e350). As Catalyst currently don't play well with gnome 3 activity bar, I think that support for this hardware by the open source radeon driver should be available in OpenSUSE:Tumbleweed to avoid owners to manually rebuild this driver ; it is only a minor revision of a … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] xfce4 update now landed in Tumbleweed
by Greg KH 01 May '11

01 May '11

Just a short note saying that I've added the latest xfce4 update to Tumbleweed. It has survived my limited testing, and if anyone has any problems with it, please let me know. Next up, KDE 4.6.2... thanks, greg k-h -- 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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