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[opensuse] Invalid partition table
by Sandy Widianto 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

Win XP dualboot openSUSE, I tried to reinstall Win XP but I couldn't continue it because after reboot I got Invalid partition table. Should I reformat again all entire hard drive space? --- Sandy Widianto -- 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] mc in 13.2: no "shell link"
by Carlos E. R. 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in 13.1, the file menu in 'mc' (midnight commander) has this appearance: Left File Command Optio ┌───────────────────────┐──────.[^]>┐ │ File listing │ │S│Modify │ │ Quick view C-x q│ │R│1 17:20│ │ Info C-x i│e│K│9 13:19│ │ Tree │e│K│8 2006│ ├───────────────────────┤e│K│6 2007│ │ Listing mode... │r│K│9 2012│ │ Sort order... │t│K│8 2006│ │ Filter... │e│K│1 2010│ │ Encoding... M-e │e│K│2 2012│ ├───────────────────────┤r│K│8 2006│ │ FTP link... │l│K│8 2006│ │ Shell link... │a│K│4 2007│ <=== │ SFTP link... │t│K│3 2006│ │ SMB link... │a│K│1 2013│ │ Panelize │x│K│1 21:56│ ├───────────────────────┤a│K│3 2014│ │ Rescan C-r │t│K│3 2006│ └───────────────────────┘e│K│2 2011│ │/.bi~nt│K│ 2006││/.bi~nt│K│3 2006│ │/.bl~sh│K│ 2006││/.bl~sh│K│8 2006│ while in 13.2 it has this other appearance: Left File Command Options Right ┌───────────────────────┐ ~ ──────────.[^]>┐ │ File listing │Name │Si│Modify t│ │ Quick view C-x q│. │IR│23 12:45│ │ Info C-x i│cache │~B│ 9 22:34│ │ Tree │config│~B│ 9 20:39│ ├───────────────────────┤dbus │25│23 12:50│ │ Listing mode... │fonts │ 6│23 12:45│ │ Sort order... │gk~lm2│87│ 9 20:49│ │ Filter... │gs~.10│33│23 12:50│ │ Encoding... M-e │local │19│23 12:50│ ├───────────────────────┤mo~lla│39│ 9 20:39│ │ FTP link... │ssh │25│ 9 18:03│ │ SFTP link... │esktop│ 6│23 12:50│ │ SMB link... │oc~nts│19│30 02:43│ │ Panelize │ow~ads│ 6│23 12:50│ ├───────────────────────┤usic │ 6│23 12:50│ │ Rescan C-r │ic~res│ 6│23 12:50│ └───────────────────────┘ublic │ 6│23 12:50│ │/Tem~tes│ 6│23 12:50││/Tem~tes│ 6│23 12:50│ │/Videos │~B│ 9 20:12││/Videos │~B│ 9 20:12│ Notice that the "Shell link..." entry is missing. Why? It is a fresh install with all "patch" updates, running under vmplayer, for testing. ssh on the same terminal works. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSHcfgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WgHgCfdv1elEDWnZaGQsT15v3MdlKg qXMAn1+8FV3OPlLWnuAyGp5W+g7mFXg9 =K9Gy -----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] is there a bug here?
by jdd 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

in /etc/crontab, I read: # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1 I'm not good enough to understand what mean the end of the line: >/dev/null 2>&1 but my logs are full of déc. 07 18:15:01 linux-uegt CRON[6561]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root déc. 07 18:30:01 linux-uegt CRON[6776]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root déc. 07 18:45:01 linux-uegt CRON[7053]: pam_unix(crond:session): session closed for user root every 15 minutes that don't seems very usefull and that seems to come from the cron in question it's the first time I see this in the logs and the run-crons are very old files, so what? thanks jdd -- 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] iPod Automount
by Paul Groves 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

I have a 1st gen ipod shuffle which I have not used since 12.2 When I plug it in to my computer running 13.2 it does not automount or show up in device notifier so I cannot use dolphin or amarok with it. This uses to work in 12.2 and it still works fine on Ubuntu ad Windows 7 (on virtualbox on the 13.2 host and also a physical machine) but not opensuse 13.2 When manually mounting from YaST partitioner it freezes at 50% saying Preparing disks... Output from lsusb (I won't list lots of devices but as you can see the ipod is seen): Bus 001 Device 012: ID 05ac:1300 Apple, Inc. iPod Shuffle This is the output from dmesg when plugging it in (I have blanked the serial number): [23353.348615] usb 1-1.6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci [23353.435590] usb 1-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1300 [23353.435592] usb 1-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [23353.435593] usb 1-1.6: Product: iPod [23353.435594] usb 1-1.6: Manufacturer: Apple [23353.435595] usb 1-1.6: SerialNumber: **************** [23353.436263] usb-storage 1-1.6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [23353.436392] scsi13 : usb-storage 1-1.6:1.0 -- 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] [Phoronix] New 64-bit Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Disclosed This Week
by Anton Aylward 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NzY <quote> With CVE-2014-9322 that's now public, there's a local privilege escalation issue affecting all kernel versions prior to Linux 3.17.5. CVE-2014-9322 is described as "privilege escalation due to incorrect handling of a #SS fault caused by an IRET instruction. In particular, if IRET executes on a writeable kernel stack (this was always the case before 3.16 and is sometimes the case on 3.16 and newer), the assembly function general_protection will execute with the user's gsbase and the kernel's gsbase swapped. This is likely to be easy to exploit for privilege escalation, except on systems with SMAP or UDEREF. On those systems, assuming that the mitigation works correctly, the impact of this bug may be limited to massive memory corruption and an eventual crash or reboot." </quote> Drat that "writeable stack"! Currently running 3.18.0-1.gfc82a91-desktop Repository: kernel_Stable Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/Kernel What are you running? -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- 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] linux popularity
by jdd 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Hello, Surfing a very good web site about digital photo, I found statistics that interested me and could interest you. Given the site subject, one can think the site visitors are mostly technically oriented. I have no connection to this web site. http://www.clarkvision.com the statistics are: Share of operating systems accessing this site: December December December December December 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Windows 86.8 83.1 % 74.3 % 65.1 % 46.7 % Linux 1.8 2.5 6.2 5.1 3.1 Android (Linux) 0.1 0.7 1.2 3.7 15.2 Mac (Unix) 11.0 11.8 12.9 12.6 13.6 Ipad (Unix) 0.0 0.9 3.9 10.2 7.9 Iphone (Unix) 0.3 1.0 1.4 3.3 13.5 I notice a grow of linux systems till 2011 followed by a decrease in favor of Android (kind of linux?). This shows than surfing is very often nowadays done from mobile device (android+ipd+iphone=36.6%) Windows become minority in favor of unix systems (as Mac is unix) but what have to warn us is that linux is 3.1% and what can be in this openSUSE? probably less than 1% I wonder of two things: * what exactly is a linux system (Mac, Android are they Linux even in some respect?) * is such market share livable, specially when we see it's lowering. Can we challenge Android on portable devices? Nptice mac continue growing, may be because the Apple ecosystem thanks jdd -- 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] NetworkManager tries to find wired without a reason
by Stanislav Baiduzhyi 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

openSUSE 13.2, KDE4, ThinkPad T540p. In NetworkManager I have one wired connection for office and one wireless connection for home. I'm sitting at home, connected through wireless, and every time after the login NM icon changes to wired, whem I'm looking at it - it looks the same as it was expecting DHCP response from wired, and wired connection has status "Connecting". I'm usually clicking "Disconnect" to silence it, but I wonder why that even happens?... There is an extremely convenient checkbox to enable/disable wifi, it would be really nice to have the same checkbox for wired, to make sure it will not try to connect when I do not want to. -- Regards, Stas -- 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] Desktop effects stopped working since nvidia driver upgrade
by Bob Williams 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am running KDE 4.14.3 on openSUSE 13.2. My graphics card is nVidia GeForce 9600 GT driving twin monitors. Yesterday I upgraded the nvidia graphics drivers from 340.58 to 340.65, following which the KDE Desktop Effects stopped working. I have 8 desktops, which used to rotate beautifully around the desktop cube :-( sudo zypper lr [...] 3 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse|nVidia Graphics Drivers | Yes | Yes [...] I should get the drivers from the download.nvidia.com-opensuse repository, but following the upgrade, YaST tells me that the 340.65 drivers that are installed came from build.suse.de/home:michal-m Two questions: How did YaST decide to switch to a repository that I am not subscribed to? How do I revert to the 340.58 drivers (preferably from the nvidia repository)? Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.16.6-2-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.14.3 Uptime: 06:00am up 6:16, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSSiW8ACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU7BwgCeM37Dn5MMFdly0ECRxyq+mSkq fFIAoKCQei/PzB9nDL5RUGWXMQ8GIpGf =kbqQ -----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] Last nVidia drivers have different publisher
by Andrei Borzenkov 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Note that latest nVidia update was built by other user and unfortunately RPMs have different publisher. So they are not considered as update by standard tools. You would need to force install them (or use dup). https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910759 -- 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] YaST partitioned does not allow to encrypt BTRFS
by Stanislav Baiduzhyi 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

I would like to reformat my /home to btrfs, and I need it encrypted. But YaST disables the checkbox as soon as Btrfs is selected. Is there some particular reason for that? -- Regards, Stas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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