March 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Android print solution?
by David C. Rankin 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Guys, With the iphone we were able to configure good print function via CUPS/Avahi, is there anything similar that can be done with an Android tablet? Looking, it doesn't appear that there is any basic print capability provided by Android (3.2 Honeycomb). I would like to print to by openSuSE server in the same manner I do from iOS. Anybody found a good solution? I have found PrintBot, but that isn't a solution because it cannot be used legally where confidentiality is required. (data is transferred to a 3rd party server before printing). I need to find a direct print solution. What says the braintrust? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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 is it with this behaviour in 12.3?
by Basil Chupin 31 May '13

31 May '13

In another thread I mentioned that when I switch on my external 2TB USB WD HDD, Dolphin accesses it and displays its contents to me; but then when I go to use mc (Midnight Commander) this device is no longer mounted in /media as it has been in past many years but now is found in /var/run/media/<username>/<devicename> [in this case the volume name is WD]. Quite by accident a few minutes ago ('cause I am having another hassle, to be describe later) I discovered that the device is ALSO mounted in 'run/media/<username>/<device>'. (How many times is such a device 'mounted' and where else may I find it?) Has anyone else found this to be the case? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.3-1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Using # with F2
by James Knott 04 May '13

04 May '13

For many years, I have pressed F2 to run stuff such as man, by entering #<command> in the pop up box. For some reason, this has now broken. When I do that, Seamonkey opens, which does not know how to handle those commands, instead of Konqueror. Firefox is set as the default browser. Any idea on how I can get this to work properly again? I'm running openSUSE 12.2 & KDE 4. 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] Root and boot partitions on a sw raid volume (opensuse 12.2 - 12.3 rc1 64bit)
by Christopher Myers 01 May '13

01 May '13

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

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[opensuse] Yast firewall settings don't survive reboot
by lynn 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

12.3 zypper up'd today Hi I have disabled firewall using Yast however, each time I reboot, the firewall is always started. I have to go back into Yast and Disable/stop it each boot. What can I do to make the Yast settings 'stick'? 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] Problem with inodes on SuSE 12.1 and /var ?
by Markus Egg 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hello, I had SuSE 10.3 installed on my laptop. Backup of /var/spool/news onto some NAS was ok. Then formatted swap (swap filesys), / (ext4 filesys) /var (ext4 filesys) in the same size it was before. No other special settings, just the ones that are given and used by yast2 and SuSE 12.1 and ext4 . Installed SuSE 12.1 which was ok. When I tried to play back /var/spool/news with all the leafnode usenet news, after some time the system said something like "No space left on device" :-( The partition has exactly the same size. With SuSE 10.3 there was no problem concerning size. Were there any changes in the filesystem structure of SuSE 12.1 and ext4, e.g. inodes or similar, which makes /var under SuSE 12.1 run full earlier? How can I solve that? Reinstall with ext3 and SuSE 12.1 ? Put /var under / and reformat /var (which might be tricky)? Thanks in advance ME -- 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 + ntfs + ext4 + USB3 + different copying speeds
by Basil Chupin 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

I bought a Seagate 2TB USB3 external HDD today and formatted 75% of it with ext4 file system and 25% with ntfs - using latest version of Gparted. My two internal 1TB Seagates are SATA 3 and formatted with ext4 except for one partition (ntfs) which has XP installed, but which is rarely used (it's mainly there to bring me back to earth and to remind me how bloody aweful Windows is). I use mc (Midnight Commander) 99.99% of the time to manage my files. After I formatted the external HDD (as described above) I went to copy files from my main system to the new external HDD - which is to be used for backups. What I found - and which is what I am now asking about - is that when, using mc, that when copying files to the *ext4* formatted partition the files where being copied across at ~80MB/s. The files copied over were a mixture of ntfs and ext4 files (which I had copied from a collapsing 32-bit system to my current *Linux* system last year when I replaced the old computer). However, when I went to copy files to the *ntfs* formatted part of the new external HDD, the best transfer rate I got was ~28MB/s - which looks very much like what I used to get when using USB2! So, why the *big* difference in transfer rates between copying files to a partition formatted in *ext4* and one formatted in *ntfs*?! What system am a I using? Look at my signature line; but I understand that some brain-dead mail clients drop the signature line so for these people with brain-dead mailers the sig. line is: Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.4-1 Any suggestions, please, as to why there is such a difference in the transfer rates between the 2 file systems, and how can this be overcome? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 with KDE 4.10.1 & kernel 3.8.4-1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 12.3 Calibre doesn't install
by James Knott 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

When I tried to install Calibre on 12.3, I got an error message: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: warning: /etc/bash_completion.d/calibre saved as /etc/bash_completion.d/calibre.rpmsave error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/calibre/fonts/liberation: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory error: calibre-0.9.13-2.2.1.x86_64: install failed error: calibre-0.8.63-1.8.1.x86_64: erase skipped -- 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] Dark screen
by Wolfgang Mueller 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Recently my wife closed my laptop folding down the screen. When I reopened it, it remained dark. Since the computer was connected to other computers by NFS, I could see that it was still running. The only way to have a light screen again, was rebooting the computer. Is there a better way to revitalize a sleeping laptop? Thanks in advance and kind regards, Wolfgang -- 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 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

On Sun 24 Mar 2013 03:00:50 PM CDT, Koenraad Lelong wrote: >Op 23-03-13 19:28, Malcolm schreef: >> >> Hi >> You should look at using handbrake to errr make backup copies in your >> required format, then use those instead of the DVD. >> >Hi, > >That's a stopgap at best. And why should I be able to copy the DVD >when I can't play it ? Or should I copy it on a different machine ? >No, I hope to be able to play them as they are. > >But thanks for the suggestion and for the mentioning of a program I >didn't know. > >Regards, > >Koenraad Lelong > Hi handbrake is compiled with all the necessary codecs, add libdvdcss and if it can be read, it should convert. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.1-desktop up 9:29, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.06, 0.06 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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