February 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Nvidia update changes dual-monitor login setup
by Dylan 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi All, This morning, I updated to the new nvidia module (331.49) from the repo. I have a dual monitor setup and until now the graphical log in screen has displayed on my main monitor. After rebooting with the new module, the login is now displayed on the secondary monitor. This is unfortunate because (A) the secondary monitor is in portrait orientation, meaning the login dialog is displayed sideways; and (B) the secondary monitor is only switched on when I want/need to use it. How do I control which screen the login dialog is displayed on? The main monitor (screen 0) is connected via DVI and the secondary (screen 1) is connected via VGA. Cheers Dylan -- 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 this a job for ddrescue?
by Felix Miata 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

I seem to have a failing STB HD, a "refurb" Samsung HD155UI relabeled as Seagate ST1500DL004 Barracuda Green, bought 11 months ago. Log from latest rsync retry: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211d.txt I didn't know in advance of any problem, but started out making a backup to freshly formatted and partitioned newer HD. Yesterday I mistakenly made the target partition too small and it filled up before completing. In that process only one file, the smallest of the three now failing, failed to copy. For it I had no log made. After repartitioning/reformatting I redid the rsync, and found 3 instead of 1 failed file, 7.7 hours later. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211b.txt I retried after a couple of hours idle time with no apparent difference. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Hardware/Disk/rsync0211c.txt Latest try I did after shutdown and putting the failing HD in front of a fan long enough to bring it thoroughly down to room temperature. I now have it in a plastic baggie in the freezer. What should I try next? Another rsync right after removing HD from freezer? Ddrescue right after removing from freezer? Ddrescue after letting HD return to room temp? Anyone here familiar with ddrescue know what I should expect of it? Suggestions? -- "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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Re: [opensuse] hexadecimal boxes on webpages
by Vojtěch Zeisek 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hello Dne 26.2.2014 05:33, Timothy Butterworth napsal(a): > Please provide a more detailed example. A URL with a screen shot example > would be the most effective. Also include the Browser version information > as well. > > I have experienced similar irritations with SVG images not rendering and > instead Chrome wanting to either display the source code or have me > download the image as a file. > > I used to see something similar to what you are referring to and the issue > I was having at the time was lack of fonts for foreign characters. > Installing additional fonts corrected the problem. I would get sometimes a > bunch of small square boxes intermingled with text. > > Thanks > > Thank you > > *Mr.* *Timothy M. Butterworth * [...] >> I sometimes had similar problem when using an ad blocking SW - the browser >> wasn't then able to correctly parse some parts of the source code of the >> web page... >> V. I'm sorry, I don't have any example right at hand. I was lazy to debug it more... I use mostly Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript. Good luck, V. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/cs

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[opensuse] scan qr codes
by lynn 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hi Do we have anything so that I can stick a code in font of the camera on my laptop and it works like Android? Thanks, L x -- 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] remote and diskless install - mkinitrd
by Paul Neuwirth 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

thanks for reply, you're right, my problem therewith is, that after installation of packages yast reboots the system (i am not sitting all the time im front...). How to avoid this, so that i can run mkinitrd manually. better of cause would be, if yast would call mkinitrd correctly. On Feb 26 2014 09:04, Per Jessen wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:04:47 +0100 > From: Per Jessen <per(a)computer.org> > To: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Subject: Re: [opensuse] remote and diskless install - mkinitrd > > Paul Neuwirth wrote: > >> Hallo, >> I am going to install openSUSE 13.1 on several computers, remote and >> diskless. >> therefore I set up dhcpd/PXE/atftp. Everything works fine, for Install >> i use SSH. root will be mounted using nfsroot. >> Install works fine, but the automatic build initrd lacks support for >> network and nfs. > > Yes, you need to enable this manually with the '-f' option. I think I > have already opened a bugreport on that a while back. > > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (5.6°C) > http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, 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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[opensuse] remote and diskless install - mkinitrd
by Paul Neuwirth 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hallo, I am going to install openSUSE 13.1 on several computers, remote and diskless. therefore I set up dhcpd/PXE/atftp. Everything works fine, for Install i use SSH. root will be mounted using nfsroot. Install works fine, but the automatic build initrd lacks support for network and nfs. possibility 1: How do I avoid automatic reboot after setup to call mkinitrd manually better - no need to run mkinitrd manually after each kjernelupdate: how to tell opensuse (install) or later yast/sysconfig to call mkinitrd with these instructions (-D eth0 -d X.X.X.X:/share --with=nfs --with=network). Thanks for any hints. some info: cat var/log/YaST2/y2logmkinitrd Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.10-7-pae Initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.11.10-7-pae KMS drivers: i915 /lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 283: /etc/fstab: No such file or directory /lib/mkinitrd/setup/11-storage.sh: line 262: /tmp/.acyed1N3/pipe: No such file or directory Microcode: Adding Intel microcode 06-0f-02 modprobe: Module tmpfs not found. WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'tmpfs' found. Kernel Modules: thermal_sys thermal processor fan scsi_dh scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc video button i2c-algo-bit drm drm_kms_helper i915 usb-common usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd xhci-hcd usbhid hid-logitech-dj hid-generic hid-holtek-kbd hid-lenovo-tpkbd hid-ortek hid-roccat hid-roccat-common hid-roccat-arvo hid-roccat-isku hid-samsung ehci-pci ohci-pci **************************** * WARNING * No fsck for your rootfs * could be found. * This might be bad! * Please install: fsck.tmpfs **************************** Features: acpi intel_microcode kms usb -server side: /srv/tftp/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/defaut label linux menu label i386 Linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd nosplash textonly showopts console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=172.18.0.1:/exports/delta ip=dhcp label install menu label Install i386 Linux kernel setup_linux append initrd=setup_initrd nosplash textonly showopts install=http://172.18.0.1/opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/ console=ttyS0,115200 usessh=1 sshpassword="12345678" -- 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] hexadecimal boxes on webpages
by Peter 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Right. This is annoying me, I have to get an instant answer! Can somebody tell me why I get these symbols in all sorts of places on the Internet (Twitter, random web pages, etc.)? দইসাবু This may not seem like a particularly openSUSE-related question, but the reason I ask on this newsgroup is because it would seem that for many other computer users these symbols are replaced by meaningful characters, but on all my openSUSE installations I see these nonsensical symbols regularly. The thing is, it's possible that some of you won't know what I'm talking about if your own system interprets them correctly and shows the actual characters above, so for your benefit, I'm referring to little boxes the full height and width of a text character (or bigger), containing four hexadecimal figures. Like: ---- |04| |A6| ---- From their placement on Twitter I assume it's often emoticons or obscure symbols available in some Windows font I don't have that I should be seeing, maybe Wingdings or something like that. What is it about openSUSE / Linux / Firefox or whatever else that results in me seeing these hexadecimal boxes instead of the correct characters? I use UTF-8 system-wide. For a long while I genuinely thought it was some geeky meme that required people in the know to reference some list! Until I started seeing them in far too regular places, like on Wikipedia articles. Peter -- 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] bash and passwords security
by Dsant 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

I would like to write a bash script, to manage some passwords (cat /dev/urandom, grep, awk...) What advises would you give, so that theses passwords can not be seen by others during the script execution ? * should I use files ? (easy : chmod 600 ) * use variables, is it safe ? * Is there a risk they could be visible in bash history ? * some others good practices ? -- (o_ //\ Dsant, from Lyon, France V_/_ forum(a)votreservice.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] CryoPID ?
by MarkusGMX 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hello, I have been looking for something like CryoPID: Freeze and Unfreeze processes in Linux [ http://www.linuxscrew.com/2007/10/17/cryopid-freeze-and-unfreeze-processes-… ] but the original site at http://cryopid.berlios.de/ seems to be out of order. Does anybody know if there is a newer version for kernel 3.1.10, 64Bit or any similar tool? I just need to put the state of a process into some file so that I can shutdown the machine and resume, where I stopped after boot again. I know that this is not an easy thing. Thanks in advance 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] Trying to push up oS 13.1 onto Lenovo G505
by Oszkó Albert 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

Hi all, I decided to spend this dark rainy weekend with setting up oS 13.1 with KDE on the above brand new laptop. Well, minor succes. In more detail, no success. First I tried to install only opensuse. I had troubles with booting, because this machine has UEFI. After several combinations of settings, I had so-so working oS which I updated. I was not a wise thing. At boot time, I got four entries, with two groups consisting of the original and the updated kernel and the corresponding advanced options with recovery mode. This last was only bootable. Normal boot failed because it did not find backlight controller. Haha. There is no one This morning it turned out, sometimes Win7 would be necessary. So I tried it with dual boot. It was an even major fault. Dead end, No drivers in win7 for this machine. One can collect them from Lenovo site. The only way to apply them would be to write them on CD, because no USB, as I said. DVD writer is dead for years in the desktop machine. Tried to went back to oS 13.1. Devastating fault. Tries to install on the USB stick, the partitioner does not seem to apply on this 1 TB disk. I decided to wipe down the whole HDD with Win XP installer, but of course I have a dozen in the lab, but none here at home. And then I found an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ISO on my main box, wrote it to USB, and Installed on Lenovo. Smoothless!!! I saw the whole disk, got WLAN within a minute from plugging in the stick. So it was OK. The only cpmlaint was about a fake GPT msdos partitioning. OK, I perhaps garbled it up previously. Then thought the whole disk is back, let us try it again, and I will have some windows in virtualbox. Installation was eventless, but could boot only in recovery mode again. Hm. I updated to KDE 412, and everything disappeared, including net connection. Only the KDE desktop remained. In the meantime I made a bootable 13.10 UBUNTU stick. Does any of you has experience with this machine? I suspect it is not for oS. As it is stated in the papers it is for WIN 8, that I definitely do not want. Best regards, Albert

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