February 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Problem with activities on KDE4.4 / OS11.3
by JC Francois 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Hi, Out of curiosity I tried to change the activity of my Desktop from "Desktop" to "Search and Launch". It worked, I enjoyed the menu for a while and then decided to go back to my previous settings. The problem is that with the "Search and Launch" activity the cashew in the top right corner is gone and right clicking on the desktop does nothing. How do I change the activity back to "desktop"? Thanks, ~/jc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Selected text in Okular, KDE4 stopped responding requiring hard reset?
by C 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

I opened a PDF in Okular 0.12 (a single page text document), and selected the text. As soon as I did this, KDE4.6.0 started doing odd things. Apps stopped responding to mouse clicks, the KDE4 desktop stopped responding (eg clicking the KMenu or any app in the taskbar did nothing). I could switch apps using Alt+Tab, but the apps did not respond to mouse clicks. I switched over to tty1 and logged in as root. Attempts to kill Okular (using kill -9) didn't help. Okular wouldn't die.... same with trying to kill any other open app from CLI... they never changed state, and never exited. I then killed X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice. This seemed to work, but KDM did not relaunch and put me in the login screen. At tty1 I attempted to do an init3, and this failed with a KDM not responding error. Last resort, I typed reboot and hit enter. The system message "The system is going down for reboot NOW" was shown... but the reboot never happened. I ended up having to do a hard reset to get back up and running. So... I probably could have troubleshot this a lot better, but... these are the basic steps I did up to the hard reset. Checking the /var/log/messages file, there is nothing there that gives me any clue what happened.... ------------------ Feb 4 09:59:30 linux-dmo6 rsyslogd: -- MARK -- Feb 4 10:05:01 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:05:01 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:06:28 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:06:28 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:07:07 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:07:07 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:07:58 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:07:58 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:09:44 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:09:45 linux-dmo6 acpid: 1 client rule loaded Feb 4 10:09:55 linux-dmo6 kdm[1430]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Feb 4 10:10:05 linux-dmo6 init: Switching to runlevel: 3 Feb 4 10:10:34 linux-dmo6 shutdown[5454]: shutting down for system reboot Feb 4 10:14:05 linux-dmo6 kernel: imklog 5.4.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. ------------------ Anyone encounter something like this before? Any tips on where else I can look to figure out what went wrong? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] "Starting KTTSD Failed"
by Stan Goodman 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:38:32 you wrote: > On 02/03/2011 11:19 AM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > That's the error message that has popped up on the screen from time > > to time in the v11.3 installation that I got around to doing only > > yesterday. It always happens when I have just pressed the return key > > to change to jump from one app to another (but not always even then). > > This message would be disquieting under any circumstances, offering > > no clue to how to find the reason for the failure. But given the fact > > that KTTSD is not installed on this machine at all, it is really > > unnerving. > > > > What should I conclude from these reports of failure of a phantom > > app? How might I cause this supernatural phenomenon from occurring; > > how can I appease the poltergeist that is doing it? > > This is just a rough guess: install KTTSD? The reason it is "failing > to start" and the popup is being created is that the program can be > found. As I said above, "KTTSD is not installed at all". I have no reason to install it, and YaST sees that a package of this name exists on a repo, but says it is not installed. A <find> search starting from the root does not see any file named (or starting with) "kttsd" or even "KTTSD". -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] What repositories going foreward?
by John Andersen 04 Feb '11

04 Feb '11

Now that we have arrived at KDE 4.6.0, after a rather smooth "stabilization ride" I'm wondering what repositories would be be the best to be using going forward. This version has most things working, and it seems to be a joy to use KDE again. I don't mind an occasional short term breakage here and there as long as core packages continue to work. I like to be up to date, but also up and running. I've been getting KDE from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.… Is this still the place to be for stuff that mostly works? -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- 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] "Starting KTTSD Failed"
by Stan Goodman 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

That's the error message that has popped up on the screen from time to time in the v11.3 installation that I got around to doing only yesterday. It always happens when I have just pressed the return key to change to jump from one app to another (but not always even then). This message would be disquieting under any circumstances, offering no clue to how to find the reason for the failure. But given the fact that KTTSD is not installed on this machine at all, it is really unnerving. What should I conclude from these reports of failure of a phantom app? How might I cause this supernatural phenomenon from occurring; how can I appease the poltergeist that is doing it? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- 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] Lost virtual desktops
by A. den Oudsten 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

I'm using 11.3. I lost my 4 virtual desktops in the panel. What's the trick to get them back? T.i.a. André den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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