March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] YaST (Software Management) and zypper give different package update results
by Jay Mistry 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

YaST does not show the same packages that zypper (through konsole, after su -) does. This was after I updated to KDE 4.2; also have KDE 3.5 installed. # rpmdb --rebuilddb # zypper refresh -b # zypper up Doing the above, after su to root from init 3, gives a totally different set of packages (which are correct, going by the version numbers), than what YaST (GUI : YAST --> Software Management) shows. Search showed me the yast2 Repair Tool at http://packages.opensuse-community.org/packageinfo.jsp?checksum=b508b5f52d3… . Any idea what this does ? how I can repair YaST GUI to accurately show updates and packages ? Thanks, 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] Zypper segmentation fault
by Γαβριήλ Παπαδάκης 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Greetings to the list This is my first post, so please forgive me for not describing correctly the situation. My home workstation (OpenSuSE 10.3 32bit) has been receiving fairly regularly, albeit manually (every 2-3 days) the official updates, except for the kernel related ones. I admit having several OBS repositories enabled, as well as Packman, Gtk:STABLE and KDE:Backports. I try to be careful about updating major infrastructure, always checking the list of packages to be upgraded or installed, refreshing the repos before any updating takes place, not using any updaterapplet and going mostly through yast2. Yesterday, trying to launch any software management app through yast resulted in the window taken down. Trying the cli greeted me with this: PENTIUM:/var/log # zypper lr Repository 'openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds' is up to date. Segmentation fault disabling wine repo just confirmed that the next one is ok before spitting out the segfault. Trying through yast again gave this xmessage: YaST got signal 11 at YCP file /usr/share/YaST2/clients/repositories.ycp:761 /sbin/yast2: line 386: 12277 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2QT_ARGS I recall tha a recent wxGTK update wrecked havoc over my gtk2 using apps, but only those alone. Manually donwgrading solved most of the problem, which anyway should be unrelated (?). All this before yesterday. Rebuilding the rpm database did no good. Logfiles do not show anything useful to my (ignorant) eyes. Googling did not help much. I really don't know how to go about troubleshooting zypper, zypplib or whatever is being used. Other components of Yast2 work fine. PENTIUM:/var/log # uname -r 2.6.22.19-0.1-default zypper 0.8.26 RPM version :4.4.2 qt3 version :3.3.8 Any pointers will be welcome. Info upon request. Thanks in advance. -- /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML EMAIL / \ AND POSTINGS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Opera 9.64 - margin: padding: handling changed?
by David C. Rankin 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Listmates, What's up with the new opera 9.64 handling of the css margin: and padding: properties? Through 9.63 my database statistics page displayed fine (I used opera as my browser while building the page), now, the table rows run over the side of the DIV element. Compare below in firefox and opera 9.64: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/webdev/pages/mysql-logview.php -- 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] Using zypper to remove beagle downgrades packages from x86_64 to i586
by Dan Goodman 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Running 11.1 and Gnome on a Lenovo T61. Tried to remove beagle per something I saw here. Was going to do "zypper remove *beagle*" followed by "zypper addlock *beagle*". When I executed the first command, it reported "Beagle not installed." (I may have removed it earlier, as well as deactivating it with chkconfig, then forgot that I had done so.) But zypper then reported "Checking package dependencies" and proceeded to downgrade a whole host of packages from their x86_64 form to the i586 version. In a word, "Whaaat?". Can anyone explain to me why this occurred, and if this is a bug. I can't believe Mono is compiled into all those apps as an option, nor can I believe that my machine architecture changed. And an observation on distro configuration: I know Beagle is built on Mono, and Novell would like us to install and use Mono, but please, this type of "busy beaver" app should never be on by default. I even question whether it belongs in a base package install, but at least if you don't have it on by default, I as a user don't have to find out about it, then find out about how to get rid of it if I don't want or need it. Most users need a browser, yet openSUSE doesn't automatically set one as default. This is as it should be. Neither should openSUSE make a particular desktop search app the default, nor should it turn it turn on ANY desktop search app by default. (The opinions are my own.) -- Dan Goodman Senior Systems Administrator -- 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 doesn't install
by John E. Perry 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

I tried the one-click install from http://en.opensuse.org/Synce; I get the message " The following packages could not be installed libopensynce-plugin-synce I'm on opensuse 11.0, kde 3.5.9 John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Converting wmv files to mtv format
by Terry Eck 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Is there a program for SuSE 11.1 which will conver video format from *.wmv to *.mtv for use in a portable video player. Thanks, 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] Re: [opensuse-project] vote for suse on the eucalyptus poll
by Stephen Shaw 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Mark V <mvyver(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw(a)decriptor.com> wrote: >> Lets make openSUSE more visible and vote up suse on the eucalyptus poll. >> http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/564200-152224 >> > > Interesting - actually I started laughing ;) > > I'm not sure that inflating this poll will be helpful to community > credibility. For several reasons. > > 1) The AWS developer forums show (judging by some thread view counts) > there _may_ have been some reasonable interest in running openSUSE on > EC2, or 'in-the-cloud'. However, the common experience seems to be a > dead-end. I think that huge numbers in the above poll will be > 'seen through'; see the 'other poll' below. More helpful would be to > have some of the issues I mention below resolved, i.e get openSUSE > running on the 'real' EC2 first. > >> The long and short is that eucalyptus is a private internal ec2 cloud. >> > > 2) I think people would be 'intrigued' if they saw openSUSE ranked > highly by 'current and potential Eucalyptus users' - I assume most > real potential Eucalyptus user is a current EC2 user.... reason: > According to the elasticFox listing here are some real world counts > (the other poll) of public images the 'community' have made- 'search > term' (count): > ubuntu (266) > fedora (48) > suse (2) (1 is 10.2 the has an ambiguous name) > > and more vendor specific: > redhat (12) > canonical (4) > novell (0) > > Some relevant issues: > 1) Have openSUSE public kernel and ramdisk images be available on EC2. > At the moment the only ones are named 'sles-beta-ibm'... do they go > private after the beta? None of these kernel images are those > mentioned in the KIWI docs. None of the kernel images mentioned in the > KIWI docs are available on EC2, nor have they ever been from my > periodic checking and from the AWS forum posts. > > 2) Have one basic 32bit and 64 bit openSUSE AMI available, from this > point the 'community' can build additional public images using KIWI, > etc. without upload (bandwidth), storage, etc. issues. > > 3) Once the above two components are in place one could then > contemplate some community efforts that would be needed to use > openSUSE in the cloud, e.g. openSUSE is currently absent from Chef (a > configuration sys-admin framework), it absent for the obvious reason > ;) > > I'd like to have used openSUSE, and KIWI seems to be a very valuable > addition, but so far the whole exercise has been as fruitful as > banging ones head on concrete. > > So, without being to harsh, I think you may be placing the cart before > the horse - of course it could turn out that openSUSE is widely run on > private-EC2's but not the actual EC2. > > Mark One of the real problems with this is that we can't get openSUSE/SLE on amazon ec2, so the numbers aren't going to be fair. You might wonder why the crap Novell hasn't gotten on top of this, they have! :) Unfortunately, from what I understand is that the version of xen we use is too new to work on ec2. So this is of no fault of Novell, but the systems and versions that amazon is using :( Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Updating Java with rpm
by Dave Feustel 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

I can't print with Maple. The problem may be that the jre used by Maple needs to be upgraded. I have instructions for doing this below, but I don't know how to do step ii. Can someone please explain step ii for me? Thanks. -------------------- > Replacing the Maple jre: > To do this: > > i. you first have to download a new Java Runtime Environment ( > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp > ) JRE 1.6.0_13 is the most recent version. When I look for a file to download, there are two: jre*.bin and jre*.rpm.bin. Which is the one I want? > > ii. Then install this, it should create a folder called "jre1.6.0_13" or "jre6". How do I do the install? With rpm? If so, what is the proper command? > iii. Copy this folder in to the <maple12> folder. > > iv. Rename the jre.X86_64_LINUX folder "jre.backup". > > v. Rename the jre1.6.0_13 folder "jre.X86_64_LINUX" > > Of course if you have a 32-bit installation it will be "IBM_INTEL_LINUX" in > stead of "X86_64_LINUX". > > Maple will now be using the updated Java. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bug in alsasound
by Heinz Diehl 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hi, I'm reposting this because the maintainer is not reachable via email: ---------------- cut here --------------- To: perex(a)suse.cz Subject: Bug in alsasound startscript From: Heinz Diehl <htd(a)fancy-poultry.org> Hi, I'm on openSUSE 11.0 and have no clue if this is already fixed in 11.1, but: shutting down/restarting the ALSA sound system using the alsasound script from /etc/rc.d with snd_hda_intel present results in an error caused by the impossibility to unload locked sound modules, which are reserved by snd_hda_intel. If present, the snd_hda-intel module has to be unloaded before all the other sound related modules to remove the lock. --- /etc/orig/alsasound 2009-03-29 17:10:38.000000000 +0200 +++ /etc/rc.d/alsasound 2009-03-30 17:41:47.401113763 +0200 @@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ # unload_modules() { unmute_system + if $lsmod | grep "snd_hda_intel" > /dev/null 2>&1; then + /sbin/rmmod snd_hda_intel + fi $lsmod | grep -E "^(snd|ac97_bus)" | while read m s; do /sbin/rmmod $m done Regards, Heinz. ---------------- cut here --------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] vote for suse on the eucalyptus poll
by Stephen Shaw 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Lets make openSUSE more visible and vote up suse on the eucalyptus poll. http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/564200-152224 The long and short is that eucalyptus is a private internal ec2 cloud. Thanks, Stephen PS. Sorry for the cross post. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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