March 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Moving / and /boot partitions
by James Knott 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

In preperation for a new motherboard, I'm moving my system from a pair of IDE drives to a SATA drive. I have copied all the partitions by using cp -a to the new drive. However I cannot get the system to boot with / and /boot on the new system. I have tried various things including the Yast Boot Loader and grub2-mkconfig, but can't seem to get the new partitions to work. While I realize I could just reinstall to the new drive, I'd prefer to move the existing system over. BTW, with the original Grub, it was possible to have descriptive titles in the boot menu, so that you knew what you were booting. Why isn't this possible with Grub2. Even in the advanced menu, I only see 4 entries with identical titles. -- 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] Moving / and /boot partitions
by James Knott 03 Apr '14

03 Apr '14

This process managed to completely kill my system. However, I suspect it may be a hardware issue. After I could no longer boot my system, I tried to reinstall from DVD. It stops at about 98% and the last lines in details are about preparing the system for initial boot and the last line showing is "Copying log files to installed system". I bought this motherboard about 8 years ago and have always used it with IDE drives. I guess I'll be putting in the new motherboard sooner than planned. On Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:37:16 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar(a)gmail.com> wrote: В Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:13:05 -0400 James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> пишет: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > Do you want to install grub2 in MBR or on partition? > > > >> > > > I though the usual practice with Linux was to have grub on the boot > partition, with the MBR pointing to it. That's the way it's configured > here. > > a) mount your new boot partition anywhere; e.g. /newboot b) run "grub2-install --force --boot-directory=/newboot /dev/your-boot-partion" c) use fdisk to mark your boot partition as active. I assume you have valid MBR on this disk ... This will make your new boot partition bootable with grub2 as bootloader and grub2 will use new boot partition to search for executable and configuration files. Assuming your BIOS is set to boot from this disk. To properly create grub.cfg and initrd for new configuration: mount /dev/new-root-device /mnt mount /dev/new-boot-device /mnt/boot mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /run /mnt/run chroot /mnt grub2-mkconfig > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg mkinitrd Do not do it from openSUSE DVD rescue boot, it has weird links in /dev that may screw device detection (at least for LVM or anything that uses device mapper). Having duplicate filesystem labels or uuids may be a problem as well. Probably grub-mkconfig needs better support for off-root rescue root. Patch was floating upstream, need to get a look once more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org -- 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] libre office + thunderbird --> acces denied to user
by Benjamin 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi everyone! Since about 3 days I encounter a strange situation: When I try to open a file from my home/desktop folder with libreoffice the program says, that the file is protected by "unkown user". I can just open it as a working copy or ready-only. Also Thundebird replied, that it is not possible to safe the new e-mails to the disc. Strangly, after a restart, tb worked fine, but libreoffice still has the same problem. Acutally i didn´t make any changes on my system, beside an update…Might this be a security issue? Thanks, Benjamin.

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[opensuse] zypper update -d undocumented feature?
by jdebert 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Prefer to use zypper for updates, as yast is much too interactive and slower, and I like to defer installs until I have time to watch the progress. However, a couple times I've got a message after everything was downloaded about files in use being deleted during downloads, typically when drpms are being downloaded. zypper ps confirms that files in use were deleted. It's not documented in the manpage or other docs I've found but it appears that "download-only" switch for update does not always download only. For example, drpms are never only downloaded. I'm wondering if there's another switch to tell zypper that, "Yes, I Am Absolutely Certain I Want To Only Download And Not Install Or Delete Any Files At All Positively And Definitely So Don't Assume I Want Any Files Deleted Or Ask Again And By The Way, Only Download DRPMS. Do Nothing Else." -- 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] LibreOffice Samba shares
by Paul Groves 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi, I have reinstalled 13.1 on my computer due to a hard drive failure. Since the reinstall LibreOffice will not open files from a smb share! It tells me I can only open local files. I have been able to do this since forever! I am using the default libreoffice that comes with opensuse. Very frustrating seeing as all my documents are saved on my NAS I have a laptop with a fresh install with the exact same issue. I also have a laptop running ubuntu which has no problem opening libreoffice files over smb. Can anyone help with this? -- Paul Groves -- 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] lxde screensaver
by lynn 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

13.1 Hi I have disabled the screensaver but the screen blanks every 10 minutes. Is there another setting which governs this? 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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[opensuse] Back-lit keyboard recommendations?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi, My existing no-name corded keyboard is wearing out rather rapidly ie the key labelling has been worn off. After 5 yrs I expect nothing more from the keyboard and would like to retire it. Whilst buying another corded PS/2\USB keyboard is on the cards I would prefer one that meets as many of these criteria: 1. Has back-lit keys as I work in a low light environment 2. A full keyboard i.e. 101/4 keys Including 12 F keys Number-pad Arrow keys Key cluster incl. Insert,Delete, Home, End, PageUp and PageDwn. 3. Fairly silent would be nice 4.Used on OpenSuse 11.2, a Windows key can me Tux styled or vacant. I have searched Amazon and Google for keyboards that have back-lit keys and not just backlit backgrounds. Many look ideal but in further investigation they are strictly Windows gaming keyboards. I have also visited <http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Keyboards> and searching for lit gave me no keyboard entries :( Can anyone on the list make a suggestion from experience with regard to a particular unit or preferred manufacturer? Appreciated Hylton hylton(a)conacher.co.za (I am a member of the opensuse mailing list) -- 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]gnome how to switch Awesome WM
by 孑影 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

i used openSUSE 13.1 and the Gnome Version 3.10.2 now i will switch Awesome WM , 1. zypper in awesome 2. cp -rf /etc/xdg/awesome $HOME/.config/ 3.logout current user i will select awesome wm in login gui ,but i can't find it the login gui only select gnome ,now i how can find the awesome ? ps: add 'exec awesome' in .xinitrc i can't use other wm #风起看云涌，叶落品人生# -- 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 update of lightdm and shown users
by Andrea Turrini 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

Hi all, I am using openSUSE 12.3 and the last official update of lightdm has changed my choice of not showing users. Is this the expected behavior? How can I prevent this to happen again without having to check/adapt the conf file after each update (and possibly for each package involving a conf file)? Best, Andrea -- 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] Question about libzypp
by Carlos E. R. 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

Please, reply to the mail list, not in private. I'm resending back to the mail list. On 2014-03-30 22:56, denisart benjamin2 wrote: > Le 30/03/2014 22:55, Carlos E. R. a écrit : >> On 2014-03-30 22:48, denisart benjamin2 wrote: >>> Hello everyone ! >>> >>> Does somebody know why libzypp doesn't have anything like "yumdb set >>> reason dep $PACKAGE" or "aptitude markauto $PACKAGE" ? >> What do they do? >> > Cleaning useless/orphan packages. Well, there is something for that in zypper, but little tested. I tried it in yast yesterday (13.1) and it wanted to remove a lot of useful stuff. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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