December 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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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[opensuse] Weird network issue
by Fred n Sandy 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I haven't run across this before.... I have a LAN with a few linux boxes from os10.3 to os13.1. One of the 13.1 boxes can connect to the router, configure it, etc but any attempt to get outside of the network gives me a network not found error. i.e. I can ping the router but no outside addresses. All the other boxes work just fine. The only clue is the router's LAN device session log which shows between 45 and 66 open sessions. I looked at top and ps and don't see anything going on there, dmesg wasn't any help either. This box has worked just fine until a few days ago when I thought the Tenda USB wireless had quit. I finally got around to replacing it with an Asus USB device today and noticed the problem. I then started an evening-long exercise in futility trying to get the so-called linux driver working then, in frustration, I plugged in the "bad" Tenda unit and it lit up, it made connection to the router, but I cannot ping out, just like the problem with the Asus unit. So, what happened? I don't have a clue. The Asus unit is configured as a static IP on the LAN, the Tenda is set up with DHCP. Yes, I rebooted the box. Fred -- 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] Weird network issue - solved
by Fred n Sandy 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Such a simple thing ... but not understood. The routing table had no gateway entry but the Yast configuration clearly shows the gateway. I manually entered the default gateway and all started working ok. Now I have to determine why Yast wasn't doing its job. Fred -- 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] Weird network issue
by Fred n Sandy 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Followup: When using the Asus usb wireless nic there are no open sessions in the router log. That all may be a red herring, so maybe it is nothing. -- 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] Getting smart
by Hans Witvliet 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

Any good suggestions when looking for a smartphone? My daughter use to have a Sony Experia, and communicating to her laptop only works with some awkward Windows-tool. And I heard that Samsungs are not Linux-friendly either. Most important features is being able to the a phone as a storage device, for music, photo's and so on. All other features can be found in zillions test sites, but none can tell me how 'linux-compatible' a phone is. Hans. -- 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] Tribler
by Fred n Sandy 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Anyone have any success getting tribler installed on os13.1? Their website has instructions for a debian install, like on Ubuntu but I don't know how to take it from there to my system. http://forum.tribler.org/ Thanks, Fred -- 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] Firefox displays my website incorrectly
by Bob Williams 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a website at http://brightonbelle.org/ which displays correctly on systems running Windows (various flavours), OSX, Android, and iOS, using browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox. However, the only browser that displays it correctly on this machine is Konqueror. Both Chromium and Firefox have display errors. Firefox is my default browser for everything else, so I'd like it to work in this instance as well. The website home page should display a Calendar above an Events List above a Facebook widget above a mailing list subscription box, all in the right hand column, but Firefox is just showing empty white space there. My system is KDE 4.14.3 running on openSUSE 13.2. Firefox 34.05 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 3 days 6:16, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.12 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSVrMAACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6DoQCaAnzkVikMI4wilJktVHauHthQ WFAAnR9TK/Fj9Zod6oq5ymeu3cxMDWRc =4s+n -----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] Setting default backlight level on boot
by Stanislav Baiduzhyi 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

openSUSE 13.2, KDE4, ThinkPad T540p. I've tried couple of different ways to do it, none of them produced any result. First I've tried setting udev rule. During the boot I see the brightness dropping from 100% to value I've set, but in less than a second it is restored back to 100%. Then I tried systemd-backlight@.service. I don't know if I did it correctly, I symlinked it from /usr/lib/systemd to multiuser wants in etc, renaming to systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_video.service, to force it to use my backlight device. I've tried running the command manually, looks like it saves the level properly into /var/lib/systemd, but then after reboot saved value again appears to be 100%. Maybe on reboot, when KDE session is stopped then backlight is restored back to 100% right before systemd saves it? So, what is the correct way to force default backlight brightness level for openSUSE? -- 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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