January 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] LVM volume freezes server when forced check on boot
by Jose 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Hi Everybody, I have got this server with a regular IDE as boot device plus two extra IDE drives on a single LVM volume, everything has been fine running Suse 11.1 and I have had a couple of reboots for maintenance (not hardware related), but then it came the time to get one of those fsck on boot forced due to 60 something days without check, it only goes up to 39% and then stops and freezes the machine, I have booted on rescue mode and rem out the entry on fstab, booted up okay, after that I mount the volume manually and everything is there, then I unmount it and try to run fsck on the volume and again freezes the machine and I have to hard reset. I ran smartctl and the errors reported on the log are most likely due to the past times booting up and not completing the fsck check. Any ideas of what this could be? any bug? I am running OpenSuse 11.1, linux-0691.2.6.27.7.9-pae, 4 gb on ram, drives are 67.41 and 74.52GB. PVscan, vgscan, lvdisplay report no problems with the PVs or LV. Any hints would be welcome Thanks, Jose -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] User name typo error when installing oS - how to rectify
by Basil Chupin 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

When I installed 11.1 the other day I mistyped the user name and ended up with having "fed" instead of "fred" as my user name and consequently the home directory is also named "fed". I want to change it to "fred". If I booted into the oS with init 1, issued the command chown -R fred.users /home/fed and then altered in Yast's User Management the user "fed" to "fred" (after logging in as root) and also renamed the current home directory to "fred" and rebooted the system, would this rectify the typing error I made - with no ill effects on the system? (Oh yes- I would also clean out the /tmp directory.) Any suggestions (polite ones of course) would be most welcome. Ciao. -- "I do not instruct the uninterested; I do not help those who fail to try. If I mention one corner of a subject and the pupil does not deduce therefrom the other three, I drop him." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE in 11.1
by Robert Paulsen 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Hi, Just installed SuSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1. KDE 4.1 will take some getting used to. A few questions: What is the "plasma dashboard"? I started it from icon at bottom of screen and all it did was put a tiny message up at the top of the screen saying "Plasma" and make everything else disappear. Clicking anywhere caused the "Plasma" message to go away and everything else to come back. Not sure what this is supposed to do. When I first logged in there was a strange semi transparent window showing with some normal desktop icons in it. I closed the window to see what would happen and now can't get it back. Where did it go and where did my desktop icons go? Every time I open a console window it alternates it shape from vertical rectangle to horizontal rectangle. How can I get it to only open as a vertical rectangle? The way things are going I will probably have more questions? Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Multimedia keyboard HP SK2505
by Carl Spitzer 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

The Cherry keyboard I was looking at has been discontinued it had drivers and penguin keys. OpenSuSE YaST does recognize this keyboard but Gnome and KDE to not respond to it. I found the Lineak project but it is not currently maintained. How do I make the extra keys work? Also I would like to cover or replace the windows keys with penguin keys does anyone have a source for this? CWSIV -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] New Wireless driver, where? [WAS: First attempt at installing wireless]
by Greg Freemyer 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Still more searching - everything is not as it seems. Per lspci -nn I have a Broadcom BCM4312 [14e4:4315] The 4315 variant is not supported by the b43 module. But a very new kernel module (wl.ko) does support it as well as most of what the b43 module supports. It is available directly from Broadcom: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php But it comes in a hybrid form. I can't find it prepacked (compiled) for OpenSUSE 11.1. I have not even found a HowTo yet. Does this exist? If not, I'll download the "hybrid" and use the generic readme. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE control panel keeps popping up in 11.1
by Josef Wolf 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Hello, I have turned on the option to automatically hide the panel, since this frees me some pixels on the desktop. But every now and then, the panel pops up although I have _not_ touched it with the mouse, and it stays on the screen until I touch it with the mouse. I could not yet figure out by what this is triggered. What gives? Hiding the panel worked perfectly in 11.0. Any idea why the panel don't just stay hidden until I touch it with the mouse? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.0 K3B - mp3 audio decoder plugin not found
by Felix Miata 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

I ran http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp immediately after installation, and so had and have the requisite repos enabled. I became tired of seeing the subject message every time K3B opened. I tried in YaST2 to find the K3B MAD Mp3 decoder it complained about not having and could not figure out which package contained it. So I Googled, and found I asked this same question last July. Joe Morris answered k3b-codecs. Anyone know why the ymp did not install k3b-codecs, or why K3B doesn't come right out and name the missing package? -- "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Gad! Windows 7 looks like KDE 4!
by Lew Wolfgang 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi Folks, Since I have to support Windows users as well as Linux, I fired up the latest VirtualBox last night on a 11.0 desktop. I then loaded up Windows 7 Beta and it blew my socks off! It looks like KDE 4! So, what's going on? Is Microsoft ripping off the KDE community, or visa versa? Either way, this is a "good thing" that should make it easier for Windows users to move to Linux desktops. Microsoft is discontinuing the Windows 7 Beta program on Feb 10, so if you want to try it you better get cracking. Regards, Lew (I know, I sound like a Windows Wonk. But I use it only in support of my users. I promise.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE4.2 - Desktop Folderview + Add to desktop
by ianseeks 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi My desktop is configured as "Desktop" and i have a folder view on it of "Desktop Folder" that shows icons in "/home/<user>/Desktop", Now seems like a daft question but i still haven't yet got my head around KDE4... When i add an icon to the desktop (e.g. right click on a menu entry and then select "add to desktop", should this icon appear in my folder view as well as the desktop? It only appears on the desktop outside the folder view and a ".desktop" is not created in "/home/<user>/Desktop" regards Ian -- 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: Who is using Gnome?
by Jim Henderson 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:56:15 -0600, Robert Paulsen wrote: > For me, KDE4 looks to be not worth the learning curve. Since KDE4 forces > me to learn *something* new and less usable than KDE3 it seems worth > considering Gnome. > > I'd be interested in hearing from those who use it and what their > experiences are. I've been using GNOME since I was running RedHat 5.2 or 6 (I forget when I started, but it's been a long time). Prior to that, I ran Enlightenment. I started using GNOME because it came with Red Carpet, and I was too cheap to buy a RedHat subscription at the time - and Red Carpet provided updates to RedHat for free. I've tried KDE a few times myself, but found myself going back to GNOME after a few days because I know where to find things in GNOME and how to configure it. It's a personal preference. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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