June 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Wine 1.1.24 Bad file descriptor errors?
by Clayton 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

I just bumped my Wine build to the latest 1.1.24 release. Now when attempting to run any apps I get this error: wine client error:XX write: Bad file descriptor (where XX is some hex value) and the app will crash. I've wiped the .wine directory and started fresh... still happening. If I roll back to 1.1.23 everything works OK. If I run the Windows apps as root I can "get around" the error - but obviously running as root is not exactly a good idea. This error pops up on every executable that I run with 1.1.24... either with previously installed apps or wiht a clean/new .wine and attempting to reinstall apps. The apps can be any Windows app that would normally run OK in Wine... eg even the "supported" extras from winetricks Any ideas on where else I can look for what is (or could be) causing this? I've done a search on this, and only get a few hits.. mostly from quite a long time ago within the Wine project, but no real answer was ever given... at least not that I've seen so far. C. -- 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 Getting Kicker To Open On Current Desktop
by Michael S. Dunsavage 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

I have compiz running on KDE 4.3. When I click on the kicker button for the menu, it automatically brings me back to desktop #1. I don't want that. I want the menu to open on the current desktop so I can load that program on that current desktop. Any ideas? -- 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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[opensuse] memtest86+ .. Recent bad memory for OCZ? Anyone else? [slightly ot]
by David C. Rankin 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Listmates, I have received and had to RMA 2 sets of OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 in the past week (the first set painted the memtest86+ screen red right off the bat, the second set (2 2-gig sticks), just one stick was bad that failed test 7). Literally, the replacement RMA set was bad. What gives? Bad run of silicon? Anyone else bought any in the past few weeks? Surprising, because other other than a couple of prior OCZ RMAs over the years, I really haven't had any problems with OCZ. For the on-topic part. If anyone is relatively new to memory errors, then you need to know memtest86+ is your friend. If you experience stray lockups or other random hardware failures (mouse just quits, usb devices (drives) just disappear or quit working, etc..), then install memtest86+ which becomes a grub menu boot option you can select to boot into memtest. Generally, you just start it and go do something else for a while and let it run (it will loop through its suite of tests continually and each complete pass can take up to an hour or more depending on how much memory and your other hardware specifics) You can also configure memtest86+ to some extent while it is running. Press 'c' and you can skip tests, reset, etc.. How many memory errors are acceptable - ZERO! If you see any red on the screen you have problems. Do all problems mean fault memory - NO. You need check your bios to make sure your bios memory setting (CAS timings, etc.) are not set to 'tight' or 'lower' than what your memory specifications are. Try loosening/raising the bios memory timings or set them to "Auto" and retest before you throw in the towel. If your settings are set to "Auto", which most are, then you should be fine on the settings. If after confirming your bios settings, you still see red in memtest86+, it's time to RMA or warranty your memory. You can still narrow down which stick it is by removing the sticks and testing them one-by-one, but if you purchased a dual-channel kit, they're both going back anyway... Now back to my question, anybody else seeing bad sticks of OCZ DDR2 lately? Thanks. -- 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] lost vnc connection after 10-15 minutes
by Linux 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

why my VCN server always lost connection after some time? And after that I have to open a new connection to connect again, with different port, and then remove the old port manually lika rm -R /tmp/.X11-unix/X5 I already disable all screen saver and power save -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FYI - compiz Fusion Icon - kpager only works after plasma crash
by David C. Rankin 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Listmates, Michael, For those working with compiz and kde4, if you start compiz with either compiz-manager or Fusion Icon and have kde restart it by virture of the "Restore Previous Session" setting, the pager widget does not display correctly. The only way it will ever display correctly is if the desktop crashes and restarts itself. Then you get the correct pager: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/kpager- OnlyWorksAfterPlasmaCrashWithCompiz.jpeg I haven't tried this yet, but apparently you can get it to work on kde start if you set the default window manager to compiz in the kde control center: Default Applications -> Use a Different Window Manager I've bugged it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198105 Add any comments there if you can. -- 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] nfs server does not start from yast-suse 11.1 any more
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

have a month old 11.1 with the latest upgrades (all except the wpa wireless update) . have been using nfs for file transfers and sync with the laptop which has been running 11.1 for 4 months, has all the latest ugrades. all was well until the past couple of days, suddenly i could not get nfs to run. having gone to nfs-server and nfs-client config and firewall config in yast2 numerous times on both machines, i decided to try the command line. voila, type "exportfs -ra" after visually checking the /etc/exports and related host-allows and deny's, all of which were proper btw, and all is well!!! it seems that the yast2 nfs-server setup has found a way to exit without actually starting /restarting the nfs server. The weirdness is that this happened after the system worked properly for the first 3-1/2 of the 4 weeks the system has been up, so i did not look into rpcbind issues etc as googling suggests. is this a new twist in one of the late kernel upgrades? d. -- 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] What environment variable control konsole middle mouse history or scrollback??
by David C. Rankin 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

On Saturday 27 June 2009 03:19:28 pm you wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:49:55 -0500, you wrote: > >THIS MESSAGE IS SENT WITH STATIC WORD WRAP > > AND IT LOOKS FINE > > ;-)))) > > > I never had this problem when I used thunderbird. I guess tbird just > > handles the wrap issue. > > So why don't you continue to use tbird? > Primarily because Firefox and Thunderbird do *NOT* handle dark themes in kde like "Obsidian Coast" and "Zion (Reversed)" - both really good dark themes (with a bit of tweaking). All the settings, lists (like organize bookmarks, etc..) use a default white background but use the system theme. So you end up with white-on-white. My eyes suck at that, but I really like the dark themes. See: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/firefox- white-on-white.jpeg The only theme that sortof works is "Silvermel" that fully skins the lists, but it isn't a solution. The kde-apps handle the themes OK Not to mention that if I'm really going to give kde4 a good shake-down, I ought to use all the apps so my "bitches-and-bugs" are valid :p > > I guess we need to open a bug against kwrite, because setting the default > >static wrap at 78 breaks links > > If kmail uses kwrite, it deserves a bug report as it should be > possible to always leave links whole and not wrap them. I'll write one up - 3rd today ;-) > > Philipp P.S. Dark themes greatly reduce the strain on the eyes, especially in the evenings. My eyes are getting old and the dark themes are somewhat of a creature comfort. Just don't try printing with them quite yet: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197911 -- 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] Latest KDE repo's (using KDE 4.2.1)
by Jay Mistry 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Am presntly using KDE 4.2.1 on openSUSE 11.1, and would like to upgrade to the latest KDE 4.3 / KDE 4.2.2. What are the repositories for the latest KDE 4.x (stable), including any additional Qt repo (if needed separately) ? _PS_ I would not like to uninstall or disturb the KDE 3.5 that is also installed alongside & works properly with KDE 4.2.1 (Release 114). TIA Jay -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 10.3 OpenOffice 3.1 All Icons Dissappeared
by David C. Rankin 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

Listmates, Strange happenings on 10.3 and openOffice 3.1.06. After installing the update from the buildservice repositories, all of the icons are GONE as well as the openSuSE branding splash screen graphics ;-( I reinstalled the icon theme for OO which was supposed to put the icons in: [15:32 providence/home/david] # rpm -ql OpenOffice_org-icon-themes /usr/share/ooo3 /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1 /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config/images.zip /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config/images_crystal.zip /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config/images_hicontrast.zip /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config/images_industrial.zip /usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config/images_tango.zip Which it did, but open up openoffice and there are no icons, even after changing tools -> options -> view and playing with the icon scheme setting (crystal, tango, etc...) Additionally, (I don't know if this is related), but, branding isn't working and the file size is Zero?? [16:09 providence/usr/share/ooo3/basis3.1/share/config] # l /usr/lib/ooo3/share/config total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-12 20:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2009-05-29 21:46 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-05-29 21:44 images_brand.zip A Zero byte files doesn't look right. What say the ooo gurus? -- 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] Why I didn't want to move to KDE4 - but I'm glad I did.
by David C. Rankin 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

List, Here is the exact reason I did not want to move to kde4. https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_… I'm glad to help and write the bugs, but I'm really left scratching my head of how these type of bugs are were still present on the verge of the .3 release of the desktop. A large majority of the bugs are simply "broken" or "missing kde3 functionality". There are literally a thousand more of these things that need fixing. **None of this make kde4 unusable** Far from it - kde4 works really well, but there is a LOT of work to do to get rid of (1) missing and broken kde3 features and (2) the garden variety annoyances. (kde3 had its share as well) kde4.3 will be the better for it if the kde folks make an honest attempt to resolve a bulk of the outstanding issues before the official 4.3 release. This isn't a bash of kde4, I have switched to 4.3 beta 2 as my primary desktop and I am quite happy with it. What is needed now -- is for everyone else to go load it and work with it as their desktop for a week or two ... and ... during that time, each time a broken part is found -- go author a bug at kde.org. It may take 10-20 minutes to collect and properly file the bug, but it you commit to 1 per day, there are 30 issues reported in a months time. That way theses annoying "missing features" and "functionality" bugs can be fixed by 4.3 or 11.2 (whichever is first). The "missing feature" and "broken functionality" bugs are critical to get authored and get fixed at this point. It is quite frustrating -- really. It is obvious after a month of doing this that kde4 was coded backwards. (IMHO) The development resources were prioritized to (1) "make it pretty" then (2) "build in core functionality" instead of (1) "build in and debug core functionality" and then (2) "make it pretty". It just seems like the long way around. I don't know, maybe it had to be done that way? That debate is now irrelevant. KDE4 is at the point where it has gone all the way around and, regardless of the path taken, is in really good shape in 4.3 beta 2; is a great desktop; and just needs the "use" and "bug reporting" feedback to knock out the rest of the annoying "missing-broken kde3 features", "run-of-the-mill", and "garden variety" bugs. Don't take this as gloom and doom, hell no... KDE4 is looking damn good, and works well. Now it needs "use" and "bug reporting" to "get it right". -- 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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