October 2013 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Super Computing conference 13 in Denver
by Robert Schweikert 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Sorry for the cross post, need to reach as large an audience as possible. SUSE is a sponsor at SC13 and we have a 10x20 booth with a mini theater to give presentations. The team managing the SUSE presence and the event would like to have an openSUSE presence in the booth :) . In the past many questions about openSUSE were asked and it would be great to have a community member present to handle this. There is also an opportunity, for whomever goes, to give a 5 to 15 minute presentation about openSUSE. SC13 takes place November 18-21 in Denver Colorado, i.e. right after SUSECon and the openSUSE Summit. This is not retsricted to 1 person, if we have a different person for each day that's fine as well. Unfortunately, there is no money in the TSP fund as we used it all up for the Summit for this quarter ;) . Thus, if you are "local" to Denver or willing to pick up your own travel costs and willing to represent openSUSE at SC13 in Denver please speak up. We do have a number of passes to the Exhibit, thus entry into the event is "free". This has just come to my attention and thus the timing is a bit tight, sorry. Whomever is interested to jump in please speak up and let me know. Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead Public Cloud Architect rjschwei(a)suse.com rschweik(a)ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] major features - closing today
by Jos Poortvliet 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, Tomorrow I'm going to start creating a list of top features of openSUSE 13.1 for the announcement. This is based on the wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features If you have done anything worth mentioning to our users, please put it on that page! I would rather not miss major features/changes in the announcement... Beginning of next week I will move that page to https://en.opensuse.org/Features_13.1 and add some screenshots. We still need a lot of help creating screenshots, please put them here: https://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots_13.1 Thanks and hugs, J

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[opensuse-factory] EFI system partition subdir registry
by Vincent Untz 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hi, The openSUSE board will most likely register an openSUSE-specific directory in the EFI system partition subdir registry (thanks to Jörg Wiegleb for pushing for this): http://www.uefi.org/registry AFAIK, right now, we use EFI/opensuse. Do we want to register this or instead the real case (EFI/openSUSE), assuming that we'd do the change in our packages? Note that many entries in the registry have mixed case (RedHat, VMware, etc.) Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Question about the nv video driver on 13.1
by Larry Finger 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Is anyone using the nv (xf86-video-nv) 2D accelerated video driver on 13.1-RC1? I use it for my laptop as nouveau fails for my graphics adapter, and I change kernels too often to mess around with the proprietary module. If you use this combination, I would appreciate you running a test. 1. Install package fltk-devel. 2. Enter the command 'fluid'. On the resulting screen, press the "File" menu item 3 times. That will toggle the menu item on/off/on. Can you now read the menu text, or is the resulting box empty? The latter is what I see. Everything was OK with 12.3, and it works OK with the frame buffer driver, but the max resolution is wrong. I would like to know if this is a bug on only my system. or if others are affected. Thanks, Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] X11:Cinnamon is active again!
by Marguerite Su 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Hi, everyone, I feel honored to broadcast this exciting news! Yesterday with the help of Jerzy, I got maintainership for X11:Cinnamon:*. So we can keep going now. For now, this project is left behind. Upstream is 2.0.2 and we're still 1.6.7. I see many home projects have higher versions of Cinnamon: http://software.opensuse.org/package/cinnamon There's even latest 2.0.2 out there. So I call people to submit your packaging work to X11:Cinnamon:Factory freely, I'll wait you there. And I need a few experts to act as repository maintainer with me. So we can cherry-pick packages from home projects (not just linking or copying, we have to merge changelogs so we will not override other people's credits) My plan is: 1. cleanup work. remove 12.1 tagets becasue it's EOLed. and considering remove GNOME34 tagets (don't know if it's possible, open to discussion here) 2. add new targets 12.3, 13.1 Tumbleweed. (maybe a new X11:Cinnamon:GNOME38 or something to absorb Cinnamon 1.8, also open to discussion) 3. copy new packages from home:cyberorg:cinnamon because it has latest versions and fix possible packaging warnings/bugs if there're. 4. cherry-pick packages from the same project and merge changelogs. 5. solid testing. After we finished the update job. welcome to test if your old annoying bugs are still there in newer versions, and we'll find a way to eliminate them. 6. find as many guy interested as possible to keep this project going and hope one day we can make it 13.2 or 13.3 So now: 1. Everyone interested in this project (a must) and have a home repository (so we can see if you're qualified) can apply maintainership against: X11:Cinnamon It's the project we keep permissions. If accepted, you can deal with all X11:Cinnamon:* sub-projects. For now there's a problem that if no one is added to X11:Cinnamon:Factory, we won't have any notifications if there're submit requests against it. As a workaround I added myself maintainer there. I want a bugowner for this project, because my daily-use DE is actually KDE. I myself personally prefer those who have already been repository maintainers to apply, because you have already known how this game plays and how important working with upstream is. And those who have strong packaging skills and know how to use mailing lists. Because at this stage we just need underlying works. After a few weeks, I welcome every daily Cinnamon users who have passion to apply some permissions, in that way this project will not be inactive any more just because we shift or turn our head to other projects (eg, I personally feel more responsible to keep M17N going...because without that, I can't even input anything in openSUSE) But also, my idea is open to discussion here. 2. Everyone who already have some Cinnamon bits inside your home, please merge the old changelog from X11:Cinnamon:Factory if there already been a package there (copy and keep items in correct timestamp, easy) and submit, or just submit if it's a new package. Greetings Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [13.1 RC1] XFCE bad policy when battery is low.
by Carlos E. R. 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Testing the "Xfce Power manager", on a laptop. Select "On battery" on the left panel, to choose actions. When the battery power is critical, the drop list contains: "Nothing, Suspend, Shutdown, Ask". However, if you login as root into xfce, you also can "Hibernate". This is wrong. If the battery is _critical_, it can happen that the battery runs out during suspend, so it is normal and valid to choose "hibernation". However, a plain user can not choose that action, and I suspect that this is intentional. :-/ How can I tell XFCE to list "hibernate" as a valid action when I'm a plain user? Why are the security team scared that we hibernate our laptops, but not that we power them off? Because I suspect it is their decission. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJmgbQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WPYACgi9pOHTLmZ/FeZRbWUJbj/oIc aCAAoIdgx72enzQgu0NmaQOqHTzNFtE1 =gtOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] 13.1-RC1 repo's
by Upscope 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

are these two repo's correct fro 13.1-RC1? The oss one keeps taking me to Factory-Snapshot. I thought that had moved on to 13.2. Code ---------- http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/ ---------- I installed 13.1-RC1 from DVD's but it did not install the repo's. Russ -- openSUSE 12.3(Linux 3.11.1-3.gfeffbf9-desktop)|KDE 4.11.2 |Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-325.15 Patched) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] [13.1 RC1] dd problem
by Carlos E. R. 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Look: cer@Eleanor4:~/bin> dd if=/dev/zero of=sample bs=100 count=1 ; l sample 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 100 bytes (100 B) copied, 0.000910599 s, 110 kB/s - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 100 Oct 20 16:08 sample cer@Eleanor4:~/bin> dd if=/dev/random of=sample bs=100 count=1 ; l sample 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 22 bytes (22 B) copied, 0.00131574 s, 16.7 kB/s - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 22 Oct 20 16:08 sample cer@Eleanor4:~/bin> dd if=/dev/random of=sample bs=100 count=1 ; l sample 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 9 bytes (9 B) copied, 17.0424 s, 0.0 kB/s - -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 9 Oct 20 16:08 sample cer@Eleanor4:~/bin> Why if the input is /dev/random, the size of the output file is not 100 bytes? Some times 16 bytes, some 20, some 9... However, if I run that in 12.3, I get the expected result, consistently: Telcontar:~ # dd if=/dev/random of=sample bs=100 count=1 ; l sample 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 100 bytes (100 B) copied, 0.00013542 s, 738 kB/s - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100 Oct 20 16:13 sample Telcontar:~ # Two tested machines running 13.1 fail (one virtual, one real) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJj6JcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VZzQCeM2Kbfe4fOrSPOMPKTCyDFshX LUAAnRc/rRGyeidl1dTEM3kc36a6Qbvq =yqPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] RC1 net install broken
by Guido Berhoerster 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

It seems that RC1 tree on download.opensuse.org is currently broken making net-installs impossible: $ curl -IL http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/root HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:00:48 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Linux/SUSE) Location: http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/root Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:00:48 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Linux/SUSE) X-Prefix: 79.192.0.0/10 X-AS: 3320 Location: http://downloadcontent.opensuse.org/srv/ftp/pub/opensuse/factory-snapshot/r… Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 808 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:00:48 GMT Server: lighttpd/2 - openSUSE is good for you -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] proposal of new package
by Oliver Neukum 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Hi, I'd like to submit libmbim to Factory. This is a user space library that allows communication with devices that use the MBIM protocol, for which there's a kernel driver named cdc-mbim in recent kernels. ModemManager uses it to communicate with those devices making them availabe as WWAN devices. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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