May 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Why are my Opensuse so slow
by Gunnar Haaland 24 May '12

24 May '12

Thanks for all input about my "slow" Opensuse 12.1. I have solved my problem. I pulled the "plug" of my "old" disk, and installed 12.1 with my Window XP on the SATA disk. -- 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] openoffice 3.4 from source works great - export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
by David C. Rankin 24 May '12

24 May '12

All, Just passing along my experience with the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release - excellent for the first Apache release. It recreates all prior OO documents without the character/paragraph spacing issue that found its way into LO. It runs fantastic on 11.4 (I presume it will do the same on 12.x as well) The install is simple, but -- uninstall ALL prior OO releases before installing 3.4 (it installs fine in parallel with LO [OO installing in /opt]) This is required due to changes in Java that have taken place since the 3.3 release -- you will get a javadlx error if you forget. The install is straight forward: (1) uninstall prior OO versions (2) download OO 3.4 - http://www.openoffice.org/download/ (3) ungzip/untar the file (4) cd en-US/RPMS (5) rpm -Ivh *.rpm (6) (optional) if you don't have libre installed, then: cd desktop-integration/ rpm -Ivh openoffice.org3.4-suse-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm (it conflicts with the LibreOffice menus if installed) (7) if you have libgtk installed (you probably do) set the 'export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome' option in your .bashrc to insure that you can *deselect* (uncheck) the default OpenOffice.org file chooser dialog in Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> General setting dialog. That will provide you with the gtk2 (quite good) file chooser for your desktop (i.e. in fluxbox, lxde, openbox, xfce, etc... where native desktop integration isn't available) All in all, I've been very impressed. I've filed a few small bugs against it, but nothing that prevents it from being a great daily driver office suite. Yes, I've heard the howls - "oh we only use LO now, Oracle has ... done this or ... done that to openoffice" --> nonsense. It is an Apache project and all opensouce now. You don't mind using their webserver -- do you? Well worth the download and install. Hopefully somebody will package it for opensuse and offer it as part of the standard distribution to provide a user choice among office suites. A monopoly in office suites is never a good thing for end users... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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 with 12-1 update repo
by Roger Oberholtzer 24 May '12

24 May '12

I have a 12.1 system I want to update. However, I get the following error from zypper: # zypper cc All repositories have been cleaned up. # zypper ref Repository 'Application:Geo' is up to date. Repository 'Education' is up to date. Repository 'Factory:Contrib' is up to date. Repository 'Nvidia' is up to date. Repository 'suse-12.1' is up to date. Repository 'suse-12.1 non-oss' is up to date. Repository 'suse-12.1 update' is up to date. Building repository 'suse-12.1 update' cache [done] Error building the cache: [|] Failed to cache repo (4). Skipping repository 'suse-12.1 update' because of the above error. Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error. If I do a 'zypper cc', shouldn't the cache be empty at the start? I am experiencing a problem with ssh when I run an X app remote from this 12.1 system. So I want to do an update before sorting that. The problem is that after a few seconds of running the X app over X, I get a message about a corrupt packet and then the ssh connection is closed. But first to update the system... 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] Access to my windows disk
by Gunnar 23 May '12

23 May '12

I have lost the access to my windows disk. It is nor possible to write to it. I have had the access earlier. I have tried chmod 777 /windows/C. Gunnar -- 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] Packman repository mistmatch.
by Carlos E. R. 23 May '12

23 May '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For several hours, I have been trying to upgrade some packgages from packman, without success. Yast offers to upgrade, for example, wine-mp3 to 1.1.39-12.6. When it tries to download it, fails. I look with a browser, and indeed, that package is not available, and instead, is 1.1.39-12.7, dated yesterday. What is hapening? And when I say to skip, it also skips all updates from the rest of repositories, not only those from packman. Worst, everytime I open yast package manager, it says that on a previous session it could bot install something, shall we install now? I say no, and on the next fireup, it says the same! Is it possible to tell it to forget, as those packages are not in the servers? I had to taboo it! Taboo, accept, exit, enter again, say keep it, accept, exit! :-( And it only remembers the package that got stuck, not the rest of the packages I told it to upgrade and that they failed. Probably a good thing, or I would have to block all of those one by one... (this is oS 11.4) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAk+8UwkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WNYACY86p8GV1X6znkp0ctchfVEOsW +wCfeRTDlF0NwQwMzuDV2Zm5WmYAzqs= =EBlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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: Fwd: Re: [opensuse] My Opensuse 12.1 are slow
by Gunnar 23 May '12

23 May '12

Den 17. mai 2012 19:26, skrev Gunnar: > > > -------- Opprinnelig melding -------- > Emne: Re: [opensuse] My Opensuse 12.1 are slow > Dato: Thu, 17 May 2012 12:06:34 -0400 > Fra: Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3(a)bout-tyme.net> > Til: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > > On 05/17/12 11:56, Gunnar pecked at the keyboard and wrote: >> Den 17.05.2012 17:42, skrev James Knott: >>> Gunnar wrote: >>>> Why are my Win XP so much quicker then my 12.1. >>>> The CPU goes to 100% when I starts some thing. >>>> I have the same problem with KDE and Icewm. >>>> In Win XP,there are no delay, I start a program and it start. In >>>> Opensuse, it take nearly 1 min. with no response, everything seems to >>>> have died. Any clues?? Gunnar >>> >>> I have no idea as to the cause/fix, but I have the same experience. My >>> home computer, which ran 11.0 very well, has become a pig with 12. 1 & >>> KDE 4. I have to reboot every week or so to restore performance, but >>> even then, it's nowhere near what I had with 11.0. This is on a 64 bit >>> AMD Athlon 64 4000+ & 3 GB of memory. I don't have Windows on this >>> computer, so I can't compare with it. >> >> My sytem are: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 GHZ and 1 gb ram.I have installed >> the 32 bits system, from Linux Format DVD. :-) My Opensuse are to slow >> to used it. I have tried with all the "small" window system, but the are >> all slow. So now I am on my old Win XP. :-(( >> Gunnar > > I had this experience a couple of weeks ago on my laptop and it turned > out to be the version of the Nvidia driver installed. Once I rolled back > to an earlier version all was back to normal. > > Please include which graphics card and driver you are using. > I am using Nvidia card 6800 LE and the driver : Nvidia 290.10 I am not posting this to start a "war" about Opensuse 12.1 and Win xp. I have used Suse since 5.4, and I hope that some have a few tips to help to get 12.1 up and going. Gunnar -- 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: [opensuse-kde] pyside in openSUSE:Factory
by Roger Oberholtzer 23 May '12

23 May '12

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 12:14 +0200, Will Stephenson wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2012 10:00:08 todd rme wrote: > > Pyside (a set of lgpl Qt4 python bindings originally developed by Qt > > and hosted by Qt today) seems to be much more mature and stable than > > it was not too long ago. With the switch to a simpler build system > > (pyside only depends on shiboken now), I think it would be good to > > offer it in the next openSUSE release. How does everyone feel about > > it be pushed to factory (and probably included in the libqt4 > > aggregator for KDF)? > > Aside from offering bindings for people to use, are there worthwhile existing > apps using them that shipping PySide would buy us? Otherwise I'm skeptical of > the benefit of just adding more stuff to Factory because it's neat. We're > already overstretched as a team, so things that are simply nice to have can > IMO stay in KDE:Extra. It would be great if it was built so it did not have any KDE dependencies. I am guessing the only reason to have it in KDE:anywhere is so it uses the same version of QT as KDE is using. But beyond that, it has no real connection to KDE at all. If anything, I would expect it to be in lang:python as it is a python and not a KDE extension. Or a QT:Extra directory. Just my 2 cents. 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] Fw: using opensuse 12.1 to boot into xen
by Peter Welles 23 May '12

23 May '12

--- On Tue, 5/22/12, Peter Welles <oldmysticwelles(a)snet.net> wrote: > From: Peter Welles <oldmysticwelles(a)snet.net> > Subject: using opensuse 12.1 to boot into xen > To: oldmysticwelles(a)snet.net > Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 9:01 PM > Hello to everyone, > > I would like to experiment with xen on my new installation > of OpenSuSE 12.1. I downloaded the xen kernel from the > OpenSuSE repository. When I tried to boot into the xen > kernel I got an error message. Please give me a suggestion > for correcting this. > > ERROR 13: invalid or unsupported executable format > > The error message contained the statement "File system type > is ext2fs, partition type ox83". ( I thought ext4?) > > I am sending an attachment that describes my installation of > OpenSuSE 12.1 with copies of : > 1. fdisk -l > 2. etc/fstab > 3. /boot/grub/menu.lst > I do not know if this information will be helpful. > > I thank you for your time, > Peter Welles

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[opensuse] no dropbox options when right clicking on 32bit pc
by george olson 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hi all, On my office desktop (box #2 below, 32 bit), when I click on dropbox in the system tray, it opens the dropbox folder in dolphin. Then when I click into the public folder, it navigates there fine. On my desktop at home, at this point if I right click on a file in order to get the public URL, in order to make a link to send out, I get dropbox options in the list that comes out on the right click menu. However in my office desktop, there are no dropbox options. any ideas? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM 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] Very strange thunderbird behavior
by Joseph Comfort 22 May '12

22 May '12

A couple of weeks ago, I did a Yast2 update of my 12.1 system. Thunderbird was updated to v12. thought I saw some strange behavior, but was away for awhile. Sometimes my emails show up in the message list. Sometimes they don't, but I can see them if I click on the 'unread' button. More annoying is that, frequently, the Inbox shows 1 message, and the 'unread' button shows something with no title or text and a data of 12/31/1969. It does not delete, but I can move to Trash or Junk. Later, I get it again. I have tried deleting the Inbox.msf file and letting TBird recreate it; and also compressing the folder. Eventually, the weird message comes back again. There were some other problems along the way, but I seem to have gotten past them. I reinstalled the previous 11.0.1 version; it had other problems and was worse. Mail comes into /var/spool/mail/<name> and I use 'movemail' to get it into thunderbird. (I am the only one on the computer). I have not seen a bugzilla or any message on the web about this situation. What to do? Joe Comfort -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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