September 2014 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Something changed some KDE items which were previously displayed
by Basil Chupin 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

A couple of weeks ago I did the normal 'zypper refresh/patch/up' which completed without (any apparent) problems. However, something was installed or something was replaced which changed the way KDE 4.14.0.x works (or rather now does not work). The first thing which I noticed was that I can no longer right-click on the desktop, select LEAVE>RESTART or SHUT DOWN and have this choice performed. Selecting LEAVE starts to dim the desktop but does not bring up the menu where one can select SHUT DOWN etc - all I end up with is a slightly dimmed screen. There is no way to either RESTART or SHUT DOWN the computer using this method. Clicking on the screen brings it back to its 'original' brightness. A similar thing occurs when one clicks on KICKOFF and selects LEAVE - one cannot Shut Down or Restart. At the moment, the ONLY way (apart from pressing the OFF switch on the computer box) is to open TERMINAL, "login" as root and enter 'HALT -P'. Earlier today I had to go out and, without thinking, did LOCK SCREEN. I could not 'unlock' the screen in the normal way; the mouse was active but that was all. The only way I regained control over the system was to hit the BIG RED BUTTON :-( . One other thing re all this. I have lost the SYSTEM SETTINGS icon/widget/whatever in KICKOFF. It's kapoot, poof, gone.....nowhere to be seen. To get back to "normality" I tried deleting the '~/.kde4' sub-directory but while this regenerates a new ./kde4 all of the above hassles remain :-( . Does anyone know, please, what has to be done to get back to what should be regarded as the "normal" KDE 4.14.0.x situation? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.0 & kernel 3.16.2-1 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] Regenerating KDE menus
by Basil Chupin 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

I came across an entry in "my little black book" which stated that executing '/opt/kde3/bin/kbuildsycoca' rebuilt the KDE menus. Now, in oS 13.1 I can see that this item exists - even though I am NOT running KDE 3 but have KDE 4. I don't want to totally corrupt my 13.1 installation so I am asking if running 'opt/kde3/bin/kbuidsycoca' would recreate the menus or would it cause a flash of light followed by a puff of smoke from the keyboard? (BTW, while '/opt/kde3/ ' *is* still to be seen in oS 13.1 it is not in 13.2/Factory .) If running 'opt/kde3/bin/kbuildsycoca' no longer recreates KDE menus what then does recreate them? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.14.1 & kernel 3.16.3-1 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] Is this zypper output normal?
by Greg Freemyer 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

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[opensuse] Curl errors in opensuse 12 and 13
by ianseeks 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Hi Does anyone know why i always get "curl" errors using "zypper" or Yast to refresh/ update the repos? Its random as to which repos fails. see example below I don't ever recall this happening prior to opensuse 12. I expect this email might get dumped by the checking system because i did a copy and paste from a CLI session regards Ian sudo zypper ref root's password: Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/openSUSE_13.1/repoda…': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Could not resolve host: download.opensuse.org Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): r Retrieving repository 'KDE Current' metadata...........................[done] Building repository 'KDE Current' cache ...........................[done] Retrieving repository 'LibreOffice' metadata ...........................[done] Building repository 'LibreOffice' cache ...........................[done] Download (curl) error for 'http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/13.1/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Could not resolve host: download.videolan.org Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): r Download (curl) error for 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/rpm/stable/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Could not resolve host: dl.google.com Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): r Download (curl) error for 'http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_13.1/Essentials/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Could not resolve host: packman.inode.at Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): r Retrieving repository 'packman-multimedia' metadata ...................[done] Building repository 'packman-multimedia' cache .......................[done] Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... -- 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] BIOS setup
by Carlos E. R. 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

On 2014-09-19 02:56, Felix Miata wrote: hi, You wrote off-list, thus I tried to reply off-list as well. Your mail server refuses my ISP: +++··························· - These recipients of your message have been processed by the mail server: mrmazda(a)earthlink.net; Failed; 5.3.0 (other or undefined mail system status) Remote MTA mx3.earthlink.net: network error - SMTP protocol diagnostic: 550 IP 86.109.99.133 is blocked by EarthLink. Go to earthlink.net/block for details. ···························++- I suggest you change provider to one that accepts mail from foreigners :-/ > Carlos E. R. wrote on 2014-09-19 02:07 (GMT+0200): > >> http://susepaste.org/69473463 > > Very, very interesting. I had no idea it was possible to open BIOS setup on a > booted machine. :-) What do you mean? That's a photo taken from a virtual machine, while it is booting. The host is of course booted, but the guest is of course not booted. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

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Re: [opensuse] opensuse 12.3 x64 and could not activate IPv6
by josef Karliak 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Hi, we've disabled ipv6 on all servers, we hadn't IPv6 IP from providers. In this case the server is a firewall between LAN, DMZ and WAN. I enabled IPv6 on anothers server too, but only on this " important" server I've problem to enable IPv6. Why ? I've 6to4 tunneling at home on opensuse 12.2, at work is native IPv6 on another opensuse 12.2 with dns service, no problem at all... Kernel isn't old - "Linux kost.fnhk.cz 3.7.10-1.40-default #1 SMP Thu Jul 10 11:22:12 UTC 2014 (9b06319) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux". J.Karliak Dne 17.9.2014 v 08:29 Per Jessen napsal(a): > josef Karliak wrote: > >> Good morning, >> I've some weird problems with opensuse 12.3 x64-bit on HP DL380G7 >> server, in the yast I've checked "enable ipv6" and rebooted server. >> Still I've not enabled IPv6, "sysctl -a" shows me only ipv4 configs. >> Did I missed something somewhere ? On another servers all works fine. >> This server has all updates (from tomorrow). >> Thanks and best regards >> J.Karliak. > Hi Josef > > it would have been better to start a new thread instead of tagging this > on to the "DNS not working 1.31" thread - > > however, there isn't really enough information for anyone to go on. Why > did you need to enable ipv6 on this server, was it disabled before? I > have a number of servers running 12.3 with ipv6, both physical and > virtual, no problems. > > > /Per > -- 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] Google Voice no longer working in Chromium
by James Knott 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

I have used Google Voice in the Chromium browser in the past. However, it has now stopped working. When I try to make a call, the dialer says to download the voice plugin. I have done that, but it still doesn't work. I'm running 64 bit 13.1 and Chromium version 36.0.1985.125. tnx jk -- 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 install 'doc' all I find is 'noarch': "not my arch"...ummmm
by Linda Walsh 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

# rpm -qpi /suse131/oss/audit-visualize-1.5.2-109.1.2.noarch.rpm /suse131/oss/gnuplot-doc-4.6.3-2.1.4.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%] package gnuplot-doc-4.6.3-2.1.4.noarch is intended for a different architecture package audit-visualize-1.5.2-109.1.2.noarch is intended for a different architecture ---dang -- any idea where I can find the right 'noarch' pack for my arch? (!???!) Didn't seem to be w/recent updates... If I force install these will that switch my platform to noarch? (keeping str8 face here)... WTB?! (Bleep) Do I have to have some special 'noarch' addon to install these packages? What might have gotten cleared in rpm that might indicate noarch doesn't apply anymore? Or did my 'noarch' processor go bad? Anyone got a spare 'noarch' processor I could use (maybe a socket for it would help too... maybe it goes in a USB slot? )... *sigh*.... Some little "bit" must have changed somewhere... So how do tell rpm that my 'noarch' is still working and I don't need a new 'noarch'?? (still trying to keep str8 face)...:-| Thanks, ... -- 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] DNS not working 13.1
by James Knott 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

My firewall computer, running openSUSE 13.1 no longer uses external DNS look up, but does use the hosts file. Wireshark shows it's not even attempting to access the DNS servers. I have tried recreating resolv.conf, but the problem remains. Any idea why it wouldn't access DNS servers? Routing to the Internet is fine. -- 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] recording flash audio output with pulseaudio
by Istvan Gabor 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Hello: I want to record flash audio output on my hard disk as wave file. Up to now I have done by running the command pacat --record -d alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -L -b 16 -c 2 - "output.wav This records not only the flash output but every sound sent to the speakers including desktop effect sounds etc. It is also sensible to the volume, that is the recorded sound's volume depends on the volume sent to the speakers. Because of this I can't change the speaker output volume when recording. Fortunately I found a solution: https://en.opensuse.org/User:Gnyers/RecordFlashAudioOutput This gives instructions how to record the flash audio only: 1. Create a virtual stream For a clean recording without any "contamination" from other audio sources create a dedicated virtual stream $ pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=FlashPlugin 2. Find out the Sink index of the Flash audio output. Look for the 'plugin-container' binary $ pacmd list-sink-inputs | egrep 'index:|sink:|application.process.binary' index: 0 sink: 0 <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo> application.process.binary = "plugin-container" index: 503 sink: 0 <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo> application.process.binary = "mplayer" In this case: INDEX=0 3. Move the audio output of the Flash plug-in to "FlashPlugin", the dedicated stream. pactl move-sink-input $INDEX FlashPlugin 4. Record the "FlashPlugin" sink uncompressed wav: parec -d FlashPlugin.monitor --file-format flash-audio-output-capture.wav This works well, but when I apply the 3rd command (pactl move-sink-input) the sound is redirected and can't be heard on the speakers, I can not monitor what I record. How could I record and monitor the recorded sound simoultaneously? Another question: how can I move the audio output back to the speakers? The instruction doesn't say it. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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