June 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] What is the "official" way to mount floppy in openSUSE 12.x?
by Istvan Gabor 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hello: The subject says the question. [In pre 12 suse versions I had a /media/floppy directory where the floppy could be mounted at (by using the floppy icon on KDE3's desktop). In 12.x there is no such directory, and if created it will be removed at next boot, as I know correctly. Of course I could make a floppy dir under / or somewhere else, but I'd prefer its location to be in /media, since floppy is a media. Why should it be then outside of media dir?] What is the official way of mounting floppy in 12.x.? I have openSUSE 12.1 with KDE3 currently. Thanks, Istvan -- 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] Any chance of convincing Gimp to consider a .png as a valid saved image?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I scan images using gimp and xsane. If I scan a dozen images, I have to keep track of what I save to PNG or JPG, because GIMP insists that none are saved and that I'm going to lose my data. It wants me to save as XCF and I will not. Any chance of changing this behavior? It is disruptive. :-/ - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHCCdwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XPmgCfcKcEp+zwhwAoA9YVsui6dcZz Tx8AnRMR4Ju/C9yUQzEzZl9T251V0/9U =Swfv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 replaces SuSEconfig?
by Carlos E. R. 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I know that instead fo the SuSEconfig permission module, we have to use "chkstat". Instead of "SuSEconfig.fonts" we have "/usr/sbin/fonts-config". I know there is a module that handles /etc/sysconfig/mail and postfix. Wht's its name? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHKEBgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X81ACfY2NF+s4p2ERBmucVJhUqt0fB jXEAmgLDFHtreD9K9Gh55TN1OildIdk9 =krnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] 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] How should one make /media a tmpfs under 12.3?
by Carlos E. R. 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In 12.1 /media was a tmpfs and was created in an init script (/etc/init.d/boot.localfs): if test -d /media && ! mountpoint -q /media; then mount -n -t tmpfs -o mode=0755,nodev,nosuid tmpfs /media fi In 12.3 I tried creating "/etc/tmpfiles.d/media.conf": d /media 0755 root root 10d But it does not work, because something creates that directory as a physical directory before the tmpfs can be created. Who/what is creating it? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHMCb4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WC8wCgi1R9dQXQnVJAHm9tVggz5d58 hzsAn0tucU/G2nk36mcjXHKIuB0N1ku1 =nUSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 Much Swap?
by Lew Wolfgang 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hi Folks, Back in the '80s we configured swap space to be 1.5 x RAM as a rule of thumb. But I'm configuring 6 boxes now that contain 64-GB of RAM and I'm wondering if swap should be anything close to 96-GB. The boxes have only 128-GB of SSD for the operating system, so I'd like to minimize swap as much as possible. As background, these devices will be used as dedicated data acquisition devices. They will pump data from four Gig-E Ethernet ports and store it all in a 24-disk RAID-6 array. Preliminary measurements show we should be able to maintain continuous throughput until the RAID is full. So, any opinions on swap size in relation to RAM? Thanks, Lew -- 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] editing mp4 file
by michael norman 03 Jul '13

03 Jul '13

I have downloaded an mp4 file using get_player. I would like to edit out bits of it and leave the bits I want. I don't want to demux or anything like that it plays fine as it is (VLC used). I need a tool to do this googling suggests avidmux are there alternatives ? Mike -- 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] Is this a Firefox bug?
by Anton Aylward 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Since the ... maybe upgrade yo kde4.10.4 or something else in the regular updates, but before the system upgrade 12.2->12.3 .. Sometimes .. only sometimes ... When I click on a URL in Thunderbird to go to that like in Firefox there is a small pause, a freeze while the pointer won't move and then the screen turns to hash. At that point the machine is dead-locked up. Can't hot-key to another screen/activity, can't telnet or ssh into it, it doesn't respond to pings. So I wonder, is this a problem with -- Firefox -- KDE4 -- X or the video driver. MozillaFirefox-21.0-1.18.1.i586 MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-21-2.5.1.i586 libkde4-4.10.4-10.2.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-12.3-10.41.9.i586 kdebase4-runtime-branding-openSUSE-12.3-4.2.i586 kdebase4-workspace-4.10.4-14.1.i586 kdebase4-nsplugin-4.10.4-341.1.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-12.3-4.2.i586 kde4-filesystem-4.10.4-218.1.i586 kdelibs4-core-4.10.4-10.2.i586 mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-2.1.1.i586 kdebase4-runtime-4.10.4-431.1.i586 kdebase4-session-4.10.4-60.1.noarch kdebase4-openSUSE-12.3-4.2.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-12.3-4.2.i586 kdebase4-openSUSE-lang-12.3-4.2.noarch kdelibs4-4.10.4-10.2.i586 kdebase4-workspace-liboxygenstyle-4.10.4-14.1.i586 kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE-12.3-4.2.i586 xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.13.2-1.5.1.i586 xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau-1.0.6-2.1.1.i586 # lspci | grep VGA 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] (rev a2) I see that "over 500 bugs" were fixed in the upgrade from .21 to .22 of firefox. I can't see that "obviously" this is one of them. -- How long did the whining go on when KDE2 went on KDE3? The only universal constant is change. If a species can not adapt it goes extinct. That's the law of the universe, adapt or die. -- Billie Walsh, May 18 2013 -- 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] worried: failing disk or raid10?
by Hans Witvliet 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

On my 12.2 system my syslog keeps telling (warning?) : Jun 29 11:00:43 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** CHANGED /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** POLL SYNCING MD /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** CHANGING /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata4/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdd/sdd1 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:45 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** CHANGED /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** POLL SYNCING MD /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** CHANGING /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdc/sdc1 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** UPDATING /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:01.0/ata4/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdd/sdd1 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 Jun 29 11:00:47 storage dbus-daemon[954]: **** CHANGED /sys/devices/virtual/block/md127 iostat -1 tels me that all four disk are continuously reading at a pace od 60MBps. And once every couple of seconds, four block are written. Even when nothing happens on the box, top gives: 447 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 36.3 0.0 2:59.07 md127_raid10 4526 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 12.2 0.0 1:08.64 md127_resync Should i be worried, or just leave the system at rest for a while ;-) -- 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] Thunderbird and IMAP folders
by Bob Williams 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My ISP recently had a hardware failure of the machine my messages are stored on. They have rebuilt it from backup, but now Thunderbird shows everything in my Inbox, whereas before my extensive set of filters would divert messages into separate folders. The folder hierarchy was under the ISP account, not Local Folders. I do not have Serverside folders with this account. I presume I'll have to recreate the original folder structure. I know the usual mantra is "Why not try it?", but I don't want to mess things further if the ISP will eventually restore my folder structure. I don't quite understand the difference between serverside filtering/folders, locally created folders under an email account, and local folders under 'Local Folders'. The last one seems to delete the mail from the remote server, which is not what I want. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.10.4 "release 569" Uptime: 12:00pm up 9 days 1:21, 4 users, load average: 0.62, 0.72, 0.64 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHO0RkACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU42rACcDnh63W6ChwPtLPn6uFsI1fMe quMAn0iF2ynbj8UX+L9GBrTHrRkuk2Sk =hQdG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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