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[opensuse] 11.4 problems: Kdm Sound temprature
by Anton Aylward 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Now I have a bootable kernel I have worked though matters with 11.4 All the personal config came though intact :-) A lot of the system config has been altered and I'm not sure if that is just 11.3/11.4 differences or what. These are the problems I see now 1. KDM does not work. The greeter fails. The log file reads X.Org X Server 1.9.3 Release Date: 2010-12-13 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX Current Operating System: Linux BigBoy 2.6.37.6-0.5-pae #1 SMP 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 i686 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent quiet PROFILE=default vga=0x317 Build Date: 22 February 2011 10:15:34PM Current version of pixman: 0.20.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 30 07:12:51 2011 (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled. No protocol specified kdmgreet: cannot connect to X server :0 There is nothing wrong with X. I can start it with 'startx' from the command line under both the root account and my personal account and with a few oddities (see later) it works. I don't know what to make of that message or how to proceed. 2. Lots of odd errors in config files Many things started from the command line produce stuff like this kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/inetd.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/sw_source.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/users.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/nfs.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/security.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/hwinfo.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/mouse.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/vendor.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/host.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/YaST2/SD_logprof.desktop" has Type= "Application" but also has a X-KDE-Library key. This works for now, but makes user-preference handling difficult, so support for this might be removed at some point. Consider splitting it into two desktop files. kbuildsycoca4(4522) parseLayoutNode: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file. 3. Latency on menubar Just about every application, thunderbird & firefox in particular, but all the KDE applications as well, have a delay when top menubar items are clicked. I am used to this on LiveCD where the system has to drag in the relevant stuff from the CD but not on a real system. The KDE applications seem to cache items, the GTK applications don't seem to. 4. No sound. Sound has stopped working. Testing with LiveCD tells me its not a hardware problem The mixer icon doesn't appear in the system tray on starting KDE4 and when it is started everything is set to zero. Even then sound isn't working. This isn't a modules problem, the modules are all loaded as I expect. # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 47823 0 snd_mixer_oss 16817 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 57265 0 snd_seq_device 6646 1 snd_seq snd_intel8x0m 12017 0 snd_intel8x0 27766 1 snd_ac97_codec 106641 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m ac97_bus 1082 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 88249 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 21876 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 65966 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 6854 1 snd snd_page_alloc 8025 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm -- If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge. - Henry Spencer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] local parallel oprinter in openSUSE 11.4
by Istvan Gabor 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello: I would like to configure my kyocera parallel printer in YaST, openSUSE 11.4. If I go to Harwdware>Printer in YaST the "Printer Configurations" window opens but it only says: "There is no print queue." If I click "Add" the "Add New Printer Configuration" window opens which says: "No connections. Try 'Detect More' or use the 'Connection Wizard'." Detect more does not find anything. Clicking 'Connection Wizard' opens 'Connection Wizard' window. Under "Directly connected device>Parallel port" nothing is listed. What can I do with this? openSUSE 11.2 could find an configure the printer perfectly right away on the very same hardware. 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] Permanently disabling "keep aligned" ?
by Duaine Hechler 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

On 07/28/2011 12:21 AM, Duaine Hechler wrote: > Running 11.3 with Gnome 2.3 - no compiz > > Did this turn on - and stay on - with an update ? > > How do I disable this - or - keep my desktop icons from moving ? > > 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] Associating an image with a Desktop icon
by Stan Goodman 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

I have a Java applications which I use frequently, and for which I have placed hard links on the Desktop, to make them easier to start. The icons are generic, and therefore confusin, and I would like to replace them a recognizable images. I have such images in png and other formats, but it is not clear to me how to assign them to the applications. Howcan I do 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] Help with Kmai2 in 4.7
by ianseeks＠dsl.pipex.com 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

hi all I'm having a real disaster with kmail2. 1. I accidentally deleted my local folders in the kmail2 Accounts config and now kmail2 crashes with an error "Failed to retrieve akonadi resource" (or something like that). It does not give me a chance to re-add it. 2. Tried to modify an existing POP account (also in kmail Accounts config) but it does not allow me to edit the password for the login id to the POP server. Any ideas how i can retrieve these situations? regards Ian -- 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] Cannot write to Windows partition(s)
by Felix Miata 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

On 2011/07/28 16:17 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed: > Felix Miata wrote: >> dmask, fmask & umask are all octal inversions of chmod usage. >> fmask=133 produces -rw-r--r--, like chmod 644 >> dmask=022 produces drwxr-xr-x, like chmod 755 >> In any event, I set fmask=0111& dmask=0000, giving dirs drwxrwxrwx >> and files -rw-rw-rw-. Why the installer sets what it sets I have no >> idea, other than risk of naive writes to NTFS making things in Windows >> work no longer while booted to it. > Many thanks for this, Felix. I can now write to the partitions. > Your explanation gave me the opportunity to (finally :-) ) come to grips > with this permission stuff a lot better than I did before. > I noted that you are using 4 digits in your masks but fstab is using > only 3. In coming to grips with this permissions 'hassle' I read that > the 4-digit approach should be used because it leaves the 4th digit > undefined and therefore in its default state. Does this mean, if you > know that is, that either 1) openSUSE is not following the more prudent > method of coding or 2) openSUSE does not recognise/use the 4-digit approach? I've never found comprehensible documentation of sticky, setuid, et al, so haven't come to grips to the meaning of the 4th myself. That said, I can't imagine any of those applying to the use of those masks on a Windows partition mount, leaving 4 acceptable for that purpose. -- "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] Plasma-Desktop crashing
by Jesse Shaver 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

I recently got a new laptop (a ThinkPad X220 with Intel i915 video card) and am running into a problem where KDE plasma-desktop will crash periodically. The bottom bar disappears and the background goes black (there aren't windows open over it) and after a second or so it starts back up again and seems to work fine for a while until it happens again (maybe every 10 minutes. I have seen similar behavior with SuSE 11.1 (I think), but in that case my home partition was full - there is plenty of space now. I am running fully updated SuSE 11.4 KDE Base version 4.6.0-6.6.2-x86_64 from OpenSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 kdebase4-workspace is 4.6.0-10.15.1-x86_64 I have looked around on this, and can't seem to find anything, but I am not really sure what I am looking for. I have turned off all desktop effects. Logs can be found at the bottom of this message. Thanks, -Jesse The logs I am seeing in .xsession-errors are: plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed() plasma-desktop(26174)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26174)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/kde4/services/sysinfo.protocol" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Object::connect: No such slot AbstractItemView::iconSettingsChanged() Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma-desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver plasma-desktop(26174)/plasma StatusNotifierItemSource::refreshCallback: DBusMenu disabled for this application KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasma-desktop from kdeinit KCrash: Application 'plasma-desktop' crashing... QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Object::connect: No such signal KWindowSystem::windowChanged(WId,unsigned long*) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected! plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed() plasma-desktop(26209)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26209)/kdecore (services) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/kde4/services/sysinfo.protocol" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Object::connect: No such slot AbstractItemView::iconSettingsChanged() Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma-desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver plasma-desktop(26209)/plasma StatusNotifierItemSource::refreshCallback: DBusMenu disabled for this application KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasma-desktop from kdeinit KCrash: Application 'plasma-desktop' crashing... QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Object::connect: No such signal KWindowSystem::windowChanged(WId,unsigned long*) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(-5, -3) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected! plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) plasma-desktop(26235)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(127, 0) QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] configuring my monitor
by George Olson 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Hello again, Just trying to get my new monitor set up. I have a samsung LED monitor, but the automatic installation just put in some kind of default setting. How do I adjust the driver settings and find my new monitor to configure it correctly? George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RPMDB Packages: unsupported hash version: 9
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

All... I have had a significant crash of the whole RPM system on my 11.4 x86_64 and I can't find the correct answer. Using Yast2, I was downloading all the files I needed to do in order to load perl-bootloader. Yast2 decided it couldn't finish the install and died. Now when I try and run RPM I get the same thing: rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 9 error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22) Searching through the web I've found cd /var/lib/rpm rm -fv __db* mv -v Packages Packages-BAK db_dump Packages-BAK | db45_load Packages rpm -vv --rebuilddb This was not successful Thanks to an old post by Carlos, I found the backup, but I get the same error zypper gets me: error while loading shared libraries: librpm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Smart's answer is 'rpm' python module is not available Yast2 never comes up. Trying to reinstall python-rpm gets me nowhere. I really don't want to do a reinstall.. Since switching to x86_64 I've had more problems then I did with 6.3. Any help would be appreciated.. -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes _.._ _ ."\__/"./`_\ _/__<__>__\/ jgs `"/_/""""\_\\ Adolph & Sharon Weidanz SuSE 11.4 x86_64 '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] open directory from shell
by Tony Alfrey 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hello; Maybe a little off-topic, but any help appreciated. I want to include a command in a shell script that will make a kde directory/folder/whatever-we-call-it appear and be opened in the desktop when the command runs in the script. Does anyone know what such a command would be? Maybe it's more complicated that a single command since the focus also changes? Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey(a)earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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