April 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Knetworkmanager doesn't start
by Verner Kjærsgaard 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Hi list, - I'm on SuSE11.1 with KDE 4.2.1 release 106. - my Knetworkmanager doesn't start by itself, I need to (using my ordinary account) to open up a shell and do "knetworkmanager". This causes knm to fire up, find my accesspoint and all is good. Any ideas? FWIW: In my /var/log/messages I get (among others, but I think these lines are important...): Apr 24 07:50:34 linux-vg22 nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/autofs' exited with error status 1. Apr 24 07:50:35 linux-vg22 nm-dispatcher.action: Script '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/nfs' exited with error status 6. Apr 24 07:50:35 linux-vg22 dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 5 matched rules; type="method_return", sender=":1.36" (uid=0 pid=5952 comm="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dispatcher.action ") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.8" (uid=0 pid=3587 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ")) As alsways, Thank You!! Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Grub trouble...zapped 2nd boot stage
by Verner Kjærsgaard 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Hi listmates, - Grup says "stage 1.5", error 17 and halts. - this happens because I had a SuSE partition on a freinds laptop alongside Vista. The MBR (as I see it) contains a small programme that points to the real GRUP booter on something like hda2, I believe. My dear freind zapped the SuSE installation by having MS formatting it. But now, of course, the machine never reaches the 2nd stage of the GRUB loader...I wish to remedy it. a) can I do that using, say Knoppix or SuSE live? b) Re-install a SUSE into that partion and go from there? c) Enter any fancey GRUP commands? d) Vista repair or something, the restore partition is still present? Any recommendations? Thanks! Best regards, Verner -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] hard drive replacement question
by Bob S 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Hello SuSE people, Seems I have an ancient 8GB hard drive which is failing. At least smart seems to think so. New hard drive on it's way. All properly backed up to my external "back up" drive with rsync. I know this has been discussed a million times on this list but old stupid never paid much attention.So now that I am faced with this realiity of life and computers, how do I proceed? Put in the new hard drive replacement, then what? Must be formatted, OK that's a no-brainer. Must I partition it to match the old drive for rsync? (home,var, usr) are all separate partitions. (same size? larger?) Will rsync sort it all out? Is there a how-to / wiki page somewhere that can give some guidance? Bob S -- 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: hard drive replacement question
by jdd 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

David C. Rankin a écrit : > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb if fstab uses /dev/sdx system, with disk names or ID, have to change it anually works if disks are same size jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- 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: Why does this list permit attachments?
by Jim Henderson 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:09:48 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2009/04/23 22:00 (GMT) Jim Henderson composed: > >> I use gmane to read the list > > Then you're not actually using an email program, you're using a web > browser. Ordinary POP accounts used by people running common email > software AFAIK don't allow pre-determining what to download or not. So out of idle curiosity, I ran some statistics on the composition of this list. In my analysis, I used 8,417 posts pulled from gmane. Since gmane munges sender information and doesn't include source IP information, I have only looked at the percentages by user agent. Of the 8,417 messages analyzed, 70% (nearly 6,000) of them were sent using Thunderbird or KMail. The breakdown is as follows: Thunderbird 2987 35.49% KMail 2888 34.31% Alpine 697 8.28% Mozilla 665 7.90% Mutt 527 6.26% KNode 253 3.01% SquirrelMail 149 1.77% Pan 67 0.80% Gnus 47 0.56% Opera 34 0.40% Turnpike 33 0.39% Wanderlust 27 0.32% Spicebird 14 0.17% Internet_Messaging_Program 8 0.10% Microsoft-Entourage 7 0.08% slrn 5 0.06% Mozilla-Thunderbird 4 0.05% Icedove 2 0.02% RoundCube 2 0.02% Loom 1 0.01% As you can see, Thunderbird & KMail users are at least the most prolific. It's hard to profile what everyone is using to read (so this analysis does leave the lurkers out). But perhaps this can help frame the discussion in more concrete terms rather than making assumptions that attachments are a bad thing. At least based on post traffic, it seems most users of this list who post are using programs that can pull POP headers without pulling the message content. Have to run out for a bit, but when I'm back, maybe I'll see if I can break the senders down it a reasonable analysis. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VirtualBox Shared Folder question
by Jay C Vollmer 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

Greetings fellow listers. I'm hoping that someone here can tell me how to make the Shared Folder function in VirtualBox work with a Linux guest running on an OpenSUSE 11.0 host. I've got it working perfectly with a Windows Guest, but the Kubuntu Hardy guest that I also have installed doesn't seem to see the Shared Folders in VBOXSVR. I have no trouble seeing a Samba server running outside of VirtualBox on the same laptop and can access my host Linux filesystem that way, but I'd like to be able to do it through the Shared Folder mechanism built into VirtualBox. Has anyone been able to do this? If so, can you give me some pointers? This seems like it should be straightforward so please pardon me if I'm missing something obvious - those who've been here awhile know that it wouldn't be thefirst time for me. aTdHvAaNnKcSe -- JAY VOLLMER -- 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: hard drive replacement question
by Jim Henderson 26 Apr '09

26 Apr '09

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:55:58 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> >> That procedure is full of problems in the road. >> > Actually gparted does the job quite well and quickly. I have even >> > moved partitions to make a lower partition bigger. IMO, gparted has >> > become one of the best partitioning tools. >> >> Well, that's interesting. But frankly, copying files directly to a new >> (or same) partition layout would be faster and easier. I don't see any >> gain, except to experiment. >> > I guess you've never done any disk imaging. That's common in the > corporate world, where you create a standard image for users. The image > is copied from a server to a hard drive and then resized to fit the > disk. In past lives, I've used both Ghost and Partition Magic to do > that. Arguably, though, with partitions it understands, Ghost does partition management and then file-by-file rather than a sector-by-sector clone (unless you explicitly tell it to do so). That's one of the reasons Ghost is as fast as it is. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] No print queue
by Paul Cornford 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi, I recently tried to upgrade my Samsung ML-1450 printer driver and in the process lost printing altogether. I uninstalled the driver but have not recovered printing. When I open Yast -> Hardware -> Printer I simply get this message: "There is no print queue". Clicking Add gets "No Connection Selected" and there is none listed. Using the Connection Wizard get's me nowhere. Clicking on Printers in CUPS does nothing either. Can someone help me here? SYSTEM DETAILS - Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.21-0.1-pae i686 System: openSUSE 11.1 (i586) KDE: 3.5.10 "release 21.9" Thanks. pcor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openlaszlo install
by peter nikolic 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi. Right i am trying to install openlaszlo on Opensuse 11.1 x86_64 I am getting stumped by the Java setup it is telling me JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE . "echo $JAVA_HOME" /usr/lib64/jvm/jre voyager:/usr/lib64/jvm # l total 128 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 16 18:26 ./ drwxr-xr-x 117 root root 81920 Apr 25 20:25 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 Feb 9 11:14 java-1.5.0-gcj-4.3-1.5.0.0/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 Feb 9 11:06 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.2_b11/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16 Apr 16 00:17 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 9 11:06 jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 9 11:14 jre-1.5.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.5.0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Feb 9 11:14 jre-1.5.0-gcj -> java-1.5.0-gcj-4.3-1.5.0.0/jre/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Feb 9 11:06 jre-1.6.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.6.0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Apr 16 18:26 jre-1.6.0-openjdk -> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0/jre/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 9 11:14 jre-gcj -> /etc/alternatives/jre_gcj/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Feb 9 11:06 jre-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_openjdk/ now how do i set about setting the JAVA_HOME variable to a JDK instead of the JRE that it is right now . I can never get round this etc alternatives thing and java Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- 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: Exporting KMail folders etc, Revisited
by jdd 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Daniel Bauer a écrit : > rsync will also keep all file attributes (owner etc.) and links correct, while > cp will copy a file when there is only a link (as much as I know). all this is simply a matter of options. however, rsync is incredibly better when copying *again* (sync!) slightly modifyed text files, but it's options are pretty hard to understand jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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