September 2012 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Nepomuk database location
by Bob Williams 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Where does Nepomuk/Strigi keep its database? I want to exclude it from my backup. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.00 "release 555" Uptime: 18:00pm up 19:26, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.18, 0.16 -- 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] Ksnapshot & Printscreen
by ellanios82 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

On 09/27/2012 08:44 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > still have a problem and it may be related to {.jpg} handling on your > system. Try to create a jpg file in the directory you were using for > ksnapshot with a different program such as gimp or photoxx or digikam. ___________________________ No Problem to create & Save with Gimp as .jpg Just Ksnapshot refuses to Save As .jpg and insists on .jpeg ............................... Any thoughts on "How to adjust" ?? thanks best 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] Ksnapshot & Printscreen
by ellanios82 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello openSuSE List - when pressing Print Screen, to take a Screenshot with Ksnapshot, i am gettig error message " KSnapshot was unable to save the image to file:/// " . . . the failed Save results in a file being written with zero bytes content : -rw-r--r-- 1 user-name users 0 Sep 27 08:44 A_Screen.jpg .................................. Could this be a device ownership problem . . . or, any ideas what else might be the problem please ? thanks best 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] tracker-miner-fs and the gnome-panel-applet-tracker
by George Olson 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

I have found that I have tracker-miner-fs running, and often at startup it hogs the cpu for a little while. I found this thread in the forums which was interesting, basically the same problem. http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/459… The solution given at the end of the thread is, "If you have the gnome-panel-applet-tracker installed, you can disable it, just write "Tracker" in the box that you'll find when you click on the Suse button." I do have the gnome-panel-applet-tracker installed, as I found by rpm-qa | grep tracker, but how do you actually open and run this panel-applet so that you can find the Suse button and disable tracker? I also saw in my rpm qa that firefox and thundrbird use the tracker-miner. Will disabling it affect firefox and thunderbird? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.4 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB 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] 12.2 troubles
by j.e.perry＠cox.net 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

So, I tried last week to update to 12.2. Downloaded the iso, went to install it, and found my dvd drive dead. So, I decide to try the online upgrade route, since someone else said it worked for him. Looked good until I rebooted; it comes up to a command line. Go to root, startx, can't find the kde4 init, or some such. Try zypper from the command line; total failure. Look at the repositories; all except update set for 12.1. Update is at 12.2. I guess that's where the upgrade went wrong? Delete all the old ones except 12.2 update; now get hundreds of dependency failures. Now I try putting the iso onto a flash drive. All 3 Windows utilities I tried say you have to format the flash drive before running it (unetbootin-windows-581.exe, LiveUSB Creator, yumi). Unetbootin says it succeeded (after about 5 minutes in the "decompressing the iso" field). I reboot, get only a curses-style splash screen. Reboot to xp, look at the drive, only 4 files: menu.c32, syslinux.cfg, ubnfilel.txt, ubnpathl.txt, The last two are zero-length files. The first two are binaries. yumi at least says it can't continue after a quick look at the drive. No error message, no log I can find. Only LiveUSB gives an error message, which says (incorrectly) that it has written detailed error information into my "documents and settings\local\temp\" directory. Which doesn't exist. After a while I find a "liveusb-creator.exe.log" file in the installation directory (!). The entire log message: [creator:948] Unable to get GetVolumeInformation(A:): (21, 'GetVolumeInformation', 'The device is not ready.') There is no drive A:, if that's what it means. I can read and write to and from the drive using Notepad++; I can get directory information using Windows Explorer. Clearly the drive is ready for other programs. It's an 8G Geek Squad drive formatted per the instructions of yumi for fat32. I assume the others can handle fat32? So, for anyone who's gotten this far: what can I do now? short of buying a new dvd drive, which I'll eventually do anyhow, but I really wanted to expand my knowledge and options. And not to wait until I get out to buy the dvd to get 12.2. John Perry -- 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] What does "Installation from images" mean?
by General Mail 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, I am in the process of installing openSUSE 12.2 in a Test environment and I am bit confused as to what "Installation from images" stand for. Can someone elaborate what this function provides or a reference (or references) to an online documentation? Best 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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Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Printing Issues on OpenSuSE 12.2]
by "Johannes Müller-Lahn" 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hello, thanks for the replys. The hint about bug # https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774627#c11 solved it, installing / updating from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Zaitor:/branches:/openSUSE:… these Packages: libpoppler27-0.20.3-2.5.1.i586.rpm libpoppler-glib8-0.20.3-2.5.1.i586.rpm libpoppler-qt4-4-0.20.3-2.5.1.i586.rpm poppler-tools-0.20.3-2.5.1.i586.rpm Printing from every KDE Application now works. I hope that they'll fix it now on the upstream repos. Many thanks for your help. Best regards, Johannes Müller-Lahn -- 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] RUnning kde and lxde on same home
by George Olson 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

On 09/25/2012 08:54 AM, Dirk Gently wrote: > George Olson wrote: > > That's not an issue. > > You can even have use the same home directory NFS-mounted onto > an SGI running IRIX, and IBM p-series running AIX, an HP running > HP-UX and a Sun running Solaris... and no, the desktop configs > will not interfere with each other. > > Each desktop manager keeps its own configuration files in its > own subdirectory, eg (~/.kde2, ~/.kde, ~/.kde4, ~/.gnome, > ~/.gnome2, ~/.vnc, etc..) > > Thank you, that is good to know. I won't worry about making separate home directories. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.8.4 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB 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] A new wiki page for "auditing" tools
by Greg Freemyer 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

All, I got a wild hare and created a page to document what "auditing" tools openSUSE has available: http://en.opensuse.org/DFIR_-_Audit_Tools It includes malware scanners, vulnerability scanners, weak password checkers, etc. It should be useful to anyone wanting to make sure their system is secure. Please feel free to revise / update / correct. I'm sure I've only started making the list, so please feel free to add to it. fyi: I've done a little work on a couple of those apps in the security repo, but extra hands are always welcome on the packaging side too. Thanks Greg -- 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] renaming disks
by Hans Witvliet 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

hi all, Can anyone give me a clue where the naming of disk devices is defined? For network interfaces you have: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Is there an equivalent for sata-drives? On my file server, i had five drives, the original sda (where i boot from and contained the 11.3) and four others in softread-10. Unfortunately, two weeks ago, my sda "expired", so i bought a new one. As a precaution i disconnected the all data-drives during the installation of 12.2. After completion, i powered down the machine, connected the data drives, powered up and after a "vgchange -ay" the secondary volumegroup was detected and i could manually mount all LV's again, and i started recovering. Alas, after last nights reboot, the disks holding the OS now appears as "SDE" instead of "SDA", and my secondary volume-group remains invisible. I had the impression that suse was doing the mount by UUID by default. but obviously i'm mistaken? For any suggestions i'm more than welcome: As i was still recovering from previous "event", last changes were not on backup ;-( 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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