April 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Ugly names for disks
by lynn 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

12.3 with LXDE Hi I have a USB disk for backup that I can take off the premises . It used to mount at: /media/disk but now it mounts to: /run/media/lynn/55bf1731-cd0c-49d1-8995-04139022821f I can live with the /run/media/lynn bit, but really, "55bf1731-cd0c-49d1-8995-04139022821f"? Can I change it to something more readable? 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] netbook & OpenSuse
by Koenraad Lelong 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hi, I would like to "upgrade" the OS of my wife's eee-PC. Now it's running an Ubuntu-version for eee-pc but some applications have problems now, so I was considering installing OS 12.3 on it. Does anyone have experience with an eee-pc and a recent OpenSuse ? Does it work OK ? I already tried installing Ubuntu 12.04 on it but that's not a great success, the screen is not OK. Thanks for your info. 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] 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] Apache SSL Certificate Generation
by Paul Groves 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi All, I am trying to create a self-signed certificate in apache2. In the openSUSE Reference I found this: Creating a self-signed certificate is an interactive nine-step process. Change into the directory /usr/share/doc/packages/apache2 and run the following command: ./mkcert.sh make --no-print-directory /usr/bin/openssl /usr/sbin/ custom. Do not attempt to run this command from outside this directory. The program provides a series of prompts, some of which require user input. But the file mkcert.sh does not exist! I have looked on the forums and cannot find anything helpful. Any ideas? -- 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] Remote Administration (VNC)
by John Bennett 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Can anyone explain why they have a simple "Enable Remote Administration" option is YAST, with a checkbox, and Firewall workaround, and no additional info on what else has to be done to get it to work? (Not even from the associated Help prompt.) Is there a 'simple' way to gain access to a remote GUI, or even better, a relatively secure method? 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] [12.3 64Bit KDE]-VLC Media Player-No Suitable Decoder Module?
by Jesse Palser 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, Running openSUSE 12.3 64Bit KDE fully updated. I installed VLC media player, but when I try to watch a movie with it I get the following error messages in VLC: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "mpga". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "mpgv". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "mpga". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I fix these errors in VLC media player? I know I need to install something, but don't know what. Thanks! Jesse -- 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] chroot questions
by Roger Oberholtzer 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Back in the day, I used to maintain a Gentoo tree in a directory in a different Linux distro (possibly Caldera, or an early SUSE). Then, when I wanted to build software in the Gentoo tree using Gentoo tools and all, I would: cd /where/one/finds/gentoo-20XX.1 export g=`pwd` mount -t proc proc $g/proc cp -p /$g/etc/resolv.conf $g/etc/resolv.conf.keep cp /etc/resolv.conf $g/etc/resolv.conf chroot $g /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile Mainly, I copied the name resolution stuff, mounted /proc in the gentoo tree, and updated the environment. Then, I could pretty much act as though I had booted Gentoo. It worked great. My question is if I could go do something similar today with openSUSE, but with some other version of openSUSE in the 'foreign' tree. I think my biggest concern is /run and /var/run. And which versions would play nice together. I am primarily compiling things in this environment. No kernel stuff. It is a bit like cross compiling, but without setting up cross compilers. Just a copy of the target environment. I know many people suggest just using a VM for this. It may result in that. But I just have to try the chroot method as it is much easier to access from make files and such places. Just curious if there are some show stoppers that would render my time trying this wasted. I finally have the disk space I need to do these foolish things... 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] 12.3 install fails on reboot
by Damon Register 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

I have just tried to install opensuse 12.3 on a Sun Ultra 20 that had previously been running 11.0 I think. The install seems to go without problem until it gets to the part where it reboots after copying the packages. The boot usually gets to this point and hangs: found a linux console terminal on /dev/console I tried a bit of searching http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support but haven't found anything on this yet. Has anyone else seen this and can point me in the right direction? Damon Register -- 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 fix boot error message
by Ricardo Chung 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Since two weeks ago after updates the old annoying boot message came back. It's not high priority bug but annoying message: GRUB loading Welcome to GRUB! error: file '/boot/grub2/locale/en.mo.gz' not found. If you know how to fix it please share that info and receive my full appreciation. The system is running openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.2 and another running openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.8.5. It does not affect openSUSE 12.2 x86 KDE 4.10.2 Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | Panama Ambassador openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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