November 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] aaaaaaaaah, Yast
by Constantinos Galilei 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

So, three days ago, after a while of being too busy to update, I fired up Yast's software update module. I just did an update on everything available, went through the conflict resolution windows (many fewer than I had expected) and started it going. Nine-point-something gigabytes. Makes sense, I haven't updated in a few months. Now I have Yast minimized. Really? Three days and 9 gigabytes is still going? Do I, perhaps, have a slow connection? No, I have the fastest DSL available for my area. Yeah, it should have finished on the first day. So why is it still going? Actually, it's not. Right now, it's paused because I got tired of hitting "OK" and then "Skip". I'll tell you my mistake. Yes, some of these that I need to skip come from Contrib and Packman and common and the like, but that would annoy me MUCH less if I had waited until it was finished to try KDE. I have not had one single time in the past year or more where the packages were not updated on the server while *I* was trying to download them. I've thought about this for a while, but since I'd always wait until my update was finished, I just didn't bother because at that point I could relax and didn't want to deal with it. But what if, in that R/I/A window, we could add an option to check for updates of to-be-installed packages on the servers that are having problems? It could then pop up another window telling you what was found and what else was needed and blah blah blah for your approval. (I always approve blah blah blah, personally.) Now, here's the thing. I have 11.0. Yes, I'm slow to upgrade. I go about every other version, so a few months from now, I'm updating to 11.2. So I'm betting (hoping) someone will tell me that something like this has been added since my version. So, I'm ready. Tell me. Allay my annoyances. Please. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] update to factory kde4 for 11.2 broke feh -- that's strange??
by David C. Rankin 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Devs, I updated kde to kde4 factory on 11.2 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openS… and for some reason Imlib2 is now hosed and feh bombs trying to show a png image: 17:28 alchemy:~> feh img/ss/e16/ss_27-10-09_162144.png feh WARNING: img/ss/e16/ss_27-10-09_162144.png - No Imlib2 loader for that file format feh - No loadable images specified. I'm just scratching my head on this one. What could have happened to Imlib2? Missing so link? Where should I start looking for meaningful information on this? (I'll look through the rpm database, but other than that what to do?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] 11.2 What setting makes 'ls -al' sort with directories first (before files in the listing) and which conf file?
by David C. Rankin 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Guys, I would like to have ls -al default to listing all the directories first before the files. (the 11.2 default is just alphabetically with files and directories mixed) What controls this behavior? ...and... where is the proper place to make the change (default for all users)? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Configuring for new HD monitor
by James Knott 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I'm trying to change my monitor from a VGA LCD monitor to an HD 1080p one. I have an NVidea GeForce 7300 GS video card. When I try to enable the HD monitor, using the NVidea utility, I get an error message that it cannot save the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup. It makes no difference whether or not I tell it to merge with the existing file. Any way around this? Until then, I can't enable this monitor, which is recongnized by the NVidea configuration utility. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE 11.2, what happened to libflashsupport ?
by Sorin Peste 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, I'm one of the degenerate pervs who like PulseAudio a lot and has had zero problems with it on 11.1 (well, once it got to 0.9.15 anyway). Upgrading to 11.2, the repos seem to be missing the libflashsupport package that made the flash plugin output sound directly to PA. Currently flash is using ALSA which is rerouted to PA in my config, and PA in turn uses the ALSA driver. It works, but seems unnecesary to me. And it gets listed as 'ALSA Playback' instead of 'flash player' in the PA volume control. I understand that PulseAudio is disabled by default in 11.2 but at least the packages are there, whereas libflashsupport.so is nowhere to be found. Thanks, Sorin -- 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 font installer still mucking up /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf
by David C. Rankin 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Devs, Installing fonts in the kde control center screws up the default fonts for the desktop (and all desktops) because it adds the fonts to the top of the list in /etc/fonts/suse-post-user.conf. This is particularly painful when the monospace font is changed from DejaVu to something like DecTerminal. Moving DejaVu back to the top as follows and logging out/in fixes things, but this is a pain to have to fix every time you install fonts. <------><alias> <------><------><family>monospace</family> <------><------><prefer> <------><------><------><family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family> <------><------><------><family>Liberation Sans</family> < Why can't new fonts be added at the end of the list instead of the front?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] How to remove a file named '?S???' where the ?'s are not really ?'s
by David C. Rankin 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Listmates, Here was an interesting one. Looking at my home directory I noticed an unfamiliar file shown as being named '?S???'. -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 0 2009-10-19 01:58 ?S???? So I figured I would clean things up by deleting the file and tried a number of things (I didn't try mc which probably would have worked). It turned into a good little exercise. I tried looking at the file: 14:06 nirvana:~> l '?S????' ls: cannot access ?S????: No such file or directory 14:07 nirvana:~> l '\?S\?\?\?' ls: cannot access \?S\?\?\?: No such file or directory 14:07 nirvana:~> l \?S\?\?\? ls: cannot access ?S???: No such file or directory 14:08 nirvana:~> find . -name [?]* 14:08 nirvana:~> l "?*" ls: cannot access ?*: No such file or directory Huh? 14:10 nirvana:~> for i in $(ls); do [[ ${i:0:1} == '?' ]] && echo "file: $i"; done 14:10 nirvana:~> for i in $(ls); do [[ ${i:0:1} == [?] ]] && echo "file: $i"; done 14:10 nirvana:~> for i in $(ls); do [[ ${i:0:1} == ['?'] ]] && echo "file: $i"; done 14:10 nirvana:~> ls *S* en_US.gz opensearch?locale=en_US.gz ?S???? Ahah! 14:11 nirvana:~> for i in $(ls); do [[ ${i:1:1} == S ]] && echo "file: '$i'"; done file: '�S �' Huh? -- but I got it now... 14:12 nirvana:~> for i in $(ls); do [[ ${i:1:1} == S ]] && echo "removing file: '$i'" && rm $i; done removing file: '�S �' Bingo! The question that follows is "How did I create such a file to begin with?" I was approximately a months, and I can't recall doing anything that would have resulted in a strange named file. Anybody got any ideas concerning how this thing most likely appeared?? Remaining bewildered... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Stunnel not in openSUSE 11.2
by Erwin Lam 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello, I just noticed that "stunnel" is not included in openSUSE 11.2. Would somebody be so kind to include it or point me to a replacement program. I use it to setup a connection to giganews. Thanks in advance, Erwin -- Erwin Lam (erwinlam(a)dds.nl)

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[opensuse] SUSEfirewall2 with 2 ISP's: DSL & Cable
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi all, I have 2 ISP's, an ADSL and a Cable. I want to set up an openSUSE 11.2 SUSEfirewall2 with 3 NIC's; 2 for the ISP's and 1 for the DMZ. How can I create a failover when one ISP falls out, and keep the SUSEfirewall2 active for both, or failover to the active NIC. How can a local webserver with dynamic IP be routed to a default ISP and NIC, but failover to the other if the default fails. The ADSL router provides Dynamic DNS login and update with the ISP's router, but the cable provider's router does not cater for such Dynamic DNS. Is it possible to have a load ballance between the ISP's, and that the one takes full load if the other fails, also then providing a failover as above. Any directions to tried and tested configs will be highly appreciated. TIA :-) Al -- 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] Custom Label Software
by Teruel de Campo MD 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

>OOo also works very well if you don't need bar-codes >[or maybe OOo does barcodes now? Don't know] Adam, There is an extension that produces excellent bar codes under draw. I have it installed but I have not used a lot. I have not done any integration with write etc, a couple of times I need it I've just copied and pasted. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/barcode -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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