December 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Help with 13.1 and black screens during install
by Adolph Weidanz 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hey all, I am trying to install 13.1 on my HP Paviliion P7-1235 desktop with an NVIDIA 500 series video card. I have had 12.3 installed with no problems. The only difference is I started fresh cause I need to dual boot into windows. I get through the initial start screens. It formats the disks and then starts loading the images. Sometime after this it goes to a black screen with text that moves so fast I can't see it. A moment later it goes to a black screen. I know that something is being output cause you can see the screen change when you power it on/off. Then nothing. There does not appear to be any HD light. I did find a comment somewhere that it took 10 minutes before it would proceed. Well I waited in excess of 30 minutes each of the 3 time I tried it. I changed parameters to see if it was something to do with a package selection, but did not see any difference. Once the screen goes dark, there is no HD light . Soooo, where do I go from here? -- 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] Kernel Repos
by Sudhir Anand 02 Jan '14

02 Jan '14

Hi All. There is a kernel repo. called stable standard at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard. Is it safe to use kernel from this repo? I have installed 13.1 x64 on my computer at the moment. Has anyone used this and were there any issues or problems? With Kind Regards. Sudhir -- 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] Intermittent sound dropouts with Pulseaudio
by Bob Williams 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For a long time, I have noticed that the sound intermittently drops out for a few seconds, since pulseaudio became standard with openSUSE. This seems to be triggered by other events, such as moving files especially with Digikam, but also with Krusader or Dolphin. Fetching mail with Thunderbird sometimes does it, and sometimes it just happens - - presumably a 'behind the scenes' housekeeping job interferes). My current setup is: openSUSE 12.3 KDE 4.11.4 Music playback through mpd Skype 4.2.0.11 The soundcard is MCP51 High Definition Audio and is integrated on the motherboard. The processor is 2.5GHz quad core, with 8GB RAM. Graphics output is through an nVidia GeForce 9600GT card driven by the proprietary nVidia drivers. I finally decided to nail this, and carefully worked through the advice on these two pages: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Perf… http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Desktops/KDE/ Most of my setup appeared to be correct. My mpd.conf contains the following: audio_output { type "pulse" name "My MPD Pulse Output" server "localhost" # optional sink "alsa_output" # optional } and I added ~/.asoundrc, which consists of: pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } Has anyone else experienced similar problems with pulseaudio, and if so, do you have any recommended tweaks? Thanks, Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.11.4 Uptime: 12:00pm up 7 days 19:53, 4 users, load average: 0.86, 0.56, 0.47 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlK0gOAACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU5xhgCeOdoF4aN6Bhsn9YKri/1NVgi7 KOcAmwbw2JRS8nDegQfX9ny2NAPVp84F =gnZ4 -----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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[opensuse] 13.1: gvim broken
by Rich Coe 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

I just upgraded to opensuse 13.1. I haven't noticed any problems except with gvim. When you type in gvim or cursor over any character or redraw the screen with control-L the text disappears. If I move the mouse out of the window, the window redraws ok, until I start typing in the windows again. I don't know specifically if it's a vim problem, I'm only noticing a problem with gvim, not any other programs. Any ideas on how to fix this issue? -- Rich Coe rcoe(a)wi.rr.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] Dependency Nightmare!
by Basil Chupin 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

I recall mentioning not too long ago about the dependency errors which keep coming up in 13.1 - but I don't remember in which list I mentioned it nor do I remember what the answer (if any) was. I raise the issue again because I just cannot fathom what the heck I am supposed to do to resolve these dependency problems which YaST keeps spitting out at me. I am trying to get VLC to play not only Blu-ray files but now I found out that it won't even play files downloaded from YouTube. All files are playable in 12.3 but NOT in 13.1 - and I cannot figure out why. Below is a list of the repositories which I have in my 13.1 installation (on a Desktop): http://susepaste.org/78522541 and here is a list of the dependency errors which YaST so graciously shows me (but doesn't tell me which option to choose): http://susepaste.org/44273137 Can anyone, please, tell me which options I should choose to rid myself of these dependency hassles? (BTW, running zypper shows me that many files "will not be updated" which appear to be ones which are shown in the YaST list above.) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.12.0 & kernel 3.12.6-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- 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] stop and start x-server from console
by Istvan Gabor 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Hello: As the subject says: I would like to stop and start x-server from a console window, eg vt1. Similar to what I could do in openSUSE 11.2 using init 3 init 5 commands. I have openSUSE 12.2 with kdm3 display manager. I tried so far: init 3; init 5 systemctl stop xdm.service systemctl restart.xdm.service of which none worked. ?? Thanks, Istvan -- 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] cpu stuck?
by Hans Witvliet 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

Hi all, found worrying messages on my 12.2 machine (xen virtualization host) Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 02:52:43 ... kernel:[2007240.163823] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 01:49:07 ... kernel:[2003824.145408] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 00:52:11 ... kernel:[2002560.155631] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 00:31:07 ... kernel:[2002532.138415] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 00:30:39 ... kernel:[2002232.135678] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 00:25:39 ... kernel:[2000772.146513] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 19 00:01:19 ... kernel:[1999976.169156] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 18 23:48:03 ... kernel:[1999340.163660] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 18 23:37:27 ... kernel:[1998176.132644] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 18 23:18:03 ... kernel:[1997272.185298] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:13446] Message from syslogd@orion at Dec 18 23:02:59 ... kernel:[1997176.140605] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [kworker/0:1:13446] And finally, root partition became "RO". and no chance of remounting it. Tried to get the machine down gracefully, but it seems that xend is affected also, as the "xm" command didnot return something readable. Only option was the hard "single sign off" (aka pulling the power-plug) Any sound suggestions anyone can give before i try to switch it on again? 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] Version change on one repo but not others
by Dylan 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hi all, One of the friends I support with oS has accidentally added the standard 13.1 repository to his 12.3 system. I think he inadvertently chose a 13.1 version of a package to install via the "one-click" method and that added the repo. While the system is basically usable (for web browsing etc) the 2d and 3d art software he uses has some problems. I have changed the nvidia repo to the 13.1 version which has sorted out most of the problems, however some remain (he is getting poor performance and occasional out of memory errors.) We were intending to upgrade to 13.1 in January anyway, so if I simply change the remaining repos to their 13.1 versions and perform a zypper dup (or yast equivalent...) should I expect to end up with a 'properly' updated system? Or would it be better, given that a half-upgrade has already happened, to start from scratch? Also, should I consider it a bug that "one click install" allowed a repo from a different version to be added (did he blithely confirm a version change without the necessary thought)? Cheers Dylan -- 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] /var/run
by Mike Grau 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hello, OpenSuSe 13.1 I want to create a directory in /var/run - say, /var/run/sm-client/. After a reboot, this directory is no longer there. What thingy is removing it and how may I have control over my own machine again? Thanks! -- Mike G. -- 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 mask a blank in the password in /etc/samba/cifstab ?
by Lars Müller 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 07:28:51PM +0100, Andreas wrote: > I tried it with the command line and the env-variable. > That way it works. > > Trying to give the password as parameter on the command line doesn't > work though. > No way > username=xx,password=Ab-CD 123 > That way the number is an unrecognized parameter and cifs dumps it's > helptext. > > username=xx,password=Ab-CD\040123 > username=xx,password="Ab-CD 123" > username=xx,password='Ab-CD 123' > > --> permission denied Please check if this applies to the current version of mount.cifs available from the network:samba:STABLE openSUSE Build Servce reporitory at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/samba:/STABLE/openSUSE_1… openSUSE 13.1 includes cifs-utils-6.2 and the last modification to network:samba:STABLE/cifs-utils verifies only the gpg signature of the source tar ball. Therefore you only have to check if a more recent kernel version helps. See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Kernel_of_the_day If also this approach fails please file a bug report upstream at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ , add all the details of your testing approach, and add a reference to this thread, a link to the mailing list archive as suggested with my first reply. Also report the bug ID back here. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

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