February 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] New update breaks Seamonkey email
by James Knott 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

I just installed the latest Seamonkey update and now the email part is unusable. The first thing I noticed is there's no message or header area visible. It's just a big blue-grey area. Also, it's missing several iterms from the Mail tool bar. There's no "File", "Edit", "View" "Help" listed. In short, it's useless. -- 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] help with recovery from botched nvidia driver install
by Alex Angerhofer 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi List, I have been running 12.1 on 64 bit for a while. My graphics card is a GeForce GTX470 and I have been using the nouveau driver without any problems for months. The other day I tried to install the nvidia driver with the result that the plasma desktop became unstable (bombs to black screen after a while). I tried a couple of the older drivers as well with the same symptoms. I have since tried to recover from this situation and revert back to the nouveau driver, however, with limited success. I was able to uninstall the nvidia driver and remove the blacklisting for nouveau. I also had to remove my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in order to get the X server to come back up but it does so in 1280x1024 instead of 1920x1080 which is my native screen resolution. Basically, the screen looks like what comes up in failsafe mode. What am I missing? How do I get the higher resolution back? Is there a way to rerun the hardware test scripts that determine the correct settings upon an initial install? I would hate to have to reinstall from scratch. Thanks in advance for any pointers, Alex. -- 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] Re: How to remove KMail (w/configuration) from openSuSE v12.1
by Joachim Schrod 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

michael(a)actrix.gen.nz wrote: > > Just remember to skip the updates for these downgraded packages, > a bit of a hassle, but manageable. Lock them, then you don't need to skip it for every update. I assume locking can be done with Yast, but I don't know how. On the command line, use: zypper addlock packet 'packet' may also be a shell-style wildcard pattern. zypper locks lists all available locks. HTH, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- 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] Xephyr on OpenSuse 12.1 not working as expected.
by Hans-Joachim Ehlers 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Moin, I started with OpenSuse 12.1 and would like to "Xephyr" running. Its needed since we have to connect to remote desktops ( mostly CDE - AIX,Sun a.s.o ) Xephyr is working fine on OpenSuse 11.1 and OpenSuse 11.4 but on 12.1 i get only a black screen Error message: : Xephyr unable to use SHM XIMage And later : XDM: too many retransmissions, declaring session dead. Note: Display Manager is: xdm Any hint where to start debugging. Tia Hajo -- Hans-Joachim Ehlers UNIX Systems Engineer EUMETSAT Eumetsat-Allee 1 64295, Darmstadt, Germany Tel : +49 6151 807-7307 mailto:hansjoachim.ehlers@eumetsat.int http://www.eumetsat.int N��r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛��m�)z{.��+�:�{Zr�az�'z��j)h��Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��

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[opensuse] Re: Convert Yarn/2 Folders to mbox???
by Charles Philip Chan 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Robin Klitscher <robnk(a)xtra.co.nz> writes: > To a degree, this situation would have been eased if I'd been able to > get OS/2 up and running in a virtual machine under openSUSE. But, > despite many attempts and much frustration, I have not been able to > get any of the OS/2 flavours to work satisfactorily as a VirtualBox > guest in an openSUSE host. That includes eCS 2.0 and the latest > editions of VBox. I have been able to get WARP 4 working with qemu. > But it won't work forever. Against that day, what I'd like to do is > convert the contents of archived Yarn/2 mail folders into mbox format > so I can then import them into Thunderbird or other mailer running on > openSUSE (currently 12.1). The only way that I can think of is to pack your folders into SOUP files with "Yarn to Soup with Grep"[1], read them into Gnus under Emacs with the nnsoup backend and copy/move the messages to mbox files. However, Gnus have a steep learning curve- YMMV. Charles Footnotes: [1] http://www.vex.net/~x/bells2.phtml#ytsg -- "Are [Linux users] lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?" (By Matt Welsh)

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[opensuse] System now won't shutdown
by Basil Chupin 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

OK, who's been fooling around with something so that since some updates done yesterday (my time, Australian Eastern Daylight Time) oS 12.1 [32-bit] will not shutdown the way it has been doing for....for....for ever? :-( Right-click on Desktop, select Leave>Shutdown the Computer - and the system hangs :-( . No mouse, no keyboard.....just the green screen with the gecko sitting there in the bottom-right corner staring at me..... Even using ALT-CTRL-F3, logging in as root and issuing the 'halt' command results in.....nothing :-( . Black screen, the computer keeps running...The only way to stop it is to physically power-off. Surely I am not the only one suddenly suffering this hassle? BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- 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 remove KMail (w/configuration) from openSuSE v12.1
by Stan Goodman 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Because I have become discouraged in trying to get KMail v1.3.6 (what came with oS v12.1) properly configured, I want to remove it (preferably ONLY KMail, and not the whole of Kontact or of KDE v4.7), and install it again from scratch. That is, I want to remove also the present KMail configuration settings as well, because I believe that they are corrupted. I thought that I would find those settings somewhere under the ~/.kde4 directory, but that appears not to be the case -- or I have not recognized it. WHERE is the Kmail configuration stored in this version? I am undecided about whether the reinstallation should again be KMail 1.3.6, or the fallback to the Kmail version in KDE3.5. If I decide on the latter, I would prefer to leave KDE v4.x as it is, as it is my impression that most difficulties in KDE4.x are in the mailer. My understanding from reading on the 'Net is that this is possible, but I would like the comments of others about feasibility etc. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- 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] 12.1 GNOME 3.2.1 window shading actions broken?
by Carl Hartung 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi All, I upgraded my 11.4 x86_64 GNOME 2.32 system to 12.1 GNOME 3.2.1 (OBS Stable) using 'zypper dup'. The system has been stable and running beautifully now for a couple of days but with one problem: 'window shading' -- double clicking a title bar to roll content up and hide it -- is broken. In my upgraded user space, switching workspaces causes the title bars of rolled up programs to disappear. I can select and 'unshade' them one at a time using "Activities" mode or Alt+Tab / Shift+Alt+Tab, but this is arduous if, like me, you keep groups of related programs stacked up like pancakes on several workspaces. I created a new user and the breakage there is a little different. They remain visible after switching workspaces, but they're locked in the 'rolled up' state. Nothing happens when they're double clicked. The positioning is also 'frozen.' The title bars can't be moved. I can select and 'unshade' them one at a time, per the above. I've 'Googled' extensively and not been able to find anyone else reporting or discussing this specific problem. I'm hoping someone here will have some troubleshooting ideas share or leads to follow. TIA & regards, Carl -- 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] script to watch a movie
by lynn 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Hi From kde, could this: ctrl+alt+f1 login sudo init 3 sudo rcsmb start sudo rcnmb start <watch the movie> sudo rcnmb stop sudo rcsmb stop sudo init 5 ctrl+alt+f1 exit ctrl+alt+f7 be scripted into a click and a password? 11.2 L x -- 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] grep sed and awk question
by lynn 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

I'm regex'd out of it at the moment. Given a string like this: lynn:*:3000002some other stuff100hellolynn: Is there a way to get the 3000002 into a variable v1 and the 100 into a variable v2? bash? Any recommended starting point? Thanks, L x -- 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-offtopic] Re: [opensuse] how to give files group rw permissions
by Dirk Gently 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Dirk Gently<dirk.gently00(a)gmail.com> [02-14-12 18:24]: >> >> Because when you use that same distro OUTSIDE of those two niches, >> you have a major security hole. >> >> defaulting to rw-r--r-- much safer then rwxrwxr-x, the latter being an >> invitation for things to go wrong....very wrong. >> >> For example, any legitimate user in group "user" being allowed to overwrite, >> remove, etc. files owned by anyone else in group "user". >> >> The default umask is what it is based on 4 DECADES of experience, far beyond >> your small little single-user niche usage. > > You haven't paid attention. The folder is a means to synchronize files > between a group, read that as a group, of users. Lookup "dropbox". > the umask command applies to all files from the point that it is rune. Putting it in /etc/profile or /etc/bash.rc, for the creation of a single directory, would be, as they say, "wrong and stupid" -- 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] Education repository not ported to 12.1? Where's scilab and its dependencies?
by Matthias Danzl 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

scilab and several of its dependencies are not available in 12.1 community repository. Any particular reason why support has been dropped? Any chance they will get added over time or do I have to look for a manual solution to get scilab? I'm afraid installing them from the 11.4 Education repo will break some packages. TIA -- 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] slow nfs to chmod g+s share
by lynn 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi 12.1 server and clients We have a Dropbox-like folder under /home with chmod g+s drwxrwsr-x 2 root suseusers 4096 2011-08-01 18:08 . Writes to that folder are noticeably slower, e.g. editing large jpg's, when compared to writing the same file to your own folder. When the lan is busy, it can take several seconds to save a file. Over time, this gets annoying. I'm almost certain that this is the g+s as when I remove it, we can all rw at normal speed, but of course we can't share the files. I've tried with and without krb5 and async. Are there any other tweaks I'm missing here? rsize and wsize? acl's (whatever they are!)? Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks, L x Server: /etc/exports /home 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sec=none:sys:krb5:krb5i:krb5p,no_subtree_check,insecure) Client: mount gives: hh3:/home/ on /home type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=krb5,clientaddr=192.168.1.3,minorversion=0,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.1.3) -- 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] Kontact and Google Calendar resources - broken.
by Rodney Baker 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

I originally posted this in opensuse-kde but got no responses there so I'm trying here. (Will Stephenson - any ideas?) ==================================================== Hi all. Has anyone gotten Google Calendar working with Kontact recently? I have installed libgcal and akonadi-googledata but every time I attempt to add an Akonadi Google Calendar resource, as soon as I enter the username and password Akonadi returns with an "Invalid Password" error and fails to connect. Tracing the connection with wireshark shows Akonadi responding to the server TLS handshake with an Unknown CA error. The strange thing is that KMail's IMAP works absolutely fine with GMail IMAP attached to the same account (so I'm thinking this is a bug either in libgcal or akonadi-googledata). Searching the 'net shows that this also affects other distributions so I've raised an upstream bug #293963. Cheers, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au =================================================== -- 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] >> 2.2TB disk
by Hans Witvliet 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

hi all, I wanted to turn a machine into a nfs server, zo i bought some 3TB disks. However, i was told that there seems to be a machical boundry at 2TB, which is alleged to be solved by grub2. As SuSE isn't capable of doing that directly from YaST (at least in 12.1) i decided to put it on hold. But here: http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/D213A024C090CE9F862577D… They write that specially patched verions on grub-legacy can do the trick also. So question is, does anybody knows if grub included on 12.1 has that particular patch? Kind regards, hans -- 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] Re: script to watch a movie
by Malcolm 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:50:33 +0100 lynn <lynn(a)steve-ss.com> wrote: > On 02/14/2012 12:23 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 2012-02-13 22:49, lynn wrote: > >> Hi > >> From kde, could this: > >> > >> ctrl+alt+f1 > >> login > >> sudo init 3 > >> sudo rcsmb start > >> sudo rcnmb start > >> <watch the movie> > > How are you going to watch a movie in text mode? I know that xine > > has an ascii text mode display, but I would not care to watch a > > movie that way except to show that it can be done. And I very much > > doubt you are refering to that. > Hi > > I connect to a wireless multimedia nas via samba so that everyone can > view the movie on a larger screen with better sound. I drop to rl3 > because otherwise the playback is jerky. > > Any ideas for a script? > Cheers, > L x > Hi Just use chvt to get to a tty, so write your commands and call it (the script) with kdesu. You ay not have to init 3, unless it's an underpowered system. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.19-default up 2:43, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU -- 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] opensuse 12.1 kmail/kde3 application and uninstall of kmail2
by George Olson 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Howdy all, I decided to try and give the kmail2 another go, and so my first step was to completely uninstall it. Using Yast2 I uninstalled kmail2 and kontact. However, after restart, I notice under the applications tab under the kicker, there is still an application for kmail, which is labeled "KMail/KDE3". I opened it and setup my imap gmail account and was able to receive emails, although I was not able to see the folder labels. The application looks like an older version of kmail. I never had kde 3.anything installed on this system, and it does not show up as an installed package in Yast2, so I am kind of wondering where it comes from and what the purpose of having it there is. In any case, I would like to make sure I have everything for kmail2 completely uninstalled, including all my data, so that I can get a completely fresh start when I reinstall it. Can someone direct me as to where the data files and/or folders are that I need to delete before reinstalling kmail2? Also, do I need to uninstall other dependencies for kmail2? How about akonadi? Do I need to uninstall that? George -- 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] Offline Update of SuSE ?
by Peter Maffter 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Once there were Patch CDs for offline Update of OpenSuSE. I was not able to find them on internet. I need the latest 64Bit rpm files for OpenSuSE 11.3 update (and later I'll try 11.4 and 12.1). Either for download via ftp (or wget) or as Patch CD/DVD. Thanks in advance. -- 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] Where to find Audacity with - import - mp3 support ?
by Duaine Hechler 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

-- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler(a)att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- 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 can I use 1705% of the cpu?!
by Basil Chupin 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

I thought that I would be really smart earlier today and decided (which I have never done before) to open an RSS feed in "All Tabs" in Firefox 10.0. As a result there were something like 250+ tabs opened. I then ran the System Monitor to see how much RAM I was using. 1.4GB. OK. No hassles. 2.6GB left. But then I looked at the cpu usage. It showed that I was using around 1,705% of cpu. Repeat, 1,705% of cpu. Now, I ask you, this is an AMD 32-bit, single core, AMD Athlon XP 3200+. How can I be using ~1,705% of the cpu? The mind boggles...... BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- 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] opensuse 12.1 Can't see other OSes
by Swapnil Bhartiya 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi, I have been using openSUSE for a few months now and loving it and have started recommending it to users as well. There is one issues. If you have other Linux OSes installed on your system openSUSE can't see them. Why is so and what is the possible solution? 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] Anyone managed to get a MCP79 HD sound card working in openSUSE?
by C 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

I'm trying to help a friend get a computer set up on openSUSE 12.1 (migrating from Ubuntu 10.10), and everything is working on the openSUSE 12.1 KDE4 LiveCD except sound. On the existing Ubuntu 10.10 setup we found this info: aplay - l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 lshw -c sound *-multimedia description: Audio device product: MCP79 High Definition Audio vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: 8 bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0 version: b1 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2 resources: irq:21 memory:f9e78000-f9e7bfff To "fix" it on Ubuntu, it required that we edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add medion-md2 to the options options snd-hda-intel model=medion-md2 power_save=10 power_save_controller=N So.. that's all nice and works with another distro using Alsa... but this is openSUSE and Pulse. What we tried - Checked all sound volume sliders in KMixer and YaST to make sure volumes were up and not muted. Checked YaST to make sure the card was detected which it is. We stopped at this point to give me time to try and find a little more information. So, has anyone here had any success/experience with this sound card in openSUSE 12.1? Any tips or suggestions? - I'd prefer to keep it on Pulse if I can. Alsa is possible, but.. I'd much rather see it working on the default setup vs removing Pulse - I don't have the luxury of experimenting much since the computer is something like 16,000km away, I kind of hope to have a few answers in hand when we try to do the install this weekend. C. -- 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] Installation Woes
by Felix Miata 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

On 2012/02/12 11:22 (GMT-0600) Billie Walsh composed: > On the boot selection screen from the DVD I disabled "ACPI" and used > "Safe Settings". BINGO! It worked perfectly. I had a completely > graphical install. I had used the "Safe Settings" on another try and it > didn't work so I have to ask: > What is ACPI and why did disabling it work??????????? Google can find you the answer to what. Why is because ACPI was young and inexperienced when the BIOS for your old puter was written. Need to disable ACPI to install is common in puters of yours' vintage. That's why the initial menu makes the option easy to find and use for those who don't find and read installation instructions. Possibly a motherboard BIOS update is available that would have obviated its need today, and might in future installs. > The OS is working fine now that it's installed. > Right now it's doing a truck load of updates. I'll give the editing Grub > configuration after all else is done. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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] 153 new messages
by James Knott 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

I run Seamonkey on openSUSE 12.1 for my email. I frequently see a pop up saying there's 153 new messages, when there are nowhere near that many. I had never seen that in previous versions of openSUSE and Seamonkey has been updated a couple of times since 12.1 was installed. Has anyone else seen this? The erroneous pop up is always for 153 messages. tnx jk -- 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] openSUSE 12.1 KDE and sessions
by Roger Oberholtzer 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

I have a strange thing happening on openSUSE 12.1 and KDE (original 12.1 version). What I describe did not happen in earlier openSUSE releases. I have an application (navit - a non-KDE map application installed from OBS) that is started when the user logs in, via a script in $HOME/.kde4/Autostart The application starts fine the first time one logs in. It runs until the user logs out, and I can see that it is indeed not running after the logout. Next login, there are two navit apps running. Third login, and there are three. And so on. Each time, all the navits are killed on logout. They are all started new on login. I suspect the session management part of KDE is involved. We have not turned sessions on/off. In fact, I do not see where to even control this anymore. Is there still a concept of restarting applications on login? If so, how can I disable this? If not, what might be going on here? 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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