January 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] opensuse 13.1 annoying limitations
by Marco Calistri 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

As per the subject, IMHO this is the list: 1) BLUETOOTH doesn't works completely 2) Power Management "sucks" with laptops 3) Totem warnings the user to download plug-ins which are not necessary or which cannot get downloaded and installed I consider all the above as limitations in a modern O.S. Sorry for my commentary! Regards, -- WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL: Firings will continue until morale improves. -- 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 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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Re: [opensuse] systemd vs cups
by Ruediger Meier 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

On Tuesday 08 October 2013, Hans Witvliet wrote: > # lsof -i -n -P |grep 631 > systemd 1 root 36u IPv6 6063 0t0 TCP *:631 > (LISTEN) systemd 1 root 38u IPv4 6064 0t0 UDP > *:631 cupsd 363 root 4u IPv6 6063 0t0 TCP *:631 > (LISTEN) cupsd 363 root 5u IPv4 6064 0t0 UDP > *:631 cupsd 363 root 10u IPv4 8580 0t0 TCP > 127.0.0.1:631 So this is probaly systemd's start on demand feature. It listens on port 631 and starts cupsd if there is incomming traffic. cu, Rudi N��r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛��m�)z{.��+�:�{Zr�az�'z��j)h��Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��

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[opensuse] 13.1 on ThinkPad X60s
by Thorolf Godawa 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

Hi everybody, I'm trying to install openSUSE 13.1 on a ThinkPad X60s (CoreDuo, Intel 950 graphics, Intel 3945ABG wifi, SanDisk 128GB SSD). The installation goes through mostly fine, all hardware is detected correctly but I'm not able to establish a wifi-connection (shows SSIDs fo available APs, but does not get an IP), so I went for cable to finish the installation including all updates. On next reboot, it takes quite long (>60s) to go over the Grub showing the boot menu and the system is not booting into runlevel 5 at all, last message seen is "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2". I can change to an other console, after connecting a cable I have working network and I can start XFCE4 manually from there. I can get over the "Started SuSEfirewall2 phase 2" if I switch the network from NetworkManager to ipup, but then I'm not able to get a Wifi connection anymore (only SSIDs viewable, but no IP-connection). Finally the system shutdown takes too long it shows "Started Show Plymouth Power Off Screen" (after pressing ESC) for about 90s and then shuts down very fast. Any ideas for this? I'm using 13.1, because it should be a "evergreen" version, while I was a SuSE user for long time, I stopped using it some time ago, because I was not willing to do frequent distribution upgrades, so "evergreen" seems to be a good option for me. -- kind regards, Thorolf -- 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] opensuse12.3 - cannot make ext drive available to all users
by John King 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives. Our office desktop is used by several people during the day; each user has her/his own account, and users switch between them with the usual ctrl+alt+Fn combination. Most of our data is stored on an external drive. The first user plugs it in, and the last user of the day ejects it and stores it away securely. At least, that's what used to happen with opensuse 12.2. Since moving to 12.3, we find we can't do that. The first user has sole use of the drive in /var/run/media/<username1>, and other users have no access, which means they cannot access or update our data. Is there any (fairly straightforward) way we can restore the previous behaviour, and allow multiple users to access the external drive? 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] What IS wrong with multimedia in 13.1?!
by Basil Chupin 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

What IS wrong with VLC and k3b in 13.1? I cannot play Blu-ray files using VLC in 13.1 even though I have (as far as I know) all the necessary files installed - yet I can play the same Bd discs (or rather open the Directory-ies or execute individual m2ts files) in openSUsE 12.3. I cannot do a copy of, eg, a CD using k3b - keeps coming up with an error of not being able to open the disc - in 13.1 while k3b in 12.3 happily and without any drama makes a copy of any CD I "throw" at it! 12.3 = OK. 13.1 = crap. Why? I have another thread here which I started days ago, Subject "13.1 + vlc + Blu-ray", but now k3b is involved so I thought it best to start a new thread. MOST frustrating re above simply because both work as expected in 12.3 but suddenly 13.1 goes belly-up re these 2 applications. Anybody suggest, please, steps to take to resolve this situation? BC PS To see what I am using as a system look at my Signature line(s) but for those whose mail clients are unable to handle Signatures then mine is: Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.12.0 & kernel 3.12.5-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.12.0 & kernel 3.12.5-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- 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] need help for old distro
by Bob Rea 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I am running oS 11.0 on this box. Why not update? Don't ask. Bad news. At any rate looking for any repos that might have old stuff that I could use. packman especially I have all the suse ones and the suse ones at gwde what others are there? -- Bob Rea http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery One good thing the NSA has done: shown us that may paranoid schizophrenics were sane, just confused about who was watching them. -- 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] can't shutdown my 13.1 system?
by Greg Freemyer 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

# shutdown Failed to tald to shutdownd, proceeding with immediate shutdown: Connection refused Failed to open /dev/initctl: No such device or address Failed to talk to init daemon # I haven't tried the power switch yet. I prefer not to. I can troubleshoot this for a day or two before I need to get that desperate. == background My 13.1 based laptop has decided to act up. I don't recall apply "zypper patch" recently, but I might have. Anyway 2 major issues: 1) wireless lan is not connecting. My first attempt at a fix was to reboot. 2) Reboot failed I'm now at the command prompt (X is gone). Startx works, but I just shut it back down so I can focus on the real issue. Any suggestions welcome Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- 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] grub 2 core.img
by Joe Zien 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

I installed suse 13.1 on a ThinkPad T60 and it is working fine. Suse wiped out my legacy grub in the MBR and installed grub 2, which I don't like. My grub legacy uses menu.lst to boot any distro, grub 2 uses core.img to boot distros. Where is core.img? How can I boot Suse using legacy grub? jozien -- 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] yast2 disk - Client call failed with key not found: :CT_UNKNOWN
by Michael Hamilton 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

I recently upgraded to 13.1 from 12.3. On both yast2 disk is failing to start. After answering yes to the standard warning popup dialog, yast2 disk terminates. If I run yast2 disk from the command line I see the following messages: Unknown config. Invalid snapshot ''. The first message is general and occurs whenever I start any yast2 module, but doesn't seem to be causing any issues. The second message occurs when yast2 disk terminates. This machine is anything but a fresh install, and has been upgraded through several releases and has also had a change in hostname. Looking in /var/log/messages/YaST2/y2log I can see: 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [libstorage] Storage.cc(equalBackupStates):7514 lhs:expert-partitioner rhs: verbose:true 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [libstorage] Storage.cc(equalBackupStates):7564 ret:true 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [libstorage] Storage.cc(createBackupState):7448 comp:true 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <3> kosmos1(9914) [Ruby] yast/wfm.rb:86 Client call failed with key not found: :CT_UNKNOWN and backtrace ["/usr/share/YaST2/modules/StorageFields.rb:70:in `fetch'", "/usr/share/YaST2/modules/StorageFields.rb:70:in `block in IterateTargetMap'", "/usr/share/YaST2/modules/StorageFields.rb:69:in `sort!'", "/usr/share/YaST2/modules/StorageFields.rb:69:in `IterateTargetMap'", "/usr/share/YaST2/include/partitioning/ep-main.rb:363:in `MakeNavigationTree'", "/usr/share/YaST2/include/partitioning/ep-main.rb:664:in `ExpertPartitioner'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_custom_part.rb:37:in `main'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_custom_part.rb:42:in `<top (required)>'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `eval'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `run_client'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin_wrapper'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:71:in `CallFunction'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_disk.rb:84:in `main'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_disk.rb:105:in `<top (required)>'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `eval'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `run_client'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin_wrapper'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:71:in `CallFunction'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/disk_worker.rb:88:in `DiskSequence'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/fun_ref.rb:33:in `call'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/fun_ref.rb:33:in `call'", "/usr/share/YaST2/modules/CommandLine.rb:1590:in `Run'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/disk_worker.rb:80:in `main'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/disk_worker.rb:158:in `<top (required)>'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `eval'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `run_client'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:77:in `call_builtin_wrapper'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:67:in `call'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/disk.rb:85:in `main'", "/usr/share/YaST2/clients/disk.rb:103:in `<top (required)>'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `eval'", "/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/yast/wfm.rb:84:in `run_client'"] 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [Interpreter] clients/inst_disk.rb:84 Called YaST client returned. 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <2> kosmos1(9914) [Ruby] yast/convert.rb:54 Cannot convert FalseClass from 'any' to 'symbol' 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [Ruby] clients/inst_disk.rb:99 end inst_disk ret:nil 2014-01-08 09:39:24 <1> kosmos1(9914) [Interpreter] clients/disk_worker.rb:88 Called YaST client returned. 2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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