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[opensuse] forums?
by Dave Howorth 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Anybody know what's happened to the forums? -- 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: Nvidia vs ATI
by Joachim Schrod 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Stan Goodman wrote: > On 07/19/2011 11:57 AM, Joachim Schrod wrote: >> Stan Goodman wrote: >> >>>>> But if you say that Intel support for their chip is "right around the >>>>> corner", that opens up a more appealing possibility. >> Stan, I haven't followed this thread closely enough: Which Intel >> embedded graphics chip do you have that's not working? >> >> I have a Dell desktop with Intel i7-2600 that has an HD3000 >> embedded graphic. X works here on 11.4. >> >> Joachim >> > It's called "Intel HD Integrated Graphics". That's a chip family. Probably its HD2000 or HD3000. As I wrote: it works here in a desktop setting. It's not appropriate for gaming, but for office work it's sufficient. I don't know if suspend works; my new Thinkpad T420s that has also this graphics chip hasn't arrived yet. Then I'll know. ;-) AFAIK, http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4/ has version 2.15.0 of the intel driver that's more current than the one from 11.4+updates (2.14.0). Maybe that helps with your problems. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: chrony and hwclock
by Joachim Schrod 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Per Jessen wrote: > Joachim Schrod wrote: > > It is also clear that the switching of time servers according to > availability and quality works very well, just as it is (fairly) clear > that Roger's problem is more of a timezone issue than an ntp ditto. I wasn't referring to Roger's laptop problem. That clearly seems like a configuration error. I referred to his goal to get robust and reliable time syncs in his automotive IT systems, i.e., in embedded car systems with intermittent GPS connections. >> I had big problems in the past when ntpd decides that a time source >> is too unreliable and either drops it, or maybe even terminates >> itself because all time sources are too much off. > > But localhost would surely always be available? That's not the problem. If you start ntpd with only localhost, and if a time server gets available later whose time is different by more than 20 minutes, ntpd will terminate itself. (To be more precise: the difference must be as large for some polls, 8 IIRC, to get a full reach shift register of 0377. But polling is not good for Roger's automotive IT use case and should be avoided anyhow, we have already agreed upon that.) Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: chrony and hwclock
by Joachim Schrod 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 07:40 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote: >> Roger Oberholtzer said the following on 07/19/2011 06:45 AM: >> > Maybe I should have written that like this (which is what I meant): >> > >> > 2. The hardware is in localtime when the system is booted, and there is >> > a timezone specified that specifies how this differs from UTC time. >> > >> >> That might be your problem. >> If the setup assumes you scenario #1 but the hardware is actually in #2 >> that could account for the offset you see. > > It would. But I have scenario 1 through and through. And I think the > system is set up that way in that in /etc/sysconfig/clock I have: > > HWCLOCK="-u" > > TIMEZONE="Europe/Stockholm" > > Which I think it the only place this is set. All else derives from this. No. The TIMEZONE value is only documentation by openSUSE what time zone was set up during installation. During actual operation, /etc/localtime is used. More relevant, during boot & shutdown, *ONLY* /etc/localtime is used, since no TZ environment variable exists then. You can verify my statement by calling strace hwclock -r >hwclock.log 2>&1 and examining the log file. There you will see that /etc/localtime is opened for reading. That's why I posted the 5 action steps which include the test if /etc/localtime has the correct value. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: chrony and hwclock
by Joachim Schrod 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > Can I be sure ntp knows that my 2 hour time difference on the hardware > clock is correct and not an error? Remember that the hardware clock is > UTC time. As Carlos explained, ntp doesn't know anything about hardware clock. The CMOS hardware clock's clock, time is transferred by boot.clock to the system hardware clock. ntpd only works with the system hardware clock, not with the battery-buffered CMOS hardware clock. > And we do not all live in that timezone. Per and I are from Europe as well, and it works at our installations. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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] Re: chrony and hwclock
by Per Jessen 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 10:44 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> Hmm, I think it's a system thing too - see /etc/localtime > > There are two possible usage scenarios: > > 1. The hardware is in UTC time, and there is a timezone specified > that specifies how to report the local time from the UTC time. Right. > 2. The hardware is in localtime, and there is a timezone specified > that specifies how this differs from UTC time. No, I don't that is an option. It doesn't matter what UTC time when everything is in local time. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.4°C) -- 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: Nvidia vs ATI
by Joachim Schrod 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Stan Goodman wrote: >>> But if you say that Intel support for their chip is "right around the >>> corner", that opens up a more appealing possibility. Stan, I haven't followed this thread closely enough: Which Intel embedded graphics chip do you have that's not working? I have a Dell desktop with Intel i7-2600 that has an HD3000 embedded graphic. X works here on 11.4. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Printer USB connection problem
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Since some days my serial port has a problem and I am not able to use my local printer. I got aUSB printer adapter cable and expected that that would solve my problem. I started Yast and expected to find the USB connected printer. No printer detected, even with the printer wizzard under the USB connection. Lsusb shows : "Bus 002 Device 004: ID 4348:5584 WinChipHead CH34x printer adapter cable". Is there some trick? Could somebody tell me how to proceed? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-rc4-2-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) 18:08pm up 1 day 18:21, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.05 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kernel-source question
by Bob S 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hello SuSE people, Running 11.4 with kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop I need the kernel-source for that kernel. Doesn;t seem to be one. I went to the opensuse software site and did a search for it. The closest kernel-source I could find is 2.6.37.6-43.1.noarch Would that work? Bob S -- 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 support for USB-readers
by Hans Witvliet 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

As it is (also) a SuSE-issue, posting here might be more appropiate... Hi all, I had to re-install one of my boxes, but it seems I lost support for USB-readers. If I restart pcscd, I got in syslog: "Disabling USB support for pcscd" I went googling but all I found (in Ludovic's blog) that disabling it resulted in better performance for embedded devices. Other references were about an incorrectly installed openct-software, or a outdated version. So after i had re-installed openSuSE (11.4), i installed pcsc-lite-1.7.4-57.1 (from the add-on repo) and its libs, but same results. Anyone around here, that can tell me how to get the old behaviour (supporting usb-readers) back again? =================================================================== >From the man page: "USB SMART CARD READER DRIVERS: USB smart card reader drivers are located in /usr/lib64/readers directory as a bundle. You shall not add a USB driver in /etc/reader.conf file." But no clue about the so-called "bundle" that should reside in either /usr/lib/readers or /usr/lib64/reader And after install libmusclecard-utils (that apperently holds BundleTool). i started it up, but the tools finished directly saying "no drivers exists - exiting" Its manpage says that BundleTool lets you _select_ one from several bundles, but still no clue how te get hold of one. All i want is to (continue to) use my simple USB-reader. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SUDO always requires password 11.4
by James Knott 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

I have a directory /local/usr/bin/sudo, which I use to hold scripts that would normally require root privileges, but I want to start as a user, usually via the menu. I have used visudo to edit the sudo file in the same way as an 11.0 system, where this works as expected. However, I can't seem to get this to work without being asked for the root password. I have added "jknott ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/sudo/*", which is supposed to enable running items in that directory without requiring a root password. Is there some difference between 11.0 (and earlier) and 11.4 that might cause this problem? tnx jk -- 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: Java issues
by Joachim Schrod 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Marc Chamberlin wrote: > I am running openSuSE 11.4 on an x64 machine, and when it was installed, > it installed the x64 version of the openJDK 1.6 Java by default. But > when I tried to install Eclipse and the Apache-James server source for > debugging purposes, I found that I could not run Eclipse using the x64 > openJDK. SO I uninstalled it and installed the i586 (32 bit version) of > Java 1.6 from Sun. You should not use Sun's 32bit Java, but the one from openSUSE. On our 11.4 64bit systems, we installed the following packages: java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586 java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586 java-1_6_0-sun-devel-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586 java-1_6_0-sun-jdbc-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586 java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586 In case you don't know this: You do this with zypper install java-1_6_0-sun.i586 etc. I.e., you specify the architecture explicitly. Afterwards call update-alternatives --config java and select the 32bit Sun Java (that's the one in /usr/lib and not in /usr/lib64). I have also zypper-locked "java-*-openjdk-devel", though I don't remember why; maybe some left-over from a previous installation. It works very good, very few problems up to now. A few 32bit package versions of Java-related libraries are missing; we recognized libtcnative (for Tomcat) and libsvnjavahl (for Subversion). If you really need them, you have to compile them yourself, or learn OBS usage, or learn to use /usr/lib/mkbaselibs. FWIW, we don't use Eclipse from OBS (wouldn't even know if it's there at all); but install one from Eclipse.org in /opt. We can't rely on any distribution here, since we cannot use Helios and need to stay on Galileo, where JSF 1.2+Facelets still works. If you want to do so, installation notes tell me that we needed to install the additional packages mozilla-xulrunner20.i586 mozilla-xulrunner20-gnome.i586 I don't remember why, maybe to make Eclipse help working. HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: chrony and hwclock
by Joachim Schrod 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Per Jessen wrote: > > I don't use NetworkManager, and my systems run all the time. The > hardware clock is of course UTC, local time is CET/CEST. So, did you ever run systems with intermittent and unreliable time-delivered-by-GPS situations and used NTPD in such or similar environments? This reads more as in "my systems are almost always on-line and ntpd works there; it can handle the occasional drop in Internet connections". It's quite clear that ntpd works there like a charm. I had big problems in the past when ntpd decides that a time source is too unreliable and either drops it, or maybe even terminates itself because all time sources are too much off. I hope that it's clear that this is not handled by the ntpd service start when the servers are *not reachable at all* during startup. When they suddenly appear later on and are off completely, ntpd may lose its mind. ntpd has also great difficulties when time sources disagree massively what the time is. ntpd works great if you have multiple time-sources that are almost always available and where only quality of connection is managed by ntpd. The more spurious your connection becomes, and especially the more bad time source data quality is, the more problematic is its behavious -- and analysing "why for heaven's sake" the time got wrong this time is a herculean task that I wouldn't want to do for an embedded system that is literally off-roads. In the case of Roger, there is the additional problem that ntpd uses inherently a polling model for its time sources, with staggering polling intervals that shall spare the time servers from overload. AFAIU, Roger needs the complete opposite, a triggering model that takes into account each available PPS signal. Since I don't know chrony, I don't know if it delivers that -- but if it does so, if it is robust, and if the code looks good, I would go with chrony in the use case that Roger describes. Cheers, Joachim PS: In case this isn't clear: I fought with error analysis in big ntpd installations over several continents more often than I care to remember; at least if I want to sleep good at night. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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: chrony and hwclock
by Joachim Schrod 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Does the hwclock shutdown script maintain any > information used by any systems other than hwclock itself? No. (If you mean "hwclock shutdown script" to be /etc/init.d/boot.clock.) If chrony maintains the hardware clock / system clock relationship itself, chkconfig --del boot.clock and turn on chrony. But if chrony is only concerned with the system clock (as ntpd is), don't turn boot.clock off. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Software Management closes after install - openSUSE 11.4 - KDE
by James Knott 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

In 11.0, when a package was installed via Software Management, it remained open prompting for another package to open. However, with 11.4, Software Management closes immediately, requiring it to be restarted, scanning and all, before another package can be installed. This is an irritating waste of time, when installing multiple packages. Is it possible to restore the previous behaviour? tnx jk -- 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: Search KDE 4 Application Launcher
by James Knott 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Dave Griffiths wrote: > If using classic mode for the menu, just use krunner via Alt-F2 instead. Then > typing the first few characters of the application name brings up a list to > select from. Would that not go some way to working around the limitation of > the classic menu? > The nice thing about that search was that it showed you where in the menu an item is. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Java issues
by Marc Chamberlin 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

I am running openSuSE 11.4 on an x64 machine, and when it was installed, it installed the x64 version of the openJDK 1.6 Java by default. But when I tried to install Eclipse and the Apache-James server source for debugging purposes, I found that I could not run Eclipse using the x64 openJDK. SO I uninstalled it and installed the i586 (32 bit version) of Java 1.6 from Sun. That resulted in a number of broken links in places like /etc/alternatives, /usr/lib/jvm.... Also the java files and links were not removed from /usr/lib64/jvm resulting in java environment variables such as JAVA_HOME etc being incorrectly set to point to x64 java packages (because of the mere existence of these files and links remaining in the lib64 directory). In other words, this resulted in a real mess and it has taken me quite a bit of time and effort to track down and fix. (which scares me because if an update for Java comes along, what is going to happen to all my changes...) My question is this, is running (or downgrading to) a 32 bit version of Java on a 64 bit machine not supported in openSuSE? Should I be complaining about it here (perhaps submit a bug report) or should I go to Eclipse and complain about not being able to run Eclipse under an x64 bit architecture? (Don't ask me what all broke, I spent a number of hours tracking things down and have no idea what all the changes I made were... and a few things are not well documented either so I had to make a few guesses...) 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] Lost title bar
by Anton Aylward 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

In experimenting with lightweight desktops, LXDE and XFCE4, I have managed to mess up my basic windows settings for everything including KDE4. In particular I've lost the title bars and with the ability to drag windows, resize them and so on. I have also messed up a lot of the basic desktop. I thought this was another one of those compiz problems, the one where you wipe compizrc and restart, but it seems not. Any suggestions as to what I should try next? -- Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. Sydney Smith -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] DLS connection in 11.4 after fresh DVD install
by Istvan Gabor 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Hello: I tried to install yesterday openSUSE 11.4 from install DVD (downloaded from download.opensuse.org). Unfortunately a known bug hit me when I wanted to configure DSL connection: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668586 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678396 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679112 In short, when one wants to configure DSL in YaST2 a window comes up and says: "These packages need to be installed: linux-atm-lib" If you click ok/install an error message pops up: "The required packages are not installed. The configuration will be aborted. Try again?" If you click No, the configuration is canceled, if you click yes, the loop starts again. In https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668586 comment 21 says: "Update released for: yast2-network, yast2-network-devel-doc Products: openSUSE 11.4 (i586, x86_64)" For me this implies that the issue is solved in the updated yast2-network package. Nope. I pulled down the required package and installed it manually. Now YaST2 instead of linux-atm-lib asks for libatm1 which is not on the DVD either, and configurator loops as before. Did I do something wrong or openSUSE? How can I fix this by not installing packages from other versions (11.2 or 11.3 eg)? In my opinion it is strange already that after a fresh DVD install a simple DSL connection can not be configured. This worked in every suse version I tried so far. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4, cups and linux to linux printer sharing
by Duaine Hechler 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

On my main box, I always try to keep up with the versions. However, this time, after upgrading to 11.4, my cups, Linux to Linux, printer sharing broke. Applied the same parms and setting as 11.3 - firewall, etc. On my wife's box, the printers can be seen but there is some sort of error about not being able to get to the printer queue. Sadly, so far, in the end, had to roll back to 11.3, for now. Will testing this in VirtualBox work ? (Live system running 11.3, VB running 11.4) Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- 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 formatting a flash card
by listreader 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

openSUSE 11.4 / kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop / Gnome 2.32.1 I have been using SDHC flash cards for data backups, reformatting them as ext4 with LUX encryption. This has worked very nicely with a mixture of cards from various manufacturers, but now I've come across a problem one. The card is a SanDisk 16gb SDHC 'standard version' (their words) that refuses to format as anything other than FAT. It seemed to format OK, but when mounting it fails (with the all too familiar log message of 'JBD: no valid journal superblock found' and 'EXT4-fs (dm-1): error loading journal'). I messed around with it for a while, using both the Yast2 formatter utility (from 11.4) and the Gnome gui utility (Disk Utility 2.32.0), but no joy. Here are a few of the error messages I recorded... ============== Error deleting partition An error occurred while performing an operation on "New Volume" (Partition 1 of Generic- Multi-Card): The operation failed Details Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, offset=16384 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=16526606336) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 16526589952, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected got it got disk got partition - part->type=8 refusing to delete a metadata partition ==================== The partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. ===================== Error Operation not permitted on disk /dev/sdc ! The partitioning on your disk /dev/sdc is either not readable by the partitioning tool parted used to change the partition table or is not supported by this tool. You may use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are or format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk here. ===================== I have a support inquiry in to SanDisk, but I'm not real hopeful of getting a response real soon. Anyone here know what's going on with this card? 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] openSUSE Weekly News 184 is out!
by Sascha Manns 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

We are pleased to announce: Issue 184 of openSUSE Weekly News is out! [0] In this Issue: openSUSE Conference 2011 Registration opened Google Summer of Code Reports Sascha Manns: How to use three Open Build Service Source Services to simplify the packaging Linux Foundation: basysKom, Codero, Gluster and Nixu Open Join The Linux Foundation For a list of available translations see the Translations Section in the actual Weekly News. [0] http://bit.ly/nsDN3w (in PDF) [0] http://bit.ly/q4gvOZ (in HTML with Bento Theme) [0] http://bit.ly/pPEpUW (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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[opensuse] Fans off, not cool!
by Mark Misulich 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Hi, I did a zypper dup on my computer the other day and as best I can remember the following were updated: kernel-default kernel-default-devel kernel-devel kernel-source kernel-kmp kernel-firmware Now, the cooling fan on my laptop doesn't work at any temperature. I had been running the latest kernel-3.0 rc from kernel head, now I am back to a 2.6.37 kernel after the update. I have looked in the Kernel:Head repository and don't find the previous release candidate kernel rpms available anymore, it seems they have been erased. Is there any chance that the kernel guys that maintain the repo could repost the latest kernel rc with the previous stuff that makes the fans work back to the reppositories so that I can reinstall them and get my cooling fan working on my laptop again? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Upgrading Firefox
by Stan Goodman 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

I have two machines, both v11.4, one of them newly installed, both with Firefox 4.0b12. YaST Software Manager says that FF v5.0 is available. Trying to download the newer release causes the Software Manager window to collapse at once, leaving no remark about why it is doing this. Downloading Thunderbird, on the other hand, goes without a hitch. Why might this be happening with Firefox? -- 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] 11.3 Gnome2 window placement FAIL
by j debert 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

32b OpenSuSE 11.3, Gnome 2.30 When Gnome is started, it places all previously open windows in the correctly remembered positions on each desktop and just before it's finished starting up, *ALL* the windows fall into the northwest corner of desktop 1. Even if this is acceptable, default behaviour, it is unwanted, undesirable. Is there a way to persuade Gnome to keep all windows where they were placed and not drop them all in the corner? I don't see any config setting that would work, Anyone have a magic spell, curse or threat that does? Thanks, jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] New v11.4 installation -- odd behaviors
by Stan Goodman 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

Because my venerable Pentium 4 motherboard died yesterday, I have a new MB (i5 CPU on an Intel HD67BL board) and have installed 64bit v11.4 on it. I am non-plussed by some of the behaviors I observe. I hope someone can help me understand them. 1) But immediately upon booting the installation DVD yesterday, and again when I started up the installed system todday, I was asked to choose a display mode. I was offered a small group of options to pick be entering the number. The one I wanted was listed as: f 35A 1600x1200x32...(I would have chosen 60Hz if it were offered) I tried enterring "f", "35A", and "f 35A", and was rewarded each time with an error message telling me that the entry was not a valid mode. Permitting the system to make up its own mind, the boot proceeded, and I went to Systems Settings to see what it had chosen. It is 1024x768 at 60Hz (no better resolution is offered). Even the ancient Pentium 5 was able to give me the higher resolution, and at the 60Hz refress rate. My conclusion is that there is an setting I must change, but I see nothing suggestive in the BIOS, so I may be overlooking something. Perhaps someone can see what that might be. 2) In System Settings > Common Appearance > Account Settings > Password and User > User Information, I am asked to enter my name, email address, and SMTP server. After doing so, the following error appeares: "An error has occurred, and your name has probably not been changed.The error was chfn." II had enterred the very same neam I had written in the installation process, with no changes. I have no clue what "chfn" should tell me. What does it want to see in the name field (if that is really what is bothering it)? 3) I want to use the Lancelot launcher. I unlocked widgets and clicked on "Add widgets", then found the Lancelot widget. Clicking on it brought it on to the Desktop, after which nothing I could do would move it to the Panel, where I think it belongs, as I had done in v11.3. What is the trick for doing this? -- 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] Considering a move from SCSI to SATA
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

Hello We have always used SCSI disks in our data collection systems. The data collection can be quite a bit at a time. 1 MB per second is not unusual. And this is sustained for, perhaps, hours at a time. We originally chose SCSI when the option was IDE. It was a no-brainer. Over time, SATA disks have made great progress. For example, this disk from Western Digital: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd6000hlhx-velociraptor-600gb,review-31853-3.… My question is, does anyone have any experience with these disks when writing sustained amounts of data? I am guessing there is some interaction between the disk, the controller, and the Linux device driver in terms of features available. 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] (OT) Copy (going bad) game CD's with ....
by Duaine Hechler 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

I have a game CD, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, that is acting up. It will install but it complains about reading the CD to play the game. It says to put in the "real" CD not a backup. What can copy this - blasted - thing ? Tried k9copy and from the get go, it says "can't read the CD". Thanks, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 1) A Systems Settings question; 2) A widget question
by Stan Goodman 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

I do not understand the following behaviors in a newly installed v11.4 system. 1) In System Settings > Common Appearance > Account Settings > Password and User > User Information, I am asked to enter my name, email address, and SMTP server. After doing so, the following error appeares: "An error has occurred, and your name has probably not been changed.The error was chfn." II had enterred the very same neam I had written in the installation process, with no changes. I have no clue what "chfn" should tell me. What does it want to see in the name field (if that is really what is bothering it)? 2) I want to use the Lancelot launcher. I unlocked widgets and clicked on "Add widgets", then found the Lancelot widget. Clicking on it brought it on to the Desktop, after which nothing I could do would move it to the Panel, where I think it belongs, as I had done in v11.3. What is the trick for doing this? -- 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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RE: [opensuse] New v11.4 installation -- odd behaviors
by Karl-Heinz tm 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Stan, on your problem #1: what video card are you using? I have had this behaviour on machines where the kernel does not recognise the video card (e.g. Nvidia) correctly and then switches to the vesa/fb driver, offering nothing better than 1024*768. Installing the proper video driver would fix that issue. Mode f 35A sounds weird. The VESA mode for 1600/1200/32 is 322, which is equivalent to Linux's video mode number 834. Have to tried passing the command "vga=834" to the kernel command line upon boot? Unfortunately this may not work even if the kernel does control your video card correctly as this mode is not strictly standardised, and it will not work (i.e. ignored) if the kernel does not recognise your card. Anyway, I would give it a try, and check the kernel's logging output. BR, Karl-Heinz > From: stan.goodman(a)hashkedim.com > To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Subject: [opensuse] New v11.4 installation -- odd behaviors > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:29:09 +0300 > > Because my venerable Pentium 4 motherboard died yesterday, I have a new > MB (i5 CPU on an Intel HD67BL board) and have installed 64bit v11.4 on > it. I am non-plussed by some of the behaviors I observe. I hope someone > can help me understand them. > > 1) But immediately upon booting the installation DVD yesterday, and > again when I started up the installed system todday, I was asked to > choose a display mode. I was offered a small group of options to pick be > entering the number. The one I wanted was listed as: > > f 35A 1600x1200x32...(I would have chosen 60Hz if it were offered) > > I tried enterring "f", "35A", and "f 35A", and was rewarded each time > with an error message telling me that the entry was not a valid mode. > > Permitting the system to make up its own mind, the boot proceeded, and I > went to Systems Settings to see what it had chosen. It is 1024x768 at > 60Hz (no better resolution is offered). Even the ancient Pentium 5 was > able to give me the higher resolution, and at the 60Hz refress rate. My > conclusion is that there is an setting I must change, but I see nothing > suggestive in the BIOS, so I may be overlooking something. Perhaps > someone can see what that might be. > > 2) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 2ManDVD complains about :ffmpeg depend
by Michael S. Dunsavage 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Running 2ManDVD it complains that the missing dependency of :ffmpeg is missing. I installed the ffmpeg perl module through cpan, however it still complains. Googling hasn't resulted in much help. Any one else have this problem? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Java plugin has disappeared from Firefox v4.01
by Stan Goodman 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Yesterday I discovered that I am unable to operate the Java applet on my website; trying to find why this is so, I found that about:plugins displays no Java plugins. This is a 64bit system, so the plugin, before it vanished quietly, was icedtea. openSuSE is v11.3. A search for "icedtea" in YaST shows me that icedtea-web v1.1-0.2.1 is installed. Not installed is the file java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin v1.6.0.0_b20.1.9.7-1.2.1. I guessed that I need to icedtea-web with the java plugin, but was told that I would have to remove icedtea-web. I see on the web that the icedtea-web package is said to already contain the java plugin, so now I am confused. Advice? -- 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] Dolphin: where is the "apply view properties to" ?
by Per Jessen 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

According to this there is a way to apply view properties to other folders (new,sub-,all) besides the current one: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-apps/dolphin/view-properties.html I can't find that part of the dialogue on my openSUSE 11.4 system. Has it gone somewhereelse? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.2°C) -- 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 and conntrack ftp (kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-default)
by Claudio Prono 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello all, After the upgrade to OpenSuSE 11.4, i have some problems with the clients using FTP behind the firewall. My firewall loads this modules: modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp modprobe ip_nat_ftp And before the upgrade, no problem at all. Now, some strange problems: sometimes the passive connections works, sometimes not... Here is an example: root@web1[~]: ftp ftp.unina.it Connected to ftp.unina.it. 220 ftp.unina.it NcFTPd Server (free educational license) ready. Name (ftp.unina.it:pss): ftp 421 Disconnecting you since you didn't login successfully within 15 seconds. ftp: Login failed. ftp> exit root@web1[~]: ftp ftp.unina.it Connected to ftp.unina.it. 220 ftp.unina.it NcFTPd Server (free educational license) ready. Name (ftp.unina.it:pss): ftp 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230-You are user #4 of 50 simultaneous users allowed. 230- 230 Logged in anonymously. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> passive off Passive mode: off; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> ls 502 Unimplemented command. 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 1776 May 15 2007 images -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27866 Jan 14 18:05 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24855 Jan 14 17:34 index2.html drwxr-xr-x 10 ftpuser ftpusers 360 May 2 16:15 pub 226 Listing completed. ftp> passive on Passive mode: on; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> ls 227 Entering 192,132,34,17,176,532,34,17,176,5) ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> ls 227 Entering 192,132,34,17,176,532,34,17,176,5) ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> ls 227 Entering 192,132,34,17,176,532,34,17,176,5) ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp> passive Passive mode: off; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 1776 May 15 2007 images -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27866 Jan 14 18:05 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24855 Jan 14 17:34 index2.html drwxr-xr-x 10 ftpuser ftpusers 360 May 2 16:15 pub 226 Listing completed. ftp> passive Passive mode: on; fallback to active mode: on. ftp> ls 227 Entering 192,132,34,17,201,148,34,17,201,148) 150 Data connection accepted from 195.31.196.107:35143; transfer starting. drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 1776 May 15 2007 images -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27866 Jan 14 18:05 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24855 Jan 14 17:34 index2.html drwxr-xr-x 10 ftpuser ftpusers 360 May 2 16:15 pub 226 Listing completed. ftp> passive on Passive mode: on; fallback to active mode: off. ftp> ls 227 Entering 192,132,34,17,221,141,34,17,221,141) 150 Data connection accepted from 195.31.196.107:41809; transfer starting. drwxr-xr-x 2 ftpuser ftpusers 1776 May 15 2007 images -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 27866 Jan 14 18:05 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 24855 Jan 14 17:34 index2.html drwxr-xr-x 10 ftpuser ftpusers 360 May 2 16:15 pub 226 Listing completed. ftp> exit 221 Goodbye. What's wrong? 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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[opensuse] htmldoc removal required due to libfltk?
by David C. Rankin 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Guys, Updates today give the conflict that htmldoc needs to be removed due to uninstallable provider: libfltk1-1.1.10-2.1.x86_64. Just a build service issue or wait for libfltk1 to be updated? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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 is the significance of the max preview size setting in dolphin?
by Per Jessen 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

PDF documents for instance can be quite sizeable, is there any reason why I shouldn't set the preview size limit to 100Mb for local files? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] "Samsung_Laptop" module not working on Samsung X360 machine‏‏‏
by Karl-Heinz tm 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hello, as many recent Samsung Laptop models my box (X360 subnotebook featuring C2D SU9300 and Intel X4500 graphics) does not support setting the brightness of the backlight via ACPI; rather it requires a Samsung-specific "SABI" driver. Supposedly this is provided for the X360 by SAMSUNG_LAPTOP as of kernel 2.6.39. The driver should make the function keys of the machine work under Linux (especially the brightness and WLAN keys). Some Fn-keys work prior to 2.6.39, such as the volume and sleep keys. Unfortunately, using an opensuse 11.4/kde fresh install and upgrading to 2.6.39.3-1-desktop via tumbleweed, I get very erroneous behaviour once the above module is loaded, as follows: - pressing the "brightness-up" key does nothing - pressing the "brightness-down" key once switches the display to maximum brightness, after which no other brightness changes occur when pressing the "down"-key - every time one presses the "brightness-down" key, the display flickers briefly, and X takes about 40% CPU for a minute or so, and then reverts to its usual <10% value - unloading the module will immediately reduce X's CPU load to normal Pressing the brightness keys with the module loaded does not bring up KDE's brightness applet; pressing the keys without the module does bring up the applet, which then shows the brightness going up and down but the actual brightness of the screen remains unaffected. When the module is loaded, the system log shows that a X360 laptop is correctly discovered. Other than this, nothing is in the log, and nothing is echoed to the console or the system log when modprobing the module. The files in sysfs appear to be correctly created; however, there is also a "acpi-backlight" class in addition to the "samsung" class that is managed by the module/driver. In either case, writing directly into the sysfs files has no effect whatsoever. For completeness sake: the WLAN key also does not work regardless of loading or unloading the module. I did quite some googling about the issue but to no avail. Am I the only one having this problem? Sorry for the long mail, but I hope I provided a complete and useful description of the issue; will happily provide more info but if things get complicated I will need step-by-step instructions. Thanks, BR, Karl-Heinz P.S.: the module did actually work (at least concerning brightness changes) when I first tried 2.6.39 a while ago, but sorry I don't recall the version and the circumstances. However, this seems to indicate that my current problem may be a regression. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] NIS slave server: Could not get list with slaves
by Sven Hartrumpf 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi. I searched the web but did not find any explanations for the following error message "Could not get list with slaves" from "yast2 nis_server" when trying to set up a second NIS server as a slave NIS server. Greetings Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] finding host name of a windows machine
by Michael S. Dunsavage 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

I have DHCP running on my linux server, and it gives out ips. I would like to access all my computers in my network by hostname....but that doesn't seem to work unless I put the IP and host in /etc/hosts.. How can I do this? My DHCP server is my router. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] XFS on portable usb drive
by Ciro Iriarte 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, any comments against using XFS on a 2.5" USB disk drive?. I'll be using it for additional storage on my laptop, I've read that a journal cleanup/recreation is needed if I'm switching between 32bit/64bit installations, any other known issue?. Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.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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[opensuse] make kdialog passive popups NOT go to system notifications
by Myrosia Dzikovska 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I get a fair number of notifications in my system through the local message service (what used to be kwrited). In KDE they by default go to the notifications popups. Unfortunately, if the message is long enough, the popup cuts it off and I cannot read it. For a lot of those messages, I want them to appear somewhere so that I want to read it, but I don't want them to interrupt (i.e., don't want to have to click buttons when they show up). My solution to that in OpenSuse 11.3 was on notification to run a command kdialog --passivepopup %s 300 This displayed messages in popup windows somewhere on screen, and that was exactly what I needed. Now I upgraded to OpenSuse 11.4, and got an unpleasant surprise: "kdialog --passivepopup" now shows up as a message in system notifications, and I cannot see its complete text. What can I do to fix this, or to find an alternative solution? Myrosia -- 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-factory] Re: related too read-only mounted partitions like /root...
by Linda Walsh 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Rob OpenSuSE wrote: > On 12 July 2011 20:02, Linda Walsh <suse(a)tlinx.org> wrote: >> Linda Walsh wrote: >>> I got a rude surprise when I tried to do �fastboot over the weekend. >>> >>> While turning on seems if you do a fast boot, and skip the fsck, >>> >>> your file systems never get mounted RW!--- -----BTW, this should fix the problem Not tested (yet...but will be!), but the below should provide correct functionality: (i.e. I didn't specify r/o on cmd line) -- and the ROOT_FSCK check is to through out a message if the USER specified ROOTFS_FSCK in their sysconfig, but did a fastboot...) --- boot.rootfsck 2011-02-17 03:38:20.000000000 -0800 +++ boot.rootfsck 2011-07-12 12:13:33.887533594 -0700 @@ -164,6 +164,11 @@ echo fi else + if rc_cmdline readonlyroot ; then + echo "Skipping rw-remount of / since boot commandline specified \"readonlyroot\"" + else + mount -n -o remount,rw / + fi if test "$ROOTFS_FSCK" != "0" ; then echo "root file system (/) is NOT being checked." fi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] brand new install 11.4+updates: firefox hangs frequently.
by Per Jessen 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I've got a brand new 11.4+updates install on a Lenovo Thinkpad that previously ran openSUSE 11.2. In the new installation, Firefox will frequently hang up the entire system for minutes at a time. All I need to do is go visit e.g. http://www.20min.ch/ and the machine will hang up. The mouse is locked, the clock stops, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is ignored, Ctrl-Alt-F1 ditto. After a minute or two, the machine will recover. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (20.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] apparently update from 11.3 to 11.4 FAILED?
by Oliver Kullmann 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hello, I ran an update from 11.3 to 11.4, using the 11.4 64-bit DVD, and additionally Internet sources. When it then came to reboot, I got a screen --------------- doing fast reboot FATAL: Module thermal not found. FATAL: Module processor not found. FATAL: Module fan not found. [ 1.537034] hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 Creating devide nodes with udev Trying manual resume from /dev/desk/by-id/ata-WDC_ ... Invoking in-kernel resume from ... ... mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' could not mount root filesystem --exiting to /bin/sh sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device sh: no job control in this shell $ --------------- ??? What shall I do now??? Hope somebody can help. Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] [OpenSUSE11.4] boot falied - vmblock - modem-manager plugins
by Daniele Guerrieri 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi, when i last started my system was stuck on the starting progress bar; so i rebooted, then all worked. Now, i'm checking messages: Jul 11 16:29:40 GlassHarmonica logger: Try 5/8 : /proc/fs/vmblock/dev not available. sleeping for 32 seconds Jul 11 16:30:12 GlassHarmonica logger: Try 6/8 : /proc/fs/vmblock/dev not available. sleeping for 64 seconds Jul 11 16:31:16 GlassHarmonica logger: Try 7/8 : /proc/fs/vmblock/dev not available. sleeping for 128 seconds Jul 11 16:32:08 GlassHarmonica kernel: [ 230.930861] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 20113 nsec What does this mean? Also, what are all this modem plugin? Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: Loaded plugin Longcheer Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: Loaded plugin ZTE Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: Loaded plugin Gobi Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: (tty/ttyS0): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: (tty/ttyS1): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted Jul 11 16:28:57 GlassHarmonica modem-manager: (tty/ttyS10): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted Thanks, Daniele -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Bootsequence, put disks in sleepmode
by Hans de Faber 11 Jul '11

11 Jul '11

Hi Listmates, There are some disks in my system which I very seldom use. I want these after the boot in sleep mode,they are a little bit noisy. Now I do this by hand with the command "hdparm -Y /dev/xxx". I want put this command somewhere at the end of the bootsequence. Where and how should I do this ? Thanks, Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] two dolphin questions
by Per Jessen 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Couple of questions: 1. is there a possibility to see the summary window (as in Konqueror) by hovering over an icon/file? 2. can I view picture files _inside_ dolphin? (as in Konqueror). It's annoying having to start a new application for each new view. thanks Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 - c++ or g++ missing (but gcc there is)
by HG 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi! Just tried to install node.js from source* (the package available for 11.3 seems to be broken - npm doesn't install mongodb for example). However, I came up with this error: hg@linux-gy95:~/dev/install/node> ./configure Checking for program g++ or c++ : not found Checking for program icpc : not found Checking for program c++ : not found /home/hg/dev/install/node/wscript:232: error: could not configure a cxx compiler! hg@linux-gy95:~/dev/install/node> gcc --version gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585] Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I cannot figure what. * https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation -- HG. -- 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 of 11.4 fails: Error 22 for GRUB
by Oliver Kullmann 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hello, I want to install Suse 11.4 on a Laptop (HP-G62) with Windows 7 on it (no previous Linux). I created three partitions for / (ext4, 20GB), /home (ext4, 100GB) and swap (4GB). Now at the end of the installation process, either when installing grub into MBR or the other possibility (forget what it was called, but there are two possibilities), I get the following error message: ------------- GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072 upper memory) [ ... ] grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,4) Error 22: No such partition grub> quit ------------- I didn't find something relevant in the Internet on that. Shall I perhaps create also a dedicated partition for /boot ? (And if so, what size should it have?) Thanks for your consideration. Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] zypper: how to get info when the package is already installed?
by Joachim Schrod 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hallo, If I call zypper info -r REPO PACKAGE for an installed package, it outputs info about the installed package, not about the package from repository REPO. (This is on openSUSE 11.4.) To wit: n-puma:~ # zypper info -r openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss AdobeICCProfiles |head -11 Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package AdobeICCProfiles: Repository: @System Name: AdobeICCProfiles Version: 2.0-137 Arch: noarch Vendor: open-slx Does anyone know how to get package info for that repository's version? Incidentally, isn't that a bug in zypper? Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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