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[opensuse] openSUSE 11.3: how to save the package list on a failed install
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hi, I have finally gotten around to installing openSUSE 11.3 on a PC I have. However, I have made two complete attempts and several "fix it" attempts on the first failed attempt and have yet to get a successful install. The installs both failed with the "fetchmsttfonts" failing and resulting in a "YaST2 Error Command exited with status 5" error popup with an "OK" button on it. I am looking for some way to proceed from here without having to restart the install from scratch again and to have to select all the needed packages yet another time. More background follows. The first time thru, I saw the "OK" and clicked it before reading anything else and the installer aborted back to text mode. I tried running the install again as an upgrade install, hoping that would fix it, but, instead, first got a system that only booted to runlevel 3 and was mostly unconfigured (I could not log in at all even though I'd set a user account and a root password!). Subsequent upgrade install attempts resulted in the installer recommending the deletion of several hundred packages, increasing in number each time I ran it(!). I did another install attempt from scratch, this time using the netinstall CD and selecting the oss, non-oss, and update repos (the first install attempt had been made from the install DVD with the addition of the Addon-NonOss-BiArch and AddonLang CDs as well as the three netinstall URIs above). Again, the install failed. This time I read the entire screen and have not yet clicked the "OK" button. I logged in to the system from one of the available text mode consoles and noticed that the system is still mostly unconfigured. What should be my next move from here? Is it possible to rescue this install? If not, is there a way to obtain a copy of the package list and import it into a new, fresh install so I don't have to go thru all the packages looking for the ones I need (a time consuming and tedious process for me). I found the y2log and the zypp/history log files which contain millions of lines of status between them and which appear to contain all of the packages selected. However, I was not able to locate a simple package list anywhere. If there is not list, anyone know the required format so I could possibly format, e.g., the zypp/history log contents into a suitable file? Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, --Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli openSUSE, RHEL, CentOS psaeli(a)zorodyne.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] batik - calls commitment to quality into question (broken since release and still not fixed?)
by David C. Rankin 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

openSuSE Devs, batik-1.7-211.2 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/batik: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory This has been broken since 11.3 was released..... -- 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] kde4-4.5.5 kcolorchooser - howto stop it from dimming display so I can 'choose' a color from the screen?
by David C. Rankin 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Guys, This is somewhat comical behavior. When you start kcolorchooser, the screen is dimmed (the same way it gets dimmed when you choose shutdown) making it impossible to 'choose' a color from the screen with kcolorchooser. I know this is probably a setting somewhere that causes this to happen. None of the other apps dim the screen when I launch them. Thus the irony -- "kde4 kcolorchooser can't choose a color from the screen" because it dimmed the darn thing when it launched. Where is the mysterious setting that will fix 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] How to install behind a proxy?
by Josef Wolf 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hello, I tried to install opensuse11.3 behind a firewall. The installer for older releases used to offer the possibility to deactivate automatic configuration (directly after accepting the license). When this option was checked, it was possible to configure the proxy (and hostname and more things) before the online-update was run. This "deactivate automatic configuration" button seems no longer to exist. So, how am I supposed to configure the proxy before running the online update without this option? BTW: Older releases used to offer a shell on virtual terminals. This was convenient in the case of problems. This also don't seem to be available any longer. Why? -- 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 11.3 KDE not running anymore
by Bruce Samhaber 05 Feb '11

05 Feb '11

Hi, I have OpenSUSE 11.3 with a system that hangs when run in Normal Kernel mode; does not hang in Failsafe mode. In trying to fix that problem I booted with the Kernel with the option nomodeset. As of that boot and another KDE will not run from the KDM4 display manager. I am really stuck with this machine and openSUSE. Help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Bruce Samhaber Tel/Fax: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Cell: 613-297-6961 Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 3L1 mailto: bruce.samhaber(a)samhaber.ca http://www.samhaber.ca -- 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 align for 4kb sectors?
by Andrew Joakimsen 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

I've installed a new RAID array in my home server and the disks are using 4KB sectors instead of the traditional 512 byte sectors. How do I properly align the partitions to this disk? YaST partitioner shows "cylinders" and I can not come up with a formula to convert cylinders to sectors. My understanding is since 8 x 512 = 4096 (4kb) all I need to do is ensure that my partitions are aligned to multiples of 8 sectors. -- Med Vennlig Hilsen, A. Helge Joakimsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is ntfs-3g safe?
by John Perry 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

I've installed suse and Windows xp on my wife's new computer; she's not very confident of her ability to deal with computers, and she has to use xp for work, so she insists on her xp at home. I find that ext2fs doesn't work any more because suse, like most (all?) other distributions has gone to 256-byte inodes rather than the original 128-byte inodes, and to get back to the old structure means backing up my entire 150G home partition and reformatting it. But ntfs-3g, which ships with suse, claims to read and write to ntfs partitions, but writing is disabled by default because it's "unsafe". I've installed ntfs-config, but haven't had the courage to use it because in the course of finding out why I could no longer use ext2fs (which I've used in the past), I ran across several statements that writing under ntfs-3g could corrupt ntfs partitions, and that's why it's disabled by default. But the most recent of these statements is two years old in an ubuntu forum archive. Is ntfs-3g still risky? I'd really like to use it to put information into my xp account so when my wife preempts her computer (struggling with xen, unfortunately), and when I need engineering resources not available under linux, I don't have to juggle flashdrives and such. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Unable to unsuscribe
by Fer 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

I know i need to send a message to opensuse+unsuscribe(a)opensuse.org... I already have done that but I'm still receiving mails. Obviously i'm doing something wrong but don't know what... please help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] T510 Gotchas
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

I'm about to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad T510 w/ the switchable graphics (Optimus). Any hardware I should avoid (e.g., WiFi adapters, fingerprint reader, Bluetooth)? Any advice on make switching between the Intel integrated graphics and Nvidia discrete graphics easy? TIA, Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Display just broke on me after an update
by Marc Chamberlin 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

OK, I think nVidia just broke my laptop on me. I had noted that the openGL screen savers had stopped running so decided to look into why. Googling and poking around I came across an nvidia configuration tool so thought I would give it a try... nvidia-xconfig Didn't give me any kind of feedback so who knows if it worked ok or not... I also happened to do an update on all packages from the repositories, that are newer than the ones I have, hoping for a fixed driver or something. So who knows if the update broke something... sigh.. Anywise, after rebooting, I can no longer get past the init 3 level. The GUI desktop at init 5 fails to come alive. So can some kind guru help me get my poor laptop back up on it's feet? Appreciate it.. Marc.. Here are some of the particulars - I am running openSuSE 11.3 x64 uname-a gives Linux MarcsLaptop 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13_53 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The Xorg.0.log file gives me this bit of interesting info at the end, but it makes no sense to me.. [ 16.078] (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0 [ 16.078] (EE) No devices detected. [ 16.078] Fatal server error: [ 16.078] no screens found [ 16.078] Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 16.078] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 16.078] lspci | grep -i nvidia gives 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2) rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia gives nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-260.19.29_k2.6.34.0_12-21.1.x86_64 nvidia-settings-260.19.21-0.pm.1.6.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-260.19.29-22.1.x86_64 I tried to use the backup version of xorg.conf but no joy... cat xorg.conf gives # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.29 (buildmeister(a)swio-display-x86-rhel47-04.nvidia.com) Wed Dec 8 12:27:39 PST 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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