openSUSE Users July 2013

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by Tracer Bullet

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

4 years, 3 months

Where can I get genIS_PLAINcache

by Chuck Payne

Hi, I am trying to set up a simple repo, I read on the opensuse site about a binary called genIS_PLAINcache, because I can't see to find it or the package yast2-packmanager either. Can someone help. I am setting this repo up for SLE9, I have tried to use createrepo but I keeping getting errors. -- ---------------------------------------- When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert Heinlein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

5 years

DenyHosts daemon mode on openSUSE 11.3

by LLLActive＠GMX.Net

Hi, I am trying to run DenyHosts on OS 11.3. I can get it to sync and update the hosts.deny file, but with "rcdenyhosts status" it reports as being "unused" just after I started it with "rcdenyhosts start". I tried also with yast, setting up as a service (daemon) and starting it. It also stops immediately. In the denyhosts.log file there is no error info, just what it used to set it up at start. I've gone through the configs several times, no joy. Anyone got DenyHosts running properly? :-/ Dreiel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

5 years, 10 months

What is the "official" way to mount floppy in openSUSE 12.x?

by Istvan Gabor

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

6 years, 5 months

Any chance of convincing Gimp to consider a .png as a valid saved image?

by Carlos E. R.

-----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

7 years, 2 months

intel graphics with openSUSE 12.3

by Roger Oberholtzer

I have a new system with the following graphics: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 2010 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at f000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features The intel xf86 drivers are installed from xf86-video-intel-2.20.19-2.1.1.i586, which is the openSUSE 12.3 RPM However, the intel driver does not get used. Instead, the FBDEV driver is used. I see that it loads the intel driver (after trying the nvidia). There is no obvious complaint. It just goes on to the FBDEV. The only error I see in Xorg.0.log is: (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory There is no /dev/dri directory at all. I wonder what I missed.... -- 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

7 years, 3 months

reorg of network:ha-clustering repo on build.opensuse.org

by Tim Serong

Hi All, This is just a quick heads-up. We're in the process of reorganising the network:ha-clustering repository on build.opensuse.org. If you don't use any of the software from this repo feel free to stop reading now :) Currently we have: - network:ha-clustering (stable builds for various distros) - network:ha-clustering:Factory (devel project for openSUSE:Factory) This is going to change to: - network:ha-clustering:Stable (stable builds for various distros) - network:ha-clustering:Unstable (unstable/dev, various distros) - network:ha-clustering:Factory (devel project for openSUSE:Factory) This means that if you're currently using packages from network:ha-clustering, you'll need to point to network:ha-clustering:Stable instead (once we've finished shuffling everything around). I'll send another email out when this is done. Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong Senior Clustering Engineer SUSE tserong(a)suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 years, 3 months

Cant rename/remove /var/tmp in 12.3?

by Josef Wolf

Hello, in all my linux installations, I used to replace /var/tmp by a symlink to a directory on my main user partition. The intent of this is to ensure that there is no private information on the root partition. With 12.3, this won't work anymore: raven:/ # mv /var/tmp /var/tmp-orig mv: cannot move ‘/var/tmp’ to ‘/var/tmp-orig’: Device or resource busy raven:/ # ls -ld /var/tmp drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 4096 Jul 31 10:41 /var/tmp raven:/ # getfacl /var/tmp getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: var/tmp # owner: root # group: root # flags: --t user::rwx group::rwx other::rwx raven:/ # df /var/tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cr_sda8 20649592 8361332 11239320 43% / I get the same error when trying to delete. Even rebooting into single user mode won't help. Any ideas why the directory appears to be busy? Even if I remove all the contents of the directory, it still appears to be busy. BTW: a busy directory seems to be totally new semantics to me. -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 years, 3 months

Re: [opensuse] 12.3 (64bit) Hibernate problem

by Marco Vittorini Orgeas

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:28:31 PM you wrote: > Il 30/07/2013 12:21, Marco Vittorini Orgeas ha scritto: > > On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:07:25 AM Marco Calistri wrote: > >> Il 30/07/2013 10:08, Greg Freemyer ha scritto: > >>> Greg > >>> -- > >>> Greg Freemyer > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Carlos E. R. > >>> > >>> <robin.listas(a)telefonica.net> wrote: > >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>> Hash: SHA1 > >>>> > >>>> On Monday, 2013-07-29 at 15:09 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote: > >>>>> Any comments/instructions on this problem? > >>>> > >>>> Can you hibernate/suspend the machine from the menu? > >>> > >>> Along those lines, do you swap space setup? > >>> > >>> Lots of people say they no longer setup swap, but to hibernate you > >>> have to be able to push all your ram to swap. > >>> > >>> Greg > >> > >> If I'm not wrong I should have 4G of swap but I can verify this. > >> > >> It is required a minimum amount of swap or just "some swap" in order to > >> hibernate works? > >> > >> Tks. > >> > >> Cheers, > > > > Generally the recommended amount is: available swap space = 2 * available > > RAM space. > > This because when off, all of your processes virtual memory space in use > > must be copied somewhere in order to recover its state in a second stage. > > Note it's recommended: nothing prevents you to have a virtual memory space > > in use bigger than the recommended. But usually it's a very good > > trade-off. > Hi Marco, > > Yes I knew about this general rule for swap sizing, but I meant if are > there specific rules for swap sizing in order hibernate work without > problem. > > Regards, Well, that is both a general and very specific rule for the issue at hand. You can trust it as it proven to be a very good one. -- Marco -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 years, 3 months

64 bit vs 32 bit RAM consumption

by Felix Miata

In googling the possibility of using a 64 bit kernel on an otherwise 32 bit openSUSE (consensus: don't try it), I found quite a bit of mention of 64 bit apps using twice as much RAM? Is this true? Or is it just misunderstanding arising from 64 bit using twice as many CPU registers to increase its own speed? Or something else? My main system running 32 bit 11.4 has 4GB RAM and is consistently using >50% of RAM for open apps, most of the rest for disk cache, and always around 360MB unused. Would running 64 bit on this system be consuming virtually all RAM for apps, leaving little free for disk cache? FWIW, not all RAM is "cheap". To bring this DDR2 system up to its 8GB max would cost ~$63USD. To replace its 2X2GB sticks with 2X4GB (to free them for RAM upgrade to another system) would cost triple that. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

7 years, 3 months

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openSUSE Users July 2013