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Re: [opensuse] Dual boot and Windows Anytime Upgrade doubt
by Marco Calistri 07 May '14

07 May '14

Il 06/05/2014 15:24, Roger Luedecke ha scritto: > No, GRUB shouldn't be affecting anything. Windows would simply > overwrite normally. I suspect it may be because you have only the one > license key. > > On May 6, 2014 9:58 AM, "Marco Calistri" > <marco.calistri(a)yahoo.com.br <mailto:marco.calistri@yahoo.com.br>> > wrote: > > Hello openSusers, > > I wonder share my doubt here despite not being totally a Linux > related question. > > Summary: > > I have two Lenovo laptops both using Win7 Home Premium 64 bits, one > is a single boot all Windows the other (home computer) is a dual > boot Win7<-->OpenSUSE 13.1. > > I get an Anytime Upgrade key and I succeeded upgrading the first > Lenovo from Home Premium to Ultimate. > > Instead after three attempts on second lenovo the upgrade always > reverts to previous version. > > That system uses Grub2 as bootmanager and if I'm not wrong I > installed it on MBR then I suppose that the Anytime Upgrade could be > failing for exactly this reason. > > Is it of any logical possibility? > > Shall I reinstall the Win7 bootloader on MBR? > > Any suggestions welcomed! > > Cheers, > > > -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse%2Bunsubscribe@opensuse.org> To contact the owner, > e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > <mailto:opensuse%2Bowner@opensuse.org> > But I red that the Windows Anytime Product key is usable on different computer not in just one. Regards, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) -- 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] inn configuration
by jdd 07 May '14

07 May '14

mostly fixed, some bugs in inn openSUSE 13.1 packaging can easily be fixed: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876287 thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.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] I can not disable service vmware
by Carlos E. R. 06 May '14

06 May '14

I get: Telcontar:~ # chkconfig vmware vmware on Telcontar:~ # chkconfig vmware off Usage: insserv [[-r] <script>] Options: --remove, -r Remove the listed scripts from all runlevels /sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1 Telcontar:~ # Telcontar:~ # systemctl disable vmware.service vmware.service is not a native service, redirecting to /sbin/chkconfig. Executing /sbin/chkconfig vmware off Usage: insserv [[-r] <script>] Options: --remove, -r Remove the listed scripts from all runlevels /sbin/insserv failed, exit code 1 Telcontar:~ # Telcontar:~ # insserv -r /etc/init.d/vmware Telcontar:~ # chkconfig vmware vmware off Telcontar:~ # Bug? Where? I guess here: Telcontar:~ # rpm -qf /sbin/chkconfig aaa_base-13.1-16.34.1.x86_64 Telcontar:~ # But: Telcontar:~ # chkconfig gpm gpm on Telcontar:~ # chkconfig gpm off Telcontar:~ # chkconfig gpm gpm off Telcontar:~ # chkconfig gpm on Telcontar:~ # chkconfig gpm gpm on Telcontar:~ # which is also not a native service, and is redirected to /sbin/chkconfig. So maybe there is something wrong in the vmware script :-? -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -- 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] Disable Checkbox for Baloo
by Sam M 06 May '14

06 May '14

For those that wanted it, a disable checkbox will be available for Baloo under KDE 4.13.1. https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/baloo/repository/revisions/77… This, I think, is a step in the right direction, as the whole opt-out approach was disliked by many (including 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] Dual boot and Windows Anytime Upgrade doubt
by Marco Calistri 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello openSusers, I wonder share my doubt here despite not being totally a Linux related question. Summary: I have two Lenovo laptops both using Win7 Home Premium 64 bits, one is a single boot all Windows the other (home computer) is a dual boot Win7<-->OpenSUSE 13.1. I get an Anytime Upgrade key and I succeeded upgrading the first Lenovo from Home Premium to Ultimate. Instead after three attempts on second lenovo the upgrade always reverts to previous version. That system uses Grub2 as bootmanager and if I'm not wrong I installed it on MBR then I suppose that the Anytime Upgrade could be failing for exactly this reason. Is it of any logical possibility? Shall I reinstall the Win7 bootloader on MBR? Any suggestions welcomed! Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) -- 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] WiFi problem - laptop on/off switch
by Gustav Degreef 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hello listers, I have a laptop (HP dv2035us - pavillion) with both OS 11.2 and 11.4 installed. The wireless works in 11.2, but not in 11.4. It has an Intel Pro/Wireless 3945AG/BG chip. The laptop has a wireless on/off button at the front left. When I boot 11.2 (KDE) the wireless light does not come on, but then if I turn the wireless switch off and then back on again, the wireless light comes on and it works. However, on 11.4, the wireless will not work, even after playing with the switch. The stock 11.4 kernel, the regular updates nor updating to Evergreen 11.4 made no difference. Since the wireless light does not come on, ifconfig shows only lo and eth0 - no wlan0. The behavior with the on/off switch also used to happen when I had OS 10.3 on the machine. It was a bit annoying, but the wireless could be made to work. The wireless modules loaded at boot are - in 11.2: iwl3945, iwl_core, mac80211, cfg80211 in 11.4: iwl3945, iwl_legacy, mac80211, cfg80211 I suspect a missing package or configuration problem, and I have googled but I am visually impaired so I have not been exhaustive at it. I have looked at dmesg (nothing seems seriously off) but not other logs. Any pointers would be appreciated, Gustav -- 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] Why do we need so many desktop search engines?
by Carlos E. R. 06 May '14

06 May '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, KDE now has baloo. Gnome has tracker. There were previous attempts, all failed. I have little faith in the current attempts. Why can not we have a global and unique search engine, accessible from all desktops "brands"? Not one per desktop, increasing used resources tremendously. One that we can enabled or disabled easily (opt-in, not opt-out), tunable, with permission access, etc. And that it works. For instance, I want email search. Thunderbird has one, working togetehr with tracker, I think. Awful. I had to disable it. Could not find things, and wanted to index remote imap accounts, causing huge internet trasnfers, and huge CPU loads. Now I use dovecot internal indexing (lucene) and works fine accessed from Thunderbird. Used space is large but reasonable, and does not attempt to index remote mailboxes. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlNlDoIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W1wQCeMIK4yhPsHCePJvrfjTbmBS+5 5XEAoJdb3VFcjIljyCdKLTyk/3WTsJUu =4lIQ -----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] Total system crash when test writing to reiserfs partition.
by Carlos E. R. 06 May '14

06 May '14

Hi, I'm doing a speed test on a 3TB disk with 19 GPT partitions, and got a full system crash. Keyboard not responding (Uppercase LED does not light when the appropriate key is pressed), machine stops responding to ping. This happened twice, and only when the partition is reiserfs (btrfs not tested yet). The test is this: I format all the 19 partitions as XFS (150 GiB each), then write on each partition 3 files of 4 GiB with this code: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/fichero_$X count=20 bs=100M conv=fdatasync which I time and record on a file on another disk. Then I delete those files, and create 3000 files of 1 MB each, with this code: NUMFICPEQ=3000 SECS1=`date +%s` for Z in `seq 1 $NUMFICPEQ`; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/fichero_$Z count=1 bs=1M conv=fdatasync >> Detailedlogfile 2>&1. done SECS2=`date +%s` DIFF=`expr $SECS2 - $SECS1` echo echo "==== Written $NUMFICPEQ ficheros in $DIFF seconds (Part $X)" | tee -a sometextfile The test is repeated 3 times for the 19 partitions. Then I reformat them all as reiserfs, and repeat all the above. The formatting is done with: mkfs.reiserfs -l speed_$X -q $DISK$X 2>&1 | tee -a registro_particionado.txt The first crash happened on partition number 10, first iteration. I verified the partition, added code to the dd line to log the output, and repeated. Second crash happened on partition 14, second loop. The output from dd was: Salida de los miles de 'dd' del test ficheros pequeños 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0228002 s, 46.0 MB/s 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0546576 s, 19.2 MB/s 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0569717 s, 18.4 MB/s thousands more, then: 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0491611 s, 21.3 MB/s ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... and no more was logged. 2519 files were written (according to the log), yet the directory is empty now. I have done the testing with xfs and ext4 with no problem, except with reiserfs, that crashed twice. The second time on runlevel 3, so no graphic driver loaded yet. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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[opensuse] Problems when dual booting Windows & Linux
by ellanios82 05 May '14

05 May '14

- overall, perhaps there may be less sweat running Windows on a Linux Virtual Box ? ............. regards -- 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] How do I add my email alias in Evolution 3.12.1
by Roger Luedecke 05 May '14

05 May '14

I want to add my opensuse.org email alias, but I can't seem to find how. And there isn't any documentation. It seems things may have changed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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