February 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 11.2 network install
by Dave Howorth 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

I'm doing a network install of 11.2 and having my usual chaotic time. Let's just say it's a good job the machine is actually sitting next to me and not in a remote data centre! The instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Install gave errors when booting the install kernel - something about a missing root= in the kernel command line. I haven't investigated why. So I used setupgrubfornfsinstall. That worked. I had my usual problem with DHCP but I think that's a local issue with our server and I just typed the addresses in instead. One little problem was that ssh refused to connect because the key has been changed but I nuked the old key in known_hosts to get around that. I started yast and got as far as choosing the partitions. After that, yast died and the ssh session shows: error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid YaST got signal 6 at YCP file String.ycp:128 /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: line 288: 4217 Aborted $OPT_FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS $Y2_MODE $Y2_UI_ARGS unicode_stop skipped on /dev/pts/0 inst-sys:~ # Connection to pcx36 closed by remote host. I've no idea what that means. Does anybody have a clue? Thanks, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What KDE4 app took the place of KXML Editor in KDE3?
by David C. Rankin 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Listmates, Looking at gnome settings, etc. I regularly rely on the KXML Editor in KDE3. I was trying to just use KDE4 apps, but I can't find it in KDE4. What is its replacement called? -- 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] Nepomuk/Akonadi, a new Beagle
by Andre Malin 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Is somebody know how to disable or remove that? Tired of error message etc,... Andre. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Screen Resolution
by Mark Misulich 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi, I am running opensuse 11.2 and kde 4.4 on this computer. I have a problem with the screen displaying fonts poorly. The screen is a 1366x768 resolution, and I have a recent Nvidia video card in the box. The fonts display okay at that resolution until I install the Nvidia driver for the video card. They display okay with whatever the video driver is that is used by Opensuse 11.2 in a new installation. I have tried a couple of different video cards and get the same results. I have been using a different screen resolution to get the fonts to display in a readable manner (1280x720 or 1024x768), but I think even this could be improved upon if the problem was resolved to display the fonts sharply at the correct resolution. Anybody have any idea what might be the problem and how to fix it? -- 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] An annoying behaviour by latest version of Firefox in openSUSE
by Martin Jungowski 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Am 15.02.2010 22:45, schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer: > That's quite strange. There is no code change which could cause that. So > if the openSUSE version of Firefox is really different it can only be > caused by differences in used system libraries and also this seems a bit > unlikely as the upstream Firefox is basically (not in every case) using > the same system libraries. I cannot, for the life of me tell you what caused this behavior. It was reproducable though and we have experienced it before. > And JFYI you cannot easily blame Novell for the state of Firefox since > Novell as a company did only a few things for openSUSE's Firefox during > the last years. You could probably blame me but in this case I feel not > guilty at all. Not trying to blame anyone here. As long as the Vanilla version still runs I don't see why we should start playing the blaming game ;) Like I said, I don't know what caused it, what exactly happened. However it was reproducable on all our thin clients and only occured in Gnome2 and XFCE4, never in KDE3 or KDE4. Also, it's not an 11.2 issue either, we've had the same problem in 11.1 already. But like I said - we're a bit special in that we don't run our servers and software the way the rest of the world seems to. Martin -- Rieke Computersysteme GmbH Hellerholz 5 D-82061 Neuried Email: martin(a)rhm.de HRB Muenchen 73617 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] tar 1.22 packages for 11.0 (provides xz compression support)
by David C. Rankin 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

openSuSE hasn't updated many of the core packages for 11.0 since the original release. One side effect is that packages get stale and do not have basic capabilities of the current packages. One package like this is tar. Tar 1.19 is three minor versions out of date and cannot handle the '-J' option that was patched for 1.20, native in 1.21 (filtered to lzma compression) and to its final form in 1.22 where '-J' now provides Xz filtering. To get around this, I have been building tar on all 11.0 installs for quite a while. Finally, I got tired of reinventing the wheel with each install so I decided to build it on buildservice, so I have built packages for 11.0 to make the install easier. If you use 11.0 and would like to update you tar packages, then you can get the rpms from build service at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty/openSUSE_11.0/ You will need 2 packages: tar tar-lang Don't forget to install xz as well. Let me know if you run into any issues with the packages. Thanks. (note: 11.1 packages are also available) -- 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] Firefox - 3.6 Crashes every time on youtube video, OK on Opera - New Bug?
by David C. Rankin 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Listmates, Firefox is crashing on this youtube video every time. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZc8nvL9SJM **warning, when you test in Opera, you may ROTFLYAO. What happens if firefox begins loading the page and then - WHAM, it crashes cold. There is no error thrown, no nothing, FF just disappears. On restart, if you choose to "Restore" your prior session when you start FF again, the same thing happens. To test I tried in Opera which worked the first time. Can anyone confirm this bug on their box? If so, I'll file the bug.. -- 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] Sound config probs... redirecting all sound via a USB headset
by C 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

I'm still trying to manage a minor, but annoying, sound config problem on a laptop I'm administering (not mine). The laptop is running openSUSE 11.2 with KDE4.4, and the user is using a Logitech wireless USB headset. The troublesome apps in question are Firefox and Ekiga. Initially I set it up using pretty much all defaults. This meant that audio from Firefox was directed through the laptop speakers, and audio from Ekiga was sent to the headset. Configuring this way was simple and it worked perfectly... it just meant telling Ekiga to use the USB headset. But... the user wanted all sound from Firefox also sent to the headset - basically no system sounds should be sent to the laptop speakers. To achieve this, I went into YaST > Hardware > Sound and configured the USB headset to be the primary sound card. This appeared to work initially... but under regular use, it's not working so well. If the user is using Firefox.. say watching a YouTube vid, and wants to make a VoIP call using Ekiga, then they get audio device errors in Ekiga. The workaround is to shut down both Firefox and Ekiga, and then start up Ekiga... sometimes this allows Ekiga to "claim" the USB headset. other times the user finds they have to log out and back in to reset or reclaim the audio. Actually, I think, having talked to them, the logout/login was a bit of overkill and simply shutting down Firefox and doing a clean startup of Ekiga should be enough. Anyway... does anyone know of any setup or config changes that I could make or look at that would allow Firefox and Ekiga to share the USB headset and stop this silliness of Ekiga failing to make calls because it cannot open the audio devices? This is the one major issue that is frustrating the user's transition from Windows (where this scenario worked), to Linux. It's annoying them enough that they've considered returning to Windows, but have asked me to help sort it out so they can keep using Linux.... so any advice here would be welcome C. -- 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 no Reply-To?
by Ed Greshko 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

As I had mentioned...I'm new to this list. But, I am wondering why the mailing list software isn't configured to add a "Reply-To:" header? Every time I reply I have to remember to "reply all" to get the list as the Cc: and then I feel the need to switch it to "To:" and remove the "To:" for the specific user since I get the feeling most people won't want to get 2 copies of the same message. Along those lines....I wonder how often folks hit "reply" and their message never makes it to the list. -- 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 startup optimization [WAS: defrag]
by Greg Freemyer 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak(a)suse.cz> wrote: > On Monday 15 of February 2010, James Knott wrote: >> Lubos Lunak wrote: >> > As demonstrated also in this thread, there is a widely accepted myth >> > that defragmenting is completely useless with Linux, and as such nobody >> > has been really bothered enough to write any reasonably usable generic >> > tool. >> >> Given that modern file systems are fragmentation resistant, please >> explain how fragmentation is a problem on Linux. > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2270 > Interesting, but not quite the same thing as defrag. The below is re: <http://markmail.org/message/qp7zjhhdzxum7rfn> which describes some proposed ext4 kernel patches at a very high level. Ted Tso, the ext4 maintainer, proposed a year+ ago that ext4 needed to grow 3 ioctls that work together. One would restrict the block range used for specific files. Seems like it would be useful for the kde4 startup use case. The idea is that you could from user space make ioctl calls on a per file basis that would cause those files to prefer to be allocated from a restricted range of blocks. Assuming this existed the process for kde4 would be: 1) Loop through all kde4 startup related files and set their preferred block range to be relatively small and in an unused portion of the drive. ie. The block range needs to have enough free blocks to hold the files. 2) Run the e4defrag tool. It would need to grow the intelligence to "defrag" a file just because it is in the wrong block range, but that is not all that hard. Ie. e4defrag already reads the block map to determine if a file is fragmented before it bothers to defragment. So this just adds a check to verify a files blocks are in its preferred block range. 3) All done. If the kde4 devs could determine the exact best layout of the files on disk they could enhance step 1) to be very exact in the file placement. Ie. Place file1 first, immediately followed by file2, etc. Also, Ted Tso has proposed the ext4 needed a global avoid ioctl call as well. In the above scenario it would be used in advance to clear out a block range for dedicated kde4 use. ie. Clear our 50 MB of continguous blocks as step 0, then move the kde4 startup files in there as described above. ==> ext4 patch status for the above 2 proposed features To the best of my knowledge no one is working on the "avoid block range" patch, but if they are I would guess it is Akira Fujita. He wrote the e4defrag tool and the kernel patch that allows ext4 to move data from one set of data blocks to another. (The only one of 3 complementary patches to go into ext4 yet.) As to the "prefer block range xxx-yyy for this file" patch, the OHSM team has a preliminary version of that patch in their tree. See <http://ohsm.sourcefourge.net>. Their userland use case is pretty different than the above, but the patch itself should be generic enough for both situations. I'm part of the OHSM team and I can say that we don't really have any pride of ownership in our patch. We wrote it just because no one else stepped up to the plate and did so. So if someone wanted to take what we have and go through the process of cleaning it up and getting it submitted to the Ted Tso and company, that would be great. Otherwise, I suspect the ohsm team will try to do that in the next 6 months or year. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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