September 2010 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SuSE 11.3 not mounting 0x83 on install
by Roy F. Cabaniss 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Here is the situation. I have a large hard drive with a lot of 50 gig partitions for holding the various operating systems. It currently is holding a suse 11.2, ubuntu 9.04, windoze xp, windoze 7, and a knoppix. I was going to put SuSE 11.3 into an empty partition and check it out. For all of these linux installs I have a 500 gig partition formatted with ext3 as the /home partition and thus far they have had no real problems sharing. (Symbolic links to data storage work wonders.) So I start installing 11.3 and it seems to have no problems until I get to partitioning. Go to throw 11.3 into the sda9 partition and there is no complaints, having the windows partitions available.... no problem. When I get to the home partition it is trying to format it into ext4. Obviously I do not desire to lose the data from multiple installs, nor do I wish to format the partition. The error message I get is that the installation cannot mount a partition with an unknown filetype. The filetype it reports that partition as possessing is 0x83 Linux. Now if I remember right 0x83 is the old standard linux partition and why SuSE does not recognize it is beyond me. Anyway, does anyone have an idea why SuSE 11.3 won't just go ahead and mount that partition? Thanks. -- Dr. Roy F. Cabaniss University of Arkansas @ Monticello http://cabanisspc.uamont.edu There is probably a file attached to this message that is titled something like signature.asc. This is my GPG signature. If you don't know what that is about, don't worry about it and don't bother trying to open the file. If you DO use GPG my public keys are at MIT, NSA, my homepage and in person.

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[opensuse] Opera
by Vojtěch Zeisek 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, Opera says there is new version (10.62), but version available in NON- OSS repo is old and outdated... Could someone fix it? Thank You, -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://web.natur.cuni.cz/~zeisek/

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] opensuse 11.2, kde 4.5.1, nvidia (proprietary) and desktop effects
by Roger Oberholtzer 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 14:19 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010 08:26:03 Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > After updating to kde 4.5.1, desktop effects stopped. > > Firstly compare the OpenGL vendor and renderer strings output by glxinfo to > the blacklist entries in ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc. The card was not in the blacklist. That would have been too easy :) > If that doesn't give you a smoking gun, try enabling debug output with > kdebugdialog and restarting kwin in a shell (kwin --replace) to see its > reasoning (lines with KWin::CompositingPrefs in them). I selected all the debug levels in kdebugdialog. I see this when starting kwin again: lnguyenh@bass:~> kwin --replace kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-lnguyenh/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312): Couldn't find framebuffer configuration for default depth! kwin(13312): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled kwin(13312): Consult http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KWin/4.0-release-notes#Setting_up QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 kwin(13312) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_cube" is not supported kwin(13312) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_coverswitch" is not supported kwin(13312) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_cube" is not supported kwin(13312) KWin::EffectsHandlerImpl::loadEffect: EffectsHandler::loadEffect : Effect "kwin4_effect_coverswitch" is not supported It is the same with and without a xorg.conf file. The display model and size are correctly detected, and the root window depth is 24. We did consult the suggested link, but it did not seem to provide any new information. I am guessing that the listing above is not from the kdebugdialog flags. Where does that get listed? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- 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 Kernel Upgrade
by JULIAN ENRIQUE OSORIO AMAYA 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Greetings I want to upgrade my 2.6.27.48-0.2-default kernel (openSuse 11.1) to the last stable release (2.6.35.4) I followed the instructions from [1] but it didn't upgrade my openSuse 11.1, it installed the 11.3 version Is there a kernel repository and then add it to zypper and do the upgrade? Or this [2] is the best way? [1] http://en.opensuse.org//SDB:System_upgrade [2] http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse What is the best way to do that? Thanks for your time -- Julian Osorio Amaya Universidad Libre. Ingeniería de Sistemas. Bogota - Colombia Linux User #522550 -- 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 GNOME after upgrade
by Robert Schweikert 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi, Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel and right click on the desktop does not work either. When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then try to start xlock for example I get the following: -> xclock No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following: -> gnome-terminal No protocol specified Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display: -> echo $DISPLAY :0.0 Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert(a)novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] fyi - any 11.0 users can update mozilla from SLE_11 repo
by David C. Rankin 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Guys, Just a heads up. If anyone has 11.0 boxes left and wants to update mozilla packages, the SLE_11 packages work just fine: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/SLE_11/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Calendar wdiget acting funny
by Marc Chamberlin 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi - I got a funny thing going on with the calendar widget on just my laptop. It works fine on other systems, but on my laptop the calendar shows about half the dates grayed out, or with just bits of the characters showing up. Anyone got any ideas as to why this is happening? I have been doing updates regularly, running SuSE11.2 x64 with KDE 4.5.1 Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] One repo in the pool killing updates - probably utexas.edu - can it be fixed?
by David C. Rankin 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Guys, It is literally like Russian-Roulette updating openSuSE with the mirror pool you get with download.opensuse.org. There is at least 1 maybe more mirrors that give no more than 1-4K/s download speed. (utexas.edu is a know problem repo). This is getting ridiculous. I have had to kill 3-4 updates in the past 2-3 days when I hit one of these mirrors. It would take more than an hour to download an 800k file. I have searched zypper.log and can't find the problem mirror this time. Where to look? Also, this has been a problem for more than a year, why aren't these mirrors being dropped or fixed? I end up having to hard-code the mirror I want just to get reasonable consistent updates. Something should be done to correct this. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.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] Sed error
by Togan Muftuoglu 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi, I am trying to change the SuSEfirewall2 configuration via sed and I'm getting an error. Can anyone highlight what I am missing here ? Thanks sed -i s/FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT\=\"\"/FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT\=\"0\/0\,tcp\,22\,\,hitcount\=3\,blockseconds\=60\,recentname\=ssh\"/g /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 sed: -e expression #1, char 55: number option to `s' command may not be zero -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Russian language support
by Roger Oberholtzer 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

We have had a request from a potential user if they can use openSUSE in Russian. I see support, so I know there is something. I think the main area of use would be KDE on openSUSE 11.2. Does anyone on this list use openSUSE 11.2 / KDE in Russian? Is the support usable? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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