August 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Ho to get rid of this popup
by Anton Aylward 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

I keep getting a popup asking for root password. Its title is "System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level." It appeared after an update of KDE4.7, not the first 'zypper up' of that repository, but one this last weekend. I enter the root password, it goes away, then comes back about half an hour later. I realise I _could_ edit system policies, but I'm wondering WHY I'm getting this? I don't recall setting anything in systemsetting that could account for it. I don't need to, want to and never have set brightness level. Why is this here now? /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] encfs screw up
by Greg Freemyer 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

All, I have a directory tree I protect with encfs. It is normally managed by a script and holds backups. Doing some backup / restore admin, I make a mistake at the command line. I don't know what I did, but now I can't mount the tree (via encfs). I suspect I somehow changed the password. I know the data is encrypted, but there is no way the data was re-encrypted with a new key because whatever I did lasted just a fraction of a second. Is there anyway to restore my old password? I really hate to lose that full backup set. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Reboot via SSH
by Marc Chamberlin 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

I ssh'd into my home system as root without any problems. But when I give the command to reboot, nothing happens.. "shutdown -r now" also just gives a response saying the system is going down, but again it does not actually reboot! Can anyone tell me why and how to reboot a system remotely? I tried via VNC also, no joy... Marc.. -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Who likes to use KDE activities?
by ianseeks 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

On Saturday 06 Aug 2011 00:56:38 Malte Gell wrote: > Is there someone who likes the concept of KDE activities? I´m not sure yet, > whether I really find it useful or not. I play with it and I find it a nice > extension to the virtual desktop concept, but I still don´t know if I really > will use it regularly. > > Malte I like the idea of Activities but I couldn't find a real use for them until now but i can't use the way it makes sense to me. Its been discussed on another thread but i'll copy my thoughts here. I have 3 activities namely work, personal and mailing lists each using different email addresses. At the moment i've separated them by creating 3 KDE users so i have to login and out of each of them to use each activity. I saw a possibility of activities allowing me to have only one KDE login and 3 separate activities. Within each activity i'd have an instance of kontact/kmail configured for the correct email addresses/contacts etc so it was just a matter of changing activity instead of logging in and out a few times. As each activitiry can't have separate instances of programs each with their own configuration I don't really see its useful to me without being overkill. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Can't get USB serial port to work
by Robert Rawlinson 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

I have an AMD processor on a 785GTM-E45 Motherboard. I have a USB to serial port adapter but can't get it or any other USB to work. Has anyone run into this problem? I have googled and googled and googled. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo
by Roger Oberholtzer 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

I am looking at libjpeg on openSUSE 11.4. There is a variation of the good old libjpeg which is called libjpeg-turbo. It enables some intel processor instructions to supposedly speed up encoding and decoding byu a factor of 2x - 4x. I see that I have libjpeg-turbo installed. The odd thing is that the RPM does not actually contain a libjpeg. It is only the wrapper programs like cjpeg. These programs just seem to use the regular /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 that comes with the usual libjpeg rpm. So, what is libjpeg-turbo really installing? Surely the turbo improvements must be in the library itself. If the standard libjpeg.so.62 is compiled with these extensions, what could a turbo cjpeg add? As usual, I'm confused. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] iPad and mail
by Koenraad Lelong 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi, One of my users wants to read and write emails with his iPad. Receiving them is no problem, setup is a fairly standard dovecot imap-server with ssl. Sending gives problems though. I set up my server (postfix) to accept smtp via port 25, which works, but only locally as most providers here block outgoing port 25. I also set up my server to accept smtp with starttls on port 587 (submission). Unfortunately, the iPad seems not capable of sending via port 587 with starttls. I didn't see this myself, tomorrow I'll be able to have look. I googled but I didn't find something. I know my server works because Thunderbird works for several users (even the laptop of the iPad-user). This mail is sent that way. Any thoughts ? TIA. Regards, Koenraad Lelong -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: Reboot via SSH
by Joachim Schrod 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Lars Müller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:10:26AM +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote: > [ 8< ] >> (I >> need to patch 4-5 init.d scripts in each openSUSE release; let's >> hope systemd improves that.) > > Are these generic changes or are these jschrod only changes? Lars, that's hard to tell. If I would be sure that they are generic, I would have filed bugs already. Almost all of them revolve around our usage of autofs. Besides specific usages like "apache document root on automount NFS", perhaps the most generic usage is home dirs via automount. There, some systems, e.g. postfix, need to wait for autofs to be able to process user files like .procmailrc or .forward properly. If the soft dependency to autofs is not there, they will reject emails to those users during startup. Another generic issue might be that ypbind doesn't wait for ypserv. But then, I know that usage of NFS home dirs and NIS (on some legacy sub-networks of big clients, FWIW) is not exactly the target group of openSUSE. Thus, we don't bother with bug messages and establich patching the issues as part of the deployment process. (Frankly: I'm the CEO/CTO of a small technical company. I only enter bug reports if I think there's a chance that they will be handled. Otherwise my time is better spent on my own Open Source activities. (E.g., for the last two weeks, I have been the sole CTAN admin not on holidays. For me, TeX Live et.al. are more important than openSUSE bug reports. ;-))) > If they're generic please file bug reports and attache your fixes. As I wrote, I don't know if they're sufficiently generic to get enought developer attention to get fixed. > If they're are special purpose consider to suggest a way to make you > feel more happy by adding a hooking facilitry which allows you to add > your special needs. Actually, I hope that systemd will improve the situation for us, and -- more important to me -- for several of our clients. Dependency specification is more sane there, in theory. Still, there remains the issue how one can specify local dependency changes in a supported process. Lennard, Kay, et.al., are supportive, but are also very harsh to brush away non-standard environments as not relevant. Let's see what direction that will take. Since I don't want to catch flames for this comment, let me emphasize that I don't have problems with the systemd development process. If my customers don't like the direction that's going, we can fix that ourselves, just as we do since decades. In my company, we do data center planning & support as part of our business, and I see *much* more non-standard environments as I would like -- and as is sensible, to be frank. Well, it will be *very* interesting to see how this will pin out; if the my-laptop-is-all-the-world-centric developer crowd will have to face a backslash from the servers-are-all-the-world admin crowd or if they will push their changes through. (Personally, I think that both are wrong.) Currently, it seems to be constructive, witness Frederic and Wolfgang on the sendmail startup definition. I didn't even know that there are systemd generators. ;-) So, I have great hopes for that direction. 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] Activities
by ianseeks 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Hi I've finally thought of a reason to use Activities but I'm sot sure if its going to work. Can i have a separate instance of kontact/kmail2 in each activity serving different email accounts? And separate instances of other apps like browsers? At the moment i have different logins to do this type of thing. 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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[opensuse] Move to trash
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Think to remember that in its original state this shortcut gave an option to accept or to cancel the action. I exported last time all emails from my Suse folder to the trash and it took very long to get it all back. Where can I get the cancel option back? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-7-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.00 (4.7.0) 10:40am up 14:39, 2 users, load average: 0.84, 0.84, 1.20 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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