July 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] How to submit bug reports that actually get to a package maintainer
by Wilfred van Velzen 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.com> wrote: > When entering a bug, you only set SEverity - not Priority. > > Clicking on Severity gives: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity > > and below severity is priority: > "This field is utilized by the programmers/engineers to prioritize their > work to be done. " > > If you go from bugs.opensuse.org, you can find also this page: > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_definitions#Bug_Priorities > > Regarding importance, the importance links to a text field that explains > this as well. > > Yes, it's not well known but it's documented and some engineers work as > I explained. Ok, thanks for the explanation. Maybe only the 'Assignee' should be able to change the priority? (If that's practically possible) -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Wilfred van Velzen -- 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 submit bug reports that actually get to a package maintainer
by Wilfred van Velzen 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

> >>On 2012-07-31 at 09:44, Marcus Meissner <meissner(a)suse.de> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:10:47AM +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: > > Dear list members, > > > > I have read http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports > > on submitting bug reports. And about a year ago I submitted a bug report > > on a packaging bug in the ‘neverball’ package (official OSS repository), > > using the above guidelines: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699124 > > > > This never got a reply, and it looks like the assignee (which was > > automatically selected by Bugzilla) is a person that haven’t worked > > on openSUSE for *many* years, and probably will never look at the bug > > report (since he’s now at Canonical). > > > > Since the official way of reporting bugs in packages (like this one) > > doesn’t work, who should I contact, or where should I submit packaging > > bug reports so that they get to people that actually are able to do > > anything about them? I’d be grateful for any advice. > > I assigned it someone else. > > You could look through the maintainers in the "games" repository where > neverball lives and mail them. > > Or this list. > > Or you can fix this yourself via OBs collaboration and do a submitrequest:) > > Ciao, Marcus I've reported a bug that got absolutely zero responses or activity. Didn't even get triaged yet in 2 months time... https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=764739 -- Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Wilfred van Velzen -- 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 next version
by Hans de Faber 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Hello Listmates, I am wondering that its soooo silent about the delay of the next release of OS. Yes I know RC1 is out,but thats all i know. No expectations about the releasedate, this month maybe next ? Maybe its because the hollyday season! The delay is a fact of life, the noncommunication is strange. I hope to get a sing of life, 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] Logging in to wifi services
by Bob Williams 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Many wifi services in hotels etc., require you to complete a username and password login on a webpage to access the service. The laptop wifi device will connect to the service, then when you try to load a page in your browser you are redirected to the login page. Once logged in, you can use email and other internet services. I have a dual boot Dell 1525 Inspiron laptop, running Windows Vista and openSUSE 12.1 with KDE 4.8.4. The above wifi login process works well on Windows, but I cannot get it working in openSUSE. I started by using the Network Manager plasmoid, but it wants the login username and password before it will establish the connection, whereas these are not required until you get redirected to the login screen in the web browser. Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, how do you deal with it? Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.8.4 (4.8.4) "release 511" Uptime: 06:00am up 1 day 9:15, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.12 -- 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] using the standard dvd iso image(s) via usbkey usbstick?
by cagsm 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

I am uncertain about the current situation, but I used to write the .iso image in the past year or so via windows and the suse studio image writer to an empty usb key stick and then simply boot the system this way instead of writing the iso image to an empty dvd. I dont recall exactly where I had this instructions from but it simply worked. But when I read the wiki pages these days, then it apparently seems as if this iso image writing directly to the usb key was only supposed to be for the livesystem iso images, and one needed to use certain other additional tools like syslinux and something about hybrid and such stuff I dont fully understand yet. http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick#Bootable_USB_from_DVD_or_Net-install <http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick#Bootable_USB_from_DVD_or_Net-install> I am 100% certain that I tested opensuse 12.1 iso image directly written to usbkey in a simple unaltered way via the <https://github.com/downloads/openSUSE/kiwi/ImageWriter.exe> https://github.com/downloads/openSUSE/kiwi/ImageWriter.exe But I had trouble doing so with the recent 12.2 iso images. Has anything changed as of lately how these iso images get built and constructed by the opensuse developers and backends, or was I just lucky in the past that it simply worked and now not working any more? I also browsed through the bugreporting list archives of the recent months, and there seem a number of odd bugs talking about usb iso image not fully compatible and readable any more and about installation or related problems and people also asking in this direction. Any have some definitive answers to this? Is it sufficient to write the .iso image file as raw (sectors) to the usbkey via the suse studio image writer (suppose its similar as if dd would raw dump it to the usb key device from within linux). And whats the whole deal about hybrid, and syslinux and all these things mentioned in the wiki article that I posted above? I am somewhat seriously confused. Thanks for helping. Regards. -- 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] Generating debuginfo packages with rpmbuild
by mailing lists 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hello, I am having a hard time making debuginfo packages for an unsupported version of opensuse (11.3). The appropiate variables seems to be defined but no debug packages are being generated ¿? # rpm --eval %__debug_install_post --eval %optflags /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh "/usr/src/packages/BUILD/" -O2 -g -m64 -fmessage-length=0 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables does anyone knows how to create such packages?? -- 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: gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so removed in last update?
by Linda Walsh 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 22 July 2012 16:54:56 Linda Walsh wrote: >> p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib64/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so > > The package was split. You need to install p11-kit-module-gnome-keyring. I'm > very surprised it wasn't installed automatically for you. It was on my > machine. > > Did you by any chance install the update using either rpm or "zypper up" > instead of "zypper patch" or yast online update? ---- It was auto-updated, I believe -- since I don't use it. Found it trying to do a prelink -a, ... -- 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 help with 'focus stealing'
by Anton Aylward 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

I'm using KDE4 and i know about the focus stealing part of systemsettings. What I don't seem to be able to do is get the right balance between the Thunderbird stanza and the Firefox stanza Right now when I'm in Thunderbird and reading mail from, for example, ZDNet, which has a number of links to articles, as I click on any one the focus switches to Firefox. What I *want* is to stay in Thunderbird, click on all the links to articles of interest and them manually switch focus to Firefox. I've played with the settings back and forth and don't seem able to get the right combination. Can anyone advise? -- We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. --Thomas Jefferson -- 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] Printer Canon Pixma iP4700
by fir delplancke 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

I assembled a new computer (Intel Core i3) and installed Linux SuSE 11.4 but... I can't setup my Canon Pixma iP4700 printer. The /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDs folder contains many folders like brother, epson, hp etc. but not a canon. How can I fix this? Best regards, fir delplancke -- 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 Imagewriter in Gnome version of 12.2 rc inaccessible
by Dave Hunt 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi, I'm using the Gnome version of the 12.2 release candidate, and trying to run the disk image writer app, with the Orca screen reader providing spoken feedback for accessibility. After I enter root's password, Orca does not speak when focus is on this app's window. When I try running the tool from the Gnome terminal, I get 'cannot connect to x-server' message, then returned to the terminal. Is there a replacement, such as unetbootin, I can use? Thanks, Dave H. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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