February 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Gnome 3 will not Logon
by Joseph Loo 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

I am having problem running Gnome 3 on 12.1. I loaded the proprietary Nvidia drivers 295.20 with dual display. I have the gt200 Nvidia card with a Xenon process (6). When I try to login in, it says one of the gnome 3 extension has failed. Try to turnoff the extension and re-login. I did the suggested turnoff, and it still fails. I suspect it is the alt-tab menu, but the extension is not on the activity setting. I found out that KDE, xfce, twm, will work. No gnome 3. Is there something I can help diagnose the problem. Loading the proprietary drivers using one click install is not an option. The company firewall will not let us setup the repository. Note, the noveau drivers work but no 2 screens. -- Joseph Loo jloo(a)acm.org -- 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] Seamonkey filters not working
by James Knott 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

Since updating to the latest version of Seamonkey (2.7-2.9.2) the message filters have stopped working. Has anyone else noticed this? Any fix? 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] script to modify file permissions
by lynn 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi openSUSE 12.1 umask 0022 In a shared folder, we want any file created to be group rw. Using acls is not an option. #!/bin/sh share=/home/CACTUS/dropbox/ cd $share wihile true do if [ -N $share ]; then for a in * do if [ -N $a ]; then echo $(chmod g+w $a) echo "$a was changed" fi done fi sleep 4 done But it's changing _all_ the files in the folder irrespectively: hh3:/home/CACTUS/dropbox # touch lynn lynn was changed hh3:/home/CACTUS/dropbox # touch lynn2 lynn was changed lynn2 was changed hh3:/home/CACTUS/dropbox # touch lynn3 lynn was changed lynn2 was changed lynn3 was changed I thought it may be changing the timestamp: hh3:/home/CACTUS/dropbox # touch lynn4 -rw-rw---- 1 root 3000016 0 Feb 20 12:26 lynn -rw-rw---- 1 root 3000016 0 Feb 20 12:26 lynn2 -rw-rw---- 1 root 3000016 0 Feb 20 12:26 lynn3 -rw-rw---- 1 root 3000016 0 Feb 20 12:30 lynn4 but no. Each time only one file has been modified. Why does it change _all_ of the files? 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] mounting folders into each other: also in fstab?
by cagsm 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

good day, having a rather old suse system, that needs to mount some folders into each other and such, due to some ftp server not being able to displays folders properly because of process rights or so. Do I also add this type of mount into the fstab? Manually I enter as root: mount --bind /srv/www/vhosts/........sourcefolder ......../targetfolder/ Does it work with fstab and the --bind parameter into the options column or how do I do that exactly? thanks. -- 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] zypper
by Ken Schneider - openSUSE 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Is there a reason why zypper needs to refresh when doing: zypper se -i <some package> As I only want to search for an *installed* package there is no reason to refresh the repos. -- 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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[opensuse] Where does KDE save the "trust status" of .desktop files?
by Stefan Gofferje 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hi, I have created a bunch of .desktop files with a script and now KDE shows each of them with a red exclamation mark and asks on the first start if I trust this application? Where does KDE store this trust status and how can I change this in a script? I think, it's kinda stupid if I create a desktop file with my user id and I wanna start it with the same user id that KDE asks if I trust myself... -S -- (o_ Stefan Gofferje | SCLT, MCP, CCSA //\ Reg'd Linux User #247167 | VCP #2263 V_/_ Heckler & Koch - the original point and click interface -- 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] kmail2 crash after google calendar, now not synchronizing imap account
by George Olson 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I originally tried sending this from kmail, and as I have since learned, for some reason now sending from kmail doesn't work from my gmail to this list. It says that the email is sent, but a search of the archives doesn't show it ever was received. So I am sending this now again from thunderbird. _______________ Howdy, Using openSUSE 12.1 and KDE 4.7.4 and Kmail 4.7.4. The other day I tried to load the google calendar connection on akonadi. I tried to add a new calendar resource of the type "ical" and provided the location as the URL provided by google calendar. As soon as I did this, I lost my desktop, system tray, taskbar, and anything else associated with X except for a few things. The way this happened is my regular windows that I already had open I could alt-tab between, but my desktop background was black, the kicker and the entire lower bar where the system tray and taskbar reside were not there. Right clicking on the desktop would not give any menus. I was able to do alt-f2 and run an application that way. I tried to reboot and it was the same thing, except that for about 2 seconds I was able to access one of my panels long enough to start up kontact again. I re-booted a couple of times with the same effect. Finally I started up kontact again and removed the google calendar resource. Once it was removed, everything went back to normal. Except not everything, as I assumed. From that point on, Kmail2 stopped synchronizing one of my imap accounts. I have 3 imap accounts - 2 with gmail and 1 with yahoo. The imap account with gmail that I have set as my default account has not synchronized any email since last thursday. It also will not send. It says it sends the email by the indicator in the lower right corner, but it actually does not, because when I test send an email from that account to one of my other accounts, I never receive the email. I have verified that the problem is not with the server itself, for I can send and receive imap email on this account using thunderbird without any problem. My other imap accounts do not seem to have any problem synchronizing. filed as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294411 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] VNC keyboard control
by jdd 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello, I use VNC to access a remote server my local machine as well as the server are 12.1, that is UTF8. I'm french, so use AZERTY french keyboard (selected on the two machines) when I log on the server, I get a special keyboard. some googling seems to say it's because VNC do not allow UTF8 it's specially annoying because some keys are odd (m is ; and there is no ":" - bad for vi!) do you know any way to fix this? no problem with ssh thanks jdd -- 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] How to build a package with additional options | YAST
by Greg Freemyer 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hmmm... That's a little tougher from the OBS side of things. Since 11.3 is discontinued you can't just follow the steps I outlined. i.e There is no longer a build target defined. I can't even get a local build of curl from 11.3 to work for some reason (out of date or missing keys it appears.) So I just used the WebUI to branch a copy. I didn't change anything yet, but per the specfile libssh2 should be supported: https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=curl&project=home%3Agregfr… New packages are still building on OBS, but once that is done in a few minutes you should be able to download freshly rebuilt packages from: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:gregfreemyer:branch… If you would verify if those do or don't have libssh2 support, I can help try to get you rpm's with the right support. Good Luck Greg On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Luis Gonzalez <lgonzalezsa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you very much Greg! > > About your first question, in my opensuse 12.1 installation its working, but in older installation of opensuse 11.3, my curl was not enabled by default with > I'm reading OSB today. > > Thank you for your help. > > Luis > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Luis Gonzalez <lgonzalezsa(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I'm trying to figure out, how can I build the curl package with the = >>> option "--with-libssh2" using YAST or another command line tool (CLI). >>> I can do this downloading, extracting and using the source code with = >>> well known procedures like configure make make install; but I want to = >>> know if OpenSuse have a CLI tool in similar way like Ubuntu do with = >>> dpkg-buildpackage. >>> >>> I post the reference for Ubuntu: = >>> http://iamnearlythere.com/add-sftp-capabilities-to-curl >>> >>> If someone knows how to do that without download the source, thank you = >>> very much. >>> >>> OpenSuse rules! >>> >>> Luis Gonzalez >> >> Luis, >> >> First, are you sure it's not working now? If not, I suspect its a >> bug, so you can throw that into bugzilla. >> >> Anyway, using standard rpm cli tools, Anders is an expert on that and >> he gave me the instructions years ago. I'm afraid I've misplaced them >> by now. >> >> These days, I use OBS to do the same thing. OBS is unique to opensuse >> (with exceptions), so learning it has less use cases than the rpm cli >> tools, but OBS is so much more functional than the rpm tools that it >> is the way most opensuse maintainers do things now. >> >> I just ran thru your situation as a test: >> >>> mkdir ~/obs >>> cd ~/obs >>> osc co openSUSE:12.1:Update curl >>> cd ~/obs/openSUSE:12.1:Update/curl >>> osc build >> >> Will locally build the rpm as it exists in the update repo. It does >> it inside a chroot jail, so it will download a lot of packages that >> you already have. The copy it is getting is just for osc build to >> use, and they are not shared with your main set of rpms that zypper >> uses. >> >> Normally to add a feature you can then edit the specfile and add >> --with-libssh2 to the ./configure statement as an example. >> >> But, looking at the curl specfile I see: >> >> == >> ./configure \ >> --prefix=%{_prefix} \ >> --enable-ipv6 \ >> %if %{with openssl} >> --with-ssl \ >> --with-ca-path=/etc/ssl/certs/ \ >> %else >> --without-ssl \ >> %if %{with mozilla_nss} >> --with-nss \ >> %endif >> %endif >> --with-gssapi=/usr/lib/mit \ >> --with-libssh2\ >> --libdir=%{_libdir} \ >> --enable-hidden-symbols \ >> --disable-static \ >> --enable-ares >> == >> >> As you see --with-libssh2 is in the configure statement already, so it >> should be in the official rpm. >> >> I didn't do any testing to verify if it works or not. >> >> HTH >> Greg >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org >> To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org >> > -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo - http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retrie… The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.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] KDE Basket crash - won't recover
by Anton Aylward 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

I like the baskets note taking application. Please don't advise me to use something else, that's not what this is about. Before exporting I want to alter some of the HTML to add in-line urls. You can use an external editor for things like this. I've done this before. Many times. This time the editor and the application got a bit confused and hung. Killing the editor crashed baskets. I've had this happen a couple of times before. Baskets can't recover; it tries rendering and whatever the rendering code is, it hangs ... "... Loading ..." Once when this happened I simply restored from the last backup. Another time I drilled down and found corrupt HTML in one of the notes. I suspect that's the problem this time, but the HTML BasKet produces is almost as bad as that from MS-Word. Almost. And of you run it through 'tidy', BasKet doesn't like that, things its corrupt and won't render .... "... Loading ..." *sigh* The developer's site has a roadmap about all new nifty features but nothing about robustness or error handling or crash recovery. So I've two problems: 1. How can I make developers (and one in particular) be more concerned with non-features issues the way Bill Gates issues the Security wake-up to Microsoft Developers without being a Bill Gates? 2. How can I automate BasKets recovery -- "The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice." - Brain Herbert, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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