July 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] YOU want to update a package that is not installed.
by Carlos E. R. 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is 11.2, and I'm using "yast2 --qt online_update". I wants to update mozillafirefox and bundle-lang-common-gnome. That's ok. But when I go to the "installation summary", I see another one, haveged (haveged - Feed entropy into random pool), which is not pulled in by neither of the updates, it is not already installed in the system, but never the less, it has the green check mark with three dots icon, install for dependencies? However, if I unmark it doesn't complain that it is needed for something. I have no objections to install it, but I want to know why it wants to install it... :o-? [...] I deselect it, and let YOU run without that package. After that, I run YOU again to see if that pacckage is selected again for install - and it is not. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxUi+0ACgkQU92UU+smfQUhTwCeI+XCYw0CYF4wHkncozrDurGG LXMAnibil9ymauoJo0qnumCx5PjAc5mT =sHar -----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] openSUSE Weekly News 134 is out!
by Sascha 'saigkill' Manns 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

We are pleased to announce: Issue 134 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this week's issue: * The openSUSE Project welcomes Jos Poortvliet as new Community Manager * SUSE Studio: SUSE Gallery launch * Michal Hrusecky: openSUSE Paste * h-online/Thorsten Leemhuis: Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 4) – Architecture and infrastructure * Tuxradar: Reviewed: OpenSUSE 11.3 For a list of available translations see this page: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Weekly_news#Translations [0] http://news.opensuse.org/?p=3977 -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.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] no WLAN with ipw2100
by Stefan Quandt 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

If i do 'iwlist eth1 scanning' I get 17 access points listed. All have in common that reported 'Quality' is at least 16 but 'Signal' level is zero, e.g like this: Cell 11 - Address: 00:1C:4A:D3:86:88 ESSID:"MyWlan" Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Master Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1) Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Quality:90 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 IE: WPA Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 Group Cipher : TKIP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP Authentication Suites (1) : PSK Extra: Last beacon: 468ms ago Of course no connection neither with NetworkManager nor with traditional iwconfig/ifup is possible. NetworkManger even does not show me the access points. Is the ipw2100 driver broken? Does anyone have this problem with other WLAN hardware? With openSUSE-11.1 WLAN did work almost perfect. Starting witn openSUSE-11.2 it was no longer possible to associate to an AP while NetworkManager was still showing them all. Thanks Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[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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