December 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] New Bugzilla
by James Knott 25 Dec '14

25 Dec '14

The openSUSE bugzilla has changed format. What I don't see is how to create a new bug report. Clicking on "New" or "File a bug" apparently doesn't do it. I'm taken to a panel where I can search, but I don't see any way to actually create a new bug report. What am I missing? -- 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] Watching netflix and/or amazon prime movies on 13.2
by Mark Hounschell 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

I'm trying to watch videos online from Amazon prime videos. The PC is running 13.2 (x64) and the video is connected to my LG TV via an HDMI port. Using the built in stuff of the TV I can watch the videos but I want to watch them through the PC instead of the TV directly. Fumbling around the TV menus with a remote is problematic for me. From what I read, this is possible. I've had no luck though. When I try to watch one, I get no error messages. It looks like it loads properly and is ready to play but nothing comes out on the TV. I realize I'm not giving much detail as to what I've tried. Really I'm just inquiring whether or not this is even possible. If anyone is actually able to do this I would really like to know. If so then I will be happy to get detailed on what I've done (wrong) in order get to some real help. From what I've read, if I can do this with Amazon, then Netflix should also work. I'm not a Netflix customer and won't be unless I can get this to work. Thanks for any pointers, links, etc... Mark -- 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] grub2 and partitioning questions
by Moby 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

I am having difficulty getting grub2 installed properly on a new system with oss 13.2. Here is the saga so far: Setup: Machine with 4 SATA disks of 500 GB each. All disks have a GPT partition table. Machine is not using EFI. Goal: Have minimum number of partitions (no separate home, var etc). Be able to fully withstand single disk failure (so swap and /boot, if separate partition, have to be protected). Use only software components (md raid). Have as much of the filesystem(s) on btrfs as possible. Attempt 1: A) Created a 4 GB md raid partition on all 4 disks, and then created md raid 5 across them. This was for swap. B) Created another md raid partition on all remaining disks, and made that raid 5 for / with btrfs. Results: Machine would not boot, could not install grub2 from rescue mode. Finally gave up and went to attempt 2. Attempt 2: A) Create a 256 MB md raid partition on all 4 disks. B) Create raid 1 md0 from /dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1. Format this as ext4 for /boot. B) Create raid 1 md1 from /dev/sdc1 + /dev/sdd1. Format this as ext4 for /boot1. This is just to keep disk layout on all 4 disks the same, and perhaps involves some dreams of later mirroring /boot to ./boot1 C) Create 2 GB md raid partition on all 4 disks and use it as raid 5 swap. This is md2. D) Create md raid partition using all remaining space on all 4 disks, and make it raid 5 btrfs for /. This is md3 Results: Machine does not boot. Attempting to install grub2 from rescue mode produces various errors (depending on device that the install is attempted on). I booted the system into rescue mode, mounted /boot and / and then chrooted to it (with appropriate binds for /proc, /dev etc). Attempts to install grub2 and results are below: Command: grub2-install --recheck /dev/sda1 Results: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. grub2-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install. Command: grub2-install --recheck /dev/sda Results: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub2-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM install. Command: grub2-install --recheck /dev/md0 Results: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. grub2-install: warning: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged.. grub2-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists. Is the setup described in attempt 1 sane? I did not think it was and went with the setup in attempt 2. I ~think~ it is sane, but I am new to btrfs and grub2. fwiw, I have multiple machines with oss131 running legacy grub with /boot, swap, and root on md raid with lvm on top and ext4 on top of that running just fine. Any help in moving forward is much appreciated. -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- 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] 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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