October 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 11.0 and newer "Advanced Format" drives
by Larry Stotler 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

Looking to add some new drives and can't seem to find any info about whether my current 11.0 install will properly format the newer advanced format drives. Or read them if I format them with a newer version. Can't find any definate info. And, yes, I know 11.0 is EOL. However, I'm not in a hurry to replace it if I don't have to. Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] how do I play a wma file?
by lynn 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

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[opensuse] wiki software
by Dave Howorth 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

I use wikis as a kind of personal notebook to provide an index and reference to all my other information. So they're quite important to me. I originally started with kwiki and then moved to mediawiki. I recently moved to opensuse 11.2 and discovered that mediawiki was no longer provided. I'm reluctant to install and maintain from upstream because of the extra hassle. This is just a very important tool to me and I need reliable, low-maintenance tools. I found a copy of mediawiki in home:Michael_Knight/openSUSE_11.2 so I installed that and it appeared to work, until I tried to log in, when I got PHP errors. It looks like they are well-known and fixed in later versions of mediawiki. So that build should be removed from the repository, IMHO. That leaves me with the problem of what to do now. I just used webpin to see what the alternatives are and discovered that there are apparently no wiki systems supported on opensuse! Just add-ons for various systems. This seems like a major functional omission so I'm hoping somebody can tell me that I've missed something. I also know that the opensuse.org wiki is built on mediawiki, so I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a build of the version that is used. I notice that Synaptic shows that Ubuntu supports several wiki systems. I'm hoping to discover that opensuse supports at least one. Cheers, Dave PS The link on <http://www.opensuse.org/en/> to "mailing lists" is dead ("This page has been deleted") PPS The "Search options" link on <http://software.opensuse.org/search> doesn't work. It would be nice if the noscript default didn't disable functionality! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News 143 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 143 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * OSC2010 Sneak Peaks – Take an LPI exam at openSUSE Conference 2010 * Uwe Gansert: AutoYaST and Image Creation/Installation * Nelson Marques: Marketing @ openSUSE Conference, Across Borders! * Techthrob: Softlinks vs. Hardlinks: A Quick Explanation * Andreas Jaeger: New design of lizards and avatars For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=4965 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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] 'localhost' instead of machine name after reboot
by James Pifer 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

My PC running opensuse 11.1 locked up and I had to hard reset. Upon restart when I open a terminal window my prompt looks like: user-name@localhost:~> instead of: user-name@machine-name:~> I know some updates recently installed, so not sure if that had anything to do with it. My networking is using network-manager. I tried modifying my hosts file, which is where my computer name was set before. It had a line like: 127.0.0.2 machine-name.mydomain.com machine-name Now when I restart, this automatically gets change to: 127.0.0.2 localhost.localdomain localhost The biggest issue is that I had an openoffice document started and would like to recover it. When I try to start calc, it sees the change in the environment and want to ignore the one I want to recover. Any ideas how I can reset my machine name like it was before? Thanks, James -- 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] Basic 11.3 questions
by Bob S 02 Oct '10

02 Oct '10

On Thursday 30 September 2010 00:29:09 David C. Rankin wrote: > > That sounds like yast2 totally screwed the pooch there. Save the log files > as a bug report is probably needed. There have been many changes in yast2 > over the past 3 releases, grub has changed to. Also, I presume when you say > device mappers you mean (/boot/grub/device.map) and not dmraid (e.g. > /dev/mapper/nvidia_xxxxxxxxpYY). (because there have been big dmraid > changes over the past year) > > > Isn't the partitioner "global"? The same for any SuSE OS on the > > computer? The others used it "globally" invoking all of the "labels" and > > "fstab" entries. > > Should be. > > The following output would help: > > cat /proc/partitions > df -h > mount > > Set me straight on this. I'm afraid to correct the partitioner in > > > 11.3 for fear of screwing up the other OS's. > > > > Hope somebody can set me straight on the basics. > > Bob, > > I usually do the grub setup by hand when I run into issues. I have some > pretty strange grub setups on some boxes (Arch Linux, SuSE 11.0, SuSE 11.3, > and Windows) spinning on multiple raid sets that chainload bootloaders from > array to array, etc.. > > I have only installed 11.3 on my laptop with an upgrade, but yast got the > install and simple partitioning for that 1 disk 3 partitions 11.3/vista > setup right. What I would do is compare the menu.lst and device.map files > and piece together a working copy. One big area you will need to check is > how the 11.3 grub wants to reference your devices in menu.lst E.g.: > > 23:15 zephyr:~> ls -1 /dev/disk/ > by-id > by-label > by-path > by-uuid > > Make sure your entries are consistent and that your device.map files use > the correct nomenclature. E.g.: > > 23:16 zephyr:~> sudo cat /boot/grub/device.map > (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK1031GAS_84V31141S > > or with multiple dmraid arrays: > > You can also switch between by-(methods) as long as you are consistent. > > Your X issues probably stem from mismatched 11.2 and 11.3 repositories when > you did the upgrade. Check that all your repos are pointing to 11.3 repos: > > grep base /etc/zypp/repos.d/* | sed -e 's/^.*s[.]d\///' > > Also try the nvidia driver instead of the nouveau driver and see if you > luck improves. You can (1) just mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.sav and let X choose its defaults. And ... make sure you > haven't specified a non-existing desktop in ~/.xinitrc (if you made > changes). > > Lastly post /var/log/Xorg.0.log which will help the list help you with the > X issue. > Dave Thanks for the reply and helpful hints. Made some changes in fstab and grub, got rid of some of those extraneous files and rebooted intending to follow some more of your suggestions. Now the darn thing loads to a prompt and does not accept the root bor the user passwords. Oh well I guess it is time for a reinstall. 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] Frequent hangs in 11.3 + 4.5 continue
by Bob Williams 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

There was some discussion in the past few weeks about frequent freezes of the mouse and keyboard. See thread "This guy _really_ likes kde 4.5". I have tried various changes of kernel, and am now back on 2.6.34.7-0.3. I have also upgraded dbus to 1.4, but the problems continue unchanged. If anyone else who experienced the same problems found a solution, I would be grateful for a pointer. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.3 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.34.7-0.3-desktop, KDE 4.5.1 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] printing from firefox - unable to change page size??
by Per Jessen 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

firefox 3.6.8, opensuse 11.3 - when printing form firefox, the options for changing paper size and orientation are greyed out? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.1°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] Re: [opensuse-kde] libraw1394 update
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 00:20 +0200, Dave Plater wrote: > Hi, I don't know if it's of any consequence but libraw1394.so.8 is > required by kdebase4-workspace and will become libraw1394.so.11 by next > week and there's a change in the way it handles streaming video. It > might be a good idea for me to update at the same time as KDF. Do you mean that libraw1394.so.11 handles video differently from libraw1394.so.8, or that kdebase4-workspace handles video differently? If the libraw1394 is changed, please allow users to keep the older version as well, as I use libraw1394 as it currently is. I would hate my applications to break. Also, if you update libraw1394 (and it acts differently), I hope you will make available the other 1394 libraries that work with the new libraw1394 (e.g., libdc1394, etc.). -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] backtraces in syslog?
by Roger Oberholtzer 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

I see a new item in /var/log/messages on openSUSE 11.2: Oct 1 09:49:09 acme kernel: [2605651.384950] rst2vvxml[8055]: segfault at 1d221 ip b7495a5a sp bfddb380 error 6 in libtprofile.so.18.00[b7494000+4000] I don't think this was there before. But that is not question. In this case, a local program has caused a segmentation violation and died. During development, this sort of thing does indeed happen. Knowing the library it was in when this happened is quite a nice thing. My question is: where is the mechanism that controls if I see application program failures like this? And, does anyone know if it is possible to have a backtrace as well? I have added backtrace() in my signal handler for these failures in some apps. But a system-wide enabling would be very useful! It seems that the kernel is reporting the error. So I guess, if fine control exists, it would be a kernel setting. Any ideas? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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