February 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] eSATA hotplug
by Peter Suetterlin 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hello List, I just bought myself a new (SSD) harddisk and used the opportunity to switch from 11.4 to 12.1 What I can say so far is that at least I am not impressed. There's too much struggling already with nasty little things that were fine in 11.4. One of those things is my docking station, which has among other things an eSATA port with a disk connected to it. When I inserted my computer in the dock, it would rescan the bus and recognize the new disk so I could mount it. In 11.4 that was. Now, with 12.1, it just does - nothing. No scan, /proc/partitions doesn't list it, I cannot mount it. >From my old SCSI days I remembered the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script, and this one does activate the disk. But this cannot be the solution. So who's the one to blame? Kernel? Udev? Something else? Anyone else having similar trouble? Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin(a)royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin(a)astro.su.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] Thunderbird sync IMAP to IMAP
by lynn 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi -I can store around 300 messages with my isp. -I can redirect messages from my isp to my gmail account. -Is there a way I can _sync_ the messages from my isp IMAP to my gmail IMAP leaving a copy in each? 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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[opensuse] bugzilla change email-addres
by Hans de Faber 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

I have a novel bugzilla accoount from years ago. It has an old email adress. The bugzilla helpfile told me that I can change my email addres in, chapter 5.10.4. Name and Password But I have only the following tabs: General Preferences Email Preferences Saved searches Permissions No tab "Name and Password". Question: Is it possible to change my email addres and How ? Thanks 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] Upgrade to KDE 4.8 (openSuSE 12.1)
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Just upgraded KDE from 4.7 to 4.8 and all of the icons on my desktop went missing. Is there a way to restore what I had short of recreating them manually? And why the F$%& can't the KDE dev's figure out a way to migrate settings from one version to the next. Absolute childish bull-shit as far as I am concerned. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- 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] openSUSE 12.1 boot progress indicator
by Brian K. White 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I think you still missed the reply-all button it but I'll forward it. And I think a progress bar that didn't actually show the progress of anything would look stupid not "pro end". You can't have a progress bar because there is no progress to measure. What you could have is a busy indicator. A spinner or other cyclic animation. Every time a systemd action happened, the animation moves a frame. Something that repeats, cycles, or oscillates, not goes from start to finish, because _there is no finish_. The processes that get started up do not get started up in any predefined order, nor is there a predefined list of things that should be running and actions that should be taken to consider yourself done booting up. There is no such thing as a target condition that represents boot completion and so asking for a progress bar that shows progress towards boot completion is like asking for pet fish claw trimmers. I understand all your previous pet dogs and cats had claws that needed trimming, but pet fish just don't work that way. -- bkw -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 12.1 boot progress indicator Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:29:41 -0300 From: Hernan_ <hernanthiers(a)gmail.com> To: Brian K. White <brian(a)aljex.com> Sorry I miss the ANSWER TO ALL button 2012/2/16 Hernan_ <hernanthiers(a)gmail.com>: > What does people think about geekos eyes as the load indicator? > I think it's "funny" but in the end a progress bar may look more pro end. > > 2012/2/16 Brian K. White <brian(a)aljex.com>: >> >> Under systemd there can be no such thing as a progress indicator because >> there is no such thing as "100% completed" or any other % completed. Because >> that is one of the fundamental differences in the way systemd works vs how >> sysvinit works. Systemd does not process a list of scripts in an orderly >> fashion and there is no first and no last action. Systemd reads all it's >> various service descriptor config files and all of them start doing their >> individual things essentially at the same time. Some do have to wait for >> others, but there is no inherent order laid down ahead of time like sysv >> init scripts. Also, many services start and stop dynamically in response to >> various run-time conditions. There isn't a "done" state, because it's >> basically always watching to start and stop things if they are needed the >> entire time the machine is running, even one second before you shut it off >> after a year, not just starting them all up once at the beginning. Since >> there is no "done" state, there is no such thing as "75% of the way to done" >> either. >> >> There might be _something_ that could be monitored in systemd that could >> give you _some_ sort of progress, but I don't know what it would be or how >> it would work. basically, at least right now, it's just a meaningless >> concept. >> >> -- >> bkw >> >> >> On 2/16/2012 5:49 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote: >>> >>> 2012. február 15. 21:37 napon Steven Hess<flamebait(a)gmail.com> írta: >>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Peter Suetterlin >>>> <P.Suetterlin(a)royac.iac.es> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Istvan Gabor wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello: >>>>>> >>>>>> The subject tells: How can get a boot progress indicator in oS 12.1? >>>>>> A similar one to any of that of previous suse versions. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'd be happy to get *any* info on the progress. Even screen output in >>>>> text >>>>> mode is stopped after fsck - the first time I thought the system has >>>>> crashed. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit >>>>> Institute for Solar Physics >>>>> Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin(a)royac.iac.es >>>>> +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin(a)astro.su.se >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >>>>> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org >>>>> >>>> >>>> My /boot/grub/menu.lst stanza looks like this and I get a verbose boot in >>>> 12.1: >>>> >>>> title Desktop -- openSUSE 12.1 - 3.1.9-1.4 (desktop) >>>> root (hd0,5) >>>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.9-1.4-desktop >>>> root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_9QG141S6-part6 >>>> resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500630AS_9QG141S6-part5 splash=verbose >>>> verbose showopts vga=0x31a >>>> initrd /boot/initrd-3.1.9-1.4-desktop >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> >>> This is different thing. >>> I meant that the splash screen in every previous suse version >>> showed a progress bar which indicated that the progress of the boot >>> process. For some reason the developers removed this progress bar and >>> only the splash image is shown. >>> You can press escape and go to verbose mode any time but then you can not >>> get back to the splash screen. >>> >>> What Peter mentioned about fsck was again a different issue. >>> From 11.x version the progress of fsck is not shown at boot. >>> In 9.x and 10.x versions the fsck showed its progress during boot. >>> >>> This was discussed here: >>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-02/msg01277.html >>> but no solution was given, only hints, and I could not >>> solve it. >>> >>> I would like to know how I could enable fsck progress bar >>> for both root and non-root filesystems during bootup. >>> >>> Peter, if you are interested in this one, please start >>> a specific new thread devoted to this question. >>> >>> Istvan >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > > > > -- > Hernán Thiers Garcia > Ingeniero Informático > Santiago, Chile. -- Hernán Thiers Garcia Ingeniero Informático Santiago, Chile. -- 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] LVM
by Steven Hess 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Can anyone point me to an explanation of how to use LVM written in terms a endluzer can understand? A recent attempt at LVM on a 12.1 install was a disaster as it decided to touch all the other HD's with distros installed in the test machine and render it's self unbootable after a few days with an fsck error relating to a drive marked with a date in the future. Thanks Steven -- ____________ Steven L Hess ARS KC6KGE DM05gd22 Skype user flamebait Cell 661 487 0357 (Facetime) Google Voice 661 769 6201 openSUSE Linux 11.4 -- 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] Need to find certain files...
by Insomniac 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hey gang, I need to find (so I can look through) a bunch of a certain type of files. I tried using the 'find files/folders' thing on the menu, but it didn't help me at all no matter how much info I put in to give it a hand. What I want to find, is *all* and *only* Gzip archive files made during a specific day/date in my /home/me/.mozilla/seamonkey/bliq9n9z.default/Cache/<a whole slew of folders here>/<and here> For instance, one will be at /home/me/.mozilla/seamonkey/bliq9n9z.default/Cache/0/00/ and will be named 81858d01. It won't have an extension, but in the 'type' column when using Dolphin it will be a Gzip archive. A strange thing about those folders too...one could have been created(?) on 13 Feb 2012 yet will contain files that may have dates ranging from a created(again ?) jpg on 27 Jan 2012 to an 'unknown' type of 02 Feb 2012. There can be 2 to 20 files in any one of these folders and each will have a complete mixture of dated files in it and none have an extension other than in the 'type' column, unlike say, in my 'home' folder. Is there some other way besides trying to use the find files/folders app in the kmenu? A better way? Even a commandline way, so long as someone tells me how and/or what to type is fine, heh. -- There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 -- 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] [OT] - But fun.
by Roger Oberholtzer 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

http://gizmodo.com/5885204/worlds-tiniest-chameleon-is-the-size-of-matchs-h… -- 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] Moving one Postgres db
by Duaine Hechler 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I have a single Postgres db that I would like to move it into /home. How can this be done ? TIA, Duaine -- 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] Icon on desktop
by Robert Benjamin 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

In suse 12.1 I'm unable to move the Thunderbird icon from favorites to the desktop. Please help. Thanks Newbie here. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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