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[opensuse] KMail problem
by Doug 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I thought I had solved the KMail problem, but it's back. I give up! I have installed Thunderbird, and will use that, even tho I liked KMail better. Does anybody know how to add a "sig" in T-Bird? I had to add the one below by hand. - --doug _____ Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. - --A.M. Greeley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkwJiZoACgkQOUDeErgPqFzRcgCeLZdICeAhuH8/oXG7XWYhkrtc upEAnjLzQutYQw3TTXabqn3+HbNrZG6F =Wkdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Patch management for OpenSUSE
by Ivan De Masi 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

Hello, I am wondering since some time how others cope with patch management on OpenSUSE Clients, when you have a bunch of PCs in a network. Somebody who can recommend a open source tool to cover the basics (e.g. a tool automating updates with zypper over ssh or something similar)? Thanks! Regards, Ivan -- 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] VLC strangeness
by Peter Nikolic 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi .. Well i dont even know how to begin this one as i have a feeling it is very region specific but here goes anyway. I am using VLC to view TV my card is one of the Haupague cards i will be watching tv perfectly ok then for no reason it just stops displaying certain channels , These are all the BBC channels and it is spread across Tv and Radio but as i say only BBC stuff if i shut down VLC open it up again then rescan the channels it will be ok for maybe a day or so then the same thing happens . No matter what i do it will not work with the previous playlist file nor using the xine channels.conf file I have reported this on the VLC Linux forum as well any ideas at all ? makes no sense at all to me .. purley because it only effects BBC stuff .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34-12-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4) "release 2" 22:29 up 1 day 1:12, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.15, 0.04 -- 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 do I make a Wifi connection
by A. den Oudsten 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

I have been struggling to configure my Wifi connection. I understood from previous threads that I have to remove NetworkManager.state and to do rcnetwork restart to be able to configure the Wifi connection with NetworkManager. This did not lead to success. So now I intend to make a fresh 11.3 installation, remove NetworkManager.state and do rcnetwork restart. Then I'll do a NetworkManager guided install. Can anybody tell me what's wrong in this approach? André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Akonadi problem
by 911 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello SuSE people, Recently upgraded to KDE4.4 andI now receive the following message: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nepomuk Indexing Agents Have Been Disabled The Nepomuk service is not available or fully operational and attempts to rectify this have failed. Therefore indexing of all data stored in the Akonadi PIM service has been disabled, which will severely limit the capabilities of any application using this data. The following problems were detected: Nepomuk is not running. --------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, remember stuff on this list talking about Akonadi/Nepomuk but can't recall or find what it is about. There was a solution. Just don't know what it was about. Please remind me. Bob S -- 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 "cups" entry in YaST Firewall Allowed Services in 11.3?
by Carlos F Lange 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

In the Firewall Configuration of YaST, the list of services to allow for the External Zone no longer contains "cups". Instead, When setting up the Printer Configuration to accept printer announcements from CUPS servers, YaST pops up a recommendation to open UDP port 631 in the firewall. Any sane reason to make this process less convenient? -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kmail not retrieving all POP3 emails
by ianseeks 11 Aug '10

11 Aug '10

HI I've just logged into my webmail to find i have 32 emails going back over a 2 year period. Some of them have been retrieved by kmail and some haven't. Is there anyway to force kmail to re-attempt getting the ones that haven't been retrieved? Currently it checks the mail box but ignores them. regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper up not showing updates that YaST2 does
by Carlos F Lange 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

When I open YaST2 Software Management after a fresh install and after adding a few repos, including Packman, I have about 20 updates, mostly libs, such as libavcodec52 from Packman, preset as automatic updates. If I do zypper up, I get "Nothing to do". Why are they behaving differently and how can I get zypper to match YaST2? I am creating a few scripts for streamlined installation in my lab computers and I am counting with zypper to by-pass the GUI. Thanks. -- Carlos F Lange -- Recursive: Adj. See Recursive. -- -- 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 diagnose disk-related problem?
by Dave Howorth 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

I have a problem on a new server that I'm bedding in. I'm trying to copy data onto it from an older machine and the new machine is going into a strange 'locked-in' state. I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to investigate the problem. On an old server, there's some data that I want to copy to the new server. The way I'm doing that is to nfs export the data on the old server, nfs mount it on the new server and then use cp to copy it to its new home, something like this: cp -uax /nfs/old-host/data /new-directory I actually have two of these running, for different subsets of the data. BTW, I'm executing all these commands via ssh from my desktop machine. That works fine for a couple of hours and then when I try to execute another command (ls) in another ssh shell it tells me that the new server has closed the connection. The two cp commands are still apparently running but when I try typing ^Z, those ssh sessions are terminated as well. If I go to the new server's screen, it is blank and I haven't found any key sequence that makes anything appear on it (specifically, CTRL-ALT-F1 doesn't, for example). So it's beginning to sound like it's crashed, yes? But it hasn't. The disk activity lights for the drives where /new-directory lives are still flashing and running top on the old server shows me that a couple of nfsd processes are busy and that system is spending a lot of time accessing its disks (there's not much else running) so it seems like the cp processes are still running. At this point I don't see any alternative to rebooting but I thought I'd ask first to see if anybody had any other ideas on ways to gather information? These symptoms have occurred once before. When I rebooted that time, the system came up without one of the data disks - the system said the interface wasn't responding. But when I unplugged the disk and plugged it back in and rebooted, it came back. There was actually a lot else happened at that time, so I can't be sure it was as simple as it sounds. I'll see if the same happens this time. I wasn't able to spot anything useful in the logs and smart said the disk was OK, AFAICT. The new data directory is in an ext4 filesystem in an LVM volume on an mdadm RAID10 all on openSUSE 11.2 so another possibility is some kind of problem in one of those systems. The drive is in a SATA hot swap cage connected to a port on the motherboard; it's a WD RE4 1.5 TB. All ideas gratefully received! Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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