March 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Can't send mail to any server: "Socket Operation timed out"
by Stan Goodman 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

That's been happening since this morning. Incoming mail and the web are accessible. Hits for this error message, when they are about email, seem to want to blame the server, but this is happening with three different servers, and another machine has not problem with the same servers. I have not found anything helpful by way of troubleshooting, and have no idea how to seek the source of the problem. Help? -- 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] Yast update!
by Jan Litwiński 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Welcom! I am new to openSUSE, I have 11.3 gnome version and I want to upgrade via Yast Online Update, but there are not any available patches. Help me TIA -- Jan Litwiński http://janek.wroc.prv.pl/ Linux is like a wigwam no gates no windows but apache inside -- 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] Need help with using cruses in c program
by Cristian Rodríguez 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

El 10/03/11 11:49, Terry Eck escribió: > On 03/09/2011 09:58 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: >> You probably want to install ncurses-devel >> and run >> >> >> gcc `ncursesw6-config --cflags` account.c `ncursesw6-config --libs` ... >> >> >> HTH. >> > Please tell me more about what is after ... I was able to compile > account.c but not get a Segmentation Fault when the program is run. This > has not happened in the past. > Thanks for any ideas/help > Terry > If it crashes, there might be an incompatibility, install gdb, compile the program #gdb yourprogram (gdb) run (gdb) bt full post your result to the list. -- 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-doc] openSUSE 11.4 manuals ready for translation / 11.4 changes
by pistazienfresser (see profile) 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

CC: opensuse(a)opensuse.org To: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-doc/2011-03/msg00000.html * From: Frank Sundermeyer <fs@xxxxxxx> * Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:03:02 +0100 * Message-id: <20110301160302.6ef5a827(a)pythagoras.suse.de> > #### 11.4 Changes ###### > > > Start-Up: > --------- > For 11.4 we completely revamped that Start-Up guide. It now consists of > 5 chapters derived from the former quickstarts: > > * Installation > * KDE > * GNOME > * LibreOffice > * Help & Troubleshooting > > The first 3 chapters have been shipped as separate Quickstart with > former openSUSE versions (filenames are the same as before). The > LibreOffoce part is new, the Help & Troubleshooting remains in the > Start-Up. > > Reference: > ---------- > Most of the stuff that has been in previous Start-Up versions has been > moved/merged into the Reference Guide. > > Files having been added from old Start-Up: > > * xml/inst_yast2.xml > * xml/yast2_hw.xml > * xml/yast2_sound.xml > * xml/yast2_scanner.xm > * xml/newbie_bash.xml > * xml/newbie_perm_i.xml > * xml/newbie_bash_commands_i.xml > * xml/nm.xml > * xml/nm_kde.xml > * xml/nm_gnome.xml I have just given a new user (who as got his system a bit ruined) a link to: Novell: openSUSE 11.2 Start (html) > 6.1 Benutzerkonzept > 6.1.1 Unterschiedliche Benutzerrollen http://www.novell.com/de-de/documentation/opensuse112/book_opensuse_startup… witch equates to openSUSE Start-Up > Chapter 6. Basic Concepts http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE_113/opensuse-startup/cha… form Start-Up (Date 09 Mar 2011) http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE_113/opensuse-startup Have I only not been able to find the passages in the new Reference or the new Startup or do you think something like it is not more necessary? I would doubt that it would be really wise to drop basics like that completely. Regards Martin -- - Martin Seidler - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] misc problems with 11.3
by Sampsa Riikonen 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Dear List, I wanted to ask the community about these issues I have had with suse 11.3 (32 bit, KDE 4.4.4) before starting to file bug reports. - When installing using a DVD iso (some one month ago) downloaded from opensuse.org, the MD5 hash sums did not match. .. I had to install using the network installation instead. - openoffice hangs when trying to export excel tables. - multimedia is, as usual, pretty hosed. When opening a folder which has . mov (quicktime) movies, dolphin crashes. This is because it tries to create a preview and as always, xine backend does not work at all with quicktime files. - .. I tried to fix the following problem (worked with earlier suse versions) by installing the vlc phonon backend. But on the other hand, when I go to the kde configuration module and click "multimedia" I get a kde crash announcement. No way to enter the "multimedia" module. - I am getting all the time kde crash announcements concerning knotify. - Amarok does not start but it crashes (probably because of that multimedia thing). Any ideas how to fix these issues? Regards, Sampsa -- 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 11.4 – A New Hallmark For The openSUSE Project
by Henne Vogelsang 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Dear openSUSE Community. Users. Contributors. Fans and friends. The time has come: openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!. After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, download it and upgrade! We are proud to announce the launch of 11.4 in the openSUSE tradition of delivering the latest technology while maintaining stability. The 11.4 release brings significant improvements along with the latest in Free Software applications. Combined with the appearance of new tools, projects and services around the release, 11.4 marks a showcase of growth and vitality for the openSUSE Project! Read on for more details about this release… http://news.opensuse.org/2011/03/10/opensuse-11-4/ The openSUSE Project -- http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ATI Radeon (radeonhd) oddness
by Roger Oberholtzer 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

(I realize that I am posting lots of X stuff this week. All I can say is that an update a week ago caused numerous problems. On numerous system. For numerous card types... I am working through these issues. Most solutions seem to be finding the specific thing that was updated and reverting or selecting an alternative implementation. Sorry for all the traffic.) I have an openSUSE 11.2 system with a ATI Radeon FireGL V3300. After an update a week or so ago, X has become very very sluggish - to the point of almost not being usable. All desktop effects are off. The driver is loaded as: [ 16.599] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeonhd_drv.so [ 16.626] (II) Module radeonhd: vendor="AMD GPG" [ 16.626] compiled for 1.9.3, module version = 1.3.0 [ 16.626] Module class: X.Org Video Driver [ 16.626] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 8.0 I see in the X log the following statements: [ 16.753] (II) [DRM] Kernel mode setting disabled [ 16.753] (EE) KMS is disabled. This is good for us, because RADEONHD conflicts with KMS. [ 16.754] (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIVersionCheck: symbol GlxSetVisualConfigs not available. [ 16.754] (WW) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIPreInit: Version check failed. Disabling DRI. [ 16.965] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found) This is odd. I see in my xorg.conf file the following: Section "Module" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "glx" EndSection Are these appropriate for the ATI driver? The file was created with sax. The X driver is: xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd-1.3.0_20100512_80ba041-34.19.i586 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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[opensuse] audio access for other users
by xPol 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

i use to start firefox (or other applications) from terminal, as a different user than the kdm session owner. Audio is off for that user. How to fix? Thank you ---p -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FTP-server problem ?
by Koenraad Lelong 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

Hi, We manufacture devices which download firmware to program themselves. For that I set up a KVM virtual machine with a dhcp-server, a DNS-server and a ftp-server. Everything works fine, except that after a number of devices have connected, the server runs out of memory and kills processes to recover memory space. One of those processes is named, which is needed for the devices to find the ftp-server. Top and ps aux don't display anything I can see that consumes much memory : about 80 processes, everyone using 0.1% of memory, some a little more. First the vm had 512M of memory, I tried 1G of memory with the same problems. Any suggestions where to look ? The procedure more in detail : A device gets an ip-address from the dhcp-server together with the address of the name-server. Then the device contacts the ftp-server by using its name. The device logs in anonymously and gets its files. Then the device logs in using a name and password to upload a log-file. The device configures itself and on a regular basis the device continues to log in to upload log-files, a few hundred bytes. After configuring itself (takes about 10 minutes), the device enters a loop to test itself. It also logs in to see if there are new files, and uploads a log-file. I have the impression that the upload in the testloop causes the memory-consumption, which I see with top. At more or less at the same time, there are 12 devices connected to the ftp-server. After all devices are physically disconnected from the network, I see the memory "recover" but that takes a while, not fast enough to continue connecting devices. After some 20-30 devices, the system becomes unusable, because of the killed processes. The ftp-server is vsftpd. More memory seemed to help nothing, even the contrary, I have the impression the machine runs out of memory faster. I decreased some time-outs, maybe not enough ? idle_session_timeout=120 data_connection_timeout=120 Unfortunately, it's difficult to debug this : after configured, it takes much work to put the devices in their "virgin" state. And now the devices are shipped to the customer. But there will be others in the near future, so I would like to solve this problem. I hope this makes sense so somebody might have an idea where to look, Thanks in advance, Koenraad Lelong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can anyone help me getting gdb installed?
by Per Jessen 10 Mar '11

10 Mar '11

I've already amended bug 669498, but I'd like some help to get around this - I'm trying to install gdb: # zypper in python-base Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Problem: patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base-11.4-6.9.1.x86_64 conflicts with python-base provided by python-base-2.7-8.4.x86_64 Solution 1: deinstallation of patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base-11.4-6.9.1.x86_64 Solution 2: do not install python-base-2.7-8.4.x86_64 Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): pi08:~ # zypper in gdb Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... Problem: gdb-7.2-3.3.x86_64 requires python-base, but this requirement cannot be provided uninstallable providers: python-base-2.7-8.4.i58 [openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0] python-base-2.7-8.4.x86_64[openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0] python-base-2.7-8.4.i586[repo-oss] python-base-2.7-8.4.x86_64[repo-oss] Solution 1: deinstallation of patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base-11.4-6.9.1.x86_64 Solution 2: do not install gdb-7.2-3.3.x86_64 Solution 3: break gdb by ignoring some of its dependencies Any suggestions? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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