openSUSE Users December 2012

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[opensuse] Is this a useful error message

by ianseeks

Hi I seem to get this error every other day just after i've logged in and before i've launched anything. FETCH JOB ERROR (Plasma Desktop Shell) Unknown Error (unable to fetch item from backend) Does anyone know who (app) owns this unhelpful message and what it may really mean in a more specific and helpful way ? It brings back bad memories for me of GPF Fault messages on early versions of Windows. regards Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Why did Windows never do the equivalent of /home ?

by Duaine Hechler

Wouldn't it behoove MS, to implement the /home concept (separating the OS from the users' data in different partitions) ? Once I got "into" Linux, I never understood why MS did not implement this. It would make it so much easier for all the support people (and users - who do their own thing) Any ideas ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler(a)att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Installation failure of openSuSE12.2, I need help.

by Marc Chamberlin

Searching around on the internet, it appears I am in for a rough road trying to install a dual boot system on my new ASUS G75VW laptop. (It came with Windows 7 x64 installed and there is a lot of chatter in Google land about something called EFI partitions??? Also a lot of Google hits on openSuSE forums, but when I try to open them up for viewing, my browser (Firefox) is not showing any contents!) I downloaded and created an installation DVD for openSuSE12.2 x64 and managed to figure out how to reach the bios and change the device boot order so as to boot from the DVD drive first. Upon inserting the DVD installation disk and powering up the laptop I can see that the initial phase of bringing up ELILO boot, (what happened to GRUB?) loads the kernel and perhaps a screen and a half worth of additional messages (too fast for me to read). But suddenly the display breaks up badly with unreadable lines that look mostly like a lot of dots and dashes start appearing, and it appears to soon reach a GUI (composed of green, grey, and white streaks of colors) but this too is badly corrupted and non-readable. So I am not even reaching a point where I can configure anything while attempting to install openSuSE! The display adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M if that helps... So how do I proceed? Thanks Marc... -- "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

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Kmail filters suddenly stopped working

by Dennis Gallien

Running KDE 4.9.2 from the 49 repo (12.2, x64), have not updated *anything* for ~6 weeks. My Kmail incoming filters have all been working, no problem at all. A couple days ago the filters just stopped working on incoming (POP) messages. Once in the inbox the Apply All Filters works, but again not as messages are being received. Suggestions? TIA, --dg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Kmail filters suddenly stopped working

by Dennis Gallion

Running KDE 4.9.2 from the 49 repo (12.2, x64), have not updated anything for ~6 weeks. My Kmail incoming filters have all been working fine, no problem at all. A few days ago the filters just stopped working on incoming (POP) messages. Once in the inbox I can use the context menu Apply All Filters and the messages are all filtered, but again, not as the messages are being received. I know others have had problems with the Kmail filters, but since I haven't but then problem later cropped up suddenly as it did, I'm stumped on where to look. Suggestions? (Is it safe to go to 4.9.3?) TIA, --dg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] cannot print duplex in firefox etc on 12.2

by John King

Opensuse 12.2 Firefox 17 Cups 1.5.4 I have recently moved from opensuse 11.4 to 12.2 (new installation) and now find that I cannot print in duplex from firefox, thunderbird, google chrome and kate. Printer OKI C531dn, using the oki supplied ppd file. Duplex printing is faultless in okular, acrobat and libreoffice (once the printer language type in libreoffice is changed from pdf to postscript), but firefox, thunderbird, chrome and kate will not print duplex whatever the settings in their print dialogues. In 11.4, using the same ppd file, there was no problem with duplex printing, using a cups 1.5.4 server. Also, I can print in duplex from these applications in xubuntu12.04 and Mint14, using the same ppd file. The cups version is 1.6.1 on both these machines. The fact that I had to change the printer language type in Libreoffice from pdf to postscript to enable duplex printing made me wonder whether there is something similar I have to change in the mozilla/kate/chrome configuration, but I haven't been able to find anything similar. If I redirect the print from the cups server on my 12.2 to a virtualbox mint14 cups server, then duplex printing works, so it does seem something specific to the 12.2 setup. I'd appreciate any pointers to how I can correct this. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] samba-3.6.9-130.1.i586 breaks AD auth?

by Moby

I have opensuse machines (12.2 on tumbleweed, 12.2 not on tumbleweed, and 12.1 not on tumbleweed) that run Samba configured as member servers in an AD domain. Windows clients and other machines (linux running samba etc) can map (or mount) samba exports. Everything was working fine until samba got updated on the machines to version 3.6.9-130.1 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/samba:/STABLE/. Now all attempts to map (or mount) fail with access denied. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Regards and thanks for any help in advance, -- --Moby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] virtuoso, tracker, meta.db, and a full hard drive

by George Olson

Howdy everyone, Just wondering about what happened the last few days. Several times I found that my laptop was running a very high temperature, and the culprit was "virtuoso" on the system activity gui. So I would stop virtuoso, and/or log out of kde and then log back in, and things would seem to go along fine for a few hours. Then it would start up again. When I would hover the mouse over nepomuk in the system tray, it would say "File index service is not running." The last time it did this, I finally decided to go into nepomuk in the system settings and disable the nepomuk file indexer and the nepomuk email indexer. I had it indexing emails because I have been running mail to see if I like it. So I am wondering if this has something to do with kmail, because if I were only running thunderbird, I would not need the email indexer to be running. In any case, this morning before work I was going to check the latest news, and I opened up firefox and got this message that there was a problem with firefox security because my hard drive was full. So I checked the hard drive, and I found that the last 18 gigs that I had empty had been filled up. When I looked to see what it was, it was this: On /home/george/.cache/tracker, the following files show up: george@linux-o3ef:~/.cache/tracker> ls -l total 18452444 -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 11 Sep 26 20:17 db-locale.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 2 Sep 26 20:17 db-version.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 6 Sep 26 20:40 first-index.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 10 Sep 26 20:40 last-crawl.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 18884642816 Dec 3 18:27 meta.db -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 32768 Dec 3 18:30 meta.db-shm -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 10240000 Dec 3 18:29 meta.db-wal -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 11 Sep 26 20:17 miner-applications-locale.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 0 Dec 2 16:49 no-need-mtime-check.txt.A4EVOW -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 0 Oct 10 21:20 no-need-mtime-check.txt.CEPBMW -rw-r--r-- 1 george users 352020 Sep 26 20:17 ontologies.gvdb So you see that meta.db is huge. So what is the general advice here? Should I ditch kmail so that I can run nepomuk indexer (for fast file searches which is actually very helpful) and also delete this meta.db database? Or are there some other ideas out there? -- 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

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] Jovie - how to start it automatically?

by Gustav Degreef

Hi folks, I would like to start Jovie automatically on boot. I am using OS 12.1, KDE 4.7.2, clean installwith all updates. I can start it manually from the command line and I have reasonable tts output from various programs. There is in Personal Settings/Accessibility/Text to Speech/General tab a check box for Jovie. I have enabled that, but It won't still will not stat on boot. I'm using a laptop and boot (passwordless) directly to the desktop. It took me a fair amount of searching on googleand kde support to get the tts applications to work nicely. Getting Jovie to start automatically is the one part I can't find an answer to. Thanks, Gustav. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

[opensuse] gimp

by Hans Krueger

anybody got gimp 2.8 running on suse 12.1 ? -- Hans Krueger hanskrueger007(a)roadrunner.com registered Linux user 289023 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

8 years, 1 month

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