March 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Quality matters: Congratulations!
by Hans Witvliet 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

https://www.suse.com/company/press/2013/3/suse-receives-common-criteria-sec… This is not something easily achieved... -- 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] RPM building guide
by Ananda Samaddar 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Hello all, Can anyone send me a link to a guide to creating and building RPMs? I can't seem to find anything via internet searches. thanks, Ananda -- 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] Why everyone should learn to use the command line
by Anton Aylward 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

https://xkcd.com/1168/ This Rob guy probably used Ubuntu -- Our society won't be truly free until "None of the Above" is always an option. -- Eric S. Raymond -- 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 not working properly
by Robert Rawlinson 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

I did an update yesterday using apper. when I do an update it comes back right away and exits saying The root password was not accepted. It does not provide a way to get the password . Bob Bot -- 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 : unable to start
by ellanios82 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hello List - am unable to start LibreOffice, and get message : " /usr/bin/libreoffice /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_replace_qdata " ........... - 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] What are these "devices" in my partition info?
by Basil Chupin 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

I don't recall seeing these in oS prior to 12.2, but what are these "devices" with file system of TMPFS showing in the screengrab of the partition information in YaST2?: http://susepaste.org/92624459 What created them and for what reason? (The info is for 2x 1TB SATA 3 HDDs which I formatted in order to be able to install and run a number of OSs; only sda5 and sdb1 contain OSs at the moment.) Grateful for any info re this. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.00 & kernel 3.8.1-1 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 GTX550Ti 1GB 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] Curious about Yast2 Partitioner
by Marc Chamberlin 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

I decided to get my computers ready for the upcoming new release of openSuSE 12.3 and my approach has been to always install each release in a separate partition. That way I can continue to use the older release(s) until I get the new version up on running. (I have a few servers and other complications that does not make this a simple/easy upgrade process.) Anywise, on a couple of systems, I found I needed to resize and/or move partitions around a bit, on my disk drives. So I trotted over to Yast2 and discovered that the partitioner, that comes as part of its tool set, does not allow one to do either, claiming that it can't because the partitions are already created and in use. Neither does the version of Yast that comes with the installation disk for openSuSE where such capability is most likely going to be required. I found that both rather surprising and frustrating, especially since over in the Windoz world tools like Partition Magic have had that sort of capability for decades now. So I headed off to the internet in search of a better Linux partitioning tool and quickly came across one called GParted. And lo and behold it did exactly what I wanted! Not only that, but it has a nice GUI interface, like Partition Magic that makes it really easy to do. No need to figure out any of the low level details, just drag and drop partitions around and resize them via GUI images. AND I was really impressed by GParted in how careful it was in going about doing resizing and moving partitions around. Lots of testing being done to make sure things would go smoothly before actually making changes. It appears like a LOT of thought has gone into that tool, far more than even Partition Magic which doesn't appear to do nearly the same amount of preliminary testing. I think this is a REALLY FINE tool, from my first humble impressions, and Wikipedia says this tool has been around for about 8 years now... So my question is this - Why, when there is a tool that is so much more capable, open sourced and freely available, is Yast2 sticking to using such a brain dead partitioning tool? Why not yank that tool out of Yast and replace it with GParted? Is it because no one has the time/inclination to improve the user experiences with Yast? Or has the knowledge about Yast been lost due to its designers moving on to other places and no one is available/capable to work on improvements to it? If so, then I can understand, and no I cannot volunteer either, I already have too many "volunteered" projects on my plate. I just wonder because this makes Yast appear as if it is really becoming dated. IMHO I think most users would be much happier if Yast guided them to using GParted instead of this archaic and crippled partitioning tool that now comes with Yast2. I won't be using the Yast partitioner any more now that I have discovered GParted, and suspect I may have answered my own question, ;-) but still I am just curious about how much thought has been given to improving the partitioning tool in Yast2.... 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] Dying SSD??
by ianseeks 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi Does anyone know what are the symptoms of a dying SSD? I switched on my machine this morning and the system wouldn't load the GUI (kde). I took the short cut of whipping out the 12.2 64bit install DVD (well, after downloading and burning 12.3 RC on WIn 7 and producing 2 duff disks). When the installer checked for partitions if took about 15 mins to get through that section. Once the system was reinstalled, i went to the partitioner in Yast and the same thing happened, it took about 15 minutes to load up the partition data. I'm using the SSD as the root partition and its also booting from it. My home partition is on a separate but ordinary disk. Any ideas? I've got another disk ready if it fails. regards Ian -- 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] Free Office Suite
by Mark Misulich 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi, everyone on this list is always looking for a office suite that works in Linux and that works well for office tasks. I haven't fully tested out the latest version of Softmaker Office Suite, but it seems to work well for everything I have used it on so far. The latest free version is available now for download from this url: http://www.freeoffice.com/en/ Mark -- 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] How to test hibernation without pm-utils?
by Greg Freemyer 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

All, For a bug I'm trying to help test, they asked me to remove pm-utils and then hibernate my laptop? How do I do that? It seems to just run and run without pm-utils installed. 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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