November 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] I am going to reinstall, lvm is only problems.
by Oddball 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Hi all that have put in their time to help me, You have helped me gather a lot of very useful information in a very short time, and i am very grateful for that. But the only real solution is to re partition my drive. So that is what i am going to do now. 'I'll be back'. -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.2 "release 511" -- 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] ksnapshot
by ellanios82 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hello List ksnapshot has stopped working and gives the following message : /usr/bin/ksnapshot Maximum number of clients reached (ksnapshot:1226): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 ......................... - any ideas please, How to Fix ?? thanks Ellan -- 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] is there something subtly wrong with Knode and Kmail?
by George Olson 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

I have seen this sort of thing happen here and there and I am wondering if other people have the same sort of experience. I would like to fully migrate over to Kmail and Knode instead of thunderbird, because the interface looks cleaner and smoother to my eyes. Also, Kmail has the exceedingly nice aggregation of "current activity, threaded" which makes sorting through massive amounts of email so much easier. Especially nice in this is the separation of emails between todays emails, yesterday's, and the previous day's, etc. If Thunderbird had this option I would totally be willing to stick with Thunderbird. However, one of kmails problems is that it seems really slow to connect and download. I saw this when initially set up my mails, in that it took upwards of 8 hours on my laptop to download all my imap emails, probably about 5000 stored (which I like to cache, so that contributes to the slowness). On my desktop it didn't take that long, maybe 3 hours. On Thunderbird, it took less than an hour for everything to be downloaded. So I found a random blogger on the internet that was comparing email clients, and this was his complaint about kmail also My experience now is that there is not much of a problem with kmail, except for an occasional slowness of this same type. It seemed that once all the imap emails were in and cached, regular email checking seems to go right along somewhat smoothly. However, knode seems to be different. I posted a test message in the forums this morning, and it took 15 minutes before my test message was able to be downloaded back into knode for me to see it. Right after I posted it, I used thunderbird's nntp client to post a different message in a different forum (still the opensuse forums, just a different one), and this one came back to thunderbird within 10 seconds. It also grabbed right away my original post from knode. As I watch the lower right screen of Kontact that indicates the activity it is working on, it is continuously waiting, waiting, waiting... as it tries to connect with the forums. Then after about 10 minutes it is successful and connects with them all. My question is if anyone else has this same type of experience of somewhat random slowness in kmail and knode. I can't put my finger on any particular settings as being the cause because they are exactly the same as in thunderbird on all accounts, yet the slowness is not there in tb. It has its own other problems, but not this one. -- George Olson Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- 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] Problem mounting other mechanical drives with 12.2
by C 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

I haven't been able to really track this one down... I've got a clean install of openSUSE 12.2 (fully updated plus KDE 4.9.2). openSUSE is installed on an SSD drive, and I've got two other mechanical drives in the computer. The drives are identical 1TB Samsung drives - neither contain any data (they are recently (ext4) formatted drives) If I open Dolphin and click on the second drive, I get a popup asking me for root password for mounting the drive. I enter root pwd and it mounts correctly and gives me full read/write access as $USER. This is exactly what I want, and this is the out-of-the-box behaviour (I didn't tweak anything). If I click on the first mechanical drive, I get the same root password request, but once the drive is mounted, I get read-only access. Why is one drive working "correctly" - ie the mount is working as I expect - and the other not? Where should I be looking to sort this one out? I would like to have both drives behave the same (full read/write once mounted). C. -- openSUSE 12.2 x86_64, KDE 4.9.2 -- 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] botched install of keepnote
by George Olson 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hi everyone, I messed up something, and I need help in trying to fix it. As I am researching the best note taking programs, I stumbled across keepnote. I want a python based program instead of a java based program; hence this is better than evernote if it works well. But as I looked through, I did not know if the rpm was checked out for opensuse, so I decided to install the tarball instead. It is supposed to be platform independent, and I have done this for some other applications I needed, so it seemed like a good idea. The command I had used to install the tarball version was as follows. I simply navigated to the extracted directory where the setup.py script was, and typed (as root) python setup.py install This ran a script and created directorys in /usr/<something> in order to run keepnote. Well, I get a series of errors when I try to run keepnote and some of the gui doesn't function all that well. Here are the errors: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- george@linux-o3ef:~/Documents> keepnote ============================================== KeepNote 0.7.8: Fri Nov 2 21:09:54 2012 ** (process:2205): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GMountMountFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' ** (process:2205): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GDriveStartFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' ** (process:2205): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'GSocketMsgFlags' as enum when in fact it is of type 'GFlags' enabling extension 'keepnote' enabling extension 'backup_tar' enabling extension 'new_file' enabling extension 'editor_insert_date' enabling extension 'command_basics' enabling extension 'export_html' enabling extension 'python_prompt' enabling extension 'notebook_http' (keepnote:2205): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (keepnote:2205): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- However, rather than trying to troubleshoot all these errors which are a bit beyond my understanding, I did a package search on opensuse.org, and lo and behold, there was a keepnote rpm that was already set up and ready to run. It is not in the regular repositories, but it has been tested (to some degree). So I downloaded the rpm and went to install it instead of the tarball package (not knowing how to uninstall the version I installed from the tarball). However, since I ran the keepnote setup from the tarball before, it did something and put the keepnote from the tarball into my system instead of the rpm version. So here is the question. How do I uninstall keepnote that was installed from the tarball and make sure that when I issue the command 'keepnote', it runs what I installed from the rpm? I am uncertain about where and how program files are kept. I ran the "find" command as follows, and here are the directories where anything with "keepnote" is located: --------------------- george@linux-o3ef:~/Documents> find /usr -name keepnote /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keepnote /usr/local/bin/keepnote /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/keepnote /usr/share/doc/packages/keepnote /usr/bin/keepnote ----------------------- Thanks in advance for your help. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Re: add prompt to rm command
by e-letter 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

There is another distribution that does seem to alias 'rm -i'. As a first gnu/linux distribution (shall not be mentioned to avoid a distribution war), the command terminal automatically warns before removal. Then moving to opensuse, realised the danger ;). -- 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] can not stop or restart network in openSUSE 12.1
by Istvan Gabor 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Hello: In openSUSE 12.1 I don't know how I can restart or stop network. If I run rcnetwork restart I get: # rcnetwork restart redirecting to systemctl Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. and the network is not restarted (according to kinternet icon status). systemctl gives: # systemctl restart network.service Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. and # systemctl status network.service network.service - LSB: Configure the localfs depending network interfaces Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/network) Active: failed since Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:24:11 +0100; 44s ago Process: 12493 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/network start (code=exited, status=7/NOTRUNNING) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/network.service I don't know what this means, but the network is working and I cannot stop or restart it. Never had such a problem in any previous linux/SUSE/openSUSE. Even /etc/init.d/network restart does not work. # /etc/init.d/network restart redirecting to systemctl Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. These are the last lines from /var/log/messages: Nov 3 00:27:46 linux network[13485]: ..skippedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . ...failed Nov 3 00:27:46 linux systemd[1]: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=7 Nov 3 00:27:46 linux systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state. Meanwhile the network is happily working. I don't understand this. Please help. Thanks, Istvan -- 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] 12.2 on a Windows 7 machine
by Jim Sabatke 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

OK, I've been using Suse for about 15 years now, but I am not a network or systems guy. My education and background is in software. I've learned a lot about managing systems because I've had to and I don't mind learning. The changes from version to version can really throw me, for example, it took me weeks to get SAMBA working on the Linux end, but then it worked great (version 11.1). When I upgraded to 11.2, I saved the SAMBA data and copied it back in and it worked fine. With 12.1 it no longer works and I haven't been able to figure it out. I understand and accept the limits of Suse documentation and have learned a lot struggling with services, but on the other hand, after 15 years, I still don't understand what "routing" tables are or how they work, and I've read a lot on it. Those aren't my issues today, I just want to set your understanding of where I am and my own limitations. I want to setup my HP laptop for Windows 7 and Suse 12.2 dual boot. I would go completely Linux if I knew I could get everything, including camera and networking working. I also need at least one computer setup with Windows internet access for online setup of a couple of device configurations, including my entertainment center remote, which only works under Windows. I also have a lot of files on the laptop that I cannot risk losing, but I don't have any easy means to back them up, especially since SAMBA no longer works on my desktop system. That brings up the following: My laptop has only one partition of the type needed to load an bootable operating system. I forget the type, but when I tried to load Suse a year ago I trashed the computer and lost everything. Like some other things, I don't really understand this aspect really well. I can certainly setup up partitions otherwise and have been doing it for many years, including on Windows/Linux computers. Documentation says "just use gparted," but then no help from there, and again, I don't want to trash my computer with a mistake from limited knowledge. I know this is a common issue, and people who do understand all the issues together have some trouble getting it to work, but eventually do, but nobody gives a step-by-step, which shouldn't be that long a document, on how to prepare a system for loading Linux for dual boot. Like others on google searches, I can't find anything that makes sense and I just don't know enough to pull the trigger, and I don't really know how to acquire the knowledge because there are so many incomplete and conflicting essays on the subject. So, I'm asking: - Is there any help for SAMBA, especially changes since 11.2? That way I could back up my system and not be so worried. Otherwise, the home edition of Windows 7 is extremely restrictive about network connectivity. - Is there any comprehensive documentation for installing a dual boot system like I want to do? Thanks in advance, Jim -- 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] /etc/zypp/repo.d: Does it work when copied from old to new install?
by Oddball 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi, To solve a grub fs recognition problem, seems to take more time than a new install. I want to use the repos already installed. When i copy them to the new installation, will they be accepted, and show up in zypper and Yast? I ask this, because moving .mozilla and .thunderbird into a new user /home brought up the dialog: Firefox, (or) Thunderbird already running, close first. Which could not be done, because they were not in use. For Firefox there is no problem, because sync puts all in place, but thunderbird is another story: EVERYTHING (all filters, folders, add-ons, when not owning an imap mailserver, all mail is gone.) has to be configured again. (i do not understand why there is no sync option for that...) Kind regards. -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.2 "release 511" -- 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 get the correct entries in Grub (legacy)?
by Oddball 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi all you people that selflessly helped me the last few days, ;-) Felix dragged me trough a fastcourse booting without bootloader, and i thank him for taking the effort and the patience to help me. His deduction made it possible to boot my eee pc again. (remnants of grub2 need:) grub>linux (hdo,msdos3)/vmlinuz noresume 5 grub>initrd (hd0,msdos3)/initrd grub>boot Brought me back into my desktop again. Installing the grub legacy went ok sofar, that there were no entries left on the drive, so i asked to propose them to me. It looked right to me, but i get an error message, and only the Kernel option, the last one boots, but not gladly. The message is this one: root (hd0,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs. (but this is not true, as lvm proposed ext4 for that, and i choose to give it a try.) partition type 0x83 (?) kernel /vmlinuz-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop root=/dev/system/root video=1024x600 (rather 1024x768) resume=/dev/system/swap splash=silent quiet [linux-bzImage, setup=0x4200, size=0x4cf960] initrd/initrd-3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop-kdump Error 15: File not found My question is: How do i find the right things to put here, and how do i do it? -- Have a nice day, Oddball. OS: Linux 3.7.0-rc2-4-desktop i686 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@EeePc-Rob-SFN9 Systeem: openSUSE 12.2 (i586) KDE: 4.9.2 "release 511" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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