November 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Upgrading from GNOME:STABLE and KDE:KDE3 repositories messed up the system for the 1st time
by CF 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

I use openSUSE 10.2 / GNOME and every month I upgrade the system from the repositories GNOME:STABLE and KDE:KDE3 using the mirror from http://ftp.skynet.be. The upgrade always goes smoothly with no problem. However, yesterday after upgrading and rebooting the system, yast and zypper wouldn't work anymore. Besides, almost all blue artwork (desktop wallpaper, GNOME splash screen, GDM theme) from oS 10.2 turned into the green one from oS 10.3. I have done this upgrading process several times, but this is the 1st time that such a problem takes place. I use the repositories for oS 10.2, not the ones for oS 10.3. http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.2/ http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/software.opensuse.org/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_10.2/ What is happening? CF -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Roadmap for openSUSE 11.0
by Ben Kevan 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

I was checking out the openSUSE wiki and came across: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0 Goals for 11.0 - > KDE 4.1 > X.org 7.4 > Gnome 2.22 opensuse 11.0 will be out ~ june/july 2008. we can hope that KDE 4.1 will come out around six months after 4.0, therefore may/june 2008. KDE 4.1 will be the real deal and ought to be the primary target for inclusion in opensuse 11.0. Is this pretty accurate? That's about a 8 month cycle. Will that be the cycle that openSUSE will follow or will they continue not following a set cycle path? I am really looking forward for some dev info coming out on 11.0 since I think that is going to be Novell's breakthrough distribution. Should show what they've been doing all this time :o).. Hopefully make the stock go up ;). Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: sound volume control not working as wanted
by jdd 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Carlos F Lange wrote: > JDD, > > Did you receive my reply to the mailing-list? > You only need to right-click on the icon in the taskbar. oh yes... 1) I didn't receive your previous mail 2) I looked at the right menu but missed the function of "chose the main channel" so the problem is fixed, thanks!! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/10/27/127022-Claire-Dodin-une-Toulousa… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Error Message
by chika 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

till now i always prompt many dialog box with title $App($App=konqueror,KDesktop, Kate, etc) still with the same message "ould not find mime type application/octet-stream" eventhough i don't save last session on SESSION MANAGER. should i got update on KDE n all deps, how do i get all package without download all packages on the repository? my box on the boarding house without internet connection. can u give me the link? previously on my report >> i got many dialog box after i login on my box. >> >> the message is "Could not find mime type application/octet-stream" the >> window title is "Sorry - $app" >> $app = Kate, Konqueror, KDesktop, KDE-panel, and all program that i >> closed >> before i end my session >> >> the desktop-panel won't work before i close all message box >> >> any idea to get rid of these problem? >> >> >> br, >> >> tambun >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org >> >> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Meet CyberOrg - Jigish Gohil
by Ben Kevan 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Just thought I would send this out: http://news.opensuse.org/?p=511 CyberOrg is a huge helper on the mailing list when it comes to Compiz / Compiz Fusion issues. Find out who has been helping out. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] A really small KDE 3 vs KDE 4 Side by Side Comparison
by Ben Kevan 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Just thought I would give those people not interested in KDE 4 a little shot of KNetAttach side by side so they can see some of the style differences. This is only a really small part and is on my production machine so I haven't added much KDE 4. On my dev box I am running all KDE 4 (Beta 4) and it seems to be coming along great. Although I know Stephan Binner is tired of me submitting bugs on Bugzilla.novell.com that should be going upstream to bugs.kde.org :o). So here is the screenshot: http://benkevan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/kde3vskde4GUI.jpg With that said on my KDE 3 machine I am using a Custom Color Scheme that is a little darker then the original Color scheme shipped with suse/kde. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!
by Randall R Schulz 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, This is a follow-up to the thread "Hard Disk Failing." To recap, SMART reported drive errors of the "...XYZ..." variety on a young and lightly used Western Digital Raptor drive. It turned out (see below) that any attempt to access any of sectors 261200 through 261343 (a 144-sector range) would trigger retries that ultimately failed. SMART self-tests likewise failed upon reaching the first of these sectors. Reading some articles on SMART by Bruce Allen (the author of the smartmontools package) suggested that these errors can sometimes be caused by mere discrepancy between the ECC data and the 512 bytes of actual recorded content of a given sector and that there could be many causes for this, including power failures while writing. I decided to try a simple experiment: I would determine all the sectors that elicited an error when they were read and then rewrite them. I did this by using the "dd_rescue" utility. One of its options (-o) records a list of blocks for which unrecoverable errors were reported by the OS. This is how I obtained the list of 144 sectors that showed read errors. Note: dd_rescue is apparently not designed to write to /dev/null, and every write operation it attempts to /dev/null yields an error message. Once I had the list of (supposedly) bad blocks, I simply used an invocation of "dd" (the stock dd, not dd_rescue) to copy zero bytes (supplied by /dev/zero, of course) over the failing sectors. Voila! After this, the bad sectors could be read without eliciting any error indication at all, requiring no retries nor producing any kernel messages. The moral: Don't give up easily if you have a young, expensive drive that starts to give you SMART errors! An interesting aside: The actual capacity of this drive appears to be nearly 7 GB (out of just under 140 GB) _larger_ than specified. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] LaCie etherdisk freezes usb
by Hans Witvliet 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, Anybody around who got the lacie etherdisk-500 properly working with linux? According to the sales-spec, it should be working with M$, apple and linux. The box has an Gb lan interface offering ftp & web interface. The usb2 port works properly under M$-XP, but under linux, the usb-interface is not usable. The lsusb command doesn't show anything: it freezes rock solid. (can not kill it) Tried it on several 10-1 systems. One might say: well its just another M$-appliance, but the tragic truth is, that LaCie has a Linux-2.6 system build in it, but won't work with linux ;-( HtH, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] dvbscan not working gives following error "Unable to query frontend status"
by Harri Miettinen 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi, Since I installed openSUSE 10.3 (32bit) I have had problem with dvbscan. When I try to scan channels and make channels.conf file it gives me error message "Unable to query frontend status" I have found few hits from google but there is no solution yet. Here is the output: harmie@pluto:~> dvbscan /home/harmie/.kde/share/apps /kaffeine/dvb-c/fi-HTV Unable to query frontend status Kaffeine works without problems I can scan channels and watch TV with it. This worked in openSUSE 10.2 without problems. Here is some info from my system: current dvb: S | Repository | Type | Name | Version | Arch --+-------------------------------------------------------------------+---------+----------------------+----------------------+----- i | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/ <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/> | package | dvb | 1.1.0_CVS20070305-39 | i586 current kernel: pluto:/home/harmie # uname -a Linux pluto 2.6.22.9-0.4-default #1 SMP 2007/10/05 21:32:04 UTC i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux TV-card (Terratec C-1200) pluto:/home/harmie # ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/ total 0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 6 2007-11-04 10:30 ca0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 4 2007-11-04 10:30 demux0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 5 2007-11-04 10:30 dvr0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2007-11-04 10:30 frontend0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 2007-11-04 10:30 net0 How to proceed? Regards Harri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Hard Disk Failing
by Fernando Costa 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi all, Some days ago I began to receive the following message: "Your hard disk drive is failing! S.M.A.R.T. message: Device: /dev/sda, 1 currently unreadable (pending) sector" I don't know what it refers to but I have run a Live Gparted CD to check the entire hard disk (200 GB) and some inodes where repaired but the message is still showing up when I restart the computer. Any idea on what to do? Thanks, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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