July 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Can't play DVDs
by Stan Goodman 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

In oS v11.1, neither MPlayer nor Kaffeine will play DVDs anymore. These are the reactions to trying: In MPlayer: An attempt to start the film brings up an error b ox saying: "Failed to open ~/system/media/sr0", Full stop. In Kaffeine: The error box says: "Can't bind info socket". Dismissing it starts the first screen of the film (before the introductory credits)m with sound that repeats every second or so ad infinitum. What might be causing this to happen, and how to fix it? -- 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] OpenJDK
by Andrew Joakimsen 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

OpenJDK is included by default in openSUSE but my initial impression is most Java applets encountered by most users don't function correctly with it. What is everyone else seeing? Does openJDK fulfill every one of your Java needs, or did you find the need to replace openJDK with the real Sun Java? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Update error
by Peter Nikolic 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hi . one recurring error i get as below PackageKit Error dep-resolution-failed: patch:k3b-2785.noarch conflicts with k3b.x86_64 I cant give any more info as i can not find any more question is how do i get rid of it 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" 19:59 up 2 days 2:45, 4 users, load average: 0.27, 0.18, 0.16 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Tracking down periodic system freezes?
by C 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I've finally upgraded my main computer to 11.3 w/KDE4 - actually a clean install of 11.3 in a fresh partition, and a new /home/$USER so nothing from 11.2 is interfering. I can still boot to 11.2 as a comparison. The problem is... 11.3 is periodically freezing. The lock or freeze never lasts more than a few seconds, but its long enough that if I'm typing an email when it happens, several words won't be entered... when the lock/freeze happens my system fans go from idle to full power and I see a CPU spike start in my system monitor - I say start because the actual spike never gets shown on the graph since the computer is 100% unresponsive during the freeze. I've rebooted to 11.2 and the symptoms do not show there (using a / partition on the same drive as the / for 11.3 and a common /home partition but different $USER), and the computer behaves completely as it should. I've checked for things like Nepomuk indexing and other processes that might be loading up the computer... but cannot find anything. Nepomuk is off in the settings, but there always seems to be a Nepomukserver running.. as well as Akonadi even though I'm not using KMail... I thought Akonadi was assoicated only with KMail? Killing Nepomukserver and Akonadiserver doesn't seen to have much effect (why are they running in the first place?). There is nothing I can see in the logs either, but that kind of makes sense since the computer is totally unresponsive during the 2 to 5 second freeze.... nothing is drawn on screen... keyboard buffer is not being filled... it's 100% gone for that period... so nothing seems to be writtne to the logs.. There is no heartbeat or regular pattern to the freezes either... it appears to be random. Changes made since the clean install - full base update, added the Community repos and added a few extra apps (GStreamer, VLC, Thunderbird, VirtualBox, Wine, SpiderOak). I also installed the latest nVidia driver (which meant I had to set Kernel/No_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes, and add nomodeset brokenmodules=nouveau to Bootloader/DEFAULT_APPEND). I'd suspect hardware, but rebooting to 11.2 and things hum along as normal (using the same hardware and adjacent / partitions).... so it appears to be something 11.3 specific... question is.. what? Whatever it is, it's making 11.3 virtually unusable for me on this machine (main server in the house for http, ftp, samba, nfs, ssh, as well as my main work computer). Anyone else seeing something like this? Any ideas where I can look for the culprit that's causing this? C. -- 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] fighting with grub (Suse 11.2)
by James D. Parra 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

On 2010/07/30 16:38 (GMT-0700) James D. Parra composed: > Have used 'dd' in the past Please define "the past" precisely. Which Linux version did you do it successfully with? > to copy one hard disk to another and boot off new drive, however I must be overlooking something. Highly likely you are. Is boot failure occurring while both master and clone remain present in the system? > Running from a DVD in Rescue-Mode, I can modify /boot/grub/menu.1st to boot from /dev/sda1 and the root is on /dev/sda3, but once I reboot I get the Grub menu showing which kernel to boot, default or failsafe, yet the next screen shows; > doing a fast boot > Creating device nodes with udev > Waiting for device /dev/sda3 to appear ... could not find /dev/sda3. That could be a misleading message. What might be happening is /dev/sda3 is an alias to two partitions with identical UUIDs - if both master and clone remain in system together. In recent and current kernel editions, real identities of storage devices are in the /dev/disk tree. > In Repair mode I can mount /dev/sda3 and all the contents are there. Any ideas how I can fix this? As of now I can't boot. It might be useful to know the age of the HD controller chip and the driver it requires, as well as what if any other devices are present on that controller family. Are these PATA? SATA? Is there a DVD or CDROM? If so, on what controller? How is the BIOS boot order set? ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ By 'in the past' I mean using Suse 11.1 dvd's on various hardware systems running 11.1, or earlier. However, this is the second 11.2 system where Grub loads, but cannot locate the drive. If I do a fresh install everything works. The original drive was removed, so that is not the issue. There is only one drive in the system, which appears in the BIOS, along with a floppy and dvd-rom drive. >From the repair mode I used the 'start from scratch' option and that fixed the problem, although I wish I new how to fix it from the CLI and not rely on a UI. Thanks for responding, Felix. 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] MacMini
by Andrew Rich 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello Just equipped a new MacMini intel box with openSUES 11.3 All ok - even blasted away the MAC boot bits. Enjoying the small form factor. Have a few issues to work through yet. 1) Screen - first 1/8 is ok, rest is all liney and blocky 2) Not sure about wifi 3) I have x2 750 GB USB drives outboard as backups. 4) Apache MySQL perl PHP and CGI all work ok 5) I just SSH into it at the moment. 6) Reboot is a bit odd, it simply wont do it 7) It will shutdown -h now ok Andrew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] fighting with grub (Suse 11.2)
by James D. Parra 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello, Have used 'dd' in the past to copy one hard disk to another and boot off new drive, however I must be overlooking something. Running from a DVD in Rescue-Mode, I can modify /boot/grub/menu.1st to boot from /dev/sda1 and the root is on /dev/sda3, but once I reboot I get the Grub menu showing which kernel to boot, default or failsafe, yet the next screen shows; doing a fast boot Creating device nodes with udev Waiting for device /dev/sda3 to appear ... could not find /dev/sda3. In Repair mode I can mount /dev/sda3 and all the contents are there. Any ideas how I can fix this? As of now I can't boot. Thank you in advance. Best, 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] 3ware 3w-xxxx.o kernel module
by Greg Freemyer 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

All, I've got a oS 11.2 machine with an old 3ware IDE raid controller. It runs the drives fine (and has for years), but I need to rebuild the array and admin of the array via tw_cli is telling me to load 3w-xxxx.o == # tw_cli Please load the 3ware controller driver (3w-xxxx.o). == I used to have it on that machine, but apparently no longer. Where can I find it? Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] automatic install of updates for Gnome, but not for KDE?
by Carlos F Lange 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

YaST2 now does not have an "Online Update Configuration" anymore. Where are we supposed to setup automatic update installation? In Gnome there is an item for this in the Gnome Update Applet, but there is nothing equivalent in the KDE Updater Applet. -- 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] Broken quoting, was: Kaffeine on 11.3 fails to produce audio
by Patrick Shanahan 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:02:29 Peter Nikolic wrote: > > [...] > > What you DO have to do is to use w-scan to produce a channels.conf file > > which you then use in the command line when you start vlc. If you do > > this only THEN will you get the TV channels which vlc recognises as the > > Playlist. > > Now i tried w_scan with xine and the file it created made xine barf in > several places > > > > The thing is this computer is not only the computer it is my complete > > > media center TV Radio Music Video ect so it not working is a > > > real PITA > > > > > > > > > Pete . > > > > BC > > It never ceases to amaze me how different installs of what is supposed to > be the same software seems to behave completely different from machine to > machine > > mat'l above quoted for example. Has anyone else noted the broken quoting by KMail/1.13.5. Is it a kmail problem or do I have a problem? I see the same display in seamonkey -mail and with kmail 1.13.5 (kmail 4.4.5-234.2) and with mailx 12.2-161.1, and firefox/gmail -- 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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