November 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] virtualbox in 11.4 with kde3
by kanenas＠hawaii.rr.com 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

ok, been playing w. 11.4, but i have installed kde-3:) .(just some personal issues with widgets and plasmoids, please don't attack:)) the only problem so far is virtual box, it fails to start. rerunning setup does reconfigure it, still it fails to open an x window. any pointers? thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 12.1 OK, how do I switch back to if-up control
by Bruce Ferrell 24 Dec '11

24 Dec '11

Hi all, Not trying to throw jet fuel on a fire, but when I switch to runlevel 3, I have no active network anymore. It "looks" like systemd configure itself to whatever is running at upgrade time and if you don't have a gui environment, you're kind of screwed. there doesn't seem to be a way to re-configure to if-up. I would *really* like a choice between systemd and traditional init. I much prefer system-v. -- 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] LibreOffice 3.4.4 ?
by akouane 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hi there, Does anyone there know if LibreOffice 3.4.4 will be available in the LibreOffice OBS repo (or OSS, of course) ? That would be great since it corrects this bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39510, which makes LibO 3.4.1 to 3.4.3 quite useless as soon as you use a fair amount a footnotes ... Cheers ! -- 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] What's a good JSON viewer?
by Greg Freemyer 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

All, Is there a decent JSON viewer in the distro or in OBS. I'm trying a firefox plug-in (JSONview) and I'm not very impressed. Thanks Greg -- 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] Why is /var/log/boot.msg not written to with systemd?
by Carlos E. R. 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Why is /var/log/boot.msg not written to with systemd? Is it a bug, is it logged somewhere else? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7SyywACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xr9gCfUspXFgAfJoRm5DweoOMsr3Lk 9iEAniAB9V3w1WyzV6g2+Db+WP2RPn+X =4/Jh -----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] OS 12.1: KDM first login always fails
by JC Francois 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi, I just installed OS 12.1. everytime I boot into KDM and try to access my account the login fails. I type my password, press enter and the background of the login and password field turns light red for a few seconds. The password is cleared, I enter my password again and I can get in. Anybody else seeing this? -- 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] BASH - rankinism - best way to trim string and add ellipses (or other char)?
by David C. Rankin 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

DH, All, I want a function 'ellipse' that will take a string 'str' and trim it to length 'len' and set the 'end' number (default = 3) of characters to 'chr' (default='.'). So if I call it like this: myvar=0123456789 echo "mydefvar: $(ellipse $myvar 7)" echo "mynewvar: $(ellipse $myvar 7 3 '*')" I get: mydefvar: 0123... mynewvar: 0123*** What I have come up with is the following, but I would like comment on how to make it better, etc.. Is there a way to eliminate the for loop and just use string substitution to overwrite the last 'end' number of characters with 'chr' that would be more efficient? What says the brain trust. ellipse() { # validate sufficient parameters passed [[ -z $1 ]] || [[ -z $2 ]] && { echo "ERROR: Insufficient input in fxn ellipse"; return 1; } str="$1" lim="$2" end=${3:-3} chr=${4:-.} # validate integers [ $lim -eq $lim ] 2>/dev/null || return 1 [ $end -eq $end ] 2>/dev/null || return 1 [[ ${#str} -gt $lim ]] && newstr=${str:0:$((lim-end))} { for((i=$((lim-end));i<$lim;i++)); do newstr=${newstr}${chr} done echo "$newstr" } || { echo "$str" } } -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] Re: SSD in openSUSE.
by Joachim Schrod 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> wrote: >> Greg Freemyer wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Joachim Schrod <jschrod(a)acm.org> wrote: >>>> If you can afford it, don't use 15% of the disk. To get this free >>>> space, use secure erase to reset the disk's firmware notion of what >>>> you're using, and then don't allocate 15% of the disk during >>>> partitioning. >>> >>> Undocumented feature time. First secure erase is not always >>> implemented on SSDs, so don't trust it. >> >> That's new for me, I haven't found this information via Google. >> >> Can you give more information, maybe perhaps some links, about that >> issue? I've always thought I can rely on secure erase via hdparm, >> while respecting the frozen issue/state. > > My knowledge is under NDA. I will just say that for a while a major > manufacturer returned success for secure erase commands, but if you > disassembled (desoldered) the chips and took a look, data was still > present. Yes, that I've read. But that was not my use case. My use case is "SSD firmware uses all sectors for wear levelling after secure erase". I don't care if the data is still on it. Does your NDA-knowledge include information about that use case? Please note that my posted steps include one step to unlock an SSD, so locked devices are covered. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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] OS12.1 is there a known issue with soft-raid1 ?
by Andreas 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi is there a known issue with soft-raid1 on OS12.1? I've got two PCs that won't start a soft-raid1 on reboot. I can set it up with YAST it gets mounted and I can copy files on MD0 after I close YAST. But on the next reboot apears an error that the superblock were unreadable. This happens on both machines. One is an AMD5200 with 4GB RAM and 2 x 300GB HDD. The other one is an old Pentium4, 512MB RAM, 2 x 40 GB HDD. So they are pretty different but show the same problem. Any idea ? -- 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] How to see GUI for disk usage
by LinuxIsOne 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hi, Is there any way we can pictorial see the disk occupied by the different partitions? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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