February 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] backup question
by Sampsa Riikonen 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Dear List, A question concerning data backups and transfer speed.. I am trying to do a backup using dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb From my internal hard disk to an external usb hard disk (i.e. I am just dumping the disk image to an empty disk). I am doing this, of course, while the filesystems are unmounted. I imagine that the bottleneck is the usb (2.0) connection. What I read from wikipedia, the speed of that is.. 60 Mbytes (not bits) per second ~ 0.06 Gbytes per second So this means that a 500 Gbytes hard disk should copy in aprox. 2.3 hours .. but know it seems it takes more than 24 hours! What seems to be the problem? Am I missing something in the math? My external usb hard disk box has also an option to use an esata connector (but then I should buy an adaptor to my laptop), but the speed difference to usb 2.0 is not that big, I imagine..? Regards, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RE: Youtube
by Duaine Hechler 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Youtube is playing extremely fast and does nothing but clicking instead of music Linux 11.1 / Firefox 3.6 Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to use Bluetooth under KDE4
by Philipp Thomas 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

As you would like to use bluetooth headsets under KDE4 like I do here's the reliable recipe as told to me by a collegue that I tested and verified: o start thhe gnome-bluetooth applet (bluetooth-applet) o find the wanted device, pair and connect o install pavucontrol AND pulseaudio-module-bluetooth. o start amarok o in amarok somewhere under configuration search the button for sound configuration and click it. => move pulseaudio to upmost position there. o start pavucontrol o switch the bleutooth device to voice or a2db mode in one of pavucontrol's tabs (the pulldown menu lists the supported modes) o play music in amarok o switch to firat tab in pavucontrol o via the pulldown menu in pavucontrol switch output from internal sound system to the bluetooth device. enjoy Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] iso9660 mount question
by Istvan Gabor 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

Hello: I have an old program CD from wich I would like to copy files. When I mount the CD all the filenames appear in lowercase but I would like them in uppercase. I've read the mount manual but could not find out how to mount the CD so that the file names would be shown in uppercase. Could you help with this, please? Thanks 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] experience with large number of SATA drives ?
by Per Jessen 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

I'm putting together a hardware proposal for a new project - I/O rates are paramount, so I'm looking at running e.g. 16 SATA-II drives on a single box. I have opted not to use SAS drives due to price and lack of concurrency in the application. I'm thinking of using two fairly inexpensive Intel SATA (for RAID0) controllers, each with 8 SATA ports, each in a PCIe x8 slot. Before I go and build the prototype, I was just wondering if anyone's had any experience with running so many SATA drives on a single mainboard? /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.8°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] Help with Yast CA Module
by Jim Flanagan 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

I need help using Yast's CA module. Specifically, how do I make an SSL that it not encrypted and does not need a passphrase. I need to make a self signed cert to us for my mail server (Postfix). Every time I try to make a cert it insists on me inputting a passphrase, and the cert is encrypted. Is there a how-to on this? Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] VNC over the HTTP
by Boris Epstein 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi all, Apparently, VNC is supposed to work over the HTTP... and I on occasion managed to get it to work, but then it would mysteriously stop working. And I could never quite figure out what makes it succeed or fail - and there seems to be little in the way of logs, etc. to make one make sense of the situation. So if you have figured out this riddle - would you be kind enough to share the knowledge? Thanks in advance. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE 4.3.5 RPM's
by Stephen P. Molnar 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Are the KDE 4.3.5 rpm's (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSU…) relocatable? 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] KDE4.4 and using USB headset for all system sounds
by Clayton 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

What is the "right" way to redirect all system sounds to a USB headset when it's plugged in? (using KDE4.4 and openSUSE 11.2) I can easily configure apps such as Skype and Ekiga to use the headset... that's not much of a problem.. but what about say... Firefox. Assume I.m play YouTube vids, and need ot push the audio through the USB headset. How do I do this? At one point when I plugged in a USB headset, I got a popup asking if I wanted the headset to be the default device. I answered No at the time... shoudl I have answered Yes? Other possibilities... using Configure > Multimedia ? OK, but what in that list is "enough" to push sound through the headset? Is it enough to just prefer the USB headset on all options? The extra difficulty in this equation is, this is all on a laptop with a fresh install of 11.2 upgraded to KDE4.4 and then... remote where I cannot log into the machine, and the person using the laptop is not all that computer knowledgeable. Is there some "simple" way to achieve this? Plug in the headset and all sound is directed through the headset.. unplug it and it defaults back to teh speakers with no user interaction.... or is this still a pipe dream? 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] getting warning and error messages
by Trivedi Nagaraj-CNX687 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Hi, I have downloaded the source code for the useradd command. The tar name is pwdutils-3.2.5.tar.bz2. I have bunzipped and untared it. When I typed configure command it displayed the following warning message configure:WARNING: libnscd not found, cannot flush nscd tables! After this I typed make command and it displayed the following error message -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -MT rpasswd.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/rpasswd.Tpo -c -o rpasswd.o rpasswd.c In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, from rpasswd.c:49: /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:72:18: krb5.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:179, from rpasswd.c:49: /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:132: parse error before "krb5_enctype" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:134: parse error before "FAR" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:135: parse error before '}' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:147: parse error before "kssl_ctx_setstring" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:147: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:148: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:149: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:149: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:150: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:151: parse error before "kssl_ctx_setprinc" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:151: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:153: parse error before "kssl_cget_tkt" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:153: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:155: parse error before "kssl_sget_tkt" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:155: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:157: parse error before "kssl_ctx_setkey" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:157: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:159: parse error before "context" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:160: parse error before "kssl_build_principal_2" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:160: parse error before "context" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:163: parse error before "kssl_validate_times" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:163: parse error before "atime" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:165: parse error before "kssl_check_authent" /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:165: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/openssl/kssl.h:167: parse error before "enctype" In file included from rpasswd.c:49: /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:909: parse error before "KSSL_CTX" /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:931: parse error before '}' token In file included from rpasswd.c:66: rpasswd-client.c:932: warning: declaration of `ctx' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:912: warning: shadowed declaration is here rpasswd-client.c: In function `start_ssl': rpasswd-client.c:937: warning: declaration of `verify_result' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:918: warning: shadowed declaration is here rpasswd.c: In function `main': rpasswd.c:388: warning: declaration of `ctx' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/openssl/ssl.h:912: warning: shadowed declaration is here make[2]: *** [rpasswd.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tftpboot/useradd/pwdutils-3.2.5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tftpboot/useradd/pwdutils-3.2.5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Let me know what could be the problem. Thanks and Regards N.M.Trivedi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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