September 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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] WPA failure in OpenSuse, but not xandros
by Myrosia Dzikovska 20 Nov '10

20 Nov '10

I have a Dell Latitude D430, with Intel Wireless PRO 3945ABG, using iwl3945 driver with network manager for my wireless connection. I am experiencing intermittent wireless connection failures on OpenSuse. My home router is set to use WPA. From time to time, my laptop stops seeing the wireless access point, and when I attempt to connect manually, I see several repeats of the message below in the system logs: --------------------- wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:7f:22:d1:5c (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3) --------------- I also have an Asus EEEPC 901 with a default Xandros distribution. It always connects without problems. Moreover, once I get the EEEPC to connect, my opensuse machine is also able to connect to the same router on my next attempt. It looks to be something distribution (or driver version) specific, but I am not sure how to debug it further. There is an iwl3945 bug filed on Novell bugzilla, but it does not appear to be the same one, it has a different error message as a symptom (and I am running fully updated anyway, so presumably should have the fix already). What can I do to debug this? Myrosia Myrosia -- 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] zypper and multiversion(kernel)
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Since four version of kernels I run it in zypp.conf with "multiversion=provides:multiversion(kernel). That gives me a full functioning kernel with updates which will have a look at all kernels. At this moment I have for kernels from which to choose and I think it is time to delete some of them. How could I do that with zypper? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.3 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.35.1-3.2-default LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.5.00 (KDE 4.5.0) 21:02pm up 4:03, 2 users, load average: 0.48, 0.77, 0.88 -- 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 konsole strange fonts and long startup time
by Istvan Gabor 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hello: I tried again KDE4. Installed KDE 4.5 factory on openSUSE 11.2. No to mention the general things I usually complain about I found something very strange: In konsole I set the font to Misc Console; in KDE4 konsole this font looks very strange and it is almost unreadable. It looks correct though in KDE3 konsole even in KDE4 session. Furthermore the startup time of KDE3 konsole is 2 seconds while the startup time of KDE4 konsole is 9 seconds (both in KDE 4 session). I find this startup time extremely long, especially compared to KDE3 konsole startup. How to fix these issues? Thanks, 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] KDE4.5 good impression...But
by Marco Calistri 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

Hello listmembers, Recently I installed KDE4.5 onto my 11.2, by following opensSUSE guidance and I've been very well impressed of this new DE release. Now if I try a zypper ref; zypper up, then I notice several KDE packages available but since they come from different vendor (OBS instead of openSUSE) they went no installed. In these cases I know, I should limit the repos to "dup" with --repo, or --from switch, but wonder if doing so then I risk to broke something. TKS, -- Marco Calistri <amdturion> Whoever truly understands my music is free from the miseries that haunt the world. -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Tiny /boot Partition
by Lucky Leavell 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

OSE 11.3 (Fresh Install) When I first installed this about six weeks back, I wanted to create a boot partition sufficiently large but could not make the installer budge beyond the tiny default of 68MB. Frustrated, I went ahead and now it has returned to bite me. I not only cannot have multiple kernel versions but there is not even enought space to upgrade the kernel. Proposed solution: I added a second virtual disk (this is running under ESXi 4.1) and will copy the old boot partition contents to the new one, update the /boot/grub/menu.lst, modify the fstab and remove the active partition marker from the old /dev/sda1 boot partition and make the new /dev/sdb1 active. Will this work? Another alternative I can also do is to create another OSE guest and copy the non OS partitions over. Obviously, I prefer the first option unless I overlooked something. Here is what /dev/sda looks like: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/system-root 20G 4.6G 15G 25% / devtmpfs 1003M 168K 1003M 1% /dev tmpfs 1005M 4.0K 1005M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 68M 54M 12M 83% /boot /dev/mapper/system-home 79G 21G 55G 28% /home /dev/mapper/system-local 130G 67G 57G 54% /local /dev/mapper/system-tmp 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /tmp /dev/mapper/system-var 9.9G 521M 8.9G 6% /var ux-ose:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 274.9 GB, 274877906944 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 33418 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000bd81d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 10 71680 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 10 33419 268362752 8e Linux LVM ux-ose:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 536 MB, 536870912 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 512 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa7dcbfcc Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 512 524272 83 Linux Thank you, Lucky Leavell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] wdm chooser
by Lars Stavholm 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Has anyone tried the wdm display manager enabled for remote host logins? If so, how do you get the list of available remote hosts? I've got the wdm working alright for local X sessions, but I can not find a way to get the list of available remote hosts to login to. Any input appreciated. /Lars Stavholm PS I've verified that the remote hosts are there and accepting connections by means of kdm3. It works nicely. But I really want wdm to do the same thing. -- 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: [Unsuccessful installation of operating system]
by Stan Goodman 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

On Wed, 22Sep 2010 at 18:15:43 -0400, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > Stan Goodman wrote: > > > 15 : File not found > > > This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be > > > found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK. > > Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file. I did the following in a live Fedora. > Reaching the grub menu only to get an error like this means there is > some type of error which usually can be worked around by using the Grub > command shell. When the menu appears, escape out of the graphical menu > first, then exit the text menu to reach the command prompt in the > manner shown to you below the entries the text menu is showing. You'll > then be greeted by a Grub prompt: > > grub> > > Try the following: > > grub> root (hd1,5) > > grub> kernel /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb6 noresume splash=verbose > vga=791 This produces Error 15: File not found > grub> initrd /boot/initrd Unsurprisingly therefore, this gets Error 27:Unrecognized command > grub> boot > > If that doesn't get you booted, try substituting from your best > recollection whatever is correct for the various (xx#,#) parameters and > kernel parameters. > > If still no go, you can get clues via Grub's command line completion, > allowing it to show you what kernel and/or initrd(s) it can find. Start > thus: > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) (hd1,5) as expected. > which will show whatever locations it can find it, which will be > locations where menu.lst should be, and which should be the child of > any /boot containing installed kernels and initrds. Maybe the HD on > which SUSE is actually located for some reason is not coming up as > sdb6/(hd1,5). If stage 1 is where you expect it, try: > > grub> kernel /boot/vmli<tab> That got only the usual action of the Tab key, it didn't try to autocomplete anything. > and report back what happens if from the above you can't get any SUSE > booted. Reported. -- 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] Has dual-boot changed?
by John Perry 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

So I bought this fancy new motherboard for my wife's machine, She uses Windows xp because she isn't very adept at computers and doesn't want to have to deal with two different systems (the school system uses xp). When I tried to find her copy of xp, I couldn't, so I went ahead and installed 11.3. Later, I found the installation disks and installed xp, expecting to do as I had before, booting into the 11.3 install disks. Tried, failed. I was expecting a vaguely remembered option to "repair installed system", or some such, which isn't on either the net install disk or the complete iso. I'd rather not have to reinstall suse, even if I could be sure that would solve all my problems. So, googling "suse xp dual boot", I find several references to such a feature on ubuntu and some others, but I also hit a scary comment that substituting the xp bootloader is risky, and it's better to modify it to give the option to boot linux (bkpavan.wordpress.com, apcmag.com, www.wellho.net). It's been some months, but I set my laptop up with dual-boot using what really looks like the suse grub bootloader. Has something changed, or am I worrying too much, or...? I found several references to dual-boot on the wiki, but they're all about using or setting up something else after the dual-boot is set up. Where is this "rescue" system referred to in the ubuntu web, and that I clearly remember having before? And is it really so dangerous to simply substitute the xp bootloder with grub? John Perry (from a new account for my wife's computer) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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