October 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] k9copy
by Basil Chupin 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

I have been using k9copy for some time. Recently I tried to use it[1] but there was no audio on the backup of a new DVD I bought. I wrote the author (twice) but received no response. Today I learnt that the development of k9copy has been terminated (a notice on sourceforge) and there is also this entry in wikipedia: "Development of K9Copy was stopped in 2011 with the author citing the fragmentation of Linux as a major issue.". Does anyone know, please, of a replacement application for k9copy (to be used with, say, openSUSE)? [1] oS 32-bit 11.4 with KDE 4.7.x and kernel 3.1.x. BC^<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9copy#cite_note-3> -- The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Sir Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] On the fly addition of RAID 1 to a "live" system
by Duaine Hechler 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

I'm pretty sure there is but I'm asking to make sure .. I have a live system on sda and currently using rsync to backup to sdb (identical size disk). Also all partitions - including root and boot - are running reiserfs Can I add RAID 1 on the fly without disturbing my live system ? If so, can it be guaranteed ? And, could I be pointed to a procedure ? Thank you, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Question for the hard-disk management experts
by Rodney Baker 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi all. I'm messing around with my Dad's laptop computer - an Acer Extensta 5210 with an 80GB HDD, 1.5GB RAM and Windows 7 (yuk!). Windows 7 runs like treacle on this thing for some reason, and he has another (newer) Windows laptop anyway, so I'm installing oS 11.4 on it for him. The thing is that I want to dump the Windows partition and the Acer recovery partition to a portable drive so that I have a way back if he decides he wants to go back to Windows (which I don't think he will - his desktop machine runs oS 10.3 and he's been using that for ages, although only occassionally - it runs a local IMAP server for him so he can get the same mail on both laptops). Anyway, I've dumped the Windows partition (now 43GB) and the recovery partition (10GB, near enough) with dd if=/dev/sda<1,2> of=<image_name> to a terabyte USB drive, but my question is this. Should I backup the partition table from the original drive as well, to ease the process of restoring it back to its current state before I completely blow away these 2 partitions of the HDD in the laptop? What is the correct way to do this, apart from pen and paper? Assuming I do back it up to the USB drive, what would the process be to restore it? Sorry for the long'ish explanation, but context is sometimes useful. TIA, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News Issue 199 is out!
by Sascha Manns 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 199 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this Issue: Board Election 2011 Loop mount iso files without being root The Qt-Project is alive and many more … For a list of available translations see the Translations Section in the actual Weekly News. [0] http://bit.ly/v8hjHE (in PDF) [0] http://bit.ly/rXewOH (in HTML with Bento Theme) [0] http://bit.ly/tYm4gW (in HTML with Susebooks Theme)) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns Community & Support Agent open-slx GmbH Web: http://community.open-slx.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is ldap TLS working?
by lynn 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

Hi I'm trying to tighten up my ldap server using TLS. My (certainly wrong) method was this: Server: I made a CA certificate and rootca giving the FQDN of the server as the common name for both certs.using yast. I copied YaST-CA.pem from /etc/ssl/certs to /etc/srv/htdocs. Back in Yast->LDAP Server I added TLS and restarted. Client: Yast->LDAP Client, and changed' Addresses of LDAP Servers' from 127.0.0.1 to my FQDN and downloaded YaST-CA.pem, checking the 'LDAP TLS/SSL' box in the 'Secure Connection' section. 1. What is the correct way of doing this? 2. Does this confirm that TLS is working? (all this just for one login?) Thanks. L x Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=0 EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=0 RESULT oid= err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 fd=33 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:47402 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 fd=33 TLS established tls_ssf=256 ssf=256 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=1 BIND dn="" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=1 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=2 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=shadowAccount)(uid=lynn2))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowMin shadowWarning shadowInactive shadowExpire shadowFlag Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 fd=34 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:47403 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=0 EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=0 RESULT oid= err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 fd=34 TLS established tls_ssf=256 ssf=256 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=1 BIND dn="" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=1 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=2 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(objectClass=posixAccount) (uid=lynn2))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=2 SRCH attr=host authorizedService shadowExpire shadowFlag shadowInactive shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowMin shadowWarning uidNumber Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=3 BIND dn="uid=lynn2,ou=people,dc=com" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=3 BIND dn="uid=lynn2,ou=people,dc=com" mech=SIMPLE ssf=0 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=3 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=4 BIND anonymous mech=implicit ssf=0 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=4 BIND dn="" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=4 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=3 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=shadowAccount)(uid=lynn2))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=3 SRCH attr=uid userPassword shadowLastChange shadowMax shadowMin shadowWarning shadowInactive shadowExpire shadowFlag Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1083 op=3 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=0 EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=0 RESULT oid= err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 fd=35 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:47404 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 fd=35 TLS established tls_ssf=256 ssf=256 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=1 BIND dn="" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=1 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=2 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=lynn2))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=3 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=lynn2))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=3 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=4 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixGroup)(|(memberUid=lynn2) (member=uid=lynn2,ou=people,dc=com)))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=4 SRCH attr=gidNumber Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 op=4 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 op=5 UNBIND Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1084 fd=34 closed Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1085 fd=35 closed (connection lost) Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=0 EXT oid=1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=0 RESULT oid= err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 fd=34 ACCEPT from IP=192.168.1.3:47405 (IP=0.0.0.0:389) Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 fd=34 TLS established tls_ssf=256 ssf=256 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=1 BIND dn="" method=128 Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=1 RESULT tag=97 err=0 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=2 SRCH base="dc=com" scope=2 deref=0 filter="(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uidNumber=1002))" Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=2 SRCH attr=uid userPassword uidNumber gidNumber cn homeDirectory loginShell gecos description objectClass Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 op=2 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=0 nentries=1 text= Oct 29 15:14:02 hh1 slapd[1798]: conn=1086 fd=34 closed (connection lost) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Java update?
by Carlos E. R. 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just saw an update to java 1.6.0_29 in YOU - and I understood this was forbidden by the cancelled distribution license. What happened? :-? :-O - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6qps8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XOvgCcD8XHtDYgk4CPke4bb6kTPGbt kx0AnilOb9ofS3XnSu5kKsHZ6uiOZIHt =jC5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] apt-cacher-ng, rpm and opensuse - caching of downloaded rpm's
by Scott Newton 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

I wanted someway of caching both debs and rpms but couldn't really find anything that was easy to use and setup. The user manual for apt-cacher-ng had a limited amount of info on using it with openSUSE but I initially couldn't get it to work. After some configuration tweaking I got it working and thought other people might be interested in using this as a solution. I'm also hoping other people with come forward with the solutions they have found that have worked for them (or improvements to what I've done). In my particular case apt-cacher-ng is running on a Debian server but that shouldn't make any difference. The changes I've made to the apt-cacher-ng configuration file acng.conf are as follows: VfilePattern = (^|.*?/)(Index|Packages\.bz2|Packages\.gz|Packages|Release| Release\.gpg|Sources\.bz2|Sources\.gz|Sources|release|index\.db-.*\.gz| Contents-[^/]*\.gz|pkglist[^/]*\.bz2|rclist[^/]*\.bz2|/meta-release[^/]*| Translation[^/]*\.bz2)|repomd.xml|xml.gz|content|media$ PfilePattern = .*(\.deb|\.rpm|\.dsc|\.tar\.gz\.gpg|\.tar\.gz|\.diff\.gz| \.diff\.bz2|\.jigdo|\.template|changelog|copyright|\.udeb|\.diff/.*\.gz| vmlinuz|initrd\.gz|(Devel)?ReleaseAnnouncement(\\?.*)?)$ The openSUSE changes I've made are to the repo files in /etc/zypp/repos.d. I've added the line: proxy=<ip of apt-cacher-server>:<port-of-apt-cacher-server-3142-by-default> at the bottom of each of the repo definition files. That was all that was needed. The only real issue I have is apt-cacher-ng doesn't seem all that fast to updating is a fair bit slower than normal. -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] "noarch" listed in updater applet
by Jon Cosby 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

I just upgraded to openSUSE 11.4 x86_64, haven't taken the time to add any repositories as yet. All updates in the Gnome updater applet are listed as "noarch." This was happening in 11.3, and was part of the reason I got around to upgrading. I couldn't figure out where these were coming from. rpm and zypper indicate I have the 64-bit apps installed. I can't find this in the bug tracker, is anyone else having the same problem? Can it be ignored, just using Yast or zypper to update? Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Remote files using SSHFS without mounting
by Brian K. White 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

On 10/27/2011 6:04 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 13:21 -0400, Brian K. White wrote: > >> >> Except, http://foo.foo.com/blah is a perfectly valid local filesystem >> path. You can have a directory named "http:", you can have two "/" next >> to each other and it means the same as just one, for a reason (think >> building paths out of variables and one variable may be empty sometimes >> and sometimes not), even the ?'s and @'s and %'s in a query string are >> all valid filesystem characters. >> > > That is really sick ;[)) > Actually, i think you ought to make a "http://" directory, not "http:" > as you run into problems with making "//" dirs. > > Anyway, contraptions like these are fun to humor novice sysadmins (and > break sloppy scripts), just like dirs/files beginnibg with a space.... > > hw > Yep. Basically it's just not the low level building block tools place to tell the user and the high level tools what use to make of a low level facility like the filesystem. The filesystems job is just to make as many things possible, as possible. What the user does with filenames is not the kernel or libc developers business. There are a very few unavoidable technical limits, and even those are really not limits just, things that would be silly and inconvenient to do very much, like embedding an escape code or a form feed in a file name. It's not convenient to type, and breaks a lot of common expectations and will break all but the most well coded programs, but there are also any number of unpredictable reasons why you might actually want to do it. There is nothing wrong, at that level, with naming a file or a directory with characters that just happen to be similar to what url's look like, any more than there is anything wrong with making file/directory names that happen to look like any other kinds of strings that are found in other contexts. In fact practically every file or directory name looks like something else that is not a file or directory. Your home directory is your name, the directory it lives in is the english word home, etc.. most names have some sort of meaning. A path that looks like a url is exactly like that, and support for that is specifically provided on purpose not by accident. What I'm trying, poorly, to get across is it's wrong to think in terms of what is commonly done, today, in ones own limited experience. Things like the shell and the filesystem and the libc and kernel functions that use them, these are all low level building blocks that everything else is built on and made out of. Low level pieces like that have no idea what high level uses will be made of them, and if they are to be useful, they need to have as few built in assumptions and limitations as possible. So that's why if an app wants to specially recognize urls and treat them differently, and give up the ability to handle a real local file that had the same characters, the app is free to do that because it's only the app that will be hurt by the short sightedness. The kernel, libc, other core libs, shell, and other core utils, all have to be a lot better than that and make no such assumptions. I think I just said the same thing 3 times with hardly enough variation to be helpful, sorry. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Interesting KDE 4.7 X server problems
by Lew Wolfgang 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi Folks, A few days ago I did a zypper dup against the KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_11.4/ repository and boy howdy, the pasta really it the fan! I initially had an ATI adapter and after the upgrade kdm would crash, as would xstart after Xorg was made suid root. After flailing around and making negative progress I decided to retire the whole desktop and made a new installation on a second system with an NVIDIA adapter. After the same update to 4.7 kdm was crashing again, as was X started manually. The Xorg.0.log log didn't have any "EE" errors, X just blinked out of existence. After more flailing about I discovered that X failed ONLY for users who listed tcsh as their default login shell! Bash users worked fine after issuing "startx". Kdm is still borked. So X has an issue when being started from the tcsh shell. Think this is worth filing a bug report? Anyone else seen it? Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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