December 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Problem with preload in 11.3 causes very long boot times
by John Lange 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Ever since I did an in-place upgrade to OpenSUSE 11.3 I've been having problems with very (more than 5 minutes) boot times. It only seems to happen about 1 out of every 3 times but never the less it's very annoying. By putting top into vty9 at boot time I was able to figure out that preload is what is causing this delay. Disk is grinding away and everything is halted waiting for i/o. Something changed drastically with preload in 11.3 and I now need to either fix it or remove it. Preload no longer has a /etc/preload.d directory and I can't find any documentation on how the new version of preload works under 11.3. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bash trouble ??profile
by Patrick Shanahan 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

I have an odd problem/difficulty with initiating bash and the condition exists for all users and root, including a new user. initiating bash in a terminal after a noticable delay provides: <quote> bash: have: command not found pat@wahoo:~> </quote> all cl invocations show this except: bash --norc bash --noprofile --login sh So I moved all the /etc/bash* files/directories one at a time until I localized the problem to /etc/bash.bashrc available to view: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/bash.bashrc which belongs to: aaa_base-11.2-43.46.1.x86_64 from: http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ downgrading to: aaa_base-11.2-43.45.1.x86_64 from: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss provides the identical file, /etc/bash.bashrc, an no relief :^( trouble-shooting suggestions and/or possible solutions welcomed with open hands. :^) tks, -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse11.3 + Win7 + BitLocker
by Henri Mone 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Dear SUSE fans, beginners and experts, I have a Win7 system which uses BitLocker to protect the hard drive. I converted this system to a dual boot system with Suse11.3. I did following steps: 1. I managed to repartition the system (with Win7 tools) and install Suse. 2. Suse and Win7 are booting both without problems via Grub. 3. I forgot to deactivate BitLocker before the installation of Suse. After the installation of Suse, when I boot into Win7, I'm was always asked for the BitLocker recovery key. After decrypting with BitLocker the Win7 partition I'm no longer asked for the recovery key. The current state of the system is that Win7 and Suse boot without any problems, the Win7 partition is encrypted (no BitLocker protection!). While booting into Win7 BitLocker is no longer asking me for the recovery key. Because of "security" reasons the Win7 partition has to be encrypted. When I try to activate BitLocker again, it gives me following error message: "Because of a change of the Computer, the computer has to be rebooted before the BitLocker Setup." Well I followed the advice of BitLocker and rebooted the system several times but BitLocker still brings the same error message. When I run the recovery tool of Win7 it removes Gub and BitLocker works without any problems (but I can't boot Suse because Grub is gone :( ). If I reinstall Grub, BitLocker gives me the same error message. My current guess is that BitLocker does not like Grub. At the moment I'm standing infront of following dilemma,I have two options: 1. Dualboot Win7 and Suse but not BitLocker protection or 2. Win7 with BitLocker protection but no Suse (at least no Grub to boot Suse). I guess this is a standard problem. I'm for sure not the first one who wants to setup a dual boot system Win7+Suse AND use BitLocker. Some forums suggest to use the Windows boot loader instead of Grub, but I'm a little reluctant towards this idea. What is the solution to this dilemma? Happy new year and looking forward for your ideas, Henri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Graduated from "Absent trash icon" to disaster
by Stan Goodman 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Taking recent hints (and much urging here and elsewhere over the past few months), I thought to upgrade KDE4 from v4.4.4 to 4.5. The instructions for doing so are certainly simple enough and they fairly radiate confidence. The result (detailed below) is that my system is now useless, and I have to plead for help in getting out of the pickle in which I find myself. After executing the simple commands (omitting the optional repo), the first hints of what was going to happen were a few cases in which the installer claimed that it couldn't find expected files. In the absence of better information, I answered "Ignore" for these. After that, there were a remarkably LARGE number of cases in which the installer said that the current RPM seemed to be corrupted, and did I want to continue. I answered Yes in each case, and then Retry. In each case, the RPM turned out not to be corrupted after all, and it was loaded. There were tens of such incidents; I have never encountered even one such in the three years I have been updating RPMs. When the smoke cleared away, I found a desktop which was sluggish in the same sense that a moving glacier is sluggish. From time to time, an error message would appear, as follows: There was a notice reporting that Akonadi was not running, followed later by one saying that Nepomuk was not running. Each of these refered me to userbase. kde.org, and gave no further information. There was one that contained two sentences of the form: "Migration of <pop3 account> to Akonadi failed to create resource: Agent instance creation timed out", where <pop3 account> is the name of one of the Incoming Accounts in the Kmail settings. Since Akonadi didn't load, this would not seem to be surprising. The most recent error message is the following apologetic one: "We are sorry Plasma Desktop Shell closed unexpectedly. Details: Executable:kdeinit4 PID 2678 Signal Segmentation fault (11)". Actually, I do not see that anything is missing from the Desktop that should be there. But since I have never figured out what "Plasma" is supposed to mean in KDE, or what the Plasma Desktop (Shell) means in relation to the Plain Old Desktop, I don't know what this warining is meant to tell me. For quite a long time after the system came up, the mouse cursor was movable on the screen, and the mouse buttons would produce results ten minutes or so after I clicked. Right now, however, the cursor is frozen, dead. When it was still alive (several hours ago), I clicked on the shut down icon in the hope that the system to shut down, but that has not happened, and I will use the hardware reset button. If someone can point the way to inprove this dreadful situation, I will be eternally grateful. And I will never again try to install anything from the Factory. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] find plugin which plays video streams in firefox
by Istvan Gabor 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Hello: I would like to watch video content at Hungarian TV archive, eg. this one: http://videotar.mtv.hu/Videok/2010/12/23/21/Tarlos_Istvan_Budapest_helyzete… I tried different plugins for firefox but so far I could not find any which is able to play it. (I tested kaffeine starter plugin, mplayer plugin 3.55, gecko media player 1.0.0, totem browser plugin 2.28.1, vlc mozillaplugin 1.1.5-1pm.) I have openSUSE 11.2 and use firefox 3.5.11 (opensuse) and occasionally 3.6.x (mozilla version). Please if you know a plugin which plays the above video, let me know. Thank you in advance, 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] Slow switch off in KDE 4.5
by Oszkó Albert 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Dear all, Quite a while ago I upgraded to KDE 4.5 and since then switching off the computer is extremely sluggish. I hoped newer versions would remedy this thing but now I am on KDE 4.5.4 release 9 (with oS 11.3) and no change in this issue, and cannot figure out the reason. Anybody else met this problem? Regards, OszkoA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Use LXDE as default desktop - with FreeNX
by Verner Kjæsgaard 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

First, I apologize for hi-jacking a thread when I first wrote this entry to the list. It was not intentional! Now my question... I'm about to setup LXDE as my default desktop environment in openSuSE11.3. So far it works great. I would however, like to have it setup as the default desktop also when accessing the system from outside using FreeNX. Howto set that up? Thanks! Best regards, Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kdenlive analog capture
by John Bennett 28 Dec '10

28 Dec '10

Sorry, probably a bit OT, but hopefully a fairly easy answer, although with a bundle of googling - can't find. Trying to capture analog video/audio off a VCR, through a SAA7134 (Kworld DVBT-220RF - I believe) which is a DVB card with analog input as well. Can use TVTime to capture using: tvtime -d /dev/video1 -i1 and this works OK, as I have plugged the audio staight into my audio card input. Question is, how do I configure KDdenlive (or anything else) to recognise the channel option ( -i1 ) so I can record from the analog? Current setting in Kdenlive : -f oss -i /dev/dsp -acodec mp2 -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -r 25 -i /dev/video1 -vcodec mpeg4 Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.3 Screen Resolution annoyance
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

Hi, Using OpenSuSe 11.3 with KDE as a pre production test machine. I complete a vanilla DVD install, with the optional non-oss CD included and after selecting the screen resolution of 1024 x768, before clicking on Installation. The install finishes and I login to amend the software installation. I am greeted with a horribly large resolution of 1680xsomething and can barely see the text. I figure to use Sax2 to change it yet there is no sax2. Going to the Desktop Display Settings option on the kicker does resize the screen but the task-bar shown is too long for the display, resulting in the loss of the time, updater and info widgets. Doing a Google search revealed many more such bad issues and my Google Fu did allow me to determine the file I can edit ......> (/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf), however on editing the file a number of different times in different locations and rebooting the system each time, now just saw me returned to the cli and not KDE. Thankfully I took a backup of the old file and have replaced the corrupt one with it. I would be really appreciative of anyone if they could either send me the file name and copy and paste the file contents so that I can try it on my system. If that doesn't work then it is lousy hardware courtesy of a lousy video card on an Intel motherboard, unless someone else has an idea? Thanks Hylton P.S: The same incorrect resizing happen on 11.2 on the same machine using Sax2 -- ======================================================================== Hylton is a Lions Club member of Fish Hoek Lions Club(District 410A) Part of the worlds largest NGO Lions Clubs Int http://www.lionsclubs.org This Lion is using openSuSE Linux since v9.0 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] building driver for wacom bamboo tablet x86_64 11.2
by Patrick Shanahan 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

I rec'd a wacom bamboo tablet for Christmas and am somewhat befuddled over building the driver. openSUSE 11.2 x86_64 kernel-default-2.6.31.41-2 linuxwacom-0.8.8-10 sh ./configure --enable-wacom make: Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src' Making all in . make[2]: Entering directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src' make[2]: Nothing to be done for all-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src' Making all in wacomxi make[2]: Entering directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/wacomxi' make[2]: Nothing to be done for all'. make[2]: Leaving directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/wacomxi' Making all in util make[2]: Entering directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/util' /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/xorg -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -g -O2 -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -D__amd64__ -o hal-setup-wacom hal-setup-wacom.o -lhal -ldbus-1 -lpthread -lrt gcc -Wall -pedantic -I/usr/include/xorg -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -g -O2 -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -D__amd64__ -o hal-setup-wacom hal-setup-wacom.o -lhal -ldbus-1 -lpthread -lrt /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.4/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ldbus-1 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [hal-setup-wacom] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src/util' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /home/pat/Download/source/linuxwacom-0.8.8-10/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 thanks for any help. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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