openSUSE Users January 2010

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by Tracer Bullet

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

4 years, 3 months

Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache

by Chuck Payne

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

5 years

KDE3

by Jon Cosby

Hey, for all of you KDE3 hold outs, someone's finally taking the initiative to fork it to a new project: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/ So far, they're only maintaining .deb packages for Ubuntu, but if you want to see KDE3 live on, it might be worth starting a project on the OBS. Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

9 years, 5 months

Update to 11.2 breaks WLAN/WIFI with ipw2100

by Stefan Quandt

Since updating my system to 11.2 WLAN is broken in that knetworkmanager lists all reachable access points but connecting is not possible, even if I switch my router (and connection settings) to unencrypted. Since knetworkmanager shows all access points and their signal strength I'm sure my WLAN hardware is not broken. Now I switched with yast2 to traditional (ifup) based network setup. This did not change anything: Still ethernet based connection works, but 'ifup eth1' (for WLAN) fails on getting an IP address: Starting DHCP4 client on eth1. . . . . . . eth1 DHCP4 continues in background It is still possible to list access points with "Netzwerk durchsuchen" on a page of the 'yast2 lan' configuration module. The only single visible difference is a polling action which starts immediately after switching to traditional setup (which shows up my /var/log/messages because of my ipw2100 module debug flags): Jan 23 14:56:44 host ifup: eth1 device: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) Jan 23 14:56:44 host ifup: eth1 Startmode is 'manual' Jan 23 14:56:44 host ifup: vboxnet0 Jan 23 14:56:44 host ifup: No configuration found for vboxnet0 Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185248] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_name Name: unassociated Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185260] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_freq GET Freq/Channel -> 0 Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185278] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_essid Getting essid: ANY Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185284] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_mode GET Mode -> 2 Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185296] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_name Name: unassociated Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185303] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_freq GET Freq/Channel -> 0 Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185312] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_essid Getting essid: ANY Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185318] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_mode GET Mode -> 2 Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185331] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_range GET Range Jan 23 14:56:44 host kernel: [17505.185353] ipw2100: U ipw2100_wx_get_wap Getting WAP BSSID: 00:00:00:00:00:00 The 'unassociated' messages repeat every second. I really would like to know what's going wrong here and if it is an Intel resp. ipw2100 specific problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

10 years, 3 months

HP only prints on HP paper

by lynn

I have a deskjet F2280. Normal photocopy paper works fine. To get high quality prints, I have to use HP paper. It will not feed any other (I have tried kodak and epson which I'd like to use). Printer setup by yast. OS 11.2 with KDE 3.4.5 Is there any way I can fool it into thinking it's HP paper? Thanks L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

10 years, 4 months

HP Laser 1020

by Alfredo Cole

Hi: I just bought this printer, thinking it would work right out of the box. I'm running SUSE 9.3 with CUPS, and it does not seem to support this model. Anybody got this printer to work? Any pointers would help. Best regards. -- Alfredo Cole-Tuckler

10 years, 6 months

Problems (minor?) with 11.2 upgrade

by John E. Perry

After seeing a lot of praise for 11.2, and not having seen the early complaints about its killing Intel networking, I decided to upgrade. I followed the instructions provided on the "Upgrade/Supported" page of the wiki. Things went pretty well, I think. One hitch is that I needed two iterations of zypper dup after I'd done all the preparatory actions. When I did the first dup it crunched for 2-1/2 hours installing thousands of packages. I got some warnings about running processes that needed to be restarted. Since there had been a kernel upgrade, I simply restarted the computer. Panic followed :-). Several blank dialogs popped up. Worse yet, when I started yast to do an online update the progress box was blank. So I went back to the command line and did a zypper up Nothing to do. Meantime more blank dialogs popped up. Willing to try anything, I did another zypper dup It installed hundreds more packages. One of the messages mentioned a 2.6.29... kernel, which I recalled was in 11.1. So I rebooted again. Now uname -a says Linux embelex 2.6.31.5-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux so I guess I'm ok. I tried embelex:~ # zypper up Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Nothing to do. then embelex:~ # zypper dup Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Computing distribution upgrade... 3 Problems: sesam_srv-3.0.1-171.1.1.i586 kdm-branding-upstream-4.3.1-7.5.i586 kio_sysinfo-branding-upstream-11.2-3.2.noarch (above slightly edited for clarity). I skipped all of them since they don't appear to be particularly useful (except possibly sesam -- I don't know what it is). I had installed the branding-upstream to see if kde looked better than suse, which i suppose is the reason for the upstream branding warnings. Now I can't get rid of them without downgrading dozens of other packages. So far things look good. Firefox is up to 3.5.6 and seems to work well; Tbird is up to 3.0 and looks good; skype still appears to work (can't test it on people at 0200, but the test call was good :-). Oh yeah. wifi doesn't work any more. One of the 11.1 updates broke it, and I was hoping 11.2 would fix whatever that was. It's still doing the same thing it was before: knetworkmanager shows me my SSID, I click on it, it churns for a while, and comes back asking for my passphrase. I give it, and {repeat ad infinitum}. Earlier in 11.1, knetworkmanager simply connected and after a few seconds, I was online again. I didn't need to do anything manually. So I'm still on ethernet. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

10 years, 9 months

11.2 yast sw management keeps segfaulting when you press "Accept"

by David C. Rankin

Dev, guys, Any body else seeing yast software management crash after you have selected packages, are all done, and then you press "Accept"? There is nothing more frustrating than spending 1/2 hour picking through individual packages to get the setup you need -- only to press the final button and receive the dialog: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid YaST got signal 6 at YCP file String.ycp:128 /sbin/yast2: line 454: 12764 Aborted $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS (process:12934): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. I don't have time to bug it right now, but if you want a look at the y2_logs they are here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/112/y2logs.tgz Also, when I ssh into any box from 11.2, I get: "/usr/bin/manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct" I don't know if this is related, but I don't know how to fix it? -- 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

10 years, 9 months

KDE devs [ Classic (3.5) & 4 ] Great Job, Both Desktop Interfaces Look Great... Much Improved

by David C. Rankin

Devs, Just dropping a note to say great job with both KDE Classic (3.5.10-51) and KDE 4.3.95 (44beta). KDE Classic is near flawless and KDE4 is much improved between 4.3.4 and 4.4 beta (from Factory). From a user prospective, it is obvious that a great amount of effort has been directed to both desktops and it is much appreciated. The striking difference in 44beta is the actual addition of kde4 tools (like the "Add Widget" drag&drop implementation, etc..) which for the first time look like what must have been envisioned when kde4 was conceived, but were not completed or ready for release until now. As more of the kde4 features are implemented, the 'vision' of what kde4 will be becomes clearer and why kde4 behaves in certain ways now makes more sense -- much of which has been indiscernible to date. There is some cool stuff here. There are a couple of regressions of note: (1) File 'Save/Save As' behavior for jpg files has regressed to jpeg. Following the bugzilla discussions, the plan was to have the 'save/save as' dialog default to saving a '.jpg' to prevent the conflict and incompatibility with the billions of existing .jpg files. 4.3.4 had corrected this. 4.3.95 has regressed to defaulting to .jpg. What's the story? (2) plasmoids for cpu & network monitors - still no way to set graph color (Anders, I know you told me how this works, but I cannot get it to work in 4.3.95 at all). (3) plasmoids for cpu & network monitors - graph lines disappear on widget resize and there is no way to get them back. Not monumental by any stretch, but they need to be fixed as 44beta moves forward. All in all, 4.3.95 is a good step forward for kde4 and the look and feel clearly show a great deal of work has been done on the desktop. It is a great daily driver and for anyone running 11.0+, the install is as simple as adding the following 3 repositories, opening yast software management and choosing 'Package -> Update All Packages -> Update if a newer version exists' and clicking 'Accept'. There were no new dependency issues with the update. repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop/ Also, for the work that has been done on KDE Classic (KDE 3.5.10), thank you Will and the rest! It really shows. KDE Classic is in such good shape that for older boxes that don't really run KDE4 well, having KDE 3.5.10 for the desktop is worth it's weight in gold. Further, with the newer decorations available for KDE3 (crystal, bespin, smooth, glow, system++ and the deKorator themes), the interface is not far from the kde4 look. I do have another issue with both kde's and compiz that appeared after yesterday's updates in addition to the fact there is not compiz-kde4 compatible with kde 4.3.X (the existing compiz-kde4 is for 4.0.4), but I'll include that in a separate post. Thanks for the hard work! -- 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

10 years, 9 months

RNDIS / WinMo6 / UMTS modem issues

by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Hi, I'm trying to use a Windows Mobile 6 phone as UMTS modem under openSUSE 11.2. (The same hardware setup works with Windows XP w/o any issues). Once I connect the phone NetworkManager gets the setup done and everything seems to work at this point. I can even ping internet hosts and can establish tcp connections. But once real data should be transferred everything just stops. Below is the log from connecting the device via USB. I don't really have an idea if the issues in the log are connected to the problem. I don't see more interesting information in the logfile when the connection fails. Anyone got something like this working or any idea what's wrong here? Thanks, Wolfgang Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.692065] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834201] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0bb4, idProduct=0303 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834221] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834235] usb 1-5: Product: Generic RNDIS Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834244] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: HTC Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834254] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 3fbf5000-7351-0801-3575-590193103780 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.834451] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.929338] rndis_host 1-5:1.0: dev can't take 1536 byte packets (max 1536), adjusting MTU to 1478 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.938330] rndis_host 1-5:1.0: RNDIS_MSG_QUERY(0x00010202) failed, -47 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp kernel: [ 736.955478] eth1: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-5, RNDIS device, 80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:11 tvp ifup: Service network not started and mode 'auto' -> skipping Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.003854] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.003874] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:18:15:3c:00:00:80:11:63:f0:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:44:00:43:01:04:35:23:01:01:06:00:54:46:53:4d:0a:00:80:00:00:00:00:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.004448] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp kernel: [ 741.004462] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:49:15:44:00:00:80:11:63:b7:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:43:00:44:01:35:1b:c5:02:01:06:00:54:46:53:4d:00:00:80:00:00:00:00:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: All rights reserved. Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/80:00:60:0f:e8:00 Jan 26 23:27:16 tvp dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp avahi-daemon[1712]: Registering new address record for fe80::8200:60ff:fe0f:e800 on eth1.*. Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp kernel: [ 742.892629] martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.0.1, on dev eth1 Jan 26 23:27:17 tvp kernel: [ 742.892648] ll header: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:82:00:60:0f:e8:00:08:00:45:00:01:49:15:47:00:00:80:11:63:b4:c0:a8:00:01:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:43:00:44:01:35:71:83:02:01:06:00:8b:bb:45:3c:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

10 years, 9 months

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openSUSE Users January 2010