January 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] usb stick + KDE4 live CD image
by madworm_de.opensuse＠spitzenpfeil.org 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Is there a know way to install a live CD image onto an usb stick with: a) not using the whole stick (16GB), but just one partition (e.g. sdb1) for the image b) having additional data partition(s) on there as well I'm not interested in having a 'persistent' live system on the stick, I just don't want to sacrifice 16GB for a 1GB image. I played a bit with syslinux and qemu for testing and got it to boot with that. Only it doesn't boot on a real PC. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to type special chars?
by Stefan Gofferje 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I haven't spent much thought about this in the 15 or so years I deal with Linux now but since I moved to Finland, it struck me... How do I type combined chars like éêë or ü under Opensuse 12.1 Under Windows and OSX, you type e.g. ´ and then e. On the Finnish keyboard there is a " button at the place where the ü is on the German keyboard, but it's not actually a " button. It is meant to create Üü by first pressing the button and then pressing Uu but again, similar to the ´ ` key, it immediately creates a " when you press it. So how do I type those combined chars? - -S - -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface 09:12am up 20:56, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.29 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8k82QACgkQbQKZlCdPOMMKbQCffXUWIvLHwqolZ/SbVrScUgPw nnYAnit3nYVT4wZ+ZKv04A9ispsAHGei =HT7w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How To Upgrade To KDE 4.8
by Swapnil Bhartiya 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi, How can I upgrade to KDE 4.8 without breaking the system. I am running 12.1 Thanks. Swapnil Bhartiya -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] syslog-ng and UDP ports.
by Roger Oberholtzer 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

I am trying to use syslog-ng on an openSUSE 11.2 system. I want to add an information source that is from a device I am integrating. The device sends information on UDP port 22054. When I try to get syslogd-ng to access that port, I get an error. I strace the program and see the following: bind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(22054), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.10")}, 16) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address) which is the error I get when starting the daemon. My question is: should I be able to use such a high UDP port number here? FYI, the line in my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf file is: udp(ip("192.168.1.10") port(22054)); 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 To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] session D-Bus may misbehave.
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Using kwalletmanager I get the following error: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Have googled for this error and find a lot of others since November with this error but no solution as far as I could see. Somebody has overcome this misbehavior? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 12.1 (i586) Kernel: 3.2.1-3-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.8.00 (4.8.0 "release 462" 15:55pm up 11:55, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.20, 0.73 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Cautionary tale re encrypted HOME directory
by Tim Serong 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Oops, didn't reply to list. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Cautionary tale re encrypted HOME directory Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:39:52 +1100 From: Tim Serong <tserong(a)suse.com> To: Basil Chupin <blchupin(a)iinet.net.au> On 01/31/2012 05:27 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: > On 31/01/12 17:02, Tim Serong wrote: >> On 01/31/2012 04:52 PM, Anders Johansson wrote: >>> On Tuesday 31 January 2012 15:14:30 Tim Serong wrote: >>>> The story is different if you specifically encrypt a file with GPG (or >>>> whatever) then copy that encrypted file elsewhere. >>>> >>>> This is an important difference between block-level and file-level >>>> operations. >>> >>> You really don't want to have file level encryption on your entire >>> /home. You >>> would need to enter your encryption key every time a file was opened. >>> Once for >>> .bashrc, once for .bash_history, once for .profile etc etc etc. >>> >>> A scheme like that would last exactly 5.4 seconds, then you'd >>> reformat with >>> something sane >> >> Good point :) >> >> It's worth mentioning, you can (or should be able to somehow - I >> haven't tried lately) do block-level encryption on an external hard >> disk, same as you can for a disk/partition that's physically inside >> your system. So, backup files to the encrypted block device from your >> encrypted /home partition, and life is (or should be) good/sane. > > I like this idea very much. > > Can you suggest how this could be achieved considering that I am using > an external USB HDD which, at the moment, is totally formatted in ntfs > (Ok, no drama in splitting it into 2 halves as before with 50% ntfs and > 50% ext4)? Thanks muchly. Off the top of my head - you'd probably have to reformat/repartition it. I don't know if there's an option to encrypt an existing volume. The yast partitioner applet(?) should give you an "encrypt volume" option when creating a new partition. HTH, Tim -- Tim Serong Senior Clustering Engineer SUSE tserong(a)suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 11.4 build of Yast2 failures?
by Marc Chamberlin 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi, In order for me to try and grok the YaST bootloader setup module, I thought I would try and download the source code for YaST and compile it on my openSuSE11.4 x86_64 system. Then perhaps I can instrument the code in order to understand the model of the bootloader that YaST presents... (and yes, I have asked before for help on understanding the model, and not gotten any useful replies, just sympathy from others who like me do not have a clue what the various settings will do either.. And yes, I understand GRUB, and the GNU documentation, but the openSuSE model and the bootloader GUI remains incomprehensible to me...) I followed the instructions found at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:YaST_development and one of the things these instructions did was to refer me to another tutorial - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:YaST_tutorials_development_in_general which indicated that I needed to be sure to install a number of additional packages. I carefully tried to install the listed packages, but a number (shown below) were missing - gettext-devel gtk-devel there is a gtk2-devel package installed on my system. Equivalent? liby2util-devel openssl-devel there is a libopenssl-devel package installed on my system. Equivalent? pkgconfig there is a pkg-config package installed on my system. Equivalent? I dunno what to do about that, so decided to punt and go on. (Anyone got any ideas on how I should locate these packages?) Anywise, I downloaded the YaST source from the SVN (but not from trunk) using the following command - svn co http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/branches/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/ which I guessed would get me the source code for the version of YaST2 that was installed in my system. The checkout proceed fine, as did the three make commands to build and install YaST2. But when I got to the step - y2tool y2makeall I got a number of errors as shown below (steps not shown appeared to build properly without errors) These may be related to the fact that I was unable to find and install all the required packages, so if that is the case, then I need to understand how to find and install those packages. Thanks in advance for helping me with this... Marc... Errors from the automatic compile of all of YaST...... Building storage make -f Makefile.cvs make ERROR: 'make -j8 ' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/storage Building registration make -f Makefile.cvs make ERROR: 'make -j8 ' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/registration Building sound make -f Makefile.cvs make ERROR: 'make -j8 ' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/sound Building schema make -f Makefile.cvs make ERROR: 'make -j8 ' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/schema Building openwsman-yast make -f Makefile.cvs ERROR: 'make -f Makefile.cvs' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/openwsman-yast Building boot-server make -f Makefile.cvs make /usr/bin/sudo make install ERROR: '/usr/bin/sudo make install' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/boot-server Building cim make -f Makefile.cvs ERROR: 'make -f Makefile.cvs' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/cim Building heartbeat make -f Makefile.cvs make /usr/bin/sudo make install ERROR: '/usr/bin/sudo make install' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/heartbeat Building qt-graph (cmake based) make -f Makefile.cvs cd qt-graph/build make ERROR: 'make -j8 ' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/qt-graph Building ruby-bindings (cmake based) make -f Makefile.cvs ERROR: 'make -f Makefile.cvs' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/ruby-bindings cd ruby-bindings/build Building slide-show make -f Makefile.cvs ERROR: 'make -f Makefile.cvs' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/slide-show Building you-server make -f Makefile.cvs make /usr/bin/sudo make install ERROR: '/usr/bin/sudo make install' failed for /home/marc/yast2/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/you-server y2makeall summary: Success in 103 directories Failure in 12 directories: storage (base package) registration (base package) sound (base package) schema (base package) openwsman-yast boot-server cim heartbeat qt-graph ruby-bindings slide-show you-server -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] You are a Linux Expert?
by Francesco Principe 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

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[opensuse] Gtk Apps In KDE Don't Look Good
by Swapnil Bhartiya 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi, I have openSUSE 12.1 with KDE and Gnome 3 Shell (I switch for writing my articles). But Gnome apps such as Nautilus doesn't look good in KDE session. What am I missing? Best Swapnil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Kmail question
by James Hatridge 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi all, When I upgraded to 12.1 I could not get Kmail to read my mail dir and had to start all over. But there is some data I really could use from one of these dir. Is there a way that I can force Kmail to read it or do you'al have another suggestion. Thanks! JIM -- Check out my stamp & postcard collection! Yankee GO HOME! Anti-US Propaganda on stamps, postcards, envelopes, and labels http://yankeegohome.18-t.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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