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[opensuse] JAVA revisited, need clarifications
by Verner Kjærsgaard 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi list, I'm afraid this question reveals a lot of holes in my knowledge. Well, on the other hand, there are other things I know about, please foregive me :-) Will someone be kind enough and explain the correlation between the various JAVA stuff. This way I'll be able to set things up manually if need be. My problems are most likely not related to my JAVA version(s), but more likely that my general JAVA setup is flawed. To start with, I download a JRE from SUN. Not the JDK, I'm not developing things, just running JAVA stuff, right? I'll install that using whatever, most likely RPM or the binary selfextracing SUN file. This will put some JAVA stuff into a directory below /usr/lib/some-java-directory. The binary java of which is the very file thats giving me an answer when in a shell I give: "java -version". The word 'java' in itself is a symlink placed in /etc/alternatives, right? In /etc/alternatives there is a link to 'jre', I guess that needs to point to somewhere down into the /usr/lib/jave structure? As well as the link /etc/alternatives/jvm should point to somewhere sensible? Now, down deep into /usr/lib/java I find a file under '.../i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so. I place a symlink to this file in /home/my-user-name/.mozilla/plugins/., right? I then fire up FF and goto java.com to see what java I have installed? I could also point FF to about:plugins to reveal more info? What have I missed here. I suppose the two files (the java binary itself and the oji-thing) should have the same origin? Or what? And mind you, I didn't ask about Seamonkey og Icedtea and all the other interesting stuff that aparently has to do with JAVA too...? Again, I'm most thankful for any clarification that will be written. I hope others can use this as well. All this arises because JAVA was automatically updated in my openSuSE11.1 yesterday morning. This causes my netbank (and literally thousand of other openSUSE users in this coundtry) not to work anymore. Once fixed, I suppose I can lock the dammed thing so it won't happen again! -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- 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 4.3.0 - plasma-desktop high CPU utilisation
by Graham Anderson 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Since upgrading to KDE 4.3, the plasma-desktop process is constantly running with around 35% CPU utilisation across all CPU cores. This also seems to be affecting the kwin process which is consuming around 25% CPU, also across all cores. Before I hit the KDE tracker I was wondering if anyone else who has upgrade is experiencing similar high CPU usage from plasma? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] error: failed to stat /home/david/.gvfs: Permission denied
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, A new error has appeared after the latest set of kde 4.3 updates that related, to all things, gnome? I noticed it doing an update with zypper: Retrieving package libgcj44-jar-4.4.1_20090722-3.1.x86_64 (14/172), 9.9 MiB (10.8 MiB unpacked) Retrieving: libgcj44-jar-4.4.1_20090722-3.1.x86_64.rpm [done (122.3 KiB/s)] Installing: libgcj44-jar-4.4.1_20090722-3.1 [done] Additional rpm output: error: failed to stat /home/david/.gvfs: Permission denied Retrieving package libgcc44-32bit-4.4.1_20090722-8.1.x86_64 (15/172), 55.0 KiB (124.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving: libgcc44-32bit-4.4.1_20090722-8.1.x86_64.rpm [done (497.2 KiB/s)] Installing: libgcc44-32bit-4.4.1_20090722-8.1 [done] Additional rpm output: error: failed to stat /home/david/.gvfs: Permission denied At first I checked mtab after recently learning the "stat xyz..." meant rpm couldn't find something it thought was mounted. mtab had nothing on .gvfs. The forums held the workaround: <quote> <snip> I read of several workarounds, although upgrading (or forcing a reinstall) of the gvfs packages through zypper or yast seems to fix the issue entirely, especially considering I can see and work with .gvfs on my systems without any issues. =====Workaround #1: fusermount -u $HOME/.gvfs This should unmount the .gvfs mountpoint. It will likely be remounted almost immediately by the 'gvfs-fuse-daemon' daemon... so... killall -9 gvfs-fuse-daemon should kill the little bugger, Although it will likely come back in the future, it's gone for the moment. You might try to see which programs or commands you're running which are invoking the daemon to mount .gvfs. 'gvfsd' is likely also related to this issue, but doesn't seem to be a culprit at this time. <snip> </quote> See: http://forums.opensuse.org/general-chit-chat/392976-very-strange-thing-gvfs… I haven't tried the reinstall of gvfs yet (I don't want it installed). After killing the mount with fusermount, the errors have stopped for the moment..... -- 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] fish:// still broken - connection times out with document open
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, Be aware, fish:// is still broken. If you leave a document open, the connection times out with document open. The initial connection problem appears fixed, but the remainder of this bug is NOT fixed. Specifically, after a text file has been open for 15-30 minutes using the fish:// protocol to access the file on another box on the LAN, additional attempts to save the document result in the same "Connection Broken" message that was received originally. Please Re-open this bug. Making the connection is just the first part of a successful fish:// session. Being able to successfully save your changes is equally important. -- 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] kde3 is gone... for 11.2
by jdd 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

I just notice that there will be nomore kde3 for the upcomming openSUSE 11.2. I don't want to grin. Not necessary. I just wanted to ask here what do you have in kde3.5 and don't find in kde4 and you would like to have. Not to say you will have it but to give info to devs... I stopped using kde4 on 11.1 for problems in the config panel and lack of understanding of the new windows layout. I expect this to be solved before next release; what do you think? be constructive :-) jdd NB: I miss the kweather applet, but it don't work neither in kde 3.5 :-( -- 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] 11.0 Firefox switch tab (ctrl + <- ->) Broken in 3.0.13?
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, It seems in my firefox install (3.0.13) the keyboard shortcuts for switching between tabs are broken. They are supposed to be ctrl+left_arrow and ctrl+right_arrow. See: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts In my firefox nothing happens. Can anyone else confirm. -- 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] openoffice 3.0.0.9 on opensuse 11.1
by Dave Howorth 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

I recently installed opensuse 11.1 on a box and just tried to start openoffice without success. I installed everything via yast, which says I have 3.0.0.9-1.10 (i586) from openSUSE-11.1-Oss repository. I checked updates and there are none outstanding. I'm running via an ssh session so I typed 'oowriter' and got the response: /usr/bin/oowriter: line 2: /usr/lib/ooo3/program/soffice: No such file or directory which oowriter returns /usr/bin/oowriter, which does indeed say: #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/ooo3/program/soffice -writer "$@" and an ls confirms that soffice does not exist: ~> ls /usr/lib/ooo3/program/ about.bmp fundamentalrc libnpsoplugin.so resource sofficerc versionrc bootstraprc intro.bmp redirectrc setuprc spadmin So I think I've installed in the standard way, but I don't find any similar problem reports. What have I missed? Thanks and regards, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Looking for autoyast guide for CLI environments
by Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hi, I am looking for a how to guide for setting up a autoyast server that uses the CLI, not yast GUI. This makes sence because servers usually won't have x11/gnome etc installed. None of our servers do. The only guides I have found presume that all servers use the yast GUI. E.g. http://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/nc2006_03a.html However, this won't help those that won't use the GUI. Does anyone know where I can find such a guide. Best regards, S -- Simon Loewenthal/Tele2 GSM: +31 6 2000 5427 [ -d . ] || echo "Oh!" ******** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and it is intended only for the addressees. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any copying, distribution or other use of information contained in this e-mail (and its attachments) is not allowed. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly notify us immediately by telephone or e-mail and delete the message (including any attachments) from your system. Please note that e-mail messages may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be subject of unauthorized interception or other interference without the knowledge of sender or recipient. Tele2 only send and receive e-mails on the basis that Tele2 is not responsible for any such computer viruses, corruption or other interference or any consequences thereof. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Another slightly OT c question, howto handle extended ascii chars? >127
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Listmates, I'm parsing output that has the degree symbol in it in c. The character code for the symbol is 167, but of course the ascii character set it limited to 0-127. Believe it or not, using a cut-n-paste into the strtok delimiter set works, but that just feels like a cludge. Example: const char delimiters[] = " +°,;:!-"; <snip 1st call to strtok> token = strtok (NULL, delimiters); Will break the string on ° correctly. But looking at how c is handling this clude causes concern: for (i=0;i<strlen(delimiters);i++) { printf("%c %d\n", delimiters[i],delimiters[i]); } Yields: 32 + 43 � -62 � -80 , 44 ; 59 : 58 ! 33 - 45 Hmm, any time I see the little � character, that's a bad sign. So, is there any trick to handling the chars that are outside of the normal ascii chars, but we seem to run into all the time? Is this the area of the thinly defined wchar_t? -- 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] yast or zypper "sources"
by Bob S 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

Hello SuSE people, A short while ago I replaced my old monitor and video card. I also had to replace my printer that died on me. (what else can happen?)I have an old 10.2 install that I want to keep but that meant updating the OS to see the new hardware. Naturally none of the software could deal with the new hardware. Now, I know that 10.2 is un-supported but there are repos out there yet for getting newer software. Found them easily enough, using the following url: http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.2. When I try to install the new repos both Yast & zypper fail because they can't recognize the "sources". Soooo, how do I convince yast or zypper to let me to designate and use those repos in my Installation Sources? 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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