April 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Printer no longer works
by James Knott 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

I have a Dell 1110 laser printer which has worked well until I installed openSUSE 12.3. It used to use a foomatic driver, but that no longer appears to be available. What can I do to get this printer going again? The OEM is Samsung. -- 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] The software selection has been changed externally. Software proposal will be called again. [OK]
by Per Jessen 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

I occasionally see this message in a yast window pop-up when installing. What does it mean and why do I have to press OK ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.1°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] Fwd: Configurations are not being saved
by Davi C. Rodrigues 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi, I am using opensuse 12.3 with kde and two monitors and having the following problems from about a month ago (no issues before that): i) Everytime I log in, the systems forgets of my configuration on two monitors with different images. Hence, just after log in I have to go to "configure desktop" / "Display and Monitor" and change the configuration of the second monitor to "Position: Left of " instead of " Clone of". No matter if latter I select "Save as default" or not. ii) Some bugs with the KDE interface are happening. In particular, eventually the computer becomes unresponsive for some seconds. I am working on a workstation with six cores xeon @ more than 3 GHz, hence it's not lack of resources. iii) I noticed today that an update on the nvidea driver was done. Anyway, even after restarting I noticed no changes. iv) I tried to work during some time (some hours) with a single monitor. During that time I noticed no problems. My video card is: Nvidea Quadro 600 with two video ports. Thanks for the help. Davi -- 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] VLC stopped working after latest update due to lack of mpga codec
by Oszkó Albert 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi all, I have a playlist file containg my favorite online radio stations and usually listen to them with VLC. A few days ago after some update it stopped working, complaining about the lack of mpga codec. And it says there is nothing to do about it. Any experience out there? oS 12.2 KDE 4.10.2, but the same is the situation with XFCE Best regards, 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] 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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Fwd: [opensuse] Format used for compressed logs by logrotate.
by Esztermann, Ansgar 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

On Apr 16, 2013, at 8:52 , Per Jessen wrote: >>>> Now I have to reconvert all my logs to a format I can read, and >>>> change the logrotate config so that it uses some other format like >>>> bzip2 >>> >>> What about xzgrep? >>> >>> ~> which xzgrep >>> /usr/bin/xzgrep >> >> Hum! That one is new to me. So now we have to use zgrep sometimes, >> other xzgrep... what a complication :-( > > And zometimes even bzgrep. zgrep should be able to read .bz2, and on 12.3, .xz as well. See BNC #799561. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann DV-Systemadministration Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105 -- 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] Getting the update icon in XFCE
by আনন্দ কুমার সমা দ্দার Ananda Samaddar 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hello all, How do I get the update icon in XFCE? I was using KDE and apper was installed on that and worked fine. I've installed PackageKit and pk-update-icon. Do I need to do anything else? thanks, Ananda Samaddar -- 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 Adobe Flash on openSUSE 12.2
by Alex Fanelli 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hello, I just installed openSUSE, and because I am new to linux in general, I would like some help installing Adobe Flash. When I tried to copy the file to Firefox's addons folder, dolphin told me that access was denied. Help! Alex Fanelli alexfanelli(a)aol.com -- 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] Configuring service runlevels
by Marc Chamberlin 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Given that the YaST Runlevel editor is broken (Bug 800514) in openSuSE12.3, and it appears that the switch-over to systemd is still a work in progress, my question is this - Is the only workaround, to automatically starting up services during boot up, is to go in and manually create the links in the /etc/init.d/rc*.d directories for the various services one needs? That is going to be a real PITA trying to figure out by hand the order in which all our services must be started and stopped. Anyone have another better workaround solution? BTW - This is the second major bug I have now encountered in trying to install and use openSuSE12.3. (The first was, and appears it may still be, Bug 809843 which was a showstopper for me.) Can't say I am very impressed with this release, and am thinking about dropping back to 12.2 (or perhaps even earlier) for our servers and gateway systems and wait until 13.x comes out.... 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] KDE desktop crashes after long period of time (>24 hrs)
by Bogdan Cristea 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hi I am using my openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 box with KDE to run some long simulations. The program is started in a terminal window and it runs smoothly, but I have noticed that after long period of time the KDE desktop crashes, however the terminal window is still in place and my simulation is unaffected. Also, KDE desktop seems to be able to restart, but the functionality is no longer the same, so the only way is to reboot the PC. Does anyone experienced something similar . thanks -- Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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