March 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Additional help info in bash
by Bogdan Cristea 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

New versions of openSuSE 11 came with an improved version of bash displaying some additional help, e.g. when someone tries to call a program not yet installed. This is indeed useful for the beginner, but is also quite slow and when you type by mistake something. Is there a way to disable this feature in bash ? -- 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 11.1 evolution and ICS calender in HTML formatted messages
by Roger Oberholtzer 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Should evolution be able to show calender events that are in HTML formatted messages? I see that our company has changed the default to format messages as such. So meeting invitations I get from co-workers no longer work as they did. I realize that this is perhaps a local issue - but I doubt I will be able to sway policy. The answer will be "Use Outlook"... Perhaps I am missing a plugin? I see that the calender part of the message looks similar as before - it is part of a mime message. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Utterly Shocked - Suse system lockups
by Philip Burness 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I have been using Suse since at least v8, and for the first time (other than when I have done something stupid) I have experienced two lock-ups where I have had to re-cycle the power to gain access again. Error seems to be Xorg related:- Feb 5 09:13:43 Desktopnew kernel: Xorg[3052]: segfault at 1b8 ip 54e4b5 sp 7fff 1fab96f0 error 4 in Xorg[400000+1c0000] Feb 5 09:13:43 Desktopnew kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change -------- -- Feb 5 09:13:43 Desktopnew kdm[3003]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpec tedly Feb 5 09:13:43 Desktopnew gconfd (pburness-30173): Exiting Feb 5 09:13:44 Desktopnew kernel: gvfs-fuse-daemo[6705] general protection ip:7 fb1118b655a sp:7fff1b4e4ce0 error:0 in libpthread-2.8.so[7fb1118ae000+16000] Feb 5 09:13:46 Desktopnew kernel: [fglrx] Gart USWC size:192 M. Feb 5 09:13:46 Desktopnew kernel: [fglrx] Gart cacheable size:60 M. Feb 5 09:13:46 Desktopnew kernel: [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Shared offset:0, s ize:1000000 Feb 5 09:13:46 Desktopnew kernel: [fglrx] Reserved FB block: Unshared offset:7f fc000, size:4000 On reboot, I seem to have lost my desktop icons (Firefox etc. only one left is Wastebin. I did get this message on startup.... Feb 5 10:10:55 Desktop syslog-ng[1897]: syslog-ng version 1.6.12 starting Feb 5 10:10:56 Desktop console-kit-daemon[2002]: WARNING: Failed to acquire org .freedesktop.ConsoleKit Feb 5 10:10:56 Desktop console-kit-daemon[2002]: WARNING: Could not acquire nam e; bailing out Only thing I've done recently is an update of KDE to 4.2. I'm running SuSE 11.0 Any suggestions anybody? Thanks Phil -- 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 Weekly News, Issue #62 is out
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

We are pleased to announce: Issue 62 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * openSUSE Project Meeting next Wednesday * openSUSE Trademark Guidelines Released * Ken Yap: How to clone a VirtualBox Linux VM to a real machine (v0.9) * 11.2 Roadmap and Fixed Release Cycle for openSUSE * Rupert Horstkötter: OSF Status Report #3 The openSUSE Weekly News is also available in: German [1], Indonesian [2], Japanese [3], Polish [4], Portuguese [5] (delay), Russian [6], Spanish [7] (delay), Hungarian [8] (Light), Italian [9] (delay), Chinese [10], French [11], NEW: Swedish [12] [0] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [1] http://de.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE-Wochenschau/62 [2] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/indonesian [3] http://ja.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [4] http://pl.opensuse.org/Tygodnik_openSUSE/62 [5] http://pt.opensuse.org/Notícias_da_semana_no_openSUSE/62 [6] http://ru.opensuse.org/Еженедельные_новости_openSUSE/62 [7] http://es.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62 [8] http://hu.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Heti_H%C3%ADrmond%C3%B3/62 [9] http://it.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Newsletter_Settimanale/62 [10] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/chinese [11] http://fr.opensuse.org/Lettre_d%27information_openSUSE/62 [12] http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Weekly_News/62/swedish Have a lot of fun! -- Sincereley yours Sascha Manns openSUSE Marketing Team (Weekly News) openSUSE Build Service Web: http://saschamanns.gulli.to Blog: http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/saigkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't boot 11.1 system after 2.6.27.19-3.2 kernel update!!
by L. V. Lammert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This problem is driving me crazy - unfortunately, I have to recreate info from memory as I cannot get the system to boot and there is no way to get info off unless booted with a System Rescue CD. > Original AMD64 11.1 install about a month ago, no problems. > After the 2.6.27.19-3.2 kernel update about 10 days ago, menu.lst was blank (after the first stanza); bug report filed. > I tried to repair the system with the 11.1 repair option, but the system thinks /dev/sda6 (the root partition) is a USB DEVICE AND TIMEOUTS! > Briliant idea - copy a kernel from another machine and try booting, AND IT BOOTED FINE! [Except that machine didn't have nVidia and this one did, so no X). > Tried Repair again to rebuild the module/kernel config, AND THE SYSTEM IS NOW BACK TO LOOKING FOR A USB DRIVE INSTEAD OF A SATA DRIVE. Has anyone seen anything like this before? This system was very stable before this last upgrade, .. I had Virtual Box installed, upgraded to 4GB of memory and was getting ready to build some VMs. Any thoughts would be appreciated, .. Lee -- 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] opensuse updater applet on 11.0 -- won't
by Rodney Baker 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:15:49 David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > The good old reliable opensuse updater applet with libzpp backend is now > broken (/usr/bin/opensuseupdater-kde) and has been for several weeks. > > (1) It shows you have updates, you choose to install the updates - then it > doesn't do anything, no install no nothing (yes I selected all) > > (2) You then install with 'zypper up', and the updater still shows all the > updates as "needing to be installed" even if you tell the intelligent > little thing to "check now", it still says the updates need to be > installed. It remains so until you log out and log back in and then it goes > back to green. > > I mean what good is an updater applet that won't update anything, and then > can't figure out that what it says needs to be updated is already > installed?? What gives? > > Can someone else confirm this behavior before I bug it? Thanks. > > David, No problems here (also running 11.0). Updates working very nicely, thankyou (apart from the odd dependency issue that requires resorting to Yast to sort out, which is what can happen when certain combinations of repositories are selected, so that I can live with). Might it be worth clearing out your repository caches etc. and letting it rebuild (perhaps via Yast)? What version of the updater are you running? What specific updates are you referring to? There was a issue a while back that meant that 3 or 4 specific security updates were incorrectly marked as required, but an update to libzypp (IIRC) fixed that issue. More details, please. Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au ===================================================

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[opensuse] Re: backup based on file size
by jdd 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

jdd a écrit : >> --max-size=SIZE don't transfer any file larger than SIZE >> --min-size=SIZE don't transfer any file smaller than SIZE > > yes, this is probably the solution. seems to work: rsync -av --max-size=400m --delete --exclude=/media --exclude=/proc --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp / /media/opensuse11/ with the drive mounted on /media/opensuse11 but there is a lot of temporary directories to exclude and I forgot some (like /var/tmp). I also wonder what will happen to the /windows directory: I backup on a ext3 hard drive. However I don't mean to restore the system files, I do a hole backup just in case. Caches should also be excluded, as backup files, but is a little too tricky jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- 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: backup based on file size
by jdd 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Per Jessen a écrit : > For one thing, doesn't rsync support a file with a list of items to > exclude/include? yes, but this don't makes it easier to detect what files have to be excluded. I end up looking at the -v display, it's like this that I found pagefile.sys and hibernate.sys on the windows partition (I use windows so rarely I never noted the last one and forgot the first :-) I openned a page on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Rsync mostly with the goal of noting all the openSUSE (specific?) places/files not to backup. Please complete the list. I use also "*/Cache/*" to let aside Mozilla caches but I don't know if it's secure to do so and I didn't include it in the wiki. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Missing kernel]
by Gunnar Haaland 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Who stole my kernel??? I did an upgrade yesterday, and is not able to get my Opensuse 11.1 to work. It cant find any kernmel to my old nvidia card. I have always used a standard i586 kernel, but now I have got a strange kernel with a strange name something like 2.27.... grid or something. If I try to start yast, and tries to fix it, nothing happen, all the changes that I make, yast just skip it. Gunnar -- 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 kernel conflicts ati graphics 11.1
by lynn 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi Yast gives me the following: #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2009-02-26 18:41:13 #### ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.573_2.6.27.7_9.1-0.1.i586 requires kernel(pae:mm) = b853ab28d43f4e8e, but this requirement cannot be provided [ ] do not install patch:kernel-559.noarch [ ] Following actions will be done: deinstallation of ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae-8.573_2.6.27.7_9.1-0.1.i586 deinstallation of x11-video-fglrxG01-8.573-0.1.i586 [ ] Ignore some dependencies of ati-fglrxG01-kmp-pae #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### Which option should I choose? Is the driver included in the new kernel? Thanks, Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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