November 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Zypper dup
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Up to now I am regularly doing a zypper dup which includes several 11.3 factory repositories. One question: would I at the end of the zypper dup update land automatically into 11.4 and if not, when should I decide to make the step towards 11.4. -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.36-93-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.3 (KDE 4.5.3) 16:12pm up 2:01, 2 users, load average: 1.60, 1.77, 1.82 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] recover multi-volume rar archive?
by Zhang Weiwu 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

hello. I got several discos form a friend who packaged a big video file into 9-volume RAR archives on his Windows PC. That is, 9 discos each contain only one file. When I receive the discos, the first of the 9 discos are lost. So I only have 8 files now copied to my hard-disk. Furthermore my friend did not keep a copy himself, thus the 8 files are everything we have so far. unrar complain a file is missing and quit, as expected. So is there a way to recover this video file, even partly? I know player like mplayer can play the video as much as is left. I would be happy to see if only a fragment of the video is preserved. It would be easier to recover if he did it with gzip, as I am more knowledgeable with that format, but he uses WinRAR... I tried to google a bit only finding some Windows sharewares that supposed to recover RAR file, no Linux solution mentioned. I managed to reboot to Windows and try one of the sharewere, which I found it report any file (tested a few) to be recoverable and ask me to pay to recover it, so I hesitate to buy it. What do you recommend me to do? Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Unreachable IPv6 subnet
by James Knott 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

On my firewall, I use IPv6, via a 6in4 tunnel. I recently rebuilt the firewall using openSUSE 11.3. When I use the ip -6 route command, I get the following two lines included: 2001:5c0:xxxx:yyyy::/64 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 0 unreachable 2001:5c0:xxxx:yyyy::/56 dev lo metric 1 error -101 mtu 16436 advmss 16376 hoplimit 0 For some reason, it's unable to route to eth2. IPv6 forwarding is enabled. If I ping6 ipv6.google.com from a computer on the local network, I can see the pings going out, and the replies reaching the firewall, but they don't go any further. The 6in4 tunnel is sit1 I have seen this problem before (when using 11.0 for my firewall), but I haven't been able to nail down a cause or fix. Pinging ipv6.google.com from the firewall works fine. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] fwbuilder & libnetsnmp.so.15 - OpenSUSE 11.3
by James Knott 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

When I try to install fwbuilder on OpenSUSE 11.3, it fails with an error about a dependency "libnetsnmp.so.15". I do not see that package as available in Software Management, but I see libnetsnmp.so.20 is installed. Is it safe to ignore the dependency for libnetsnmp.so.15? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] random lockups!
by Khanh Tran 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hello all, I've been running 11.3 without issue on a few systems for a while now. However, I have an ION ITX (Atom processor and NVIDIA chipset) that is giving me problems. It locks up randomly after a few minutes, or sometimes a few hours of use. I use it as a MythTV frontend, so it only gets USB input from an IR receiver and uses NVIDIA display drivers. Everything was working perfectly before I upgraded from 11.1. I'm running kernel 2.6.34.7-0.5.1 32-bit with the latest NVIDIA drivers (I've tried several other version of NVIDIA drivers too). Can anyone help me here? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Write time performance - slightly out of topic
by Bogdan Cristea 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi I intend to use openSUSE for a real time application which requires to write from memory to hard disk 330 MB of data continuously in about 2.56 s. When I write only 330 MB, the write time using Round Robin real-time scheduler is about 1.5 s, almost two times better than using the default scheduler. If I use 10 times 330 MB data and then I average the write time I get about 7 s regardless of the scheduling policy. My first thought is that the disk defragmentation should be held responsible for such performance penalty. Is this the right explanation ? Are there ways to improve the write time when dealing with large amounts of data ? thanks -- Bogdan Cristea http://sites.google.com/site/cristeab/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 milestone 2 -> 3 question
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Do I need to re-install 11.4 milestone 3 on a milestone 2 system? I did not see any reference to this in the various descriptions I have found. I did try an update (zupper up and zupper dup), but there were some problems with incompatible RPMs, so I did not actually do the updates. This was against whatever repos the milestone 2 install set up. -- 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] 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] Too long timeout in openSUSE 11.2 boot
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

I am trying to boot openSUSE 11.2 in some special hardware (VME-based intel PC). Overall, it works ok. With one glitch: When booting, the system stops with this message: Set System Time to the current Hardware Clock and waits 3 or so minutes, and then prints: failed The boot continues, and the system is usable. My questions are: 1. Could there be something in the setting of the hardware clock that could take 3 minutes to fail? 2. It is possible to tell the boot not to set the hardware clock? Preferably on the boot command line. This is in a system where it's concept of time does matter. Which rc script does this occur in? Based on when it is happening, it seems to be S02haldaemon. Sound right? TIA for any light shed. -- 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] howto set OO-Math command window font/bkg color?
by David C. Rankin 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Peter, all: I have not used the math/formula edit app from OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org 3.2.1) before and right off, I notice a problem with the (bottom) command window color and text color. It's black text on dark-charcoal background and very hard to read. How do you change this color combination without messing up the text color in the rest of the apps (writer, calc, etc..)? Option->Appearance->Font Color changes the document color and Option->Appearance->Application Background has no effect. What's the trick? -- 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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