January 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] repomd.xml unsigned?
by George Olson (SUSE list) 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I was just doing a zypper ref and I got that my KDE 4.11 repository was unsigned. Would this be related to the security breach that happened at the forums? Should I not continue with the refresh? It said: Retrieving repository 'KR411' metadata ---[/] File 'repomd.xml' from repository 'KR411' is unsigned, continue? [yes/no] (no): My repository is the following: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/411/openSUSE_12.3/ -- George Olson Box #1: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.3 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.3 | KDE 4.10 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB -- 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] Resources being sucked...
by John Bennett 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

Not sure if there is an answer to this, but.... I seem to have an issue with the amount of resources being allocated to tasks. Generally my PC runs quite well (Opensuse 13.1 x64, i5, 4 GB ram, KDE, all pretty well up to date), but doing some resource intensive tasks (copying large amounts of data, locally, ie from internal disk to usb2 external disk), basically kills the PC - Can't really be used while the task is ongoing. Any music being played becomes very choppy (off more than on), mouse moves in fits and starts across the screen etc. Basically, I walk away while it's happening. Happens with most resource hungry tasks, including file copies, running VirtualBox, any video operations (rendering, etc) Any ideas? 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] does anyone have gallery2 on 13.1 running?
by Patrick Shanahan 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

I have installed gallery2 from rpm (server_php_applications) on 13.1 and running. Trying to access to run the setup: http://<web-server>/gallery2 url changes to http://<web-server>/gallery2/install and shows 404. I used to run the zip package from menalto/gallery but want to use openSUSE packages if possible. tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- 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] Network problem
by José Guilherme Vanz 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Hi I installed the openSUSE 13.1. In my installation I always have to start the NetworkManager.service manually, why? After the NetworkManager.service inicialization I try to start the network.service, but is returned failed... the error is: Failed to start LSB: Configure network interfaces and set up rounting. What can I do? What exactly is LSB? Thank you -- 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] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving
by John King 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Opensuse 12,3 both KDE 4.12 (but also occurred with 4.11) and Gnome 3.6.2 Libreoffice 4.1.4.2 (also occured with 4.1.3) This problem does not occur in Kubuntu 13.1, Xubuntu 12.04 , or Windows XP with the same version of Libreoffice. It seems to be specific to Opensuse. If a file is created in writer or calc, but not saved and thereby given a file name, then at the end of the period set in Tools-Option-Load/Save-General for saving autorecovery information (and optionally the document itself), libreoffice saves, and then keeps on saving every 5-10 seconds, with the result that the ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/user/backup/ directory builds up a series of untitled -n.odt files. Sometimes, and in particular when both calc and writer are open with untitled files, the saving becomes so frequent that the program is unmanageable and has to be killed. I have tested this with libreoffice on opensuse 12.3 in both KDE and Gnome (separate machines) and confirmed that it happens consistently with both. However, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Windows XP do not have this problem. Can anyone else confirm this behaviour? John -- 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] 'restart' /var/log/messages (trivial question)
by Roger Oberholtzer 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

I admit this is a strange and perhaps unnecessary question, but... I have a openSUSE 10.0 server (was it openSUSE at that time) that is running fine. It has been up for over a year. A while back, the root file system filled up (ftp activity) and some log files are no longer being written to. For example, /var/log/messages. I know that I could reboot and all would be well. But this is Linux. Surely there is another way to restart activity to this file without resorting to a system restart. Any suggestions? FYI, I will be replacing this system with an oS 13.1 system as soon as I am happy that all services are working as they did in 10.0. That is a work in progress. Until then, I have a silly goal of seeing how long the system can run without a reboot. Previous reboots have been because of moving office or relocation of the machine. It just runs and runs. -- 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] PXE boot live CD?
by Christopher Myers 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

Hi everyone, I've got a PXE server set up on my server at home so that I can easily access my diagnostic utilities (memtest86, seatools, etc.) and wanted to try to get a SuSE live CD set up for PXE boot as well. I'm able to boot the installer DVD's fine, but whenever I try to serve up a live CD, it'll boot fine, but partway through it gets a kernel panic with the error "Failed to find MBR identifier!" I've tried several different versions (11.4, 12.2, 12.3, all 32-bit) of the LiveCD's, with the same result. I even tried building a KDE Live image on SuSE Studio, and that didn't work either. Googling the problem doesn't turn up anything specifically for PXE, but there are a lot of posts about having this issue when "burning" the live ISO to a USB stick. However, I didn't see any posts that had a solution. The one thing I found that looked promising was to add the flag "nombridcheck" to the kernel options, but this didn't have any affect. Has anyone got this to work successfully, or know what I could try to make it happy? Chris -- 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] optimizing resolv.conf
by Felix Miata 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

My web browsers often seem to spend a lot of time reporting "looking up host <blah>". I'd like to see less of that in 2014, and spend less time watching nothing happen in the browser's viewport. http://www.edwin.io/optimized-resolv-conf seems to make sense, but it includes no discussion of a local nameserver, such as the one typically enabled by default in an internet router, only using Google IPs. Anyone have anything to add or dispute what it says? Are those using routers better off using the one it includes? Better off avoiding? Is there any convenient way to evaluate average response times from various servers? Are there logical reasons for avoiding Google's or other high visibility servers? Are there reasons why the servers provided by the ISP subscribed to shouldn't be preferred? Can anyone explain why the default timeout is 5s and not more or less? Is it a holdover from times past when the internet was less busy, and often less speedy via dialup or ISDN instead of broadband? -- "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

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[opensuse] Why is RasPi worth more effort than older PCs? or Macs?
by Larry Stotler 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

I've always advocated reusing computers & I've been continually frustrated by the Linux community as a whole recently because they keep pushing software that takes more resources. Linux was always held up as the poster child for keeping alive older hardware, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. Then something like the underpowered Raspberry Pi comes out & people fall all over themselves to add support for it. For not much more than the cost of a RPi, I can pick up a cheap Pentium 3 laptop off eBay, which would have same as or more RAM(The RPi originally only came with 26MB, but 512MB is now standard), better expansion & have basically a whole computer that's better supported and much faster(I doubt that the armv6 core in the RPi is faster than a P3/500 at most things). As an example, my Thinkpad A30p has a 1.2Ghz P3, 1GB RAM, Radeon 7000/32MB, 320GB HD, DVD Burner. But, with a well known and well supported old graphics chip, even KDE3/TDE is barely usable & KDE4 is like molasses. Granted, the RPi does have a video chip capable of decoding x264, but a 2D desktop like KDE3/TDE should function well on pretty much any hardware. Supporting ARM is a real pain because there are so many different SoC versions, where x86 is a known and well supported standard. I'm not against supporting the RPi, I just don't understand why it, being underpowered is considered "acceptable" where older PC hardware isn't & people are told they should buy newer. Just wondering. Thanx -- 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] CIFS - where/how is /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags set?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

All, I have run into a mount.cifs issue (I'm chasing on the samba list) One question that arose is the setting of /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags. In openSuSE, the value is set to 0x7. Where/how is that set? From the kernel fs/cifs/README, I know the components are: may use packet signing 0x00001 must use packet signing 0x01001 may use NTLM (most common password hash) 0x00002 must use NTLM 0x02002 may use NTLMv2 0x00004 must use NTLMv2 0x04004 may use Kerberos security 0x00008 must use Kerberos 0x08008 may use lanman (weak) password hash 0x00010 must use lanman password hash 0x10010 may use plaintext passwords 0x00020 must use plaintext passwords 0x20020 (reserved for future packet encryption) 0x00040 Where do I look to find out how opensuse comes up with 0x7? The default is reported as 0x07007, but I get: sudo cat /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags 0x7 Maybe the anding or adding of the flags is what I'm messing up. What say the gurus? (Lars?) -- 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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