June 2011 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] FIBMAP: Invalid argument
by Kim Leyendecker 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Dear devs, dear readers! I installed 12.1 Milestone 1 on Virtual Box (Packard Bell EasyNote LJ61) and tried to boot KDE now. The normal bootscreen came, but then the console said the following: FIBMAP: Invalid argument FIBMAP: Invalid argument (so on.....) then the normal log-in came: Welcome to openSUSE 12.1 "Asparagus" Milestone 1 - Kernel 2.6.39-2-default (tty1). linux-bqgy login: Anyone get the same? I´m downloading the M1 DVD now and will install the LXDE version on my notebook. Shall I open a bug report? I searched the openSUSE 12.1 section with the keyword KDE and didn´t find such bug. (Just the log-in bug for KDE, that kdm starts, but you can´t log-in.) kind regards -kdl -- Kim-Dennis Leyendecker openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.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] TOMOYO for 12.1?
by Marcus Meissner 06 Jun '11

06 Jun '11

Hi, Folks in #opensuse-security were asking what stops TOMOYO from being enabled in newer kernels. FATE#310292 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668381 Not sure what the issue is with enabling it. Ciao, Marcus -- 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] SSD detection when creating first time fstab ?
by Vincent Lejeune 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hi, The setup process of opensuse creates a /etc/fstab according to partition settings on the SSD/hard drive. However there is no detection of the type (ie SSD or hard drive) during this process. I discovered that the TRIM functionnality was not supported by default on ext4 file system. TRIM aims at extending duration of SSD by delaying some write/delete operations ; besides it improves performance of SSD. To get TRIM support on ext4, the partition must be mounted with the "discard" option in /etc/fstab. Would it be possible for 12.1 to make the detection script able to spot a SSD and add this option at the setup step of openSUSE installation ? I think that SSD users are not always aware that they need to tweak their /etc/fstab to preserve their drive... I have no idea if TRIM support can be retrieved from SSD information at the kernel level. Vincent -- 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 start
by jdd 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Helloo, On my usual factory install, I used to be able to start anything from kdm or gdm, but Kde. Today it's exactly the contrary. I can start kde but not gnmoe... zypper up complained several time that SuSUconfig or one of it's modules was missing probably not precise enough to need a bug opening 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] openSUSE vs Ubuntu for Enterprise Scientific Computing Environment
by Di Pe 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

This may be slightly off-topic for this forum, but I wanted to hear what the Suse experts have to say. We are are a research non-profit with about 2500 staff (300-400 part time Unix users and 100 hardcore Linux users) and about 500 openSUSE and some SLES and CentOS boxes ( 50 Desktops, 100 servers and a compute cluster with 350 boxes) Our goal has always been to create a unified environment which enables researchers to use their NFS mounted home directory from everywhere and most of our systems are at openSUSE 11.2 or 11.3. In general we really like Suse and have only 3 gripes: SLES is too different from openSUSE (only small number of packages) KDE support for encrypted wifi is insufficient (Gnome is only slighly better) package names change too frequently (but I don't know that any other Linux distro is doing a better job here) I wanted to add that the infrastructure IT people i our organization moved to CentOS after they found the package manager to be unworkable in 10.1. (We found it pretty hard to swallow, too ....but we kept going with Suse) We are now starting to re-design our HPC cluster and one of the questions that came up is which Linux distro we should use in the future. We also need to upgrade our desktop Linux desktops so this seems to be a good time to take a deep breath and re-think what we are doing. We only considered openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS. We quickly ditched CentOS for being always being too outdated and Fedora for being too bleeding edge. This leaves us with Ubuntu and openSUSE. after a few days of research our group came up with this list and we are still working on it. Please correct Advantage openSUSE --------------------------------- * YaST administration tool centralizes and simplifies configuration and administration. * As a team, we have much more experience supporting openSUSE. We have deployment tools, software repositories, and rescue tools for openSUSE and have experience building rpm packages (e.g. using the openSUSE build service) * Would have no migration costs to different Linux OS (~$50k - $100k for migration of 100+ Linux Systems to Ubuntu) * 8-month release cycle indicates openSUSE focuses more on stability * Single edition of openSUSE supports both servers and desktops, KDE and Gnome. (KDE in openSUSE is better supported than kubuntu) * openSUSE is a Tier 1 distribution that can get bugfixes faster upstream to the kernel developers (Ubuntu reports bugs to Debian which reports them to the Linux kernel developers) Advantage Ubuntu -------------------------- * About 3x more binary packages are available for Ubuntu, including scientific applications. * Ubuntu is hardware-certified for more Laptops we use. (Gnome and Unity have better support for ‘encrypted wifi’) * Enterprise "Long Term Support" (LTS) version is actually the standard disto with longer support cycles and is free (gets maintenance updates for 3 years on the desktop version and 5 years on the server version / Suse SLES subscription $350/year) * 6-month release cycle indicates that Ubuntu focuses more on keeping software up-to-date. * Ubuntu has a larger user community worldwide which is able to produce more documentation * better supported in cloud environments (EC2 AMIs, etc) * better supported with configuration management tools like puppet or chef. Obviously some of the advantages are highly tailored to our organization. I would be interested to hear what other advantages we might find regarding openSUSE. For example, is there interest in more active support of high performance computing technology in the future (nfs/rdma, HPC distro using OSS schedulers etc) Thanks much for your input. dipe -- 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] libqt-* package links in tumbleweed
by Jiri Slaby 05 Jun '11

05 Jun '11

Hi Greg, libqt4-doc-devel and libqt4-sql-plugins should point to libqt4 sources in Tumbleweed, not in KDE:Qt. Otherwise they can get out of sync (the fixed libqt4-doc-devel/sql-plugins links from TW to KDE:Qt still point to the latest liqt4 sources in KDE:Qt, not fixed ones). I've fixed it for now. However could you modify your scripts to not update these packages the same as for kernel-<non-source>? thanks, -- js suse labs -- 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 library dependency error
by Valentin Rusu 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hello, I activated tumbleweed repository on a 64bit 11.4 fresh installation and after a couple of weeks of using it, it started it the popup this warning when installing or updating software with YaST : "nothing provides libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit) needed by kdebase4-runtime-4.6.8-7.5.x86_64" Perhaps some package needs recompile ? Cheers, Valentin -- 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] ADSL and Opensuse 12.1
by Juan Erbes 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

The new Opensuse 12.1, will have the adsl packages with the first install enabled? The last weekend I installed opensuse 11.4 in the PC of a friend and I made the necessary updates in my house. When it wanted to connect to internet at his home, using an ADSL connection, it was found that he could not connect, because the adsl connection was not configured. I explained it how to configure the connection by phone, but it was not possible, because Yast needed to install the packages smpppd, and linux-atm-lib, and later the utility kinternet or qinternet. Yesterday I got to his home, and I must to download the packages executing firefox in windows, but with surprise, I could not find the package linux-atm-lib. I probed ther fisrt time with the package linux-atm, but this package required the atmlib package, and I must to reboot in windows to download it and install it in Opensuse, but it not worked, when I tried to make the adsl configuration in Yast, because the linux-atm-lib package was not present, Yast has not saved the configuration, and so on. You have no idea how annoying it is having to reboot 5 times and use windows to solve the problems opensuse, because I must to reboot in windows and Opensuse about five times in both system, and made the adsl configuration five times. At last, because I hatte no way to find the linux-atm-lib package for Opensuse 11.4, I probed to download and install the linux-atm-lib package for Opensuse 11.3, and it worked. About the last five versiones of Opensuse have not enabled in the system with the first install the adsl packages, and in many cases, the needed packages was not present in the cd or dvd. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668586 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695681 -- 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] kde4-printer-applet requires gtk3 (surely this cannot be)
by Felix Miata 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I HTTP installed fresh a minimal X Factory this AM, and am trying for a minimalist KDE4, since there doesn't seem to be a pattern for the purpose. ... # zypper in --no-recommends kde4-printer-applet Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Problem: kde4-printer-applet-4.6.3-2.1.i586 requires system-config-printer, but this requirement cannot be provided uninstallable providers: system-config-printer-1.2.5-6.1.i586[OSS] Solution 1: Following actions will be done: do not forbid installation of gtk3-tools-3.0.9-1.2.i586[OSS] do not forbid installation of gtk3-data-3.0.9-1.2.noarch[OSS] Solution 2: do not install kde4-printer-applet-4.6.3-2.1.i586 Solution 3: break kde4-printer-applet by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c] (c): Why should _anyone_ need GTK3 to make KDE apps work? Do I actually need kde4-printer-applet, or is YaST2 sufficient for installing and controlling unshared ethernet printers? Don't other distros that don't have YaST2 make KDE work without GTK? -- "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-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] factory vs. factory-snapshot?
by Greg Freemyer 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

All, I just noticed that 32-bit libpcap appears to be missing from the factory-snapshot (or at least one of builds is complaining about it missing). But looking at http://software.opensuse.org it seems to be fine. (I clicked through to the repo, and it shows a successful 32-bit build). How can I confirm that it really is fine in factory, but missing from the snapshot? (I have a small perl module I want to submit to factory, but I assume I need it to be building before I submit it.) 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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