March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Changing disk IDs!!
by L. V. Lammert 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I just upgraded a socket 939 MB to an Athelon 5000 socket AM2 so I can use AMD-V, but, for some strange reason, the HD device IDs seem to have changed (same 250GB SATA HD - the original root partition is not found). The disk shows fine in Repair System Partition Manager, .. and the IDs look similar, but I cannot figure out a way to compare them to the entries in fstab. > When booting the Repair System, all partitions show mounted on / and cannot be unmounted; > When dropping to shell after RS, the partitions are still mounted; > While IN RS, there is no way to launch a terminal session to edit the entries in fstab. I am hesitant to try any of the automatied repair options, .. can anyone suggest a way to both edit the original /etc/fstab entries while seeing the 'new' device IDs in the Partition Manager? Has anyone seen a problem like this? TIA, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] yast software installer segmentation fault
by Constantinos Maltezos 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

The other day, I completely forgot that I was updating packages when I exited my window manager. Now, when I try to run the software installer, when it tries to read the package database, I get a window with the following message: YaST got signal 11 at YCP file /usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_packages.ycp:36 /sbin/yast2: line 421: 23189 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS When I click "OK", the whole thing closes. I found a bug report about it on Novell's bugzilla, but there was no apparent solution (despite the report being closed) and it didn't give me any useful information. I tried rpm --rebuilddb just in case I'd screwed that up somehow, but that didn't make a difference. Any ideas? -- 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] Photo viewer
by Jay Mistry 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

>> Is there IrfanView for Linux ? >> >> Jay >> >> > Yes, there is, thanks to Wine and I use it myself.. :-) But it is still > not as 'simple' as a basic photo viewer... (that probably should be "not > really..") > Will try some of these other suggestions. Thanks, > John. Happened to find this program [for both: Linux (only Ubuntu) and Windows)], called 'phatch' (Photo Batch Resizer)-http://photobatch.stani.be/. Seems a versatile program, unfortunately no package ported for oS so far. Found it on this blog art - "Top 50 Linux Alternatives to MS Apps" http://jjmacey.net/blog/?p=179. Jay -- Registered Linux User # 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (openSUSE 11.1, i686) Smolts Profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_b541a450-9bc1-45fd-beab-d46ee43… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Changing Permissions for User
by Roman 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi all, I created two different users. How is it that I am able to view and copy files using Dolphin from another user directory to my directory? I shouldn't be able to see the other user's directory. I'm using openSUSE 11.1. Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Evolution need to clear search to see messages
by Teruel de Campo MD 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

ref: opensuse 11.1 (32b) kde 4.2 evolution: 2.24.1.1 Problem: Unable to see messages. This message shows up in every folder: "No messages satisfy your search criteria. Enter clear search with Search >Clear menu item or change it" The Search field contains: "Subject or Sender contains" and it is not greyed out. The broom is active. If I clear the search either menu or broom the messages are there. As soon as I move to another folder the same thing. If I go back to the initial folder where I cleared the search, I have to clear it again. ----- I have the same setup with the same version of evolution in another machine running opensuse 11.1 64 bit. Everything works well there. I've just installed opensuse 11.1 32b in a laptop. Then I copied all the folders etc from the 64b machine to the laptop. The laptop is the one having the problems. How did I copy the setup?. I did it twice in 2 different ways: 1. Use the backup and restore feature. Everything seems to be OK except for the problem described. 2. To be sure the problem was not related to the backup-restore procedure. I did the following in both machines $ evolution --force-shutdown $ gconftool-2 --shutdown Then I copy ~/.evolution and ~/.gconf/apps/evolution Again everything is OK except the problem described. Any clues why the clear search does not stick? or if it is copy why it is different in both machines. I have been using evolution for many version as well as the #2 back up procedure just described without this behaviour. TIA -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What's going on? X frying the CPU, Compiz totally broken... crisis hits SUSE?
by skx 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

What is going on? There's a bug making X use up every available cycle under Gnome, Compiz broke completely (no decorations, no cube) after updates from about a week ago and nothing seems to be done about it. Did crisis hit suse or sth? And a related question, since Compiz does not work: why is Avant Window Navigator telling me that "screen isn't composited" while metacity is a compositing window manager? I am on openSUSE 11.1 with newest Gnome and have nVidia GeForce 6600 with their (binary) drivers. -- skx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Problem with HAL daemon
by Anton Aylward 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

I'm running openSUSE 11.1 on a Presaro laptop. 11.0 was great and 11.1 has been ... intermittent. After some updates I noticed tat booting was taking a loooong time, much longer than it was in the past. I've grown used to openSUSE booting fast. So instead of contemplating the green screen I pressed the escape key and watched the boot sequence. What was going on was that EVERY disk partition was not only being FSCK'd but the journal was being re-run. All of them. Every time I booted. So the real problem was the shutdown. I watched the shutdown and what I saw was the line Shutting down HAL daemon failed and then there was a long pause while nothing else was printed and then the machine turned off. Next I tried stepping though the shutdown. Instead of a shutdown from KDE's menu I logged out, logged in at the console, when to "init 3" to shut down the GUI, then went to "init 1" to shut down everything else. Only everything else wasn't shut down. A couple of HAL-things were sill running. In particular "/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch" and a zombie child of that process. I tried killing that manually, -15, -9, -11 ... It wouldn't die. What's going on? Why is HAL stuck in the throat of the shutdown? -- I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting. -- Bernard J. Ebbers, former chief executive of WorldCom, at his trial. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Proper Use of "rkhunter --propupd"?
by Randall R Schulz 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi, I've noticed that whenever I update a package (many packages, anyway), I start getting notifications from rkhunter (mostly that inode numbers have changed). I then run "rkhunter --propupd" and the warnings cease. I'm wondering what is the proper use of "rkhunter --propupd"? Should I run it every time I update packages? 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] SynCE under OSS 11.1 64 bit
by Keith B. Boykin 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hello, I am hoping someone can help me or point me to more info. I used One-Click and installed the SynCE from OpenSUSE's website. I have done and installed everything it has suggested. I have even gone to the SyncE users list to see if I can get some info to help. Nothing is working. Details: OpenSuSE 11.1 using KDE 4.2. Pocket PC is a Sprint Treo 800w. I have installed msynctools. I install rndis-usb-lite as well. Not matter what I do I always get: "net_00_24_00_00_00_00 not fully set in HAL. skipping." My PDA is recognized and I have followed the info created ifcg-eth0 file (it is recognized as eth0 because my desktop is wlan) using DHCP as suggested by the HowTo on OSS's site. Can ANYBODY offer ANY suggestions? Thanks, --Keith -- Keith B. Boykin You are what you think -- always thinks positively ------------------------------------------------------------------------ openSuSE 11.1 64 Bit KDE 4.2 Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 4GB RAM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] repomod.xml are not signed
by Michael S. Dunsavage 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Has anyone else had any problems today with running updates and getting unsigned repomod.xml errors? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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