August 2011 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Recover Linux Raid 0 with 2x2port 3Ware Raid 1 cards
by LLLActive＠GMX.Net 05 Sep '11

05 Sep '11

Hi all, I have an openSUSE 11.4 32Bit system installed on its own disk. Additionally attached are 2 mirrored 2-Port 3Ware raid cards, striped as Linux Raid, then mounted as /home/Data (ext4). The softraid was mounted after the OS installation within fstab, because I wanted Data to be on the raid and not be dependent on or be part of the OS FS directly. I've never had a softraid before. Hard-Raid recover is painless with 2Ware, and immune to failing OS. I got a backup of the 4 TB raid; it has 2 TB data and a restore takes quite a while. Now I lost my OS Installation, the disk is unresponsive. Before I go ahead, I was wondering which way to go. I am planning to install a new system and just hope the soft raid will be there when I partition. What should I watch out for? I have searched and read some ways to recover defective raids in the TLDP.org and others, but the raid was ok. It was a mount as /home/Data directory. I will mount it after the new installation as /home/Data again. Will that work ok? How does the raid-setup work? Is the raid-partition info kept on the disks? There is no controller with bios as in hardware raid to store the Linux softraid info. As far as I know, HW-raids save the raid-partition info on the disks and on the controller. How is it in softraid? :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] burning of a suse install CD
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

My son is finally so far that he wants to try out opensuse. Up to now he has only used Windows. The problem is that windows seems to neglect the .iso extension. It does not show up. Only in chrome with which he made the download. USB seems possible but was done without success. Read a lot on the web to no avail. The iso file seems to be there as far as he can see. openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-2.8.0.iso No burning a cd (dvd burner not available). Remember from past discussions that such burning is not without problems. Could somebody give me details about the burning process? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.1.0-rc3-1-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.7.1 (4.7.1) 17:40pm up 1 day 5:39, 2 users, load average: 1.84, 0.65, 1.16 -- 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 change password on 11.4
by James Knott 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

Since some updates last week, I am unable to use the passwd command to change passwords. When I try, I get an error message: Unable to generate a salt. Check your crypt settings. Cannot create salt for blowfish crypt Error: Password NOT changed. passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Any fix for this? I can use Yast to change passwords, but that means bring the employees into my office to change their own passwords. 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] command line question
by George OLson 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I am migrating my music over from itunes to run on Amarok (or another player that may be better and can sync an ipod touch running ios 4.2.1). The first step is to copy my music files from my itunes directories into the music folder on my hard drive, /home/music. The problem is, I have about 1/3 or 1/4 of these files purchased directly from itunes, and so they are in the proprietary itunes format, *.m4p. I will not be sharing my purchased music with anyone, so I will not be violating any copyright laws, so no worries there. However, I still need to be able to read these songs with the music player in OS 11.4, and I still need to be able to manage my ipod touch in OS without going back to windows. My first thought is that I would like to segregate all the m4p files into one directory folder. /homes/music has multiple sub-directories with the artists names, and those have sub-directories with album names on them. I was thinking the command line would be faster than one by one, if there is a command line program similar to 'mv' that will look into a directory and all its sub-directories to find files of type *.m4p, and move them to a separate directory. From there I can work with them in some way. At the very least I will know which ones are in the m4p format so that I can go back to my windows pc, burn them to audio cd (if there are not too many), and then rip them back to mp3. Or, if there is a better way to just use amarok or some other program to read all the files, find the m4p files, and convert them, that would be the easiest. thanks 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] camera, skype, microphone
by George OLson 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Joy in every success, frustration in failures, but always an opportunity to learn! and many thanks to all of you who have continually helped me solve the little configuration problems that come up as I get my system started and complete the windows migration! So, here I am now with skype and a camera and a microphone. My microphone is a simple plug in, line input. My camera is an a4tech pk-720mj usb 2.0 camera. I plugged it in and didn't really know what to do. Searched the internet, found a suggestion - download a webcam program and see if it works! So I went to Yast, found 2 packages, wxcam, and webkam. I got both of them. When I open up the program, wxcam has a very good clear image (yea! :) ) Webkam says it cannot find the device (aw :( ). The GUI for webkam does not allow me to select a device - it just says no device found. So using wxcam, I took a test video recording. It records movement fine, but it does not record sound. Yet my camera has sound with it. I opened audacity and set it to look to the usb pc camera (a box next to the microphone) for the input, and it records sound very clearly. The camera is about 2 feet in front of me, so the microphone is of good quality to pick me up well from there. I installed and set up skype. The chat feature works. I tried to get it to use the camera as the sound input, but it will only take the plug-in microphone. It says that pulse audio is managing my sound, so I downloaded pulse audio manager in yast, but I don't know what to do with it. I tested the skype video also. My video is really really dark, but not totally black. It is dark when using skype, but on wxcam, it has a good, clear, bright video. Ok, I know I haven't given a ton of technical specs, only general things. I am wanting to figure out how to: 1 - get skype to be able to use the microphone from the webcam 2 - get the skype video to be bright and clear like it is on wxcam 3 - get wxcam to record both video and audio instead of only video 4 - if there is a better program for managing audio and video input devices, to know what that is and how to use it. It can be gui or command line, as long as I can figure out where to look up the information on how to use the program. I know that my pc is running pulseaudio, but I am not sure how to get the best information. The pulseaudio manager lists under the 'devices' tab the soundcard on the motherboard (alsa_input.pci-0000_00_05.0.analog-stereo), and the a4tech pc camera. Beyond that I don't know what else to put here. Thanks, 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] FF 6+ - Howto have it open only 'tab pinned' pages on start?
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Guys, Wolfgang, With the new 'tab pins' in Firefox, how do you tell it to just open the pinned tabs at start? The pinned tabs reopen, but FF also opens my home pages or tabs from last time as well. Since I have pinned the pages I want to open on start -- that's all I want to open.. But, you only have the preferences options to "Start with Homepage", "Blank Page, or "Open my Tabs from Last Time". Is there some way I can just get it to open the pinned tabs and nothing else? All hacks and workarounds appreciated... -- 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] libreoffice hangs at startup
by Istvan Gabor 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hello: I have openSUSE 11.2 and libreoffice 3.3.2.2 packages (downloaded from repos when they were available). When I start any libreoffice application as usual, the program shows the splash screen and hangs. If I start it from command line, eg oowriter program, it gives neither any error nor other message. If I login as another user the program runs as expected. I have renamed my ~/.libreoffice directory but it did not fix the problem. I guess it is related to my home folder but I don't know what to look for. Any idea? 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] IMAP .. Dovecot ... fetchmail ... postfix ... procmail ...
by Anton Aylward 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

I have a pretty by-the-book (or HowTo) setup that get mail from remote locations using fetchmail, passes it though postfix which then sees ~/.forward and leads to procmail to process via spamassassin and sanitiser and put it into mailboxes which are eventually read over IMAP using a Dovecot server. I get to wonder ... This is a bit heavy handed. All the mail is for me, this is not a corporate server. Yes, I have many addresses but they are all 'me'. It is procmail that determines the mailbox. So I'm wondering if there is a way to get postfix out of the loop for INCOMING mail. -- I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. --Robert Ingersoll (The Ghosts) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] kde - disappearing system tray?
by Greg Freemyer 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

All, I installed 11.4 on a new laptop yesterday. I had the system tray disappear when I applied the first large set of online updates. I moved .kde out of the way and let it re-recreate. That brought my system tray back for a couple operational hours. Now I was just web browsing etc. and the system tray went away again. When it happens I lose wireless. Anyone know what's going on? 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] Poor battery life with Opensuse 11.4
by Jeff Hoare 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi, I have a thinkpad e520 that I am running opensuse 11.4 tumbleweed on. While most everything works I notice that the battery life is quite poor under linux compared to windows. I can only get maybe a couple of hours under linux but 4-5 hours under windows. These have dual graphics (intel + AMD Radeon HD 6630M switchable). I have blacklisted the radeon module so that (hopefully) only the inbuilt intel graphics is used. The radeon module is no longer loaded and intel sandybridge is shown as the driver in gnome, but still the battery doesn't last long. I do notice that the fan seems to be constantly on. Is there anything that I can try to improve the battery life or is this just the state of things under linux for this type of laptop Regards Jeff -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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