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[opensuse] Patch management for OpenSUSE
by Ivan De Masi 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hello, I am wondering since some time how others cope with patch management on OpenSUSE Clients, when you have a bunch of PCs in a network. Somebody who can recommend a open source tool to cover the basics (e.g. a tool automating updates with zypper over ssh or something similar)? Thanks! Regards, Ivan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] WPA failure in OpenSuse, but not xandros
by Myrosia Dzikovska 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

I have a Dell Latitude D430, with Intel Wireless PRO 3945ABG, using iwl3945 driver with network manager for my wireless connection. I am experiencing intermittent wireless connection failures on OpenSuse. My home router is set to use WPA. From time to time, my laptop stops seeing the wireless access point, and when I attempt to connect manually, I see several repeats of the message below in the system logs: --------------------- wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3) --------------- I also have an Asus EEEPC 901 with a default Xandros distribution. It always connects without problems. Moreover, once I get the EEEPC to connect, my opensuse machine is also able to connect to the same router on my next attempt. It looks to be something distribution (or driver version) specific, but I am not sure how to debug it further. There is an iwl3945 bug filed on Novell bugzilla, but it does not appear to be the same one, it has a different error message as a symptom (and I am running fully updated anyway, so presumably should have the fix already). What can I do to debug this? Myrosia Myrosia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Text entry trouble
by Jim Sabatke 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper and multiversion(kernel)
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

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? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.35.1-3.2-default LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.00 (KDE 4.5.0) 21:02pm up 4:03, 2 users, load average: 0.48, 0.77, 0.88 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] problems printing blogs with firefox
by Dave Howorth 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

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 -- 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] BIOS/GRUB Problem
by Felix Miata 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

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 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] apparently Suse-Linux can't properly use quadcore processor???
by Oliver Kullmann 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] can't connect to open WLAN (everybody else can)
by Oliver Kullmann 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Embedded Spaces in Pathnames
by Lucky Leavell 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.2_update & now: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
by Linda Walsh 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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