February 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Detected scanner, proper driver, won't scan
by Stan Goodman 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

The scanner is Epson 640U, in recently installed oS v11.3. YaST > Scanners finds it. scanimage -L and scanimage -T don't. Attemps to scan produce "Failed to start scanner. Invalid argument", which is not very informative. A review of a number of Google hits doesn't add more. I am assuming (hoping) that I have left something undone, but have not found anything to point me to it. Ideas? -- 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] errors after update to 11.2
by Mike 05 Mar '11

05 Mar '11

I used zypper dup to upgrade from 11.1 to 11.2 After restarting it had another huge bunch of packages to update after restarting again I get this message when updater applet runs User is not permitted: org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.1 Repositories
by Mark Misulich 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi, it looks like Opensuse 11.1 is starting to go away to die of old age. Unfortunately I have to keep using it on this laptop, as Opensuse 11.2 & 3 don't turn on the cooling fans to keep the laptop from overheating. Only 11.1 works. I have addressed this issue with Novel via bugzilla, but they haven't provided any solution. I have found that the repos are slowly going away for updates. I removed the repos for Education OpenOffice Wine devel:languages Perl as they don't exist anymore for 11.1. Does anyone know where I may find these repos now? Thanks -- 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 increase ROOT size using GParted?
by Mike 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

OpenSUSE 11.3 ROOT located on /dev/sdb6 with 3.0MB free (not good!) I want to increase /dev/sdb6, obviously. I booted to GParted and decreased the space on my OVERFLOW which is /dev/sdb8. The space is now unallocated with 1.46GiB but I cannot increase the size of /dev/sdb6. I also have 5.94GB unallocated on the same drive. /dev/sdb1 = ntfs 46.20 GB (I dual-boot, don't hate) (unallocated space shows here in GParted) - I formatted this before and it shows as /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdb3 = ext4 /dev/sdb2 = an extended partition /dev/sdb5 = linux-swap (SWAP1) /dev/sdb6 = ext4 (ROOT1) /dev/sdb7 = ext4 (HOME) /dev/sdb8 = ext4 (NEWSYS) (unallocated space shows here in GParted) How can I use the unallocated space to increase the space on /dev/sdb6? I also have /dev/sda1, sda2, sda3 with a lot of free space but I believe I cannot use it because it is on sda... Thank you for any help you can provide. ~ Mike -- 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-announce] openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Steps Out
by Petr Mladek 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi Andreas, Andreas Jaeger píše v Po 28. 02. 2011 v 09:49 +0100: > The transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice still has a few minor > documentation blips but more importantly, users should be cautious. The raft > of new functionality has created a few specific issues, such as loss of data > in tables. Though not quite ready for the production environment, user > feedback is critical for smoothing performance and reliability. I am not aware of any data loos in tables. Could you please be more specific? Is there any bug number? Best Regards, Petr -- 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-announce] openSUSE 11.4 RC2 Steps Out
by Petr Mladek 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Hi Andreas, Andreas Jaeger píše v Po 28. 02. 2011 v 09:49 +0100: > The transition from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice still has a few minor > documentation blips but more importantly, users should be cautious. The raft > of new functionality has created a few specific issues, such as loss of data > in tables. Though not quite ready for the production environment, user > feedback is critical for smoothing performance and reliability. I am not aware of any data loos in tables. Could you please be more specific? Is there any bug number? Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Reinstalled v11.3
by Stan Goodman 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

After another period when I was unable to reinstall the v11.3 that I messed up, I now have a happily running installation on fresh partitions, and I have begin to transfer data from the wreckage of the corrupted one. Everything I have checked on the new installation, which is still running kde v4.4.4; given that v11.4 is announced for release in March, I think it makes more sense to wait for it to bring an up-to-date kde with it. What I want to do now is to get the Address Book into Akonadi. What I have transferred into the new installation is a folder containing a large number of small of individual files (*.vcf), each with a gibberish name, relating to individual contacts. I found these files in folder <~/.local/share/contacts>. I have not found information that might help me deal with this array of encrypted files to get them into a single large file, and to integrate it with Akonadi. I would appreciate help in finding what I need to do. Beyond that task, I think the only other KDE data that needs to be transferred is the message-folder structure of Kmail. I have spent quite a lot of time trying to locate it in the corrupted installation (which I can access in runlevel 3), but withiut success. Where is 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] find out how many time reiserfs is mounted
by west alto 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Hi gurus, How do i find out, how many times my reiserfs partition is mounted? I'm using sles9 sp4 kernel version 2.6.5-7.308. My situation is racing against time, we have a problematic db that we need to reboot every week and and should be up within 30 mins or less. Our problem is when during boot when suse run a force fsck which would prolong our downtime (fsck for more than 500gig of data would take a while or more than 1 hour). If only we know how many time the server is booted then we can advise our user for an extended downtime. Is 20 mounts/remounts would force fsck on the partition? am I correct on this? Thanks for your help. --- West Alto -- 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/Android connectivity?
by Philip Vossler 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Has anyone experience connecting an Android based smart phone to an OpenSUSE system? via USB? When I connect a Samsung Galaxy S there is no mention of the event in /var/log/messages which I find surprising. I have never come across a usb device that does not create an entry of some kind, even if it doesn't have a driver... What I should most like to do is see the Galaxy as another hard disk under OpenSUSE 11.3 (the alternative I may investigate is a solution with WiFi using nfs or cifs). Any assistance appreciated, regards Phil Vossler -- "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." BENOIT MANDELBROT 1924 — 2010 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] synaptiks 0.5
by Roger Oberholtzer 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:07 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2011 12:09:31 Raymond Wooninck wrote: > > On 02/27/2011 06:33 PM, todd rme wrote: > > > Synaptiks was recently updated to 0.5 (now 0.5.2): > > > http://synaptiks.lunaryorn.de/ > > > > > > However, this version is a rewrite in python. Should the openSUSE KDE > > > version be updated as well? > > > > > > -Todd > > > > Hi Todd, > > > > I have been looking at this version and packaged it already. However the > > 0.5.2 release has some regressions as that my touchpad is no longer > > recognized. > > > > As that this is a rewrite of synaptiks, the decision was taken not to > > update the package in KDF. > > I'm very much against having always-on default-install applets in scripting > languages - a quick look at the Python printer-applet in system monitor shows > it squatting on a breathtaking 33MB. Not so much because RAM is scarce, but > because they take a long time to start up on login. Has anyone looked at the > synaptiks rewrite to see if it is all python, or if the always-on parts are in > something lightweight? I was wondering why python was running on my system. And although RAM is cheap, that does not mean that all systems can have more added. These 33MB here and 33MB there all add up... Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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