July 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] KDED vanishing upon fallover to laptop battery power
by Peter 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hello people, Using the default KDE 4.11.5 with a 13.1 (64-bit) install (all updates applied), I'm having power issues at my new appartment and every time the power cuts, a few odd things happen with my desktop. This is a laptop with a well charged battery, so everything keeps running, but all the systray icons revert from their monochrome default to the old coloured versions, and a couple of auto-hidden items become visible in the tray. My keyboard layout control in this tray disappears along with the possibility to change it via the shortcuts I've set. I noticed that in the Battery Monitor settings, I can't view or change anything because it complains that Power Management isn't running, and that I should go and check that in the Startup/Shutdown options. These options in System Settings cannot be displayed either because it says KDED is not running. There's been numerous power cuts every time I try to switch on my hot plates and cook something so I'm getting used to this now, but I don't know how to restart KDED in such a way that all these settings will return to normal, so I'm forced to reboot each time. Aside from the annoyance, I wonder if this is a bug? 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] systemd-logind fails after update of dbus etc
by auxsvr＠gmail.com 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Yesterday I installed all the patches on a 13.1 system, which I turn on about once or twice a week. I recall that after the update I had to reexec systemd and restart dbus and the services that depend on it, but systemd-logind failed to restart, which probably caused other services to fail, too. Perhaps some timeout occurred or restarting xdm was related, and the issue disappeared after a while. Now, after booting this system, the message: Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/0/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory appears in the system log. Is it related to the previous errors? Has anyone else seen any of this? Is the cause known? -- Regards, 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] Update of aaa_base removes permissions to /dev/null, again!
by Josef Wolf 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hello, a long time ago (opensuse-11.1), I experienced a problem with permissions of /dev/null beeing set to 0600 when aaa_base package is updated. The whole discussion about that issue can be found at http://marc.info/?t=123642237800003&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=123671162813621&w=2 suggests that the bug has been fixed. Unfortunately, Ruediger's original message don't seem to be archived anywhere on the net. Tonight, it happened again. /dev/null became chmod'ed to 0600 on opensuse-13.1 Has the fix been lost somewhere during its 5 years lasting transision from FACTORY to opensuse-13.1? -- Josef Wolf jw(a)raven.inka.de -- 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] The hidden threat in your browser: Share buttons reveal personal information each time you visit certain popular sites (and even the White House is affected)
by Basil Chupin 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

"Canvas" is an extension available for Firefox from what I saw on the Mozilla site. And, naturally, it is to be used with "your friend" google. BC ........................................................... Researchers found one in 18 of the world’s top 100,000 websites track users without their consent using a technique known as ‘canvas fingerprinting.’ In total, 5,619 sites including the White House and Perez Hilton are known to feature plugins that obtain details about a user’s browser, web history and computer. The mechanism, called ‘canvas fingerprinting’, uses special scripts – the coded instructions that tell a browser how to render a website - to exploit the browser’s so-called ‘canvas’. The canvas is a browser tool that can be used to draw images and render text. When a user visits a website with canvas fingerprinting software, the plugin tells the user’s browser to print an invisible string of text on this canvas. It then tells the browser to read back data about the pixels in the, invisibly, rendered image on the canvas. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2701593/The-hidden-threat-br… -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.3 & kernel 3.15.6-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- 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 - Install -additional- kernel (best way, rpm/yast)
by David C. Rankin 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

All, As part of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887629 we need to install and test the latest kernel:stable kernel. Adding the repo in yast and checking, it does not show the -devel files to know that I am getting the same kernel setup I have with the kernel from 13.1/update. Also, I do *NOT* want to replace my current kernel, I simply want to install in-addition-to the current kernel. multiversion is set to include kernel in zypp.conf. I also have a question about the automatic menu-generation for grub2. I guess it will work, but I have not yet tried a kernel addition in opensuse with grub2. Any gotchas? That brings me to the real issue. In yast sw-management, when I select update for the various kernel packages, how can I confirm that it will install and leave the current kernel? Just rely on the multiverion setting, cross-fingers and pray? Would it just be better to install with 'rpm -ivh *.rpm' in a directory with the updated kernel packages? This seems like the simplest way. My current kernel packages are: kernel-default-devel-3.11.10-17.2.x86_64.rpm kernel-desktop-3.11.10-17.2.x86_64.rpm kernel-desktop-devel-3.11.10-17.2.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-3.11.10-17.2.noarch.rpm kernel-firmware-20130714git-2.17.1.noarch.rpm kernel-source-3.11.10-17.2.noarch.rpm kernel-syms-3.11.10-17.1.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-3.11.10-17.2.x86_64.rpm mkinitrd-2.8.1-2.1.x86_64.rpm ucode-amd-20130714git-2.17.1.noarch.rpm Are there any packages I'm missing? I'll wait on the braintrust to make sure I don't install into a problem, but my plan would be to download the same packages from kernel:stable and install with rpm -ivh and presume zypp.conf multiversion would preserve my existing kernel, and grub2 menu generation would take place automagically making the new kernel available as it did with grub. Solid plan? -- 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] desktop apps are looking very odd and color less.
by Arup Rakshit 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi, I am not able to find out, any way to configure my desktop application window normal colorful as they look in other OS like Ubuntu, Mac etc. For me any app siderbar, upper bar all are white, and it looks very odd to me. What settings are there, which can change this. Examples - http://s9.postimg.org/y34ttxddr/jsnot.png http://s18.postimg.org/rmwlee50p/email.png I am using openSUSE 13.1 KDE. Any help on this ? -- ================ Regards, Arup Rakshit ================ Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan -- 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] What happened to Adobe Acrobat reader
by John Perry 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

On 7/22/2014 11:13 AM, Anton Aylward wrote: > On 07/22/2014 11:08 AM, Bob Williams wrote: >> On 22/07/14 15:53, Anton Aylward wrote: >>> zypper install can't find kpdf or ocular. I wonder why? >> Spelling? Try 'okular' > Damn! Thank you :-) > > Now, how did I mis-spell 'kpdf'? > Didn't Okular replace kpdf? jp -- 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] What happened to Adobe Acrobat reader
by John Perry 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

On 7/22/2014 10:53 AM, Anton Aylward wrote: > O > zypper install can't find kpdf or ocular. I wonder why? > > Foxit is not very good at form filling. > Some GovCanada forms, not least of all the tax forms, seem only to work > with Adobe. That's been my experience with US tax forms. Sometimes the aftermarket products work, but often they don't. And you don't know until you save the form and try to reload it. john perry -- 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 - systemd is ver. 208 - 215 is current with many new features
by David C. Rankin 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

All, I know for most opensuse packages, the version is set for a release at some point during development and then only patches are provided. But for some, it seems like would makes sense to provide version updates along the way. Regarding systemd, what is interesting is that 210 is the latest version in any of the unstable repos (according to software.opensuse.org) With 215 you get: systemctl: -M --machine=CONTAINER Operate on local container -r --recursive Show unit list of host and local containers --reverse Show reverse dependencies with 'list-dependencies' --job-mode=MODE Specify how to deal with already queued jobs, when queueing a new job --show-types When showing sockets, explicitly show their type --preset-mode= Specifies whether fully apply presets, or only enable, or only disable --root=PATH Enable unit files in the specified root directory --plain Print unit dependencies as a list instead of a tree commands: list-timers [PATTERN...] List loaded timers ordered by next elapse cat PATTERN... Show files and drop-ins of one or more units file commands: preset-all Enable/disable all unit files based on Machine Commands: list-machines [PATTERN...] List local containers and host Environment Commands: import-environment NAME... Import all, one or more environment variables System Commands: is-system-running Check whether system is fully running journalctl: Flags: -M --machine=CONTAINER Operate on local container --list-boots Show terse information about recorded boots --no-full Ellipsize fields Like with the KOTD repo, it would nice to have a systemd of the day. Does anything like that exist? -- 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] A very good DE: Cinnamon 2.3.0!
by Marco Calistri 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Wow! This is a real beautiful, fast and full featured Desktop Environment which I do not understand why it is not being installed as default or among the default ones in OpenSUSE. I installed it with: sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Cinnamon:/Factory/openSUSE_1… Cinnamon And it is wonderful! Regards, -- Marco Calistri opensuse 13.1 (Bottle) 64 bit - Kernel 3.15.5-1.g01d2774-default Gnome 3.12.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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