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[opensuse] Fw: OpenSUSE 12.3 in Hyper-V
by Paul Groves 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

I am trying to install OpenSUSE 12.3 in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. Every time I try to install I get the following error message in a small dialog box at around 86% – 93% of the installation when the status is ‘installing bootloader’. I have absolutely no idea why OpenSUSE will not install on Hyper-V as Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Debian all install and operate fine. Can anyone please shed some light on this as I have not been able to find any help so far with this issue? -----An error occurred during initrd creation----- Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.1-desktop Initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.7.10-1.1-desktop Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d53465420202020316d649b43c4c740ab596834b8e2babf-part2 (/dev/sda2) (mounted on / as ext4) Kernel Modules: thermal_sys thermal processor fan hv_vmbus hv_storvsc hv_netvsc ata_piix ata_generic scsi_dh scsi_dh_alua acsi_sh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc Features: acpi fv_guest block Perl-Bootloader: 2013-03-18 18:44:12 <3> pbl-1547.2 Core::RunCommand.1642: Error: Command 'usr/sbin/grub2-install --target=i386-pc --force --skip-fs-probe "(hd0,2)" > /var/log/YaST2/y2log_bootloader 2>&1' failed with code 256 and output: /usr/sbin/grub2-bios-setup: error: disk 'hd0,2 not found. There was and error generating the initrd (1) -- 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] HELP!!!! Epson scanner
by James Knott 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Dirk Gently wrote: > Wow, that totally sucks. Yep, especially when you're trying to scan an a needed document and find your scanner doesn't work. > > Brother's equipment is TOTALLY supported... BY BROTHER, > including not only driver software, etc., but even instructions. The Epson has worked well for years, but I don't use it often enough to justify buying another scanner. I was able to install the 32 bit iscan driver from Epson and that worked well. Perhaps the package from 12.2 could be updated for 12.3. -- 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] Problems with going back to 12.2
by Oszkó Albert 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi all, Since I could not bear the noise the video card's fan was making, and was afraid the high temperature kills the video chip before time, decided to go back to 12.2.from 12.3. As I learned there is no fglrx-legacy driver in 12.3 for my old ATI 48xx card, so had to use Mesa instead. Going back to 12.2 is not simple. I try to install from live KDE from an USB stick (has no DVD at the moment). There is no net connection after installation and my other HDD is not mounted. The major thing is that the HDD is spinning endlessly and I cannot figure out, what does it do or what does it looking for. I could start net and mount the other HDD in the first minute ( (in repeated boot ups) while the system is usable, after that it is extremely slow or does not respond at all. The cause is somewhere in KDE I suspect, because in failsafe (not KDE failsafe) mode or in CLI the HDD does not spin madly. So I tried to update KDE from 4.8.4 to somewhat higher version and separately install Fglrx-legacy, but after that the system could not reboot. Only GRUB is seen on the screen and the system halts (though i set grub2). Any hints are welcome, how can I remedy these problems. I also have a WIN 7 on the same HDD. Thanks, Albert -- 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] USB audio device not configured correctly
by Jim Henderson 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

I've just purchased an inexpensive USB cassette player in order to archive/preserve some audio cassette recordings of some interviews I did years ago, and I've run into a slight issue with the detection of the device. The device identifies as a JMTek USB Audio Device (Vendor 0c76, Device 160a). I'm using openSUSE 12.2. When I plug the device in and connect to it with Audacity, and I only get a mono channel (rather than a stereo setup). Looking at the output of "lsusb -v", I see that the input terminal is identified as a microphone with one channel. If I start a Windows VM in Virtualbox and connect the device to that, it is recognized (in Windows) as a stereo device, and I can record left and right channels, so the hardware should be recognized as having stereo channels via USB. There are no special drivers installed for the Windows VM (it was just "plug and play"). I'd much rather not have to boot up a Windows VM in order to record audio from this device. I also would prefer to not use line-in, as I almost always have ended up with a 60 cycle hum recording that way, and I don't get that if I record over the USB connection (the USB connection also powers the device). snd_usb_audio is automatically loading when I plug the device in. Are there any tricks that I might apply to getting this device recognized properly or to diagnose why it's being identified as a mono device? Thanks, Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- 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] Where is personal shell used set? [CLARIFICATION]
by Thomas Taylor 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:24:54 -0400 Patrick Shanahan <paka(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > * Thomas Taylor <linxt(a)comcast.net> [03-25-13 22:10]: > > When I open a bash shell and modify the settings I give it a name > > (shell-tom), click on apply and then OK. Where are these > > modifications saved? I would expect to find them in ~/.profile or > > ~/.bashrc but they aren't there. > > bash shell ?? > > need more info: konsole, xterm, ... > > konsole = ~/.kde4/share/config/konsolerc > Sorry, meant to say "konsole" shell session. Tom -- "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." Henry Ford -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.2-x86_64 openSUSE 12.3-x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.10.00, FF 19.0 claws-mail 3.9.1 registered linux user 263467 KG7CFC - 2 meters -- 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] Strange problem with Mysql on 32bit OpenSuSE 12.3
by Claudio ML 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hello all, I have a strange behaviour with mysql on a 32bit OpenSuSE. The problem is: in my.cfg i have the following: [mysqld] port = 3306 socket = /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock # Change following line if you want to store your database elsewhere datadir = /var/lib/mysql key_buffer_size = 16M max_allowed_packet = 1M table_open_cache = 64 sort_buffer_size = 512K net_buffer_length = 8K read_buffer_size = 256K read_rnd_buffer_size = 512K myisam_sort_buffer_size = 8M default-character-set= latin1 When i start Mysql it fails with the following log: 130326 21:55:28 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start 130326 21:55:29 InnoDB: 5.5.30 started; log sequence number 4115714 130326 21:55:29 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'default-character-set=latin1' 130326 21:55:29 [ERROR] Aborting With the same configuration, on OpenSuSE 12.3 64bit it works correctly. If i try to remove the entry 'default-character-set=latin1' it starts perfectly, but i need it... What is the problem? Is a bug? Cordially, Claudio Prono. -- 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] No eth after installation
by Dmitry Ashkadov 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hello! I've tried to install openSUSE 12.3. Computer has Davicom Semiconductor ethernet controller installed. Usually I use ISO for Net installation. During installation openSUSE uses Internet, but after installation there is no ethernet connection (no eth0). I have found out that to enable ethernet connection I have to type modprobe dmfe. Do you know how to enable dmfe module by default? Thank you! -- 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] snmpd service on Opensuse 12.2 and segfault.
by Karliak Josef 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Hi there, after distro upgrade from 11.4 -> 12.1 -> 12.2 we've some issues with snmp daemon. Some times it crash down in the night (log rotating): Mar 21 00:00:01 hostname kernel: [1297096.639401] snmpd[19629]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f337f790e7b sp 00007fff43fa5150 error 6 in libnetsnmpmibs.so.30.0.1[7f337f6fb000+17f000] Mar 21 00:00:01 hostname snmpd[25340]: Reload service snmpd:..done Mar 21 00:00:01 hostname snmpd[25349]: Shutting down snmpd:..done Mar 21 00:00:02 hostname rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" Kernel version: Linux hostname 3.4.28-2.20-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 29 16:51:37 UTC 2013 (143156b) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux In the update repo is no snmp update now. Does anybody solved this issue ? Thanks and best regards J.Karliak -- 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] Where is personal shell used set?
by Thomas Taylor 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

When I open a bash shell and modify the settings I give it a name (shell-tom), click on apply and then OK. Where are these modifications saved? I would expect to find them in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc but they aren't there. I want to have the saved settings used whenever I open a bash shell as the user or another bash shell (shell-root) when su-ing. Thanks, Tom -- "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." Henry Ford -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.2-x86_64 openSUSE 12.3-x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.10.00, FF 19.0 claws-mail 3.9.1 registered linux user 263467 KG7CFC - 2 meters -- 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] Virus-scanner recommendation
by Koenraad Lelong 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Hi, I'm running a Postfix mails-server that serves mainly Windows-clients, so a virus-scanner is needed. Up until recently I was running clamav and Norman. Unfortunately, Norman started misbehaving (needing huge amounts of disk-io, slowing down the server) and I had to disable it. So I'm looking for some other virus-scanner besides clamav. Can anyone recommend a virus-scanner that runs under Linux with amavis ? I looked at some scanners, but they are Windows-only. I still need to look at the "big" ones (kaspersky, symantec) though. Regards, Koenraad Lelong -- 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: Virus-scanner recommendation
by Malcolm 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

On Mon 25 Mar 2013 05:27:05 PM CDT, Koenraad Lelong wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running a Postfix mails-server that serves mainly Windows-clients, >so a virus-scanner is needed. Up until recently I was running clamav >and Norman. Unfortunately, Norman started misbehaving (needing huge >amounts of disk-io, slowing down the server) and I had to disable it. > >So I'm looking for some other virus-scanner besides clamav. Can anyone >recommend a virus-scanner that runs under Linux with amavis ? I looked >at some scanners, but they are Windows-only. I still need to look at >the "big" ones (kaspersky, symantec) though. > >Regards, > >Koenraad Lelong > Hi AVG? There is an old article here; http://www.hrbac.cz/2009/10/avg-8-5-with-amavisd-new/ Bitdefender; http://unices.bitdefender.com/ -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 11:47, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.13, 0.08 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- 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] Thinkpad E520 & openSUSE 12.3 - No shut down or reboot
by James Knott 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

I just installed openSUSE 12.3 on my ThinkPad E520 and one thing I've noticed is that when I try to shut down or reboot, using the desktop or menu, my computer only proceeds to a black screen and does not complete shutting down or rebooting. Any ideas? tnx jk -- 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] Problems with Device Notifier - opensuse 12.3
by eddie 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Just wondering if anyone else has found that when you put a video DVD in their drive it does not come up with the related DVD options. Things like Rip Video DVD or Play DVD with Kaffeine etc do not appear while Open with File Manager and a couple other things associated with data discs do. All DVD device actions are listed in the Device Notifier Settings. They just don't appear when a video DVD is inserted. Does anyone have any idea how to correct this? Or is this just a idiosyncrasy of my system? Thanks Eddie -- 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] misleading file listings when ACL is set
by lynn 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

12.3 running a Samba 4 DC and file server Hi everyone. I have a share with no ACL set. We use cifs to mount the share on other 12.3 clients which are joined to the domain. When a file is created it looks like this: -rwxrwxr-x+ This suggests that group members can edit it. They can't. In real life, it behaves as: -rw-r--r-- just as the windows security tab for the same file suggests. I know that ACL's are a nightmare when converting between posix and windows flavours, but Is there any way we can get a 'nearer the truth' Linux file listing when ACL's have to be set? 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] No suspend in Gnome menu after update to 12.3
by Andrey Borzenkov 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

After update from 12.2 to 12.3 suspend in menu is lost again. The gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu is installed: bor@opensuse:~> rpm -qi gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu Name : gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu Version : 3.6.2 Release : 3.1.1 Architecture: noarch Install Date: Сб 23 мар 2013 07:05:25 Group : System/GUI/GNOME Size : 28405 License : GPL-2.0+ Signature : RSA/SHA256, Пн 28 янв 2013 10:34:21, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284 Source RPM : gnome-shell-extensions-3.6.2-3.1.1.src.rpm Build Date : Пн 28 янв 2013 10:34:03 Build Host : build32 Relocations : (not relocatable) Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org Vendor : openSUSE URL : http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions Summary : GNOME Shell Extension -- Power Off Item in Status Menu Description : This GNOME Shell extension adds a power off item in the status menu, and provides the ability to hibernate. Distribution: openSUSE 12.3 But it is shown with alarm triangle when I check installed extensions using tweak tool or https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ Anyone else? -- 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] 12.3 Rescue CD Question
by upscope 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

All this was done on my 12.2 side of system. See Signature below for Config. I downloaded the 12.3 Rescue CD from the opensuse download page. I get the same menu as the 12.3 Live CD. Nothing about Rescue. Is this correct and if so why would I need the Live CD also? I will report seperately later after I make sure I did not do something wrong. Ran md5sum and sha1sum. Both correct. Then burned CD with the version of K3B from : [CODE] URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/410/openSUSE_12.2/ 9wvj:~> rpm -q k3b k3b-2.0.2-101.7.x86_64 [/CODE] Burned the iso and booted the system. I get the same menu as the 12.3 Live CD. Nothing about Rescue. Is this correct and if so why would I need the Live CD also? Also installed the version from packman. No difference except it seems to retain the burn info and does not check md5 if you try burning again. I will report seperately later after I make sure I did not do something wrong. Thanks in advance for any comments. Russ -- openSUSE 12.2(Linux 3.4.33-2.24-desktop x86_64)|KDE 4.10.1 "release 552"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.32) -- 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: Problem playing DVD
by Malcolm 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

On Sun 24 Mar 2013 04:27:03 PM CDT, Koenraad Lelong wrote: >Op 24-03-13 15:20, Malcolm schreef: >> Hi >> handbrake is compiled with all the necessary codecs, add libdvdcss >> and if it can be read, it should convert. >> >Hi, > >I decided to give it a try, to have more information. Unfortunately, I >seem unable to find a rpm for it for OS12.3. Do you have a link to a >compiled package ? >On Packman I found the src.rpm, but there I have some dependencies I >can't find in yast. > >I'm setting up a virtual machine I can mess with so I don't screw up >the actual machine. > >Regards, > >Koenraad Lelong Hi it's failing to build (trouble with already having stuff as files, never need to revisit....). I'll have a look at it and see if can fix it up. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 11:06, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.09 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- 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] Installing KDM .. message
by Anton Aylward 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

I got this message when installing kdm on 12.3 Warning: Do not know how to create missing GreeterUID user kdm I see the reference in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc but its commented out. If I uncomment it, kdm won't start. I also note https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625765 Is nothing being done about this? What values do you recommend putting into /etc/passwd and /etc/group BY HAND to make up for this deficiency? -- In order to get better you have to do what you don't want to do. -- 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] Fonts in Thunderbird
by michael norman 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

I am using Thunderbird on 12.3 to read my gmail messages. I have tried unsuccessfully to change the font size of received messages. The settings in preferences do not work. Is there a way of changing dont sizes in messages ? Mike -- 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: Problem playing DVD
by Malcolm 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

On Sat 23 Mar 2013 06:09:20 PM CDT, Koenraad Lelong wrote: > >Unfortunately, I can only play one dvd. I tried two others, they don't >play. Now I suspect it may be the region setting, but I'm not sure. >Could I find out ? The playable dvd is "region free", the two others >are region 2. >Or maybe the encryption, I get this when I try to play a >"problem-dvd" : Hi You should look at using handbrake to errr make backup copies in your required format, then use those instead of the DVD. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 2:46, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.05 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- 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] VirtualBox guest question
by Thomas Taylor 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Is it possible to use an backup image file as a VirtualBox guest? I currently have a PC which triple boots Win-7-Ult & openSuSE 12.2/12.3. I would like to move the windows installation to a VB guest without having to uninstall and install fresh into the guest in order to meet the %^&* MS licensing policy. Thanks, Tom -- "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." Henry Ford -- Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.2-x86_64 openSUSE 12.3-x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.10.00, FF 19.0 claws-mail 3.9.1 registered linux user 263467 KG7CFC - 2 meter -- 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] 12.3 and acpi vs. lm_sensors, cpufreq, fancontrol (nvidia graphics) and power-off
by Carl Hartung 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi All, Unlike the prior quiet running 11.4 (x86_64/GNOME2) installation I had on this system, 12.3 (x86_64/KDE) is exhibiting the following: a) At installation via DVD, the system hung almost immediately at udev. Typing 'acpi=off' before selecting 'Installation' circumvented the hang. b) 12.3 is beautiful, and fast! Thanks everyone! I love it :-) But I seem to have lost correct sensor driven GPU fan control. It now has only two speeds ... loud and loudest o_O. It starts out in 'loudest' mode then eventually drops to 'loud'. Very annoying. c) Selecting 'Leave' then 'Shut down' works right up to the point where nothing is mounted, no processes are running and the system is not in any way responsive ... but it does not power-off. Pressing and holding the power button briefly turns it off. (Interestingly, 'Leave' and 'Restart' works.) The system is an ASUS laptop, model X83VB-X1, with nVidia GeForce 9300M GS graphics adapter (512 MB video RAM.) The mainboard is an 'N80VB (ver. 1)'. It's configured with 4 GB RAM and an internal 500 GB SATA HD. These symptoms strike me as related to ACPI (and to the 'acpi=off' invocation at install.) After a bit of research, I followed the steps described here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810344 (03/19/2013, 12.3, status "NEW"; "Summary: fancontol not starting") No joy. Just these afterward from '# systemctl list-units' (results wrapped by me): lm_sensors.service loaded active exited Initialize hardware monitoring sensors cpufreq.service loaded failed failed LSB: CPUFreq modules loader fancontrol_local.service loaded failed failed Initialize fancontrol There's also this: # fancontrol --help Loading configuration from /etc/fancontrol ... Error: Can't read configuration file [Related, but tangential: Under 11.4 GNOME2, I ran a taskbar applet which graphically displayed the activity of each core, side by side, in addition to the CPU operating frequency. It usually ran at 800 MHz and only peaked 'on demand' nicely at 2.0 GHz -- and I could tell this by the sound of the fans. Is there a KDE equivalent to that applet available? I like being able to tell at a glance when the system is peaking 'on demand.'] These are the _only_ wrinkles remaining to be ironed out on this otherwise beautiful installation. I'd like to avoid burning out the GPU and/or it's fan while undergoing my combined 12.3 / KDE / systemd learning curve. Ideas and suggestions will be gratefully appreciated. TIA & regards, Carl -- 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 on ASUS Tranformer?
by Vojtěch Zeisek 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

Hi all, as openSUSE 12.2 for ARM is now out, see http://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/06/opensuse-12-2-for-arm-final/ I wonder if there is some (easy) possibility to install it to my ASUS Transformer TF300T. I'd like to keep Android and use it as dual boot. Have a nice day! Vojta -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/

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[opensuse] Broken pipe error in lsb_release
by Carlos E. R. 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just saw this error: Telcontar:~ # rcclamd status /usr/bin/lsb_release: line 368: echo: write error: Broken pipe Checking for Clam AntiVirus daemon running Telcontar:~ # The line 368 is here: [ -n "$ARG_S" ] && echo "$MSG_RESULT" exit $EXIT_STATUS I do not see the call for "lsb_release" in "/usr/sbin/rcclamd". I edited the shebang, and then when I run it again, I see: Telcontar:~ # rcclamd status + CLAMD_BIN=/usr/sbin/clamd + test -x /usr/sbin/clamd ++ clamconf ++ sed -n '/DatabaseDirectory = /{s///;s/"//g;p;q}' /usr/bin/lsb_release: line 368: echo: write error: Broken pipe + CLAMD_DBDIR=/var/lib/clamav Anymore ideas, besides a bugzilla? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFNEXcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xw4QCfcH2+kNoZn8WyLanOEBv3yzIc QUsAn0nlenKqFIWFu1K7bu7eqscXmS0g =gmSp -----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] mRemote users beware: Windows malware wipes linux boxes via mRemote
by Greg Freemyer 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

All, This is a first for me. Per: http://blogs.csoonline.com/malwarecybercrime/2628/symantecs-research-south-… There is a piece of windows malware that looks for mRemote installs on windows. If found it looks for cached "root" credentials. If those are found it uploads a script to wipeout /kernel, /usr, /etc, and /home. I gather the key vulnerability is that mRemote stores the destination host and credentials in plaintext. (or a easily decoded format). If anyone has mRemote installed on a windows box, I'm curious how the password is stored. The config info is at: %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Felix_Deimel\mRemote\confCons.xml fyi: the target of this attack was South Korea, but once malware code like this is made public, it starts to show up in other malware. 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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Re: [opensuse] Root and boot partitions on a sw raid volume (opensuse 12.2 - 12.3 rc1 64bit)
by Christopher Myers 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Ah cool, that makes sense. I was curious if it made a difference since oS sees the original disks as "/dev/sda" and "/dev/sdb", but the partitions from the aggregate device from the fake raid are shown as /dev/mapper/[something] (Sorry if you got this twice, I forgot to make the email plain text the first time, so had to resend it cause it got rejected the first time.) Chris >>> 03/21/13 11:06 PM >>> The primary differences between fake raid and pure software MD are - fake raid is partitioned, software raid usually not - fake raid is seen as single device by BIOS, software raid - as multiple devices So they need different solutions. Fake raid is actually easier to handle. Pure software raid needs more work. Отправлено с iPhone 22.03.2013, в 0:14, Christopher Myers написал(а): > I wasn't sure if I would be able to reproduce the issue or not, since a > fake-raid on Linux seems to be treated similarly as a regular software > RAID :) > >>>> Per Jessen 03/21/13 3:06 PM >>> > Christopher Myers wrote: > >> I'm running oS 12.2 on a small server at home with the Adaptec >> HostRaid (fake RAID) adapter that's onboard the SuperMicro PDSMI+ >> motherboard, with two Seagate SATA drives in RAID1. Is there any way >> to test this without unplugging one of the drives and forcing the >> array into recovery mode? > > Chris, > as you're not using software RAID, I don't quite see what you want to > test? > > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (3.2°C) > http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org -- 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] vlan frames redirected to the wrong bridge
by mailing lists 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello, On 03/22/2013 01:30 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Yo may be interested in this article, which seems to explain what happens here: > > http://www.rackspace.com/blog/vms-vlans-and-bridges-oh-my-part-2/ thank you Andrey, It works with the ebtables rule. -- 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] vlan frames redirected to the wrong bridge
by mailing lists 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello list, I have a network configuration like this: HVM domU [eth0:10.180.245.100] -> [tap2.0] br1 [eth0.214] -> dom0 [eth0:192.168.0.39] dom0 is a xen host with a typical bridge (br0), but now I need to add several domU machines with vlan tagging whilst dom0 remains untagged. So a new bridge (br1) is used to add vlan tags to this domU, the resulting bridge configuration is: dom0:~ # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.0026b9fc5688 no eth0 br1 8000.0026b9fc5688 no eth0.214 tap2.0 the problem is that for traffic sent from any domU, the ARP-REPLY is returned to the wrong bridge. A simple test with ping to 10.180.245.97 show the wrong path for replies: dom0 frame seen in tap2.0: 12:36:08.490622 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in br1: 12:36:51.498916 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in eth0.214 12:37:23.504996 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 42: Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 dom0 frame seen in eth0, now with vlan tagging and the corresponding reply 12:38:03.512530 00:16:3e:32:16:d6 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 46: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has 10.180.245.97 tell 10.180.245.100, length 28 12:38:03.513126 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02 > 00:16:3e:32:16:d6, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 64: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Reply 10.180.245.97 is-at 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02, length 46 dom0 frame appears in br0 and not in br1 12:39:52.533341 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02 > 00:16:3e:32:16:d6, ethertype 802.1Q (0x8100), length 64: vlan 214, p 0, ethertype ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Reply 10.180.245.97 is-at 00:0b:fc:fe:1b:02, length 46 anyone knows how to get replies to br1 instead of br0? -- 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-chat
by General Mail 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello All, For over 1.5 years, I was under the impression that AlbertoP was the founder of #opensuse-chat when he told me it was approved by the board. Why AlbertoP abuse of power? 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] Live update from 11.4 to 12.1 problems
by Claudio ML 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello all, I am trying to update with internet an OpenSuSE 11.4 to 12.1, then the following steps. But... i have a problem: i have followed the procedure found at this link: http://it.opensuse.org/SDB:Aggiornamento_del_sistema_ad_una_nuova_versione So, i have added the follow repository: # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh --+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+-------- 1 | Updates-for-openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | Updates for openSUSE 12.1 12.1-0 | Yes | Yes 2 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | openSUSE-12.1-12.1-0 | Yes | No 3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.1-Debug | No | Yes 4 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.1-Update-Debug | No | Yes 5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes 6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-12.1-Oss | Yes | Yes 7 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.1-Source | No | Yes 8 | repo-update-non-oss | repo-update-non-oss | Yes | Yes The problem is the following: when i do a zypper ref, i have this error: Retrieving repository 'repo-update-non-oss' metadata [error] Repository 'repo-update-non-oss' is invalid. [|] Repository type can't be determined. Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository. I have added this repository: zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1-non-oss/ repo-update-non-oss Adding repository 'repo-update-non-oss' [done] Repository 'repo-update-non-oss' successfully added Enabled: Yes Autorefresh: Yes URI: http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1-non-oss/ Because i read on the procedure "if you are upgrading from a version like 12.1 or previous, add this repository" What i am doing wrong? Cordially, Claudio. -- 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] Acrobat Reader unusable
by Marco Calistri 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello, Someone could kindly explain me why Acrobat Reader is showing this way: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amdturion/8578039776/lightbox/ on my 12.2 Gnome 3.6.2? I tried to re-install the Adobe package without success! Tks, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.28-2.20-desktop Gnome 3.6.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- 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] Remmina clipboard support doesn't work openSUSE 12.3
by Luis González 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello, I'm trying to use remmina to connect remote Windows host, but sadly the support for the clipboard doesn't work with openSUSE 12.3 or at least not in fresh installation of 12.3 Can anyone has the same issue? I read about freeRDP and the solution posted in https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/13 but I wan to know if exist any patch to apply. thank you! -- Luis González @ GMAIL -- 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] Usual problem with upgrade from DVD to 12.3 with system using mdadm
by Claudio ML 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello all, I have seen there is the same problem of the previous versions of OpenSuSE also into 12.3. The problem is: If you try to upgrade from a DVD an OpenSuSE with software raid (mdadm), the installer don't see the previous version of openSuSE on the hard disk. This is caused because the kernel don't recognize correctly the md arrays. In example, if i have md0 (/ root file system), md1 (/var), md2 (/srv), the installer see this as md125, md126 and md127. So, no DVD upgrade possible for this machines. I have tryied to edit manually the fstab on the machine, adapting to what the installer see, but after the upgrade the system becomes un-bootable. Anyone have a good workaround for this problem? Cordially, Claudio. -- 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] LibreOffice Version 3.6:build-304 : how to open hidden Directory prefixed with a Dot?
by ellanios82 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello List-Members - until recently, LibreOffice was willing to open hidden Directory prefixed with a Dot, in "Home" , however since updating to openSuSE 12.3 am unable to do so. - any ideas How to fix 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] after upgrade, mythtv seems to be unable to kill the screen-lock?
by Per Jessen 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Anyone using mythtv? I've just upgraded a desktop to 12.3, and mythtv is now being interrupted by the screen-lock. I do want screen-locking on this machine, but I also want to allow mythtv to disable/enable it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- 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] FreeCAD 0.13 / OpenSuSE 12.3 Problem - Missing Modules
by andreil1 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi, folks, Hi, Juergen, I have installed FreeCAD 0.13 (from repository home:jnweiger:freecad) on OpenSuSE 12.3/x64. Installation went smooth, all dependencies were resolved. However, launch of FreeCAD 0.13 is only partial success, shell is loaded, it immediately gives error message "No module named StartGUI". Workbench -> New -> … always throws the same type of error, for example Workbench -> New -> Arch - "No module named Drawing". Anyone have any clue what might be wrong ? PyQt module is installed. Thanks in advance. Andrei -- 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] Live USB and bulk install
by Anton Aylward 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

In the past I've only ever had to install Linux on single machines at a time, but a new client has raised the question of doing a bulk install on many (more than 20, possibly as many as a hundred) workstations. Step and repeat, all the same. Rather than the long work off an installation DVD, I'm wondering... Is is possible to set up what amount to a LiveUSB stick, (Yes I've seen https://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick) boot from it, then use 'dd' to copy the stick to the hard drive, and then finally do some magic to make the new Linux on the hard drive bootable? Just a few minutes work.inux on the hard drive bootable? Yes I appreciate that I'll have to do much setup before hands for the server that handles the logins and configure the various files on the stick-image. In an ideal world I want to be able to make a couple or more of these sticks and give them to the clients IT staff - or at least the ones enthusiastic about Linux/Suse in the future - with a set of idiot poof instructions. Hopefully that way the "hundred or so" that the manager talks about can be accomplished in a few hours. Then we're down to the step-and-repeat of testing. Of course no-one is going to test a machine he did the install on :-0 -- The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. - A.N. Whitehead -- 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] Upgrade to 12.3 caused akonadi problems/crash in 11.4
by Marc Chamberlin 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

I have been running an openSuSE 11.4 system with a number of server applications such as Tomcat, James, Bacula etc., and decided it was time I upgrade it to 12.3. I have always followed a model of keeping /home in it's own partition and installing each new version of openSuSE into it's own partition. In this way, my thinking was that I could keep running the older version of openSuSE until I get all the servers and configuration files (found in /etc /srv and elsewhere) upgraded and running under the newer version of openSuSE. That model has always worked in the past and I thought openSuSE developers would continue to adhere to that model as well... In other words, I thought that things, such as configuration files for user applications, put in user's /home directories would stay backwards compatible with future versions of openSuSE and we could upgrade/migrate them at our leisure, if/when we wanted to.. Well, that model, has failed this time on me. After installing openSuSE 12.3, I restarted my 11.4 system and found that there were several akonadi processes that were collectively running the CPU at 100% capacity and within a few minutes the 11.4 system would completely lock up on me forcing me to hard reboot the system... This strongly indicated that the 12.3 installation of openSuSE touched/changed configuration files in the /home user directories, in such a way that broke 11.4, which comes as a surprise.... AND it is scary because I do not know what all got touched/changed. I know that I am making a large version jump in openSuSE, but I thought the whole idea/suggestion of putting /home in a separate directory was to allow exactly this sort of thing, to be able to run different versions of openSuSE with a "constant" home directory. If a change in a configuration file, found on the /home directories, is absolutely necessary, then why not use a scheme that uses some sort of versioning markers or perhaps links and environment variables to differentiate what config (or part of a config) file goes with what version of it's associated application or OS? It really seems like /home dirs and files should stay functional no matter what version of openSuSE is running, and these files should never break the OS. Seems like configuration files that are highly OS dependent should be under /etc Doing some internet searches, I found a set of instructions at http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=154&t=88771&start=15 which described how to disable akonadi. This was done by renaming a bunch of files (as described in this forum) which are found in the users home directory under various .directories. By disabling akonadi, the 11.4 system is able to run ok, but I am not familiar with akonadi and the descriptions of it is not helping me to grok what the impact of disabling it may be on the 12.3 system. I don't know if I will need akonadi or not in the 12.3 version of openSuSE, and since it was enabled and running after the installation, I fear I might be in for some agonizing debugging if things do not work correctly in 12.3. So how should I best proceed? Is there a way to disable akonadi when I am running 11.4 and enable it when I am running 12.3 automagically? Marc.... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- 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 duinsoft.nl script to update Java Sun
by Marco Calistri 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, I need Sun Java to access an Internet Banking account and so far I always used the manual update way. I would like to know if in OpenSuSe are there any chances to install the deb package or in alternative to adapt the script available in www.duinsoft.nl in order to run it inside a crontab to check Java download and install the new JRE. http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en#hand Thanks. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.2 (Mantis) 64 bit - Kernel 3.4.33-2.24-desktop Gnome 3.6.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- 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 Hyper-V 'An error occurred during initrd creation'
by Paul Groves 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

I am having a problem installing OpenSUSE on a Hyper-V VM an was hoping someone could help me with this issue. I install from the cd as usual but when it gets to 86% it gives me this error: An error occurred during initrd creation error disk: 'hd0,2' not found It then tells me grub failed to install. I tested this same install on a physical machine from the same physical CD and it worked fine so I thought this must be a compatibility issue with Hyper-V. I read online and discovered I apparently has to install the drivers for the Hyper-v machine for this to install correctly. I checked and these are already in the repositories and selected by default. (The package is called hyper-v). I did however, try to install them manually, it told me they installed correctly but when I continued with the install the same error occurred. I decided to configure the machine on SUSEStudio and download the pre-made .vhd for Hyper-V I installed a VM with this .vhd file and it booted up fine. I can reboot the server at this point and every time it boots fine :) But.... if Iog-in then try to reboot (even if I log straight back out without making any changes) I get the following error after the GRUB boot screen has finished: waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1 to appear: ..............................Could not find /dev-disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1. Want me to fall back to /dev-disk/by-id/scsi-14d5346542020202000000000000000000000000000000000-part1? (Y/n) I even tried installing the hyper-v integration tools and drivers again before I rebooted but this makes no difference. I have installed ubuntu, fedora and CentOS on Hyper-V as I read this issue affected any Linux system but they all work fine, OpenSUSE has the same errors every time I try to install on versions 12.3, 12.2, 12.1, 11.4. I even tried a copy of SLES 11.4 I was given with the exact same errors! Has anyone else come across this issue? I have spent more than a day trying to find a solution to this online! -- 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] apper with 12.3
by Greg Freemyer 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Just a note that apper with 12.3 seems much better behaved. I've left it installed and have used it a few times to pull down updates in the last couple weeks. In 12.2 and before, I would have got mad at it by now and removed it. People that haven't used it in a while may want to give it a chance again. 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] Re: [smartmontools-support] WARNING: smartmon-tools 6.1 locks Areca-SAS driven system
by Hans-Peter Jansen 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Dear Alex, On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 11:38:49 Alex Samorukov wrote: > On 03/19/2013 06:51 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > Dear Stanislav, dear smartmontools developers, > > > > I've upgraded one of my servers to smartmontools 6.1 today, that happens > > to > > drive a Areca SAS controller, specifically: > > > > <5>[ 7.206669] Areca RAID Controller6: F/W V1.46 2009-01-06 & Model > > ARC-1680 <6>[ 7.270516] scsi6 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID > > Controller( RAID6 capable) <6>[ 7.270516] Driver Version 1.20.00.15 > > 2010/08/05 > > > > Thing is, the system freezes immediately after running (updating) smartd. > > rpm stopped at 89%, and the system was *locked*. While I can switch > > consoles, even Sys-Req S and U doesn't finish anymore, while B worked. > > :-( > > Sounds scary. Please do some tests: > > 1) Test on smartd from fresh svn to make sure that local patches are not > affecting the result. > 2) Test if smartctl --scan and --scan-open commands works. > 3) try to run it with smartd -d -r ioctl and provide resulted output. Will do that soon (hopefully I can do these tests in single user mode). > Also i would recommend to make sure that RAID firmware is up to date, > because this could be caused by wrong firmware. Honestly, I don't buy this argument. This behavior points to a serious *kernel* problem in this area, since a system app, even running as root, should never ever be able to firmly lock the system, no matter what firmware version it is running. But such issues must be analysed and fixed, of course.. This mail was intended to both: warn users about it, and harvest some hints on how to preceed. Thanks for sharing the tests, Pete -- 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] Duplicate NFS mounts in Places
by Alvin 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello all, I upgraded from openSUSE 12.1 to openSUSE 12.3. Both were running KDE 4.10. I have noticed that some of my NFS mounts are duplicated in the "Places" panel in Dolphin (left-hand side). The duplicated items have an additional '/' in the name (e.g. //docs). My NFS server is openSUSE 12.2. I am using NFS4. My fstab entry is: server:/docs /mnt/server_docs nfs4 default,intr,hard,user 0 0 When I select the entry that has a single '/' I get a notification that: "Could not mount the following device: /docs on server." and the text in the red bar in Dolphin states: "An error occurred while accessing '/docs on server', the system responded: mount.nfs4: /mnt/server_docs is busy or already mounted" If I select the entry with two forward slashes ('//'), it works just fine. I suspect this is an issue caused by the upgrade (e.g. mixed up config file?). Does anyone know of a way to force Dolphin or KDE to refresh its listings? Thanks, Alvin -- 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] kwin and minimized windows
by Roger Oberholtzer 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On an openSUSE 12.1 system, a user has accidentally set an app's window property so that it is always minimized. They claim that they cannot get to the window decoration part that lets them change this, as they could before it became permanently minimized. I see that the settings that control this are in: $HOME/.kde/share/config/kwinrulesrc Is there a GUI to change this? Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems 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] Live upgrade with jump?
by Claudio ML 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello all, Just a simple question: Is officially supported the network upgrade with a jump from versions ? Like 11.4 ---> 12.3 or similar. Or is always better upgrade without jumps? 11.4 -> 12.1 -> 12.2 -> 12.3 .... Cordially, Claudio. -- 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: Live USB and bulk install
by Malcolm 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On Wed 20 Mar 2013 09:27:49 AM CDT, Anton Aylward wrote: >Malcolm said the following on 03/20/2013 09:01 AM: >> Hi >> And PXE boot them..... >> > >Client/manager says no. >These weren't thin 'client' machines to start with. > > Hi To do the install.....? if your using your laptop, set up the pxe server, connect a switch and hookup a few systems at a time to do the install then switch off the pxe boot (assuming the systems in question have the ability). -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 2 days 17:10, 5 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.11 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- 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: Live USB and bulk install
by Malcolm 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On Wed 20 Mar 2013 01:56:43 PM CDT, Per Jessen wrote: >Anton Aylward wrote: > >> In the past I've only ever had to install Linux on single machines at >> a time, but a new client has raised the question of doing a bulk >> install on many (more than 20, possibly as many as a hundred) >> workstations. Step and repeat, all the same. > >AutoYaST ? > >If that's too much effort for a one-off, and if the machines are all >the same, how about installing one and then cloning it? Just a >tar-copy will do. > > > Hi And PXE boot them..... -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 2 days 16:30, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.13 CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520(a)2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile -- 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] No text in Acroread - 12.3
by James Knott 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

I installed Acroread in openSuSE 12.3. There is a problem where boxes appear in place of text in the menus etc. The document appears fine. Any idea on the cause & fix? tnx jk -- 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] Upgrade to 12.3 caused akonadi problems/crash in 11.4
by Marc Chamberlin 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

On 3/18/2013 11:01 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote: > Am Sonntag, 17. März 2013, 22:12:50 schrieb Marc Chamberlin: >> I have been running an openSuSE 11.4 system with a number of server >> applications such as Tomcat, James, Bacula etc., and decided it was time >> I upgrade it to 12.3. I have always followed a model of keeping /home in >> it's own partition and installing each new version of openSuSE into it's >> own partition. > I am doing the same. I updated to 12.3 this weekend. > >> In this way, my thinking was that I could keep running >> the older version of openSuSE until I get all the servers and >> configuration files (found in /etc /srv and elsewhere) upgraded and >> running under the newer version of openSuSE. That model has always >> worked in the past and I thought openSuSE developers would continue to >> adhere to that model as well... >> [...] > I am not a "openSUSE developer" but I always clearly stated, when being > asked or when I advised a KDE update, that you should not do that. You > should backup your old /home. You should never go back after KDE has updated > and migrated(!) its configuration and databases. If it worked for you in the > past, it was pure luck. > > Sorry > Jan Thanks Jan for replying. I guess that makes it even harder to do upgrades of openSuSE. I wish the openSuSE developers/designers, along with the Linux community in general, would give some more thought and directions on how we users are suppose to be able to migrate to newer releases of an OS while at the same time being able to regress back to previous releases when we have to. Having to maintain separate /home directories-partitions for each release would be a major PITA because of the divergences that will happen, and keeping data synchronized between them (can you say mail databases for example?) while running under different versions of openSuSE. Some of us poor users don't have the luxury of setting up separate servers and client computers when migrating from one OS to the next, and must do it in place. And getting a new system up and running takes time and we cannot afford to have our computers down during production/work hours, so the migration process can take a long time to complete. I know, I been through this process quite a few times now. I have a few tricks in place that help, for example I yank a lot of stuff out of /etc for different server configurations files and link them back in to versioned directories (in a separate partition which then retains configuration files for running the servers under different versions of openSuSE as well as different versions of the servers themselves.) Guess I will have to start doing something similar for the /home directories and figure out what stuff KDE/openSuSE is likely to touch and yank that stuff out to a separate partition with versioned directories as well. Either way it is a PITA and I wish there was a well defined (and adhered to) model for laying out partitions and directories so we can easily support regressing back when it is necessary to do so. Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- 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] WARNING: smartmon-tools 6.1 locks Areca-SAS driven system
by Hans-Peter Jansen 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

Dear Stanislav, dear smartmontools developers, I've upgraded one of my servers to smartmontools 6.1 today, that happens to drive a Areca SAS controller, specifically: <5>[ 7.206669] Areca RAID Controller6: F/W V1.46 2009-01-06 & Model ARC-1680 <6>[ 7.270516] scsi6 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable) <6>[ 7.270516] Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2010/08/05 Thing is, the system freezes immediately after running (updating) smartd. rpm stopped at 89%, and the system was *locked*. While I can switch consoles, even Sys-Req S and U doesn't finish anymore, while B worked. :-( Reverting to version 6.0 resolved it for me. I'm using the simplest of all cases of /etc/smartd.conf, since that worked reasonably well: DEVICESCAN -d removable -m root While userspace is rather old (openSUSE 11.1/i586), it's controlled by a reasonably current kernel: <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.8.3-3-pae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Fri Mar 15 08:16:33 UTC 2013 (1ca6928) All packages are built on OBS, smartmontools here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=smartmontools&project=home%… I would seriously consider reverting the 6.0 -> 6.1 transition in the openSUSE repos, until this issue is fixed. Let me know, what additional information I can provide in order to resolve the issue. Thanks, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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