November 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: Embedded Spaces in Pathnames
by Joachim Schrod 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Carlos E. R. wrote: > On Friday, 2010-10-29 at 20:22 -0400, Lucky Leavell wrote: > >> 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. > > I simply write the names to a file, one file per line. Then a while loop > reads them, one by one: > > while read FILES ; do > WorkOn "$FILES" > done < $LISTOFFILES This works neither for files with spaces nor for files with newlines in them. The former can be solved by setting IFS. The latter can be solved by not using Shell, but Perl or Python. Actually, my preferred way to solve that problem would be to execute find2perl / -nouser -o -nogroup >no-user-group.pl and then edit no-user-group.pl to add appropriate chown and chgrp actions. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ACL on EXT4 FS (Suse 11.2)
by James D. Parra 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, Although I see my ext4 file system is mounted with ACL, (rw,acl,user_xattr), I can't set ACL permissions. I read that a kernel module needs to added for ACL support on ext4. Could anyone provide any details on how I can accomplish that? Many thanks in advance. James -- 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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[opensuse] KWrite Enlarge text BUG
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, Using KWrite on 1.2 with KDE to edit a text file containing url's and there is no HTML formatting. When I start KWrite the font is very small i.e. about 6-8pt and may be as a result of the screen resolution. So I can see the text I am editing I enlarge the font with the inbuilt buttons. If I enlarge the font more than twice i.e. greater than say 14pt approx, some of the text in some of the rows of text in the document disappears i.e. the font colour turns to white. I am using the following( obtained from 'About KWrite': Version 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) "release 0" Using KDE 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) "release 0" I tried the same sort of editing on openSuSe 11.3 and the same error/bug happens with the vanilla install on openSuSe 11.3. I would assume, given it is happening to two different versions on two machines that I should raise a bugzilla report. My question is, where to raise it i.e. give me a web address. Alternatively what could I do to get around this error as both machines have the standard oss, non-oss and update repos? If a fix has been posted, why has it not been sent down the one of the three standard openSuSe repos? Regards Hylton P.S: If memory serves me correctly this error did not happen on earlier versions i.e. 11.0 -- ======================================================================== Lions Club member of http://www.fishhoeklionsclub.org.za as a part of Lions Clubs International which is the largest NGO in the world This Lion is using openSuSE Linux since 9.0 with KDE ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] why is gsl 2 years old in opensuse?
by David C. Rankin 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

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 -- 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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[opensuse] KDE4 konsole strange fonts and long startup time
by Istvan Gabor 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

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

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[opensuse] Lightweight kiosk mode?
by Andrew Joakimsen 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Is there some sort of "lightweight kiosk mode" I can enable in openSUSE? I have a server in my home without any GUI. What I would like to do is whenever the server boots up for it to start in runlevel 5 and not display a login screen or KDE or gnome but only show in full screen with no title bars menu bars, etc a single webpage. I would then output that to an RF modulator so I can see the output of the system anywhere in my home. This doesn't need any sort of interaction at all, except perhaps like a ctrl+alt+backspace to totally exit it and go it a console if I ever needed to repair something. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Apache2 default host using virtual hosts
by Oscar Curero 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, I'm trying to configure apache2 to use three virtual hosts. I want to use one of them (www.mydomain.com) as the "default server" to serve all the domains that don't match any of the virtual host defined. Using yast I created all the vhosts, I want to use: /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ ...................................admin.mydomain.com.conf ...................................webmail.mydomain.com.conf ...................................www.mydomain.dom.conf ...................................vhost-ssl.template ...................................vhost.template According to the apache documentation, the default host is the first defined: "Now when a request arrives, the server will first check if it is using an IP address that matches the NameVirtualHost. If it is, then it will look at each <VirtualHost> section with a matching IP address and try to find one where the ServerName or ServerAlias matches the requested hostname. If it finds one, then it uses the configuration for that server. If no matching virtual host is found, then the first listed virtual host that matches the IP address will be used." In opensuse, each virtual host is defined in is own file, so the first defined host depends on the filename, but because yast choose the name based on the domain name, the first domain is "admin.mydomain.com" and not the one I want "www.mydomain.com". Just changing "www.mydomain.com.conf" to "1-www.mydomain.com.conf" makes apache to set the default name the domain I want (however, this is reverted each time I start yast). Is this normal or I'm being hitting by a bug? Thanks in advance! Cheers, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Disappearing CD/DVD ROM
by Bob Williams 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi list, My CD/DVD drive has recently become only partially visible to applications. I use a Windows program, EAC (Exact Audio Copy) running under wine, to rip audio CDs, but it has recently stopped seeing my CD drive. I installed grip, to see if it was a wine problem, but this also can't read audio CDs in the drive. Well, it does very briefly as the drive gets mounted, in other words I see the list of tracks flash on and then off again. Grip can eject CDs, so the drive isn't completely invisible. On the other hand, smplayer plays an audio CD in the drive without a problem. I'm using openSUSE 11.2 with kernel 2.6.31.14-0.4-desktop, and KDE 4.5.2 release 10. I'm not sure when this problem started, as ripping CDs is only an occasional task, but it was definitely working OK on 5 October. Have the DRM people hacked my machine? Any suggestions, please? Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2 64-bit, Kernel 2.6.31.14-0.4-desktop, KDE 4.5.2 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] wma and vlc
by lynn 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi everyone I still can't play a wma file. In vlc the marker moves along as if it's playing but no sound emerges. mp3's play fine on just about everything so I'm sure the sound system os OK. Ive tried deleting the packman vlc and installing the videolan vlc but still the problems persist. Perhaps I'm missing something simple. 11.3 updated today. Thanks so much L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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