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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Silly little text file editing question............
by Duaine Hechler 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse] Silly little text file editing question............ Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:53:23 -0600 From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler(a)att.net> To: Anton Aylward <opensuse(a)antonaylward.com> On 02/28/2013 03:02 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: > Duaine Hechler said the following on 02/28/2013 03:53 PM: >> On 02/28/2013 02:35 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: >>> Duaine Hechler said the following on 02/28/2013 02:32 PM: >>>> AND, I know at least on the mainframe side, you can invoke an option to edit the file in "hex" mode. >>> >>> RTFM >>> >>> <quote src="man 1 vi"> >>> -b Binary mode. A few options will be set that makes it >>> possible to edit a binary or executable file. >>> </quote> >>> >>> >> BUT, can you be IN the file and SWITCH back and forth ? >> > > Why do I have to google for the answers when you could find them yourself at the site I've already recommended you > peruse: > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Improved_hex_editing#Easily_enter_and_leave_hex_m… > Again, you are missing the point - its called "easy of use" - at the editor command line (while editing the file) - I just say "hex on" or "hex off" - NO "ESC + :" - or - "ctrl" - or any CRYPTIC shit. -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding (314) 838-5587 / dahechler(a)att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com Home & Business user of Linux - 13 years -- 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] Can no longer login as root
by Terry Eck 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Something has happened to my system which I have never seen before. The password I use for root no longer works. Is there a way to reset the root password? I've made sure that cap lock was not on and I'm sure I'm typing what should be the correct password. I hope someone can help me. Regards, Terry Eck Running OpenSUSE 12.1 -- OpenSuSE 12.1 --- Kernel 3.1.9-1.4-desktop --- 08:00PM --- Wed 02/27/13 There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't -- 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]
by Jasur Yuldashev 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hello All My name is Jasur. I am from Uzbekistan, Tashkent. I am new in Linux. And I use opensuse 12.2. I need to install Scream program it, but it needs libmat.so where i can get it. Jasur -- 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] Chrome user profile.
by John Bennett 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Not specifically opensuse but thought I would ask the question. Am using Chrome as my main browser (google-chrome-stable 25.0.1364.97-183676 - where DO those version numbers come from?), and have setup a user profile on my data drive, starting the app with: google-chrome --user-data-dir="/home/data/_data/GoogleChrome/" but the annoyance is, that when I open a URL from any other app (eg a link in an email), it opens a 'bland' chrome window ie a new window with none of the links/bookmarks/extensions from my profile. How can I set it up to just use a new tab in my already open window?? 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] OpenSuse 12.1 - Network hanging at boot time
by Carlos Xavier 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, I did a fresh install of OpenSuse 12.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 1900, after thed I used the Yast ad made a full update. On this machine we have two e1000 cards being detected as eth0 and eth1 and a Broadcom NetXtreme as eth2. During the boot, after making the fdisk the system is hanging for about 5 minutes, I changed the initdefault value from level 5 to 3 to be able to check what was going on. I could see that the network initialization is hanging, I even deleted the Vlan configuration but the issue remains. Below are some entries I could find on the log: Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus network[811]: ..done eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Co Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus ifup: eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82572EI Gigabit Ethernet Co Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus kernel: [ 12.669859] e1000e 0000:07:00.0: irq 72 for MSI/MSI-X Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus kernel: [ 12.722335] e1000e 0000:07:00.0: irq 72 for MSI/MSI-X Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus kernel: [ 12.724000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus ifup: eth0 Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus ifup: IP address: 172.31.0.22/24 Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus network[811]: eth0 IP address: 172.31.0.22/24 Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus ifup: Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus avahi-daemon[877]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 172.31.0.22. Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus avahi-daemon[877]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Feb 22 16:50:12 zeus avahi-daemon[877]: Registering new address record for 172.31.0.22 on eth0.IPv4. Feb 22 16:50:15 zeus kernel: [ 15.285076] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None Feb 22 16:50:15 zeus kernel: [ 15.285623] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready Feb 22 16:50:17 zeus avahi-daemon[877]: Registering new address record for fe80::215:17ff:fe12:74fe on eth0.*. ... Feb 22 16:50:26 zeus kernel: [ 26.066009] eth0: no IPv6 routers present Feb 22 16:55:11 zeus systemd[1]: network.service operation timed out. Terminating. Feb 22 16:55:11 zeus systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed state. ... Feb 22 15:55:18 zeus systemd[1]: Startup finished in 3s 802ms 862us (kernel) + 5min 14s 297ms 276us (userspace) = 5min 18s 100ms 138us. After that we end up wth the network and routing done zeus:~ # cat status.txt eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:12:74:FE inet addr:172.31.0.22 Bcast:172.31.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:17ff:fe12:74fe/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:277 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:23560 (23.0 Kb) TX bytes:4065 (3.9 Kb) Interrupt:17 Memory:fc7e0000-fc800000 Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 172.31.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 172.31.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 If the Vlan configuration is present it is not set, and most of the services that depend on the network are not working and need to be restarted. Thinking this issue was related to the kernel I installed the kernel version 2.6.37.6-101-desktop and tested again. The results were the same. Please is there anything I can do to fix this issue? Cheers, Carlos. -- 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] Resolved - Troubleshooting "no sound" problem - HDA Intel PCH
by Greg Freemyer 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Cristian Rodríguez > <crrodriguez(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >>> Upload the result of running alsa-info.sh and the result of >>> journalctl -b to the bug report. >>> >>> I just assigned your bug to the alsa expert, but he wont be able to >>> help you if you do not provide the needed info. >> >> >> also the result of journalctl /usr/bin/pulseaudio might help. > > Thanks > > All 3 have been attached to the bugzilla. > > Greg For some reason, 12.3 had the volume set to 0. "amixer -c0 set Speaker 0dB" fixed it. Note that this is not the typical end-user controlled volume, but a system max volume of some sort. 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] BtrFS progress and question
by Anton Aylward 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

As mentioned previously, I'm experimenting with BtrFS supporting 12.2. It seems quite stable in the limited, single machine, single drive, desktop setting and handling daily use satisfactorily. Over the weekend I converted to KDE x.x.10 and updated all there was to update and am trying out KDE's office suite, Calligra. The disk is partitioned into swap +btrfs. The is no separate /boot. Grub2 is working reliably. I cant comment about running under RAID or across multiple machines; I'm not in a position to test that; this is a desktop and a small 20G disk since all the 'real stuff' comes over via NFS. I'd be happy to experiment with multi-spindle if I could find a brace of small (10G perhaps?) SATA drives in the Closet-of-Anxieties. The one problem I have is with snapshots. Really, the problem is with my understanding, and googling around I can't find the answer to the question I have. The articles I find on BtrFS snapshots all tell me how great this mechanism is and how to use it and set it up. But it seems already set up and working even without me doing anything to initiate it. There are hundreds of sub-directories under /.snapshot and they are filling up. They are even filling up with stuff that comes from the NFS mounted stuff under /home ! I'm concerned because this is eating away at my small disk. Every time I do an zypper update this grows. If I try to delete I get a message telling me that the files are on a write-protected file system! Can anyone help my understanding here? -- "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." -- 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 keyboard right click
by lynn 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

12.2 Hi I activated to control the mouse with the numeric keypad but I can't find a keyboard right click. What I'd like is to keep the keypad as a keypad and use the right control key to get a right click. Is that possible? 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] Old style NTP status w/ delay and jitter
by Jeffrey L. Taylor 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Is there some way to get the delay and jitter for each NTP server like in the pre-systemd days? TIA, Jeffrey -- 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] Kmail "Retrieving Folder Contents" problem - again
by Dennis Gallien 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I realize this has come up in bug reports for a long time and been supposedly resolved apparently more than once.. But on my machine, it has never been resolved and now seems to be worse. Go to a folder, click on a message, and the Kmail screen appears with the "Retrieving Folder Contents . . . please wait" message. At times this happens entering one folder after another, for just a few moments. Most of the time the message remains for a good while (I haven't timed it), applies to all folders, and eventually the folders return to normal. I can restart the Akonadi server which clears the condition, but I can't be doing this repeatedly through the day. Furthermore, the last time I did that the messages in 2 large folders were gone; they came back at a later time but that is a risk I don't care to take. Googling returned suggestions to modify the Akanodi control file, change the database, export/import the messages, etc. Besides that all being a royal PITA, more importantly I'm not changing anything w/o knowing that what I'm doing is still even relevant to the problem as it is now. So just what is the status with this now? Is there a real solution available? Kernel 3.4.28-2.20 x64, KDE 4.9.5 "release 4" from 4.9 repo. The Akonadi server config is the defaults, i.e., internal MySQL server. Using gmail's POP server (IMAP is not an option). A self-test returns the following report, with errors in tests #5, 16, 17. http://susepaste.org/6461684 Thanks in advance. --Dennis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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