October 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Install same packages?
by Bjoern Voigt 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Hello, on Debian/Ubuntu you can save the package list and install the same packages on an other PC or reinstall packages on a clean setup. This is helpful i.e. for reinstalling systems with backups. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReinstallingSamePackages Is there something similar in the RPM world? I already know "rpm -qa". But this is not perfect. A missing feature is, that I want to install the packages from the same repositories like on the source PC. Björn -- 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] Libre office calc insists on capitalizing some cell contents.
by Carlos E. R. 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, In Spanish the month names are written without capitalization, like "agosto" for the English "August". However, when in a LibreOffice cell I type "agosto" it is automatically replaced with "Agosto". Undo doesn't undo the capitalization. I edit it back, and it is undone. I go to autocorrect, and I add an exception: Replace With Agosto agosto Useless. In options, I untick "Capitalize first letter of every sentence". Useless. I disable "Use replacement table". Useless. What else is left? Where else does it get the order to replace what *I* write with something else? I create a new sheet. I start in a column writing: agosto enero Agosto agosto <--- here it corrects me to Agosto. It refuses to accept lowercase, till I copy paste the first cell into the 4th. agosto on subsequent cells, it forces using the same case as the previous one. Why? Now it insists on using "agosto". Where can I disable that silly, stupid behaviour? ME mandates what to write in MY documents! :-/ In order to correct this, I now have to open a second document, there in a new sheet write the text in the format I want, and copy the cell back to the intended place in the first document. This is stupid! - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQx7LIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XFtgCeMTCjEgX5g6MmKzsYr+Wc607m oEcAniB29TZm/yixTZCKOFpu/ymQZUnx =abKL -----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] Volume control
by Reynold 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

I am using openSUSE 13.2 on a 64bit machine. I have an external sound card connected by USB - SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 which is SoundBlaster. After installation of the OS I had to install alsa firmware to get the soud card to show up in YaST2-Sound which is now configurable. The problem I am having is I don't have a widget or applet to adjust the volume in the task bar. I also noticed I don't have a network connection widget or applet there either. Can someone please advise me on how to show these two widgets on the task bar. The only way I can adjust my volume is the external speakers volume button which I want to leave at one setting. And I would like to view my network connection while I am connected. Thanks in advance. Reynold DeMarco Jr. reynoldlinux(a)gmail.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] How to reclaim performance lost over gradual slowdown?
by Roger Luedecke 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

So, I've noticed how nice a new installation is. Then it gets progressively sluggish over time. Some of it is obvious such as when the programs menu has more programs in it. Other than that though, not so obvious. Do you know any techniques for cleaning up the system to regain performance closer to when it's first installed? -- 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 is bash scrambling typed user commands?
by jdebert 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Since the new install of opensuse 12.3, there are times when commands entered into xterm windows are scrambled or trashed thus: Entered: "ifdown wlan9" Echoed: "iwanolw fdn9" (sans quotes, of course.) I am absolutely certain it is not merely echoing what I entered. This occurs most often when command is entered immediately after the window receives focus and when there is a delay before the command is echoed by the shell. This also occurs in konsole and mlterm but with less frequency. It has also happened a couple times entering urls in qupzilla and firefox. Any idea what is going on here? TIA jd -- 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] old problem again: time stamps of file on sdcard vfat filesystem
by Istvan Gabor 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hello: This is an old problem but I still have no key how to solve it. I have an sdcard used in a digital camera. Photos were taken in February. I want to copy the files from there to my openSUSE 12.2 desktop computer. I also want the files to have local time stamps corresponding to the original time stamp on the vfat filesystem. For example if the picture was taken (according to creation time in the file's metainfo) at 10:30, I want 10:30 to be the file's time stamp after mounting the sdcard. Currently the file's time stamp is 09:30 if I don't use tz option for the mount command. If I use tz=UTC option the file's time stamp is 11:30. Neither of these is correct. I tried yo use other values for tz, utz=CET, tz=UTC+1 etc but they were not accepted. It is really important to have the correct time stamps, so how can I? 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] cut and past totally broken
by Hans Walter Finckh 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

do You use no firewall foe Your notebook? it would be better, to care about that! without a firewall, anyone, who has the knowledge, can take over Your pc, and You have no more to think about biving Your passwords to the programmers of SuSe! Even my t-com-box , I use here, produced by former state official T-COM , has a simple firewall . And, You can set a minimum on policies, to prevent free access to Your data, SuSe´s firewall has more finegraded functions, You block services per port & their are { since I have learned networking in the early 1990´s } a whole bunch of ports more, which can be used to transfer ~ 1050 types o f protocols, to be used to transfer data to & from Your ASUS notebook. You should improve Your knowledge in Internet & Network Security, Ruben, after that, You will ask, how good Your Mint Firewall will protect You from external access & not rely on "linux" as a whole..., vulnerabilities in os are as a minefield, you never know, if the next is expolding behind, right, left or above You...:-D in every case, have a nice day in Brooklyn . Hans On 08.10.2014 10:04, Ruben Safir wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 12:21:48AM +0200, Hans Walter Finckh wrote: >> Hi Ruben, >> >> I have tested Mint too, but was definively not amsued, that, when >> everything was running so fine as You described it, the firewall was >> steady open & not closed, once , after the 1rst boot, but after >> every new start of my systen, too. >> > What makes you think a firewall is on or off is Linux and why do you > need a firewall for a laptop? > > this is the beginning or the problem. > > Ruben > > >> I use a HP 625 notebook, similar too You and had a bunch of problems >> with Open Suse 13.1, e.g. , root rigths have been steadily demanded >> for adapting the brightness level, after having clicked at one of >> the links in this tiny little field, a complete structure of my >> internal data appered on a localy hosted firefox site, I really >> thought, " ...do You all wonna kid me here.." and have now, for a >> certain time, a win xp running, as an emergency system,despite, >> mickysofts narratives, xp has expired and all this nonsense, they >> have even told us, when I had my 6 month mscse training at DITEC >> system house in Donaueschingen, Black Forest in germany. They indeed >> wanted us to set our name under a script, which said, that we never >> will say something negative against mickysoft. At that time, I was >> in deed a real greenhorn in networking after having passed all the 6 >> exams and Oracle Database basic lessons with ~ 890 of 1000 . >> >> But, what i have found out is, that someone has achieved to crack >> my bios pw, after 4 years a not very honourable achievement, but, I >> have already contacted HP support and they sent me a procedure, to >> set it back. After that, I will try again, to help Open Suse cause, >> I hope, You are not right in saying, the system has to be given to >> the programmers, if You are right and I will have the same struggle, >> I will make up my mind very well and ..... go garden working in >> summer and have look for a wood house in the Scotish Mountains or on >> the Isle of Man in spring , autumn or winter and will only check my >> mails from time to time, .... >> >> You are right, I may can never do this,wishing You good luck with >> Your Mint Installation >> >> Best of my Regards >> >> Hans >> On 07.10.2014 23:18, Ruben Safir wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:27:51AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: >>>>>> It is not an upgrade. It is a fresh installation on ASUS new laptop >>>>> So a vanilla 13.1 installation without updates? You ought to report it >>>>> and see what happens. >>>>> >>> So - I downloaded the latest Mint Distro and it installed relatively >>> painlessly on my new laptop, with everything not only seemly working, >>> but I was happy to see that I could configure the mouse and touchpad so >>> that it is actually usable. Cut and Paste works. Networking and >>> wireless works. The monitor and screen function perfectly. It just >>> WORKS. >>> >>> After all these years of using SuSE variants, honestly I just don't know >>> where you guys made the wrong turn but I know it has to do with two >>> things: >>> >>> A: Egos - it is just imposible to talk with anyone in the opensuse >>> project any longer, let alone work with them >>> >>> B: Do all - do everything projects that go way past being useful >>> >>> C: Software that is too controlling >>> >>> There has to be some deep seated soul searching at the SuSE labs. The >>> software is abomable >>> >>> >>>> There are so many problems with the new distro that I've decided I have >>>> no choice but to change it. The keychain for doing the wireless is the >>>> final straw. I don't want my passwords stored in the software. That is >>>> why they are password, so that the stupid human needs remember them and >>>> have control, not the 'system'. Its not a computer system any longer. >>>> Its become an invasion of my computer, just like Microsoft. I refuse to >>>> give up control of my computer to the programers .... >>>> So now I'm downloading Mint, Slackware and I'll look around. >>>> >>>> Suse has painted itself into a corner. Not only does the software not >>>> work, but it has become intrussive. >>>> >>>> >>>> Ruben >>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Per Jessen, Zürich (14.1°C) >>>>> http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail:opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org >>>>> To contact the owner, e-mail:opensuse+owner@opensuse.org >>>> -- >>>> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town >>>> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological >>>> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 >>>> http://www.mrbrklyn.com >>>> >>>> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 >>>> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software >>>> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive >>>> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! >>>> http://www.brooklyn-living.com >>>> >>>> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, >>>> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail:opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org >>>> To contact the owner, e-mail:opensuse+owner@opensuse.org >> begin:vcard >> fn:Hans Walter Finckh >> n:Finckh;Hans Walter >> org:andromdehelpline IT - / EDV - Beratung & Dienstleistungen;Datacenter Migration >> adr;quoted-printable:;;Talstra=C3=9Fe 2;Jettingen;Baden-Wuerttemberg;71131;German >> email;internet:MEhw84@gmx.de >> title:Storage Specialist >> tel;work:+49 7452 88 959 14 >> tel;fax:+49 7452 88 959 15 >> tel;home:+49 7452 88 959 14 >> tel;cell:+49 151 75 100 896 >> x-mozilla-html:TRUE >> url:http://www.andromedahelpline.beepworld.de >> version:2.1 >> end:vcard >>

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[opensuse] Missing Mime handler for application/x-gzip
by Lance Drager 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Hi guys, I'm trying to play a flash video ( .flv), but none of the players in opensuse work. Some complain that they are looking for the decoder for "application/x-gzip" This ought to be easy to provide, but I'm not sure what they want for a program to handle this. Any thoughts on getting this to work? Thanks. Lance Drager

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[opensuse] Re: XFS filesystem total failure on return from hibernation.
by Linda Walsh 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Carlos E. R. wrote: > And finally, there is a patch: > 8018ec0 xfs: mark all internal workqueues as freezable > > I have reported now on our Bugzilla, against 13.1: > <https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899785> > > Requesting that the patch be backported to all openSUSE releases. This > bug can badly impact 13.2 and the new SLES 12, as by default they use > XFS for home. ---- Without question, I can't see this NOT being a requirement for 13.2. The iffy bits apply to earlier versions... **especially** recently 'browning' Evergreen platforms. I really don't get a strong impression that the majority of customers (esp. larger ones) have switched to 13.1 yet... -- 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] php extension build config
by Per Jessen 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

I'm trying to move some php code from an opensuse 11.1 system to a 13.1 ditto, and I need to rebuild the mailparse extension. This normally entails downloading the extension, running phpize, configure then make. On the older system I have php 5.2, on the newer 5.4 - the build options are quite different: php 5.2: # php-config --configure-options --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/php5 --mandir=/usr/share/man --bindir=/usr/bin --with-libdir=lib --includedir=/usr/include --sysconfdir=/etc/php5/cli --with-config-file-path=/etc/php5/cli --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php5/conf.d --enable-libxml --enable-session --with-mm --with-pcre-regex=/usr --enable-xml --enable-simplexml --enable-spl --enable-filter --disable-debug --enable-inline-optimization --disable-rpath --disable-static --enable-shared --program-suffix=5 --with-pic --with-gnu-ld --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo --enable-cli --with-pear=/usr/share/php5/PEAR --enable-bcmath=shared --enable-calendar=shared --enable-ctype=shared --enable-dbase=shared --enable-dom=shared --enable-exif=shared --enable-ftp=shared --enable-mbstring=shared --enable-mbregex --enable-pcntl=shared --enable-posix=shared --enable-shmop=shared --enable-soap=shared --enable-sockets=shared --enable-sysvmsg=shared --enable-sysvsem=shared --enable-sysvshm=shared --enable-tokenizer=shared --enable-wddx=shared --with-zlib=shared --with-bz2=shared --with-curl=shared --with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-xpm-dir=/usr --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-t1lib=/usr --with-gettext=shared --with-gmp=shared --enable-hash=shared --with-iconv=shared --with-imap=shared --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl --enable-json=shared --with-ldap=shared --with-ldap-sasl=/usr --with-libedit=shared,/usr --with-mcrypt=shared --with-mysql=shared,/usr --with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --with-mysqli=shared --with-ncurses=shared --with-unixODBC=shared,/usr --with-openssl=shared --with-pgsql=shared,/usr --with-pspell=shared --with-snmp=shared --with-xmlrpc=shared --enable-xmlreader=shared --enable-xmlwriter=shared --with-xsl=shared --with-tidy=shared,/usr --enable-dba=shared --with-db4=/usr --without-gdbm --with-cdb --with-inifile --with-flatfile --enable-pdo=shared --with-pdo_sqlite=shared,/usr --with-pdo-mysql=shared,/usr --with-pdo-pgsql=shared,/usr --with-pdo-odbc=shared,unixODBC,/usr --with-sqlite=shared,/usr --enable-sqlite-utf8 --enable-zip=shared --enable-suhosin=shared --disable-cgi php 5.4: php-config --configure-options --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/php5 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-libdir=lib --includedir=/usr/include --sysconfdir=/etc/php5/fpm --with-config-file-path=/etc/php5/fpm --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php5/conf.d --enable-libxml --enable-session --with-pcre-regex=/usr --enable-xml --enable-simplexml --enable-spl --enable-filter --disable-debug --enable-inline-optimization --disable-rpath --disable-static --enable-shared --with-pic --with-gnu-ld --enable-re2c-cgoto --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo --enable-hash --with-mhash --enable-fpm --bindir=/usr/bin --disable-cli --disable-all When I try to build mailparse, compilation complains that mbstring is missing, apparently because /usr/include/php5/main/php_config.h does not define HAVE_MBSTRING. I am assuming php_config.h is created by the initial php build config, so with the option string above - questions: - why does php 5.4 not need all the various extension options? - how should I be compiling mailparse? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (13.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, 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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