December 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] why not openSUSE used grub 2?
by LinuxIsOne 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

hi, Why openSUSE is not using grub 2 by default? I am just asking for information point of view, don't want to get into the flames. 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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Re: [opensuse] 12.1 GRUB Loading Hangs
by Dennis Gallien 09 Dec '11

09 Dec '11

On Wednesday, December 07, 2011 04:37 PM Stephen P Molnar wrote: > I have a 64bit AMD CPU with 3MB Ram and 4 HD's and have been running > openSUSE11.2 on a the system which boots into either openSUSE 10.3 or 11.2. > > I have just done a new installation of 12.1 from the DVD to the 4th HD on > the system with sdd1 as / and hdd2 as home. In fact I had to install the > system twice as the first time I didn't use the auto configuration and for > a reason unknown t me the boot hung a rebooting. > > The second time I used the automatic configuration and received neither > warning nor error messages during the installation and the system rebooted > at the appropriate dime during the installation. I was even able to change > the user to root after the installation was complete. However, when I > rebooted the system from the root directory the boot process showed: > > GRUB Loading stage 1.5, but hung on > GRUB Loading, please wait . . . > > Oh yes, I told the installer to put the boot loader in /, not the MBR. > > I was able to reboot into openSUSE 10.3 by mounting the 11.2 DVD and > running the installation process to the repair page. I Can mount the 12.1 > DVD on the system > > While I was able to boot into 12.1 it looked as if it was running well. > > Any assistance will be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a > fuzzy set > Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic > and multivariate > http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com > (614)312-7528 (c) > Skype: smolnar1 There may be a problem with where grub stage1 was pointed to find its stage2, or stage1 may not be running from where you think it is relative to your bios boot configuration. Use the 11.2 DVD to mount the 12.1 installed partition, then take a look at the 12.1 /etc/grub.conf. That is the batch command file that the installer creates to feed to grub, which does the actual installation. And compare the grub notation to /boot/grub/device.map to ensure the commands map correctly to your bios boot sequence. From that you may be able to determine what the installer actually did. -- 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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Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice/LibreOffice won't launch - Suse 11.2
by James D. Parra 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

On 12/8/2011 3:19 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * James D. Parra<jamesp(a)musicreports.com> [12-08-11 15:08]: >> Inexplicably, OpenOffice/LibreOffice won't launch anymore. For example, if I type 'oocalc' at a prompt nothing happens. The same is true if I type 'libreoffice --write'. Using 'ps aux|grep oocalc' or 'ps aux|grep libreoffice' shows no processes either. This is true for any user on the machine, including root. No errors are logged to /var/log/messages. >> >> Any suggestions to discover and correct the problem are welcome. I'd rather not resort to just rebooting the machine as I would prefer to find where the problem is. >> > your lines are not wrapped. > > try: ps aux |grep libre > > the *splash may be loaded w/o one of the *apps*, ie: oocalc, oowriter Hello, You might also want to consider running "strace command" to diagnose any problem during start up. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you Bombshellz, Got an interesting trace, although I am not sure what it means; # strace oocalc execve("/usr/bin/oocalc", ["oocalc"], [/* 67 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x69e000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f92d6b33000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f92d6b32000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/bash/4.0/tls/x86_64/libreadline.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/bash/4.0/tls/x86_64", 0x7fff7bd24950) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/bash/4.0/tls/libreadline.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/bash/4.0/tls", 0x7fff7bd24950) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/bash/4.0/x86_64/libreadline.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/bash/4.0/x86_64", 0x7fff7bd24950) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib64/bash/4.0/libreadline.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/lib64/bash/4.0", 0x7fff7bd24950) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=150419, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 150419, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f92d6b0d000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib64/libreadline.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\360g\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 <snip> James -- 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] OpenOffice/LibreOffice won't launch - Suse 11.2
by James D. Parra 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

> Inexplicably, OpenOffice/LibreOffice won't launch anymore. For example, if I type 'oocalc' at a prompt nothing happens. The same is true if I type 'libreoffice --write'. Using 'ps aux|grep oocalc' or 'ps aux|grep libreoffice' shows no processes either. This is true for any user on the machine, including root. No errors are logged to /var/log/messages. > > Any suggestions to discover and correct the problem are welcome. I'd rather not resort to just rebooting the machine as I would prefer to find where the problem is. > your lines are not wrapped. Try: ps aux |grep libre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello Patrick, # ps aux|grep libre root 27226 0.0 0.0 6408 812 pts/16 S+ 12:22 0:00 grep libre A process does not appear after attempting to run any of the OO apps. It is odd. Best, James -- 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] Latency in redraw when switching to Firefox
by Anton Aylward 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I'm using Firefox as my web browser under KDE4. I have a number of virtual desktops. FF is in #2. TBird is in #1. Konsole is in #4, Dolphin is in #3. FF has a number of tabs open. Switching between tabs is fast; minimizing FF and re-enlarging and dragging it around the screen is fast. But ... If I switch to another virtual desktop ... What's there comes up, redraws fast. Even Thunderbird, even when the mail item is, god help us, some HTML mail full of in-line images! If I switch to any desktop other than FF its fast. But if I switch to the FF desktop then ... I get the KDE window decoration, the title, the frame ... but no content. It might take from five seconds to two minutes for the stuff of firebox to appear. Not just the page, but the other stuff to, the menu bar, the sliders, the location/navigation bar, the short-cut bookmarks bar, the status bar. When they all do appear they appear in a flash and all of FF responds promptly to any changes like changing tab, menus, bookmarks, history and so on. Yes, FF is big, but I've tried closing the other applications and just having something small like an xterm on one other virtual desktop. And to be fair, I can make other applications "big" without this problem. Heck, Thunderbird takes about 30% more virtual memory, has about 40% more data+stack, about 20% more shm, and about the same resident memory. I've tried googling for issues to do with "tuning" FF and yes, when its up its very responsive! But there is the latency when switcvhing to its virtual desktop under KDE. And yes, this happens with my experimental Fedora-15 machine as well. KDE4 is fully patched. FF is 8.0 though this has persisted from previous versions. I'm open to suggestions as to how to track down what the problem is. -- "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt -- 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] 12.1 GRUB Loading Hangs
by Stephen P Molnar 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I have a 64bit AMD CPU with 3MB Ram and 4 HD's and have been running openSUSE11.2 on a the system which boots into either openSUSE 10.3 or 11.2. I have just done a new installation of 12.1 from the DVD to the 4th HD on the system with sdd1 as / and hdd2 as home. In fact I had to install the system twice as the first time I didn't use the auto configuration and for a reason unknown t me the boot hung a rebooting. The second time I used the automatic configuration and received neither warning nor error messages during the installation and the system rebooted at the appropriate dime during the installation. I was even able to change the user to root after the installation was complete. However, when I rebooted the system from the root directory the boot process showed: GRUB Loading stage 1.5, but hung on GRUB Loading, please wait . . . Oh yes, I told the installer to put the boot loader in /, not the MBR. I was able to reboot into openSUSE 10.3 by mounting the 11.2 DVD and running the installation process to the repair page. I Can mount the 12.1 DVD on the system While I was able to boot into 12.1 it looked as if it was running well. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate http://www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 -- 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] Upgrading from 11.4 to 12.1 - now emergency only mode
by Phil 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi All, I apologize if this was brought up in another location, but I recently upgraded my 11.4 openSUSE box with 12.1 via the zypper command line. I can now only enter openSUSE 12.1 via the emergency log-in using the root password. I think my main question is: how do I get back into normal mode? What type of info can I give you guys over the mailing list to help you help me? I don't seem to be able to SSH or FTP into the pc from another computer on the local network, so I don't know how I will be able to copy/paste some info in here. Thanks for any help in advance. -- Phil / w2lie -- 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] Kmail not quoting and appending successive reply thingamabobs.
by Roger Luedecke 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

I had to reset my Gmail on Kmail. Now what I wanted to work right is, however now it isn't quoting at all whether I highlight or not. Also, it likes to add "Re:" to EVERY reply, not merely the first one. It is these behaviors (among others) that got me using KMail in the first place, and I'd like that behavior back to as it was. I have looked in every concievable place for the settings that govern that, but it all looks set correctly. -- Surprise due today. Also the rent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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