July 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] 13.1 installation issue?
by Thomas Taylor 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

I typically install new versions several times trying out various programs/features/settings in both real and virtual systems. I've noticed that starting with the 13.1 each install has slightly different results for some items (locations of a very few programs, clock settings. languages). None of the differences seem to change the operation of the system. Might this have something to do with changing to systemd or possibly a race condition during installation with a quad core system? I've previously used sysvinit only. Or maybe these old eyes are playing tricks on me! Thanks, Tom -- "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD Phenom X4 955, GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Nvidia 337.19) 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 27.0, claws-mail 3.10.0 registered linux user 263467 -- 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] Flash player plugin on Chromium
by lynn 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hi I have the error: Adobe Flash Player is required to display some elements on this page. I click to Install plugin, restart chromium, go to activate the plugin and it's not there? I also installed flash player from the 13.1 repos. Same. How do I get flash with Chromium? 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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[opensuse] 13.1 New Install Summary - Good Job Dev Team!
by David C. Rankin 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

All, In my move from 11.4 to 13.1 on my Toshiba laptop, my first impression of 13.1 is that it is a good first step towards systemd implementation for openSuSE. It took a number of hours and the cumulative brain-trust of the opensuse list to iron out, but 13.1 is working great and Ilya has done a fantastic job preparing kde3 for 13.1. The boot time for 13.1 is great, 17 seconds to the desktop. I've put a detailed plot of the boot process for the laptop up at for those interested: [450k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/suse/alchemy_13.1-bootplot.jpg This bootplot was created with systemd-analyze which provides some pretty spectacular features: # systemd-analyze plot > cnf/alchemy/bootplot.svg The 13.1 install was not bad considering the steps taken in the move to systemd. This install was done with the net-install CD with initial desktop as LXDE, traditional root account, no auto-login, and auto-configure turned off. The installer worked fine, the only glitch was the installer failing to fill the printer select dialog during printer configuration -- until the hplip package was installed. The only shortcoming of the installer is that it only allows addition of the update/non-oss repositories instead of allowing any repository to be added. I would like to see it allow addition of any repository at install time. In my case that led to choosing LXDE as an temp install desktop before adding the KDE3 repository and installing the final desktop. The need to use a temporary desktop led to the system being configured to start many unwanted/unneeded processes. Specifically the install filled the /etc/xdg/autostart directory with: at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop gmixer-trayicon.desktop gnome-keyring-gpg.desktop gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop gnome-settings-daemon.desktop gsynaptics-init.desktop hplip-systray.desktop nautilus-autostart.desktop nm-applet.desktop parcellite-startup.desktop polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop print-applet.desktop tracker-miner-fs.desktop tracker-store.desktop user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop xfce4-power-manager.desktop Of those, the only one needed (useful) in kde is gnome-settings-daemon.desktop to coordinate kde/gtk themes. I suspect those claiming no reduction in boot-time under 13.1 probably have a number of unneeded processes being started in this manner. Simply moving all the unneeded .desktop files out of autostart dramatically reduced startup time (and eliminated a mouse y-axis conflict caused by gsynaptics-init). The remaining issues with the 13.1 install surrounded having to turn off a lot of unnecessary 'optional' stuff that is now the 'default'. This included the annoying bash_command_not_found, the /etc/profile.d coloration of grep, etc. Those are relatively simple, but take a lot of wasted time to track down and turn off. My only comment would be that users should turn 'options' on if wanted, not have to turn 'options' off that are unwanted. The biggest time waste was not opensuse related, but came from the forced update to firefox 30 and it's changed interface that caused (and continues to cause) untold problems with toolbar layout, plugins, etc... Yet another example of a gee-whiz new interface that doesn't work with prior plugins, does little or nothing to improve actual browsing or page rendering, but takes a hell of a lot of time to sort out. There was only one bug report filed regarding 13.1 itself. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887629 For some reason the screen backlight control is broken for this laptop. It has worked in every OS and openSuSE version since 11.0, but for some reason just doesn't in 13.1. Again, small potatoes, it will get fixed. On balance, the 13.1 install was no more difficult than any prior openSuSE install. The resulting system boots fast and so far has been rock stable. All 11.4 kde settings/data transfered to 13.1 just fine (I did blow up kicker, but that was easily fixed). Except for the firefox toolbar issue, all firefox and thunderbird data transfered fine and is working as expected. On balance cudos to the development team. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] OT - Text to speech, any platform
by Greg Freemyer 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

All, I have a friend that is slowly going blind. She can read for 15 or 20 minutes at a time currently, but then the headaches, etc. set in. She needs a way to read long PDFs in particular. She currently uses a Mac as her primary PC and she has an iPad I believe. Without spending thousands of dollars, what is the best "english" text to speech reader out there? Once I know the app I'll look into what platforms it is on. Note that at least for now she doesn't need it to handle reading the application controls, just the content of PDFs. She can navigate the controls well enough, it is sustained reading that is a problem. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- 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] keepassx 2.0alpha import does work, but 2.0alpha UI is a bit awkward.
by David C. Rankin 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

All, I was wrong. You can import keepass1 databases into keepass2. To do this you have to cancel the password/keyfile dialog that is automatically displayed and then choose import from the file menu. The import worked fine, but the user interface in 2.0 is really cluttered compared to 0.4.3. The biggest change is that what was a simple clean input dialog in keepassx 0.4.3 is now 4+ separate dialogs, tabbed on the left, much of which is unrelated to basic use. Yes you can see history and some extra information -- but none of it relevant to the "store credential/show credential" basic keepassx purpose. Hopefully the interface is slimmed down before 2.0alpha is final and it will move back toward the cleaner 0.4.3 interface before release. All of the new new information collected is fine, but should be menu entries that can be accessed if needed/wanted, but should not be part of the default information shown when an entry is opened. Sure more information is better, but there is no replacement for a consistent clean interface. (The appendix and bibliography doesn't belong on the front page :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] font handling - install fetchmsttfonts, copy fonts, rpm -e fethmsttfonts, copy fonts back
by David C. Rankin 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

All, When installing fonts, many people use the fetchmsttfonts package to load the public ms truetype fonts. That's fine, the only problem being is that every time the fetchmsttfonts is rebuilt (the fonts don't change, only the package version changes) the fetchmsttfonts package is downloaded again and updated. To prevent this from happening, simply install the fetchmsttfonts package once, then make a copy of /usr/share/fonts/truetype, remove the package, then copy the fonts back to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and run fonts-config. Most may not care, but if I can avoid muli-meg downloads during each `zypper up` I'm all for it (not to mention -- there are newer versions of the fonts, that if installed, are overwritten with each zypper up) So for those who want to avoid the repeated update of the font package, the following is a quick outline of the process: # zypper in fetchmsttfonts # cp -a /usr/share/fonts/truetype /tmp # rpm -e fetchmsttfonts # cp -ua /tmp/truetype /usr/share/fonts # fonts-config -f -v # creates fonts.scale & fonts.dir & calls fc-cache # rm -r /tmp/truetype ...done! Just another little efficiency tweak. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] What's the SUSE way to configure multiple Tomcat instances (JVMs)
by Silviu Marin-Caea 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Is there a SUSE recommended way to configure Tomcat for multiple instances, that is more than one CATALINA_BASE? I'd like to use the Tomcat rpm that's included in the distribution. I need this on SLES 11, so the initscripts are classic sysv. I should be able to start/stop the instances individually. Thanks for any pointers in the right direction. -- 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] Out of date CUPS...
by Rodney Baker 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hi all. I note that the latest version of cups in any of the official repositories is version 1.5.4, but the latest version available from cups.org is 1.7.4. According to the cups.org release notes, 1.7.4 includes many fixes including at least one security related fix. Is anyone working on packaging 1.7.4 for openSuSE? I would do it myself via the build service but every time I've tried to do that has ended in abject failure. I obviously have no idea what I'm doing there... Regards, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker(a)iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- 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] Trouble getting masquerade working with SuSEFirewall2
by Marc Chamberlin 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hi - I am running an OpenSuSE 13.1 x64 system as a firewall/router/server and have a number of devices on my internal network, such as routers, access points, iBoot remote power control, UPS etc., all of which serve up a web page interface for control over said device. I would like to be able to access these web services from the internet (or from our intranet using our domain name). To accomplish this I am trying to set up SuSEFirewall to route various ports on my gateway/firewall to these internal devices, but so far no joy in getting this to work from both my internal network (accessing via our outside static internet IP address, or from an external system somewhere out yonder on the internet. Here is an example of the relevant settings for one such device, from SuSEFirewall2 (with sensitive IP addresses removed) that I think are properly configured - FW_DEV_EXT="enp4s0" FW_DEV_INT="enp3s0" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_DEV="zone:ext zone:int" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INT="no" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="8081" FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT="apache2 bind vsftpd" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="" FW_FORWARD="" FW_FORWARD_MASQ="0/0,192.168.1.254,tcp,8081,80,<ISP provided static IP address not shown> 192.168.1.0/24,192.168.1.254,tcp,8081,80,192.168.1.10" I believe I am configuring FW_FORWARD_MASQ to take anything directed to our ISP provided static IP address on port 8081, coming from the internet and redirect it to 192.168.1.254 port 80. AND I believe I have configured it to take anything coming from our internal intranet that was sent to our gateway system at 192.168.1.10 port 8081 and redirect it to 192.168.1.254 port 80. The network itself is configured correctly, ifconfig shows me everything is correct as far as IP address assignments to the two NIC cards are concerned. and yet when I try to access the device I get no joy when using - <ISP provided static IP address>:8081 I expect this to be routed to 192.168.1.254:80 At the moment I am only trying to get one device working, but plan to use the range of ports from 8082-8089 to access other devices that I mentioned above. I have tried a number of combinations of things, without success and done a lot of internet research. Not sure how to proceed or debug this, and I am not very familiar with iptables so if you need me to go there, be gentle and think of me as a beginner! One additional item of note: I am running a web server on the gateway/firewall system as well, which listens on port 80. It does work OK... Ideas anyone? Thanks in advance... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- 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 30, noscript control stuck on bookmarks toolbar?? - how to move?
by David C. Rankin 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

All, Wolfgang, I have been fighting with Firefox since my 13.1 install a day or so ago just to get the toolbar configuration usable. Somehow, all icons are now locked and cannot be moved. Worse, somehow the noscript icon is stuck on the bookmark toolbar (I never even have that active, usually tuned off). Here is a screenshot: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/moz/noscript_on_bookmarks_bar.jpg Now when I try to "Customize" the toolbars and use "Move to Menu" on noscript, I don't get the "Move to Menu" context menu, all I get is the normal noscript menu. Further, on first launch of FF 30, all my add-ons were crammed in the address bar (what a mess). However, I could rearrange them. Now, nothing moves at all. I cannot rearrange anything. Also, when I have the add-ons in the green config box and I say "Move to Toolbar" it is a complete dice-roll where they end up. How do you actually configure FF 30 toolbar? What is the trick? It used to be so simple. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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