January 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Flash-Player Update to 11.2.202.440
by David Haller 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hello, flash-player versions 11.2.202.438 and older has a serious vulnerability, so Adobe actually did release an update to .440. The update for supported versions is in multimedia:apps, and Marcus said on the -de ML he'll push the update to supported versions i.e. 13.1, 13.2 and Factory aka Tumbleweed. I (just) built the package (no change in respect to mm:apps, it's a link with no diff for you that know OBS) for 12.1, 12.2 and 12.3, go to http://software.opensuse.org/package/flash-player open all, scroll to the very end and you'll find the flash-player 11.2.202.440 package for "12.x Update standard" in "home:dnh". Use 1 Click or add my repo (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dnh and choose your version) with a lower priority that does NOT supersede other repos, i.e. with a higher "number", e.g. 142. Then, search for the flash-player package in zypper/yast2 and _only_ switch that the flash-stuff to my repo via the version tab in yast2 or the exact version in zypper (IIRC). I have other stuff in the repo, that might not be what you want (though openssl might be) :) That way, you should get newest flash-player (as safe as it gets I guess). But you should use HTML5 when available and bug companies and people not to use flash anymore. Oh, and with firefox/seamonkey: do install prefbar (http://prefbar.mozdev.org) and get a handy checkbox for en-/disabling Flash (and lots of other stuff like checkboxes for JS / Cookies / Animations / Java). I've not tested it on youtube, but there's at least one site where I get mp4 via HTML5 embedding when flash is disabled and flv via flash when it is enabled. So, such a checkbox is quite handy :) Also, you might want to set to "true" the media.mediasource.enabled pref in about:config (or create a prefbar-checkbox for it, it's easy). Oh, and for 12.2 and 13.1 up (but not for 12.1 and 12.3) there's freshplayer-plugin on packman, somehow shimming the chrome flashplayer via an Plugin-API adapter into mozillen or so, that way, you are supposed to get the current plugin used in chrome (16.x now?) ;) I have no idea how stable that shim is though. HTH, -dnh -- As it turned out, this cute girl I had been talking too spoke Russian. One instant gift at hand. As it turned out we had a lot in common. We both liked girls for one thing. Ah well. -- stevo -- 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] KDE4 System Administration drive me nuts
by Istvan Gabor 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hello: This is in openSUSE 13.2 with its default KDE4 (4.14.3). I want to configure the login manager (KDM). I start it from Configure Desktop -> System Administration -> Login Screen. It doesn't ask for root password. OK. I change a setting and try to save by clicking "Apply". Now it asks for root password. I fill it and the change is applied. I change another thing, "Apply" again. Is asks for root password again. And it goes on like this. Every time I click "Apply" it asks for the root password. This is very annoying. In KDE3 it was sufficient to enter root passord only once to enter administrator mode and after that you could make and apply as many changes as you wanted without entering the root password again in that session. What is the rationale behind this new "feature"? Is there any way to set back the KDE3 behavior? 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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[opensuse] apper problem on 13.2: WAS: apper problem on 13.1 32-bit.
by Mark Hounschell 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

On 10/06/2014 12:53 PM, Mark Hounschell wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I started seeing a little red box with a white X > in it on my kde panel. When I hover the mouse over it it reads: > > file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml:22:1: > plugin cannot be loaded for module "org.kde.apper": Cannot load library > /usr/lib/kde4/imports/org/kde/apper/libapperplugin.so (libapper.so: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) > > When, as user, I run apper I get a graphical box that says: > > Cannot load library /use/lib/kde4/kcm_apper.so: (libapper.so: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory) Cannot load library > /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_apper.so: (libapper.so: cannot open shared object > file: Nosuch file or directory) > > Possible reasons: > *An error occured during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned > control module > *You have old third party modules lying around. > > I can still get updates with yast but it would be nice to have apper > working again. I have removed and reinstalled apper and all the above > files seem to be present. > > Thanks > Mark > I know this is an old subject, but I never got any hits on this. This was back on 13.1. I'm now running fresh installs of 13.2 (32 and 64 bit). And it has hit me again on both the 32 bit and 64 bit installs. The details above match exactly what happens on my 32 bit 13.2 install. Below are details from the 64-bit install. As user: apper Object::connect: No such signal KCModule::caption(QString) Then an apper box that reads: Cannot load library /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_apper.so: (libapper.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory) Possible reasons: * An error occured during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module. * You have old third party modules lying arounf Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributer or packager. I don't seem to be missing any of the 2 files in the error message? #ls -al /usr/lib64/apper/libapper.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337696 Oct 8 23:16 /usr/lib64/apper/libapper.so #ls -al /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_apper.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 339320 Oct 8 23:16 /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_apper.so # ls -al /usr/lib64/kde4/imports/org/kde/apper/libapperplugin.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64248 Oct 8 23:16 /usr/lib64/kde4/imports/org/kde/apper/libapperplugin.so And again, both machines have a little red box with a white X in it on my panel where normally the apper icon would be if there were updates. I can still do updates with yast but apper seems dead on both boxes. Any ideas? Thanks Mark -- 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 says "Failed to open private bus connection: ... /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket"
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I get this entry in the _warning_ log: <3.4> 2015-01-26 12:23:01 Telcontar systemd 6618 - - Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/9/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory User 9 is "news", can login but does not, and runs some cron jobs with fetchnews, and the leafnode daemon, serving nntp on localhost. By the timestamp I know that it is cron. This entry in "/etc/cron.d/mine": - -3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,58 * * * * news /var/lib/news/bin/cronscriptparafetchnews That script contains: #!/bin/bash HORA=`date --rfc-3339=ns` echo "================> $HORA Start fetchnews session" >> /var/lib/news/fetchnews.cron.log 2>&1 /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vv >> /var/lib/news/fetchnews.cron.log 2>&1 HORA=`date --rfc-3339=ns` echo "================> $HORA End fetchnews session" >> /var/lib/news/fetchnews.cron.log 2>&1 I know, or guess, that the bus connection is created on login, but a cron job does not login. In fact, the tree does exist: Telcontar:~ # tree /run/user/9 /run/user/9 └── systemd └── private 1 directory, 1 file Telcontar:~ # But not the dbus directory. I'd tend to ignore that log entry, but it comes in the warning log, not in the messages log, so whoever designed that thought the error to be important. But I don't know what real effect it may have. The recent thread "[opensuse] What is /run/user/<user-id> directory and how to make sure it's created?" maybe related to this issue. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlTGKrsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W0ngCglIDssD11t9/4pPcCsMUrbbEC 7lYAni8eCHAqv+aF/XxeURg6KCPQx+Ib =oSze -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] New zypper colors every initial character in words
by Andrei Borzenkov 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Just updated zypper and running zypper patch second time got rather funny looking picture (http://susepaste.org/60056148) - every package and patch name has initial character colored. Is it expected? zypper 1.11.17 -- 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] Btrfs and SSD
by Paul Carlson 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

I'm about do do an install of openSUSE 13.2 on a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Opinions on the internet about both the shape of the earth and the wisdom of using various filesystems on SSDs differ. My intention is to use conventional partitioning and accept the defaults of btrfs and xfs for / and /home respectively. I don't want to use LVM for a number of reasons, chiefly because this has to co-exist with a Ubuntu system (partially on the same drive) because I support family who use Ubuntu and Kylin (the Ubuntu flavor for Chinese speakers). I'm reasonably familiar with SUSE, having used it from 9.1 until I got discouraged with it somewhere around 10.2 and KDE 4.0. There are some warnings out there about using btrfs on SSDs due to excessive writes. Does anyone here have any experience or wisdom on this to share? Will the installer recognize that it is installing on an SSD and make the appropriate changes to fstab, or will I have to do it by hand later? On ext4 filesystems I've been adding noatime to SSD mounts. Is this recommended for btrfs and xfs? -- Paul Carlson N 39.4448 W 119.7503 Elv. 1360m -- 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] Plasma Desktop and Plasmoids
by Radule Šoškić 26 Jan '15

26 Jan '15

Hi list, I've noticed that bugs in some plasmoids can crash the whole Plasma Desktop. E.g, there are cases when Dilbert Comic Plasmoid gets confused with new arrangement on Scot Adams' web site, and it crashes causing the whole Plasma desktop to go off. This makes me wandering about Plasma design, architecture, security and other conceptual stuff. I mean, the widgets (plasmoids) come from all sort of sources (it's meant to be like that), and it seems that any of them can crash my desktop at any time. If they can crash it, than it means they can do a lot of other stuff as well. One would expect that Plasma should be better isolated from plasmoid impact on its stability. Just thinking that somebody on this list might come with more insightful and educative comment. Will Plasma 5 bring anything new in this regard? ~rmš~ N��r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛��m�)z{.��+�:�{Zr�az�'z��j)h��Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��

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[opensuse] What is /run/user/<user-id> directory and how to make sure it's created?
by Istvan Gabor 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

Hello: I would like to help users by logging in through VNC session. Since the user doesn't have strong password I don't allow to log in the user through ssh. Instead I log in in my name and then su to that user and start the vncserver. Briefly: ssh <user1> target.machine user1@target> su user2 user2@target> vncserver :1 So far it's OK. When I try to connect to the vncserver I get only a blank window with an error message: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation. VNC log file shows: Error: cannot create directory "/run/user/1002": Permission denied startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation. 1002 is the UID of user2. I guess as I su-ed to user 2 from user1 login, the directory hasn't been created. How can I fix this one? If the given user is logged in locally this problem doesn't appear, but I need to use the VNC session even if the user is logged out. 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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[opensuse] what's with the new zypper bling-bling?
by Per Jessen 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

http://files.jessen.ch/zypper-bling1.jpeg http://files.jessen.ch/zypper-bling2.jpeg Isn't it a little over the top? What's with the first letter of each package being given a colour too?? The red and green do not make the text any more legible, IMHO. In fact the opposite. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.7°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- 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] "Select multiple files in GTK YaST2 software installer at once"
by André Verwijs 25 Jan '15

25 Jan '15

i'm writing about an old bug, old bug "Select multiple files in GTK YaST2 software installer at once" https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=268167 still hasn't been implemented (as far as i know). I hope this is still on the "to do" list... makes it a lot easier to work with Yast2 (or other software manager) thank you ______________________________________________________________________________________ My Twitter Page: http://twitter.com/OpenSimFan My Facebook page (be my friend, please ) http://www.facebook.com/andre.verwijs My Google+ page (follow me please ) André Verwijs - Google+ <https://plus.google.com/111310545842863442992/posts> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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