SuSE 11.2, KDE 4.3.5
I did a fresh install of SuSE 11.2 a few weeks ago and have been banging
my head against walls since. I am experiencing text entry problems.
1. TAB key acts strange sometimes.
- In konsole (2.3.1), sometimes tabbing to complete a command
does nothing, other times it works like I am used to
(displaying a list of possible completions).
When tab completion works, the typed characters are
displayed as normal black
characters on white background. When it doesn't work,
the character colors are reversed.
When not working properly, if I type and extra space ' '
character, and then backspace
one character, then tab completion works. One really
odd thing is that I can run several
instances of konsole, and tab completion will work on
some and not on others.
- In gnumeric (1.9.13), tab sometimes will not go to the
next field unless an extra space is typed at
the end of the field data. Having to type an extra ' '
space character is a recurring theme here.
- In gnucash (2.2.9) tab acts the same as in gnucash. In
both cases, this never happened in 11.1.
- In firefox (3.5.9) tab "sometimes" acts the same as
gnucash and gnumeric (above). Also, getting
firefox to list possible URL connections from history
sometimes requires hitting the ' ' space key.
At other times, firefox will display possible
completions, but will not tab select them until a space
key is pressed. The same behaviors occur in common
drop box screens, such as google's search
text entry; again a seemingly random behavior.
These problems show in many other app's.
2. Spell check and text entry is strange:
- In abiword (2.6.8), thunderbird (3.0.4) and emacs
(23.1.1) there are several strange things
"SOMETIMES" strings are not echoed from the app, but
are instead displayed in a small text box that
pops up somewhere on the monitor. The text box
appears for each string and goes away after
the string is completed. "As you type" spell checking
is not performed. This problem is really
annoying.
"SOMETIMES" the strings are displayed on the app while
typing, but spell check is not performed
until after the string is completed.
SOMETIMES "as you type" spell checking works as in
previous versions of the OS. The string
is underlined as soon as it doesn't match anything
in the dictionary.
I've tried to google these problems, but the search strings are so
common that there are way too hits to be of use. I'm sure these aren't
really random happenings, but I haven't been able to see a pattern yet.
Any help?
TIA
Jim
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Since four version of kernels I run it in zypp.conf with
"multiversion=provides:multiversion(kernel).
That gives me a full functioning kernel with updates which will have a look at
all kernels. At this moment I have for kernels from which to choose and I think
it is time to delete some of them. How could I do that with zypper?
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Does anybody else have problems printing some sites, especially blogs?
I'm talking about sites where it usually turns out that people have used
CSS commands like position:absolute or various overlap settings that
cause Firefox to print the first page and then run the rest of the text
of the bottom of the page. There are usually some blank pages involved
as well.
It's been a nuisance occasionally but it's getting worse. It seems that
some of the major blog sites have this problem, which makes it apply to
a lot more things I want to print. It also applies to google translate
output.
Anybody have a workaround?
Cheers, Dave
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On 2010/10/28 14:58 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
> While awaiting a reply, I booted to DFSee to try to find anything that
> seemed out of the ordinary. I found that DFSee says that "MBR boot code
> unknown to DFSee" (it should be generic). So I thought to take a shot at
> making new MBR code. When it came to choosing which HD, DFSee reported
> that the sole disk present as "1 Disk2 ....". Before any of this mess
> happened, I reported to Jan that, depending where in DFSee one looked, the
> HD numbers were interchanged, or they were both labeled Disk2. He didn't
> know what to make of this.
1-Boot to BIOS setup
2-Note which HD is selected as first boot priority
3-Exit BIOS setup with save & power down
4-Disconnect SATA cable and/or power cable from Hitachi
5-Boot to BIOS setup
6-Note if first boot priority has changed
7-Use DFSee to give the Seagate a LVM disk name that includes the word Seagate
8-Use DFSee to 'newmbr 1' (or same thing via its menu)
9-Try to boot Seagate
10-Reconnect Hitachi
11-Boot to BIOS setup
12-Ensure Seagate is first HD priority
13-Exit BIOS setup with save, power off
14-Use DFSee to give Hitachi a LVM disk name that includes the word Hitachi
15-Use DFSee to newmbr the Hitachi
16-Note which disk is #1 & which is #2 according to DFSee
17-Exit DFSee
18-Restart DFSee with new logname DFSWORK2.TXT
19-Exit DFSee
20-Upload DFSWORK2.TXT to ftp://hashkedim.com/pub/
21-Make hashkedim.com/pub available via HTTP (cannot right click links to
open in new tabs from FTP list in Firefox 4 or SeaMonkey 2.1)
22-Boot whichever HD brings up BM
23-Try to get a Grub prompt or menu
24-report back
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Hello,
I'm here experiencing an alarming problem (not just KDE or so,
but the kernel): I have a laptop with a quadcore i5 processor,
but the system doesn't want to use it!
That's not good, since I rely on doing computational experiments with
my laptop, and, of course, I purchased the quadcore laptop to do exactly that.
More precisely:
A month ago, after having installed Suse 11.3, I already experienced that Linux
hesitates to use all four cores, say, it puts the first four processes on the
first core etc., never used all. But after running experiments for one day or so,
it "warmed up", and from then on it worked. I didn't turn it off for a month,
and it worked as expected: for 1, 2, 3, 4 running processes it used 1, 2, 3, 4
cores, and more processes then led to equal distribution.
The day before yesterday I made a complete update, and I noticed something about
a "kernel optimised for laptops". That made me already worry (what could this mean
other than energy saving and such stuff --- while I need full power), but I
hoped the best. However since since it keeps at least one core idle, apparently
independent of how many processes you are running (that is, long time processes ---
shorter ones apparently get scheduled on the idle processor). And actually most
of the time 2 cores (from the four) are kept idle, so that for example 8 long-time
processes are cramped on 2 cores!
Another thing which stopped working after the update is the temperate measurement
of "Bubblemoon": In order for it to work, before I had to restart it several times,
with several settings, but at some time it started working. Now the temperature
measurements are just complete nonsense. Could there be a relation?
Hope somebody can help. I can not imagine that Linux can't handle a quadcore
processor!
Thanks for your attention.
Oliver
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Hello,
here we have an open WLAN ("otto"), and everybody can connect to
it (Linux, Windows, Mac), only I can't:
It again and again asks for the secrets of the network: there are none,
so the menu-point "none" is chosen, but it asks again ...
and after some time it then gives up.
> iwlist eth1 scan
eth1 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:53:A8:FF:50
ESSID:"eduroam"
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:5/5 Signal level:-52 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : WEP-104
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
Authentication Suites (1) : 802.1x
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1B:53:A8:FF:51
ESSID:"otto"
Mode:Managed
Frequency=2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality:5/5 Signal level:-51 dBm Noise level:-92 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
The first network in the list is encrypted, but it is the second which is supported
by the host organisation, which is open, and to which I can't connect.
(Actually, also for the first network I have the secrets, but I can't connect.)
I'm using KNetwork manager.
(Currently I'm using the wired connection.)
How can I analyse the situation? How can I get KNetworkManager to tell me what
happens?? Or, if this is "impossible" --- what to do???
Thanks for any help!
Oliver
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I have been trying to figure this one out all week both at work (Red Hat)
and at home (OpenSuSE).
I have a script that walks all of the ext3 filesystems on a system and
detects those files and directories with either no user or no group (or
both) creating an output file using the -ls option on the find command.
On files/directories with no user, I want to change the user to nobody and
likewise for the group. I could run the initial script twice, once to
detect unowned files and the other to detect unowned groups and handle
each separately. However, on some systems we have terabyte filesystems
with millions of files and a single find command can run for days. Thus I
would like to take this initial file and use that to correct both
problems.
The problem I keep running into is with pathnames with embedded spaces. I
have tried everything I can think of using shell scripts, awk and perl and
they all have problems with pathnames with embedded spaces.
Can anyone point me to some good articles that may be of some help?
Thank you,
Lucky Leavell
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I'm having problems with a core dump in perl and thought to try
updating my 11.2 dist w/the latest updates from the suse 11.2_update
server, one of which was a minor update to perl. It didn't solve
that problem, unfortunately, but it did create a new one for
me: Bonus! (ARG!).
Now I'm getting a warning spit out in various utils at frequent
intervals, like in BASH, every time I use auto-complete (!):
bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
It also happens in other programs like when I launch gvim:
(process:22785): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Anyone know what broke and how I can fix it?
My env vars haven't changed -- the lang vars are set to :
# printenv | egrep 'LANG|LC'
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
I love UTF-8, but the implementation might have better given the
acronym, 'UPF-8' for Universal _P_ain Format. *sigh*
Help?
Thanks...
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Guys,
Why does 11.3 still have gsl 1.12? It came out in 2008. 1.14 is current which
came out in 2010 - 4 months *before* opensuse 11.3 was released. I can
understand being a couple of months out of date, but ... a couple of *years* out
of date doesn't bode well for distro currency.
Who is responsible for updating this type of stuff? A source install with
./configure --prefix-/usr is all that it takes. It might help keep packages
current if opensuse had a field in the webpin results returned that said "Flag
package as out of date" like they do with other distros just to help with the
oversight of package currency. Something to help off-load the "check for new
versions" off the devs. I feel sure the community would be glad to help. Then we
could just run a query against the packages flagged out of date to see what
needs to be brought current.
P.S. gsl rocks. Beats the heck out of writing root finders from scratch :p
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Hello:
I tried again KDE4.
Installed KDE 4.5 factory on openSUSE 11.2.
No to mention the general things I usually complain
about I found something very strange:
In konsole I set the font to Misc Console; in KDE4 konsole this
font looks very strange and it is almost unreadable. It looks
correct though in KDE3 konsole even in KDE4 session.
Furthermore the startup time of KDE3 konsole is 2 seconds while
the startup time of KDE4 konsole is 9 seconds (both in KDE 4
session). I find this startup time extremely long, especially
compared to KDE3 konsole startup.
How to fix these issues?
Thanks,
Istvan
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