November 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Xsane with two available scanners
by Stan Goodman 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

This is XSane v0.996. I had been using it with an Epson 640U scanner and laser printer. Later I acquired a multifunction color printer so that I had two available scanners; when I wished to scan, the program asked me which one to use. At some point, Xsane stopped seeing the Epson, and I thought a malfunction must have occurred in it; scanners don't last forever. Now I have found that the Epson works perfectly with my neighbor's Windows machine, so it seems that for some reason my oS v11.1 just doesn't see it, though it is definitely connected to a functioning USB socket that does see e.g. flaxh memory sticks. What can I look for to try to diagnose the failure of my machine to see this scanner? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kmail troubles migrating from 10.3 (kde3 > kde4)
by Mike 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

It wasn't obvious t first, but after the upgrade from 10.3 > 11.1 it was still using the old kmail from kde3 I noticed the kde4 version when I tried to send mail from a mail-to link and a strange mail box popped up. Now with the old kmail when I click on a link in a message it hangs. the new kmail did not migrate any of my settings (filters, accounts, ?) but did keep the folder structure There was a bug filled for this earlier but it is not clear ~> kde4-config --localprefix /home/kenziem/.kde4/ ~> kde-config --localprefix /home/kenziem/.kde/ one suggested that there was a SuSE migration tool, but it was not documented and it didn't say if it worked or not. Another suggestion was to move/remove the contents of .kde/share/apps/kmail to .kde4 Does any one have a resolution? Are there any more gottchas to watch for? -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde3 logout error on 10.3
by Istvan Gabor 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello: My computer started acting strangely. If I try to logout from a KDE session after pressing the Logout/End current session buttons KDE does not log me out. Instead it logs me in again automatically; this login however is different from my normal login and it is similar to the original default SUSE login but at the end I get a white background with my icons. Panel and menus are different from my setup as well. If I try to logout from this sessions this automatic login occurs again (over and over). The only way I can log out is to switch to console mode, login as root and start an init 3 then init 5 (ie kill and restart KDM). This starts the normal KDM3 login screen. If I login on this screen the system logs me in as normal with my own setup but I can't log out again and the whole thing starts over. The same occurs to other user accounts as well. Any hint? Thanks, Istvan -- 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 4.3.3: Plasma at 80%-99% CPU and 81% Mem
by Konstantinos Georgokitsos 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

OK, after my first post a few days ago on crashing plasma and krunner (still unsolved) I now have an additional problem regarding Plasma: it uses up all CPU and memory after some time. More specific it is now at 98% CPU and 1,6 Gig and 81% memory (Virt.). I sure regret upgrading this time... Kostas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] building my own kernel with SuSE 11 on x86
by John Davis 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello I am trying to build a kernel with suse, i've used this technique on other distros and I don't know why it does work here. I am wondering if I have an in complete setup or I am simply missing a step. 1. Fresh Install 2. cd /usr/src/linux 3. make oldconfig 4. make 5. make init 6. make modules 7. make modules_install 8. make install 9. reboot The result is that the system will boot, but the kernel can not read the filesystem. FWIW, once this works, I will do a few more things with the system where I build a out of tree driver. I figure if my driver is failing, I should probably try to build the kernel as-is under non-modified setup. Any response appreciated. John F. Davis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Manual configuration of a new network interface
by Bogdan Cristea 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Could someone tell me which file should I modify in order to manually configure a new network interface ? The configuration I would like to use is as follows: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static address 10.1.6.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.1.6.0 broadcast 10.1.6.255 vde-switch vde-net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] installation_sources command won't add a new source
by Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Dear all, I have tried to add an installation source for zypper by either calling zypper sa, or using installation_sources -s <URI> directly, but each time it fails as scribed below. Does anyone know how one ought to add sources? # zypper sa http://opensuse.linux.edu.lv/update/11.1/rpm/x86_64 3198 zmd ZENworks Management Daemon is running. WARNING: this command will not synchronize changes. Use rug or yast2 for that. Please insert media [File './media.1' not found on medium 'nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2sdk' ] # 1 and type 'y' to continue or 'n' to cancel the operation. [y/n]: y Please insert media [File './media.1' not found on medium 'nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2sdk' ] # 1 and type 'y' to continue or 'n' to cancel the operation. [y/n]: n Please insert media [File './media.1' not found on medium 'nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2' ] # 1 and type 'y' to continue or 'n' to cancel the operation. [y/n]: n /repodata/repomd.xml (nfs://xxx31/export/repo/custom/sles-10-x86_64) is unsigned, continue? [y/n]: n nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2sdk/: Can't provide //media.1 from nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2sdk nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2/: Can't provide //media.1 from nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2 nfs://xxx31/export/repo/custom/sles-10-x86_64/: Downloading metadata failed (is YUM source?) or user did not accept remote source. Aborting refresh. Simon. PS. The list of installation sources on the Novel site is hopelessly out of date. The majority of EU based sites either don't work, or when x86_64 is, then these actually have i386. Rather annoying. PPS. I tried to remove sources from the list but this also failed: # installation_sources -d -a nfs://xxx31/export/sles10sp2sdk/ -- Simon Loewenthal/Tele2 ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Tele2 only send and receive e-mails on the basis that Tele2 is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fwd: periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible
by Greg Freemyer 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

All, I just read the below piece of advice which was new to me. Ted Tso, the main ext4 developer is advising users to keep ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions on LVM volumes. That way a snapshot can be taken weekly and the filesystem snapshot checked. If there are no issues, there is nothing to do. If there are issues, then start a maintenance effort to correct the issues on the main filesystem. He does not detail how to do that, but I assume booting into single user mode and doing a fsck or something similar. Hope some of you find that informative / useful. Greg ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Theodore Tso <tytso(a)mit.edu> Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:05 AM Subject: Re: periodic fsck was Re: [patch] ext2/3: document conditions when reliable operation is possible To: Pavel Machek <pavel(a)ucw.cz> Cc: david(a)lang.hm, Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler(a)redhat.com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)bfk.de>, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b(a)web.de>, Rob Landley <rob(a)landley.net>, kernel list <linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm(a)osdl.org>, mtk.manpages(a)gmail.com, rdunlap(a)xenotime.net, linux-doc(a)vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4(a)vger.kernel.org, corbet(a)lwn.net, jack(a)suse.cz On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:53:18AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Well, in SUSE11-or-so, distro stopped period fscks, silently :-(. I > believed that it was really bad idea at that point, but because I > could not find piece of documentation recommending them, I lost the > argument. It's an engineering trade-off. If you have perfect memory that is never has cosmic-ray hiccups, and hard drives that never write data to the wrong place, etc. then you don't need periodic fsck's. If you do have imperfect hardware, the question then is how imperfect your hardware is, and how frequently it introduces errors. If you check too frequently, though, users get upset, especially when it happens at the most inconvenient time (when you're trying to recover from unscheduled downtime by rebooting); if you check too infrequently then it doesn't help you too much since too much data gets damaged before fsck notices. So these days, what I strongly recommend is that people use LVM snapshots, and schedule weekly checks during some low usage period (i.e., 3am on Saturdays), using something like the e2croncheck shell script. - Ted -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Time & Date
by Mark Misulich 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hi, a problem has developed on my laptop after some updates to the OS within the last month. It won't stay on time when I shut it down and start it up again. Each time after starting up the computer I have to reset the time and date. I also uncheck the box where it says update time automatically. But after each startup, the date and time will be off, and the box is rechecked again Any ideas on how to fix this? I am using OpenSuse 11.1 with kde 3.5. Thanks -- 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 in USB stick
by Teruel de Campo MD 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Q: is there any way to add a program like tuxbars or even a text file to a USB with opensuse on it? I installed rc2 on an usb stick (http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick). I would like to add for example a text file or even a small outliner like tuxcards to the installation. Is there a way to do it BESIDES building a new live CD with tuxcards etc. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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