May 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Old releases
by mattias 22 May '11

22 May '11

i have asked this before i no but the answer are no longer avaiable on this computer where to find old opensuse releases? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Almost tossed out a working hard drive - Dolphin.
by John Andersen 22 May '11

22 May '11

I had to copy a 29 gigabyte file from a drive in an external firewire (scsi) enclosure to an internal hard drive. So I connected the drive, selected open in dolphin, and dragged the file from the firewire to home directory. I did this multiple times, because each time it would get some distance into the file and start throwing multiple firewire_bp2 scsi aborts into the log, and the disk light on the enclosure would go out and many minutes later the dolphin process would indicate a read error on the drive. It also seemed to get progressively slower and slower probably because it was spending so much time resetting the scsi bus. Googling around there was some mention that Dolphin often had problems copying big files or many many files. Some of these are as recent as January. So I opened a shell and copied the file manually and the drive never burped up a single scsi abort, the drive light never went off, and the entire file copied perfectly in one go. So I tried again with Dolphin and got the same scsi aborts. So don't trust dolphin on big file moves. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Installation issue(s) for openSuSE11.4
by Marc Chamberlin 22 May '11

22 May '11

I have gotten to the point where I try to avoid using YaST tools as much as possible, but the one time I must rely on them is when I do an upgrade/install of a new openSuSE system. (Since the usage of YaST is deeply embedded in the installation scripts) And true to form, it once again proved to be a challenge. In particular, two areas failed badly on me this time, so thought I would report it. Let me know if these should be reported as bugs. 1st. The bootloader that sets up the GRUB menu's failed to find and merge in any of the menus from other openSuSE partitions. I had both 11.2 and 11.0 versions installed, in separate partitions and the YaST->Bootloader failed to find either one. I have a suspicion that since 11.2 was installed as an image that has something to do with the failure, but have no explanation for why it failed to find the 11.0 menus or create an entry for it in the boot menu. (When I was running 11.2, I could chainload 11.0 just fine.) I gave up on YaST, and simply hand copied the various menu entries from the old boot menus into the new one for 11.4 and all is working fine. 2nd. The network configuration got the udev names eth0 and eth1 assigned backwards to the two network interface cards I have on my system. Since that would have caused serious problems for many of my scripts/software, I attempted to reverse the assignment, once again via the Yast Network Settings tool, and found that so seriously messed up the network that I was unable to proceed with the installation and had to start over. The second time I just avoided trying to set up the network during the installation process, and waited until the system was fully booted up. Tried again with YaST to change the udev names and found YaST again became quite confused. After a lot of head-scratching and guesswork, I simply rebooted. That worked, SO apparently YaST has modeled itself after Windoz and requires a reboot now in order to get udev name changes applied? If so, then trying to set up the network during an installation process needs to be rethought a bit as it can cause a LOT of confusion!!! Just an FYI.. Been a frustrating experience doing what should have been a simple upgrade... Marc.. -- 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 Weekly News 176 is out!
by Sascha Manns 21 May '11

21 May '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 176 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this Issue: openSUSE Conference 2011 to be creative and open! Manu Gupta: My GSoC Project – SaX3 Linux Tag 2011 Will Stephenson: Have you BURPed yet today? and many more ... For a list of available translations see the Translations Section in the actual Weekly News. [0] http://bit.ly/mSYZR3 (in PDF) [0] http://bit.ly/k4MpAB (in HTML with Bento Theme) [0] http://bit.ly/liPJsS (in HTML with Susebooks Theme)) -- Sincerely yours Sascha Manns open-slx.com openSUSE Community & Support Agent openSUSE Marketing Team Blog: http://saigkill.wordpress.com -- 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] copy/mv in MC
by Felix Miata 21 May '11

21 May '11

On 2011/05/19 11:38 (GMT-0400) Larry Stotler composed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400552 ... >> On more than one system? Using which video chip(s)? With what output from >> /proc/cmdline? > Desktop/Server: > root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD360ADFD-0_WD-WMANT1012447-part2 > splash=silent > uname -a :Linux Server 2.6.25.20-0.7-default #1 SMP 2010-02-26 > 20:32:57 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > cat /proc/cpuinfo: > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 15 > model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E1200 @ 1.60GHz > Laptop: > Thinkpad A22p/512MB/320GB > Shift-F6 tries to delete. Shift-F4 shows the filename....... Weird. > Both systems are openSUSE 11.0 fully updated(laptop is 32bit). The > laptop was recently re-installed(bad RAM chip corrupted the > filesystem). > Still weirded out that it works differently on both machines...... That's half what the bug is about. The effect of shift/ctrl/alt with F[3,4,5,6] shouldn't depend on whether you're in or out of X, or what runlevel you're in. Edit current name shouldn't be Shift-F6 in X and runlevel 1, while Shift-F4 does the same thing on the ttys in runlevels 2-5 and Shift-F6 wants to delete current. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Mozilla Firefox add blocker
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 21 May '11

21 May '11

Do not know when I first discovered but since some time I can not close my gmail session because the upper part of the site is missing. Looked into gmail help site and discovered that this is said to be caused by a running pop-up add blocker. Looked into the setup and preferences of Firefox but did not find anything with regard to add blockers. What did I miss? I am running the Firefox 4.01 from opensuse 11.4 -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.39-rc7-24-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.3 (4.6.3) 15:39pm up 1 day 0:50, 3 users, load average: 1.88, 1.54, 1.36 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Repair OpenSUSE 11.4?
by Mike 20 May '11

20 May '11

Is there a way or utility/tool to repair (system) files or check if needed files are missing and then correct the situation? Thank you, Mike -- 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] openSuSE 11.4 - Printing bug
by John Layt 20 May '11

20 May '11

On Thursday 19 May 2011 14:40:18 Johannes Mueller-Lahn wrote: > Hello, > > I just tested cups-1.4.6-70.1, and the problem is the same. Also I have > installed KDE 4.6.3 (rev 4) with QT 4.7.3, and the problem is also the > same. > > Best regards, > > Johannes Müller-Lahn Just to repeat what I said earlier, the fact it prints fine from gtk apps means it's not a cups bug, but to confirm it is solely a Qt bug you do need to test with a pure Qt program, not a KDE program. The easiest one to try is Qt Assistant for which you will need to install the libqt4-devel package. I could look at the bug, but I'd guess it would take half a day to debug and another half day to fix and test (not that I can really test it without a 3rd paper tray myself), that's just time I don't have right now, sorry. John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KPackageKit will ignore package locks
by John Andersen 19 May '11

19 May '11

Just a word to the wise, if you have Locked locked packages in Yast/Zypp for what ever reason, the little Updater tool KpackageKit that lives in your task bar will erase the locks that are stored in /etc/zypp/locks and update packages that you may need to remain back-level. Three is a bugzila report (690038) of this already but as of today it is still malfunctioning. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bug in update Hylafax on OpenSuSE 11.3
by Claudio Prono 19 May '11

19 May '11

Hello all, Tonight my Fax Server, based on OpenSuSE 11.3, has done an hylafax update, to hylafax-6.0.4-4.3.2. After the update, the file /var/spool/fax/bin/faxrcvd is back to his default. The file contains the file type of the attachment for the Mail sended when a fax is recieved. My config is of sending PDF files, the default is PS. So, i have modified back this file with adding the following line: FILETYPE=pdf I hope for the next update this condition is resolved.... Cordially, Claudio Prono. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claudio Prono OPST System Developer Gsm: +39-349-54.33.258 @PSS Srl Tel: +39-011-32.72.100 Via San Bernardino, 17 Fax: +39-011-32.46.497 10141 Torino - ITALY http://atpss.net/disclaimer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Key - http://keys.atpss.net/c_prono.asc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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