September 2009 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] experiment with ext4: can't mount?
by Greg Freemyer 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

I thought I'd do some ext4 experiments. I formated a ext4 loopback filesystem, but mount is failing: # mount -t ext4 -o loop /home/ext4test.loop /mnt mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' Where can I get a version of mount that recognizes ext4? fyi: I downloaded and compiled mkfs.ext4, but I don't know where to get mount. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] Mount USB HD on plug-in
by Rodney Baker 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi all. I have 2 external USB HDD's that I use for backup purposes, one of which is used for nightly backups run from cron, the other for ad-hoc backup and general storage use. I have setup udev rules for these drives to create persistent dev symlinks for them and they auto-mount when accessed from dolphin, but I would like them to auto-mount as soon as the system detects that they're plugged in. I know that this used to be possible, and I'm sure it still is; I just don't know which config files I need to create/edit to make it happen under openSuse. Can some kind person please point me in the right direction, either with an example or a link to a web page where I can find the right info? Google hasn't been particularly helpful so far (but maybe I'm just searching for the wrong text). Thanks in advance, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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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] HPLIP 3.9.8 and HP Deskjet 920C prints grey only
by Malte Gell 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi there! Is there a known issue with HPLIP 3.9.8? I use the package from Packman for openSUSE 11.1 32 Bit. Ever since my HP Deskjet 920C only prints grey scale and no color any more... Yes, the color cartridge is full, not empty. When I test the printer with Gutenprint and Gimp it works fine with color, this suggests there is a bug in HPLIP for Deskjet series. Does anyone know how to work around this grey thing? Regards Malte -- 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] Re: openSUSE 10.2 source
by Bob S 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

On Monday 31 August 2009 23:43:53 Felix Miata wrote: > [offlist] > > A frequent poster here Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke(a)gwdg.de> has his own > ftp/http mirror server that archives a some out-of-support distros, > including OS 10.2: > http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/10.2/repo/ > > There may be others, but I often use this as a primary source for both > Mandriva Cooker and openSUSE Factory. Felix, a question. You cannot put them in yast or smart as repos though, right? Just use to download individual files, right? 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] 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] More 11.0 Repo Package Errors: ..rpm not found on medium ..
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, Peter, Looks like their may be more mirror problems. Just a few minutes ago, I was updating and received the following ...rpm not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/'. May just be package propagation problems. Somehow, zypper/yast needs to be fixed to not list packages it can't retrieve when doing updates. I'll run zypper again after the update and see if the packages that can't be found magically appear. The errors and packages were: Retrieving package libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64 (40/255), 233.0 KiB (771.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving: libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: r Retrieving: libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: r Retrieving: libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: i You have chosen to ignore a problem with download or installation of a package which might lead to broken dependencies of other packages. It is recommended to run 'zypper verify' after the operation has finished. Retrieving package libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64 (41/255), 14.0 KiB (19.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving: libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: r Retrieving: libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: i You have chosen to ignore a problem with download or installation of a package which might lead to broken dependencies of other packages. It is recommended to run 'zypper verify' after the operation has finished. Retrieving package libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64 (42/255), 15.0 KiB (19.0 KiB unpacked) Retrieving: libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm [error] File './x86_64/libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.3-2.pm.4.3.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/11.0/' Abort, retry, ignore? [_a_/r/i/?]: i You have chosen to ignore a problem with download or installation of a package which might lead to broken dependencies of other packages. It is recommended to run 'zypper verify' after the operation has finished. -- 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] building tar-1.22 on 11.0 from 1.19 spec - man page file not found -- howto workaround?
by David C. Rankin 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Listmates, I'm rebuilding tar-1.22 on 11.0 from the 1.19 spec file. All goes well until rpmbuild can't find the missing man page and it dies. The final error was: Processing files: tar-debugsource-1.22-66.6 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/tar-1.22- build RPM build errors: File not found: /var/tmp/tar-1.22-build/usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz OK, I cheated here: mkdir -p /var/tmp/tar-1.22-build/usr/share/man/man1/ cp /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz \ /var/tmp/tar-1.22-build/usr/share/man/man1/ My (very strong) suspicion is the manpage patch for 1.19 that didn't work (and was removed from the spec) should have set up the Makefile for the man pages, but for some reason failed preventing the man pages from building. How do I handle this situation. I'm not that worried about the old man page on my box, but if I wanted to put the package on build service, how would I get the man page to work?? Thanks. P.S. tar-1.22 is needed for the latest xz -- 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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