August 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] No Internet access after processor upgrade
by rm＠crescentconstruction.com 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

> El 18/08/13 14:59, rm(a)crescentconstruction.com escribió: > >> any ideas are appreciated, > > # traceroute google.com > ends with what result exactly? > Here are the traceroute results: # traceroute google.com traceroute to google.com (2607:f8b0:4000:805::100e), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets using UDP Unable to connect to 2607:f8b0:4000:805::100e: Network is unreachable -- 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 problems
by Jim Sabatke 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

I've searched Thunderbird lists and have not found anything related to Linux lockups like I am having. I am running Suse 12.2 and just upgraded to Thunderbird 17.0.7. I have had this problem beginning several versions ago, for about the last year. The symptoms are: - I get "cannot connect to gmail server" errors. I have about a dozen gmail accounts active in Thunderbird and it doesn't say which account. I do get mail from some of them, but I haven't been able to determine if it is with a certain account. Some accounts do have very large amounts of emails in multiple folders. - Starting Thunderbird, very often it "locks up" and I cannot scroll up and down the list of accounts. Waiting for an hour or more doesn't help. - Even if I can scroll and select an account, often selecting a new email locks up that account. The selected message will not display, but I can usually select another account and read mail normally. - Often when replying to a message, the new message's input locks up after one or a few characters. I hate this solution, especially as it reeks of the typical Windows "fix" with killing processes or rebooting. Killing the Thunderbird processes, often requiring that to be done 6-10 times often restores full functionality. Sometimes that doesn't work at all and often rebooting "fixes" it. Any direction or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim -- 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] BT Sport on openSUSE
by michael norman 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

As a BT subscriber I have activated the BTSport app. Not entirely to my surprise when I just tried to watch the first live game using Firefox it told me it won't run without Silverlight. So a question : can I get Silverlight to run on openSUSE (using 12.3 64 bit) ? Will Moonlight do this, and if so can I get it to run on Firefox or Chrome ? I have not done any research on this yet as I am shortly going out to a live football match. I thought I'd just try it to see if it works. FWIW I have it running on a W7 box at the moment and its no great shakes on there having dropped out a couple of times already, and this running BT Infinity on a well maintained quite high spec box. It is my son's gaming box and is no slouch. Any thoughts about the central issue ie can I do it with Moonlight or something else on openSUSE ? I know I could run it on Windows in a vm or get the BT tv box but I'm not that bothered to do either of those things. 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] Hard disk weirdness on an ancient laptop
by Carlos E. R. 18 Aug '13

18 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got an ancient laptop (Pentium IV, 0.5GiB) as a present from a friend (you may remember the video problem I had with it, solved). It is "running" openSUSE 12.3. The hard disk it came with was totally useless. 20GB, full of write errors. So I bought a new one for it - I was lucky to locate a new unit with parallel IDE, 2.5" size, expensive for what it is: Hitachi Travelstar HD 2.5" 80GB IDE/ATA, 37.15€ plus 21% tax. Oh, well... no alternative. Well, I had located a 20GB unit, 15€ plus shipping, private person. Too small, probably. The 80GB unit I got from a reputable dealer, that I get almost all my hardware currently. The unit came sealed in its original bag. However... Smartctl test says it is an old unit: +++···················································· AmonLanc:~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [i686-linux-3.7.10-1.1-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 Device Model: Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00 Serial Number: SB024CJGG8ZLMD LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 572c415d7 Firmware Version: SB2OA7AH User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes [80.0 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Sat Aug 17 23:02:46 2013 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ... SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 162 162 033 Pre-fail Always - 1 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 10256 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 056 056 000 Old_age Always - 19423 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 455 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 58 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 10908 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 31 (Min/Max 16/60) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19423 - # 2 Extended captive Completed without error 00% 19399 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19399 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. AmonLanc:~ # ····················································++- 19423 hours? How is that possible? And so many values at zero? If I am the victim of a fraud, surely it can not have 20Khours, right? That's too much for a laptop unit, they tend to break down earlier than 6000 hours. Maybe a refurbished disk, old chipset, new platter assembly? A bug in smartctl? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIP8/AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XFFgCfUHFLReua+6mBgz2J5xho52Ua h/sAnA7Kmoehx1lkmKHJ/KVVcUbsbtF4 =lybL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] recommendations on new system
by Damian Ivanov 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

Hi guys, I am going for a new system in a few days and I wanted to ask if some had to share experience: 1) Which one has better performance on openSUSE? AMD FX 8320 (in a lot reviews it has the best performance per Euro :) ) vs Intel CPU at same price range 2) A few years ago the question would be clear if I should go nVidia or ATI but what about now? Anybody experience with SLI/Crossfire? My gf needs to run Sims3 via wine :) which needs quite lot GPU performance and even more RAM (8G min :D) 3) What about RAM should I go for lower latency or higher MHZ? Thanks in advance :) -- 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] Odd messages about mariadb when upgrading from 12.2 to 12.3
by Per Jessen 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

I noticed the following during an upgrade (zypper dup): Installing: mariadb-5.5.32-1.4.2 ..........................[done] Additional rpm output: redirecting to systemctl stop mysql warning: /etc/my.cnf created as /etc/my.cnf.rpmnew warning: waiting to reestablish exclusive database lock warning: waiting to reestablish exclusive database lock redirecting to systemctl start mysql Job for n/a failed. See 'systemctl status n/a' and 'journalctl -n' for details. "n/a" ???? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.9°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] Slow file copying on openSUSE 12.3
by Roger Oberholtzer 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

I have done an installation of a new openSUSE 12.3 system. Amongst the odd problems I am having is slow file copying. It makes no difference what physical drives are involved. Copying an 80 MB takes 15-20 seconds. Bigger files taks correspondingly longer. It makes no difference if the copy is to the same directory or to a different partition or even a different disk. On a different 12.3 install with similar (not the same) hardware, the copy takes less than one second. Copying over the network to a computer in another city is faster... Copying to /dev/null is fast as expected. So it seems that it is the writing to a disk part that is the issue. The file systems are ext4 with the default settings used from installation. The system has these disks: [0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD1000DHTZ-0 04.0 /dev/sda [1:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD2000FYYZ-0 01.0 /dev/sdb I see this in /var/log/messages, scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD1000DHTZ-0 04.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2000FYYZ-0 01.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ACPI: Invalid Power Resource to register! sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb1 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk I do not see any complaints about the disks in the log file. To my eyes all looks as expected. Except for the slow speed. I am not sure what else to look at at this time. Anyone have any pointers? -- 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] video problem with an ancient laptop
by Carlos E. R. 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got an ancient laptop from a friend; he thinks that with only 512 MiB of RAM it is worthless ;-) It has a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz" CPU and the video is "Intel Corporation i845" from "Uniwill Computer Corp". The doc says "Intel® Extreme Graphics" The video is the problem. I tested Puppy Wary 5.2 - it works fine. It detects the video card but not the monitor, so I select from a list: 1024x768x16 h31.5-49,5v56-72. This works, fills the entire screen. I don't know if it is the maximum resolution, the documentation does not say (only that is «TFT 14” (N618) or 15” (N619-N620) XGA». The wikipedia lists XGA as "XGA 1024 768 4:3 0.786" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGA#XGA_.281024.C3.97768.29) so it seems I have it right. During installation of openSUSE from DVD went perfect - slow, but uneventful. But on reboot, the display is incorrect. It looks like this +-------------------------------------+ | . | | . | | . | | 1 . 2 | | . | | . | | . | | . | |·····································| | | | | | 3 | | | | | +-------------------------------------+ Area '3' is bright white, '2' is black. The working area is only '1'. It is the same in text mode as in graphical mode. Using "nomodeset" I get an apparent resolution of 640x480, centered with wide black border, and no white region; thus usable, but much less than what the machine is capable off. I have removed plymouth and I'm booting to text mode. The normal kernel boot parameters are; showopts splash=verbose loglevel=3 console=tty1 display=1024x768 which does not work. Without "display=" I get the same results. I have not found documentation for the display option under "/usr/src/linux/Documentation" tree, so I do not know what to try there. At the moment I use: showopts splash=verbose console=tty1 loglevel=3 plymouth.enable=0 nomodeset I have tried: modeset=0 display=1024x768 --> white region nomodeset display=1024x768 --> 640*480 nomodeset display=1024*768 --> 640*480 display=1024x768 --> white region All official updates are applied. For X, the release notes say to do: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Driver "intellegacy" EndSection This makes X not to start: [ 375.163] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module intellegacy [ 375.163] (II) UnloadModule: "intellegacy" [ 375.163] (II) Unloading intellegacy [ 375.163] (EE) Failed to load module "intellegacy" (module does not exist, 0) [ 375.163] (EE) No drivers available. :-O ! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIH8egACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UspgCeNsNiDZXs3aUGRB89f37uYU7B OkkAn3Vj7a3Ud/Hddp5P2NHvnnLkM4A+ =t+0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] after kernel upgrade - mount.nfs says "protocol not supported".
by Per Jessen 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

I am upgrading a 12.2 system to 12.3 and I decided I would start with the kernel (3.7.10-1.16). This system boots over PXE+TFTP+root-on-NFS, so I had to run mkinitrd with "-f nfs" (I don't know why mkinitrd didn't find out itself). When I try to boot with the newer kernel, I end up with mount.nfs saying "protocol not supported". The NFS server hasn't changed, it was running fine right up until I tried this kernel upgrade. I've reverted to the previous kernel (3.4.47-2.38). Any suggestions as to how to interpret "protocol not supported" ? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.8°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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Re: [opensuse] virtualbox installation Solved
by constant＠indo.net.id 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

On Thursday, August 15, 2013 08:54:27 AM Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting constant(a)indo.net.id <constant(a)indo.net.id>: > > On my 12.2 KDE box I am planning to use a virtual product and > > after findingseveral help sites on howto install e.g > > virtualbox I started> > wondering aboutthe availability of a virtualbox in Yast. > > Why should I go to the Oracle website as suggested in a howto, > > if Yast offersme an installation. Is it not complete and do > > I need> > anything > > else? > > Went to Yast and installed virtualbox with the idea that > > openSUSE would giveme a workable piece of software. But now > > I am stuck as> > I have no idea how tobegin. Where is the documentation for > > the Suse> > virtualbox? > Install virtualbox, virtualbox-qt, and DKMS. Reboot. Run > VirtualBox, note> capitalization. If you need help, click the help icon and it > will pull up> the documentation. I moved a virtual hard drive from an > Ubuntu box that> used the Oracle package to OpenSuSE box with OpenSuSE > packages. Worked> fine. > Thanks Jeffrey, In the list of additional packages for virtualbox virtualbox-qt and DKMS were not included. Installed virtualbox-qt but did not find DKMS. Does nort seem to be necessary because now virtualbox works.Thanks all. wassimpler as I thought. Small Yast mistake . ___________________________________________________________ indomail - Your everyday mail - http://indomail.indo.net.id -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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