August 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] CalDAV on openSUSE
by Jan Kalcic 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi All, no specific informations about this seem to available online. Any CalDAV server application packaged for openSUSE? Thanks, Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] tried to change a setting in the boot loader and it shut down my entire system so I had to reinstall linux
by George Olson 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hi all, Just wanted to ask you all what I should have done better on this one! Here is what happened. First, I run a dual boot system. sda1 and sda2 are my windows C and D drives, and then I have a swap drive, followed by my 2 suse configured ext3 (I think) drives. My grub boot loader has my computer going to boot up in suse linux first, then the failsafe, then "windows 1" (my C drive, or sda1), then "windows 2" (my D drive, or sda2), and then finally the CD. Well, I just wanted to change the order and put the windows up at the top of the list so that it would boot to that first. I did not see at the time the button that says "set as default", which I suppose I should have seen. I went to the boot loader configuration in YaST, I clicked on "windows 1", and then I clicked on "move up" until it got to the top of the list. Then I shut my computer down to reboot, because I had some work in Windows to do, and I have not yet installed the virtual machine. After the initial Dell splash screen, instead of going to the grub loader like it usually does, it just had a cursor flashing in the upper left corner of the screen. It remained there while I waited. And waited. And waited. I finally figured out it wasn't going to do anything, so I tried shutting down all the way and powering up again. It did the same thing again. So I thought, I will just use the "repair" option and boot from the disk. I tried this, and it checked the configuration and found errors in the boot loader. It said it did a repair and reset the grub configuration (or something like that) and fixed the problem. At the end of the procedure, after clicking "finish" it said there was an error in the configuration, so I ran it again. One thing interesting - when it repaired the boot loader configuration, it did not detect my windows drives. The second time seemed to allow me to shut down and reboot without giving an error. It didn't matter - the computer would not boot to the grub loader. It did the same as before, with the flashing cursor in the upper left of the screen. I could not type anything on that cursor - my computer was simply suspended. Now I suppose I could have used the "rescue system" option, but the problem is I am too new at linux to know what to do at a command line prompt. Since I could not even get into windows, I could not access the internet and send out an email and ask for advice, and so I was left with no choice. I did not know what to do. The repair system did not work. I don't know how to use the rescue system option. I don't have any books on linux - all my documents are on line. I had no access to my computer. I knew my hard drive was intact - just the loader section was the problem, but I had no idea how to fix it. So I simply did a completely new installation of Linux in order to fix the boot loader. It seems like overkill, but given my situation and the fact that I couldn't wait (and none of my linux data or applications are critical to my work, while most of my windows data and applications are), so I re-installed Linux. So here are my questions - 1 - Why did moving the order in the boot loader configuration destroy my ability to boot my computer? 2 - If I click "set as default" in the boot loader configuration in YaST (to make windows my default until I get everything swiched over) and then re-boot, will my computer shut down again like it did before? 3 - If something like this happens again, how do I repair the grub loader without having to totally reinstall linux? 4 - why didn't the repair configuration work? I am writing this email from my windows partition because I haven't had time to go plug in the ethernet cable in order to download the driver for my wireless card (since those are not included in the distribution) so that I can email from my linux partition. Any help would be appreciated and answers to these questions! Thanks in advance George Olson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Card-reader [:tolower:] setting gone, how to reset?
by David C. Rankin 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Listmates, Between 7/21 and today something has changed with the card-reader configuration so that now the upper-to-lower character translation is no longer taking place with files copied from the card-reader. What changed? How do I restore the option to translate the filenames back to lower-case? -- 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] Recommend good blog software
by Chuck Payne 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Guys, I am looking for a good blog software, one that I can blog spammer. I use to use PHPNuke for posting thinks but I am tried of it, something good, secure, and simple. -- ---------------------------------------- Old utilities do not die they just slowly fade away! ----------------------------------------- OpenSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup OpenSuSE Ambassador OpenSuSE Member Skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup -- 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 plasma-theme via kde system settings
by Fabian Scheler 07 Aug '09

07 Aug '09

Hello everybody, when I select another plasma-theme within the kde4 system settings nothing happens. All the theme items get different values (according to the selected plasma-theme), but the Apply-Button still is grayed out. I do not think that this is the way it is supposed to be. Has anybody the same problem? Any hints are welcome! Ciao, Fabian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Fritz! WLAN-USB-Stick with WPA(2) on openSUSE 11.1 - anyone?
by Michael Skiba 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hello everyone, yesterday I tried to get the Fritz! Wlan stick working and almost got mad during the day I spent searching for the problem. The stick itself is installed quite fast and easy with ndiswrapper and it works with an unencrypted network, however as soon as I try to connect to an WPA/WPA2 (Personal) encrypted network it fails, wpa_supplicant prints a lot of stuff and it looks like it's caught in an endless loop of requesting a key but then dropping it again and rejecting the connection. I did 8 hours of googeling yesterday and found some suggestions (like different kernel(although I did not try <2.6.25) , self compiled ndiswrapper (with DEBUG=3 and USB_DEBUG=1), updated wpa_supplicant ... After I resignated I'm just wondering if anyone has this configuration up and running (stable) or wheather it's just not possible? Regards Michael P.S.: I didn't try a Kernel version below 2.6.25 when not-proprietary drivers were still allowed in the kernel. Do you think it's possible/worth trying such an old kernel and use the original AVM driver?

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[opensuse] KDE 4.3 finally good enough.
by John Andersen 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Well I think after waiting two years since OpenSuse first pushed KDE 4 out the door in its pajamas that it has finally reached stability and is sufficiently complete that I can risk moving my main work computer to this latest 4.3 release. Most of the missing pieces are filled in, and I haven't had a crash since I installed it. There are still some maddening things in Kong and Dolphin such as that teeny tiny microscopic little thing you have to click to focus an item with out actually launching it. No matter how much you bitch about that they will not fix it. It also forgets passwords to mounted samba shares on other Linux or Windows servers and I'm getting tired of keying these in all the time. I'm using the Kubuntu Release for testing, but will probably install OpenSuse 11.2 come November when/if it is released. (assuming the roadmap is correct: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap ) Oh, and not directly KDE related: Kopete is hopeless, but at least Pidgin works. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] regex broken in kwrite kde43.? -- or is my expression broken?
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Listmates, One frustrating bug in kde4 is the lack of the regular expression editor that was built into the find/replace dialog of kwrite/kate. I was trying to build a regex to do a replace all, but was having trouble. [ sad you can no longer just check it in the regex editor ] Any way, here is what looks broken. In kwite, I simply want to strip the number info from the following with a regex: kdepim4-debuginfo-4.3.0-149.5 libqt4-debuginfo-4.5.2-57.1 kdelibs4-debuginfo-4.3.0-152.4 kdelibs3-debuginfo-3.5.10-55.3 madwifi-debuginfo-r3725+AR5007EG-2.2 libdvdcss-debuginfo-1.2.10-6.1 madwifi-debugsource-r3725+AR5007EG-2.2 libdvdcss-debugsource-1.2.10-6.1 libdvdplay0-debuginfo-1.0.1-0.pm.5 libdvdplay0-debugsource-1.0.1-0.pm.5 kdebase4-debuginfo-4.3.0-103.5 kdelibs4-experimental-debuginfo-4.3.0-19.1 kdepim4-debugsource-4.3.0-149.5 kdepimlibs4-debuginfo-4.3.0-101.1 kdepimlibs4-debugsource-4.3.0-101.1 My regex of choice is: -[[:digit:]].*$ But kwrite will not accept it? Simply saving the file as 'tstregex' and using sed works fine: 16:33 alchemy:~/tmp> sed -e 's/-[[:digit:]].*$//' < tstregex kdepim4-debuginfo libqt4-debuginfo kdelibs4-debuginfo kdelibs3-debuginfo madwifi-debuginfo-r3725+AR5007EG libdvdcss-debuginfo madwifi-debugsource-r3725+AR5007EG libdvdcss-debugsource libdvdplay0-debuginfo libdvdplay0-debugsource kdebase4-debuginfo kdelibs4-experimental-debuginfo kdepim4-debugsource kdepimlibs4-debuginfo kdepimlibs4-debugsource Why wont kwrite accept the regex? I can get it to accept "-[0-9].*$", but not the one using [[:digit:]]. What gives? I guess kwrite/kate does not recognize the :digit:, or :fill-in: character classes. Is there a setting that will fix this? -- 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] BASH: has $COLUMNS gone nuts?
by David C. Rankin 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Listmates, Here is one I'm having difficulty understanding. As part of your environment the "LINES" and "COLUMNS" variables are defined telling you the number of lines and columns an xterm has. Many old script examples make use of them. Now, I can't make use of them? Specifically, from the command line: echo $COLUMNS properly returns the number of columns for the terminal. But calling or assigning $COLUMNS in a script no longer works. Try this in a bash script: #!/bin/bash echo $COLUMNS exit 0 Nothing?? Why? -- 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] Horizontal bands and overlapped lines in firefox and konqueror
by ayan sengupta 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

I have Firefox 3.5.1 and Konqueror 4.1.3 with KDE 4.10.4. Problem is whenever I surf and scroll the page with my mouse I end up having annoying horizontal bands or overlapped lines in these browsers. I have no NVidia cards and my system specs are Processor: P4 2.8Ghz Motherboard: Asrock P4i65GV (Intel onboard graphics, i have no graphics card etc.) Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 591s -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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