March 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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