December 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 13.2 Net isntall
by Ruben Safir 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

when I use the net isntaller is drops into the ole familiar councel menu and it can't find any repsoitories. So I ingore everything and run the menus to the network section... and it does DHCP but it doesn't know the network repositories, and they aren't eary to find You need to enter them manually download.opensuse.org and /distribution/13.2/repo/oss or something like that. It shoud be able to aquire the repository information and give you some choices. It really leaves you hanging. Most users wouldn't even know what it is actually looking for Ruben -- 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- RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!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(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Invalid partition table
by Sandy Widianto 23 Dec '14

23 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] PostgreSQL 9.4
by Kaare Rasmussen 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi PostgreSQL 9.4 was released December 18: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4.html Any official, or semiofficial packages, anywhere? -- 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] Numlock permanently OFF in oS 13.2
by Bob Williams 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When booting into openSUSE 13.2, I now find the the number keypad is useless as Numlock defaults to Off throughout the boot/login process, inb spite of being set to On in the BIOS, YaST and KDE System Settings. It won't even respond to the NumLock On/Off switch on the keyboard. I'm aware that there is an open bug on this https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901916 /etc/sysconfig/keyboard missing in initrd but I wondered if anyone had found an effective workaround, pending the bug getting fixed? It's a PITA! 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 18:10, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.19, 0.30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSZX4gACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU7ooACeI0nYpnNKeUd/0fE61TufOn4Z 1dUAniboebI393ZtJ9Bx7lP10I3QSiBM =uvjd -----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] SuSE 13.1: Laptop: Power supply switches off after boot
by MarkusGMX 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hello, I have a very strange effect here with my Samsung R70 Laptop. I never had this with 10.3 oder 12.1. After booting the laptop when KDE gets ready, suddenly the power supply of the laptop switches off. Today it even switched off after repluging it in (beep in KDE and off it goes). What strange effect is that? Power supply is just the original one, a SADP-90FH B AD-9019S. Thx in advanve ME -- 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] gnu-ddrescue vs dlgdiag for HD "recovery"
by Felix Miata 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

One of my DVRs started behaving as though its HD had grown bad sectors. I removed it and hooked it up to 13.1. Smartctl gave it an OK in overall health, yet reported 79 UNC errors. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/hdpd-mag21601-wd3200avvs98l2b0-… After than inspection I used DFSee to clone that 320G WD HD to a Seagate 320G, which produced 1,598 sector read failures and due to read retries took about 5.25 hours. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/clone320to500.txt I tried cloning to the Seagate again but with gnu_ddrescue instead. It took about 2 fewer hours and produced about half as many errors. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/ddrlog-320-m2161-01.txt Then from the Seagate I cloned using DFSee to a 500G WD that would replace the original, and tried it in the DVR, which seemed happy enough to have it when I test played a portion of the first and last recordings saved on it. To play all recordings all the way through would take over 100 hours. I went back to 13.1 and tried smartctl once more on the old WD, and UNC errors had grown to 2427: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/smartctl-x-WD3200AVVS98L2B0.txt Next I tried DLGDIAG 5.19 on the obviously unhealthy WD. It found bad sectors, and reported the device "repaired" (free of errors) with code 0223. (no log saved) Without thinking much about it first, I next performed a second ddrescue clone to the same Seagate 320G from "repaired" WD, which averaged throughput roughly thrice last time (52095 kB/s), with only one sector error (about 90.088% up the disk). http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/ddrlog-320-m2161-02.txt On reflection, I wonder if DLGDIAG "repaired" by simply copying nulls to replacement sectors, copying whatever was recoverable from the bad sectors to the replacements, or actually recovered the data from the bad to write to the replacements. The process ended well short of how long the cloning processes took, less than 90 minutes. DLGDIAG's doc isn't entirely clear if any data can get lost during repair: "DLGDIAG's Repair Drive feature allows the user to restore any errors found during the Extended Test scan of your hard drive without destroying all data on the drive." later CYA warning to back up first. DLGDIAG got done awfully quickly compared to how long the other programs took retrying bad sectors. Before I copy that result over to the new 500G that seems OK as is, I'd like to think I'd be better off for trying. Anyone care to guess, know even? Would Foremost be of any use at this point? More details here: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/106-dvd-recorders-standard-def/1277209-hard-d… http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/Funai/ -- "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] videolan repos gone?
by Bernhard Voelker 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

zypper reports: File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium \ 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/13.2' ... not even the leading "/pub/" exists anymore. Any idea? Have a nice day, Berny -- 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] KDE does not appear to start after today's kernel update
by huw 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Hello I'm using OpenSUSE 13.2 and the KDE desktop. I am not a very technical user so apologies if this post isn't informative enough; just tell me what I missed and I'll add it. I got home today to find an update to the kernel, amongst others. After installing the update and restarting, KDE did not appear. Here are the events as I recall them: 1. Switched on PC 2. Selected the default OpenSUSE entry in GRUB (actually just let GRUB timeout as usual) 3. Saw the green wavy lines background of...KDM?...as expected 4. Suddenly dumped to tty1 and a login prompt 5. Switching to tty7 shows a log, the last entry of which said that KDE was being started, preceded by [ok] in green I couldn't seem to do anything at tty7. tty1 worked fine but obviously I didn't have KDE. I worked around it by selecting the advanced options at GRUB; the list of kernels was truncated so I didn't know what I was selecting each time, but I tried them all in succession, and only the last one got me a usable KDE desktop (which seemed odd to me because the most recent kernel before today was working fine). Here's the output of uname -a: Linux linux-riwb 3.11.10-21-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 21 15:28:46 UTC 2014 (9a9565d) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm using the proprietary nVidia driver with a GTX570 card. Besides that, the PC is a Pentium Dual Core 1.8 GHz with 4GB of RAM. I don't like the workaround of using an old kernel because I'm worried that it may drop off the selectable list with the next update and leave me with a choice of kernels that won't work - not to mention security considerations. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards, Huw -- 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] DVD authoring apps not installing on 13.2 32-bit
by brian 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Been awhile since I've done any video work on Linux, but I was expecting it to be more advanced than 5-6 years ago. Just trying to put together a simple home video DVD for Christmas Eve. I can capture the video using dvgrab. Kdenlive is great for editing and rendering the videos. But when I come to authoring the actually DVD, nothing seems to work. I can't install DVDStyler, Bombono, QDVDAuthor all because of broken dependencies. I was able to compile DVDStyler, but it still doesn't work. I'm running 13.2 and a little googling around hints that running 32-bit may be an issue, but I'm not sure. For the time being I've resorted to moving the rendered video files over to a MAC OS-X and running DVDStyler over there, but this obviously shouldn't be the case. -- 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] Merging bookmark files
by Anton Aylward 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

*sigh* I have many generations of saved and backed up bookmark files that I would like to merge, preserving structure and correspondence. I've tried some plugins for Firefox and they are unsatisfactory. They don't 'merge' the just add, so there are many duplicates in the same folders and they have to be weeded out individually, step and repeat, with the program. Too much work! I google and find many written in perl or C that claim to do a sensible merge, but I see nothing to recommend one over another. Decisions paralysis and all that. In addition, the ones I see want HTML files whereas so many of the bookmark backups seem to be as JSON files. This is a particular stumbling point. It would be nice to be able to merge in files from Konqueror and other sources as well :-) Does anyone have recommendations ... And why? Thanks. -- /"\ \ / 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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