October 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Useful book for neophytes
by Anton Aylward 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

'Self-Service Linux' in the Bruce Perens series. Authors: Mark Wilding and Dan Behman PRENTICE HALL Professional Technical Reference ISBN 0-13-147751-X It's freely downloadable from http://itknowledgecloud.tradepub.com You will need an account there, but its also a trove of other interesting publications on a wide variety of technical matters. Why is this useful? Its about problems solving in the Linux world. its not going to be a great use to people who have been using Linux, coding for Linux solely using Linux for a decade or more, but for people coming to Linux from Windows it will help them over a conceptual hurdle, introduce a lot of the very basic assumptions that "old timers" take for granted and often don't realise they are assuming. While some technical aspects of the book are out of date -- it was published in 2006 -- the first chapter on problem determination is a classic and well worth reading. If you work though the examples you may find that a few of the details are out of date, but the basic principles of using things like 'strace',, of keeping logs, and more are still applicable. After registration ay ItKnowledgeCloud try http://itknowledgecloud.tradepub.com/free/w_infk03/ -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- 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] adobe flash player crashes in browser
by Istvan Gabor 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Hello: I've been using adobe flash player in firefox browser to listen to live radio stream and it practically never crashed. Recently I've changed my mobo and processor with built in intel graphics. Previously I had standalone nvidia graphics card and used nvidia proprietary driver with nomodeset option in grub. With the new hardware I use (I guess) nouveau driver and I removed nomodeset option from grub. I haven't changed the operating system or browser of flash player. Now flash player crashes about ~30-40 minutes. I don't know if this is related to new graphics, only coincidence, or caused by something else. How can I check and fix it? The system is openSUSE 12.2 (I know it's old) with KDE3.5 and firefox esr24, and flash plugin 11.2.202.442. 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] Why is Leap x86_64 only?
by David C. Rankin 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

All, Why is Leap x86_64 only? What is the technical reason openSuSE cannot build i586 packages as well. I would expect to see the "We don't want you anymore" kiss-off to i586 from the bleeding edge distros well before openSuSE. Arch (the bleeding edge) still packages i686 on the 4.2 kernel, so it isn't a "can't be done issue". Why now? -- 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] Leap 42.1 Beta, quick report
by Stanislav Baiduzhyi 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

So, I've installed Leap 42.1 Beta 2 days ago. Here is a quick report of what I've found so far: 1. Network ISO. Asks how do I want to connect (wifi, wpa2-psk), then asks which mirror to use, than again asks how to connect and loops in those 2 questions without ever exiting. Was not able to go any farther, so had to download full iso. 2. ISO installation went very well, even much better than 13.2 because it had nasty issue of scanning my built-in ssd (zenbook ux32vd) for 40 minutes, Leap scanned it relatively fast. Only couple of minor issues with package selection with "minimal X" variant: a) it wants to install GTK 3 without a single GTK3 app? b) looks like yast-ncurses is the only yast ui present. c) no pattern for LXQt, while it is relatively stable at this point, maybe even version 0.10 will come in time for the release. Hopefully it will not be hard to get up-to-date and stabilized version later, so not a big issue. d) with minimal X variant, would be nice to have some lightweight web browser as well. 3. New IceWM theme is great! Thanx! 4. Plymouth screen misses the chameleon... 5. Though I haven't checked which exact font is that, default plasma 5 font is quite awkward, looks like some kind of mix of serif and sans-serif family. I've seen a proposal of changing the default font to Google Noto, looks like it was not applied yet? 6. And the biggest hit so far is missing packman repos, so I will not install Leap on other machines until packman will catch up. So far release is great! Haven't expected it to be so stable and so polished already, waiting with anticipation for final release! Thanx everyone who put their effort in making this release work! -- 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: Konsole crash when exiting from ssh session since updates earlier this week
by Christopher Myers 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

If it makes any difference, these were the updates that were installed, but I'm not sure what would have caused the issue? mariadb-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:10 AM CDT libmysqld18-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:10 AM CDT mariadb-errormessages-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT mariadb-client-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT libmysqlclient_r18-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT libmysqlclient18-5.5.45-10.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT libgcrypt11-1.5.4-2.12.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT bind-utils-9.9.4P2-2.17.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:09 AM CDT owncloud-client-l10n-2.0.1-15.5.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:08 AM CDT owncloud-client-2.0.1-15.5.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:08 AM CDT libreadline5-5.2-131.1.2.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:08 AM CDT flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.521-135.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:08 AM CDT bind-libs-9.9.4P2-2.17.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 10:07:08 AM CDT virtualbox-qt-4.2.32-2.43.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:23 AM CDT python-virtualbox-4.2.32-2.43.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:23 AM CDT freshplayerplugin-0.3.2-14.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:23 AM CDT virtualbox-websrv-4.2.32-2.43.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:22 AM CDT virtualbox-4.2.32-2.43.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:21 AM CDT xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.14.3.901-22.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:20 AM CDT libgdiplus0-2.10.9-3.3.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:20 AM CDT libusbmuxd4-1.0.10-11.2.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT libswresample1-2.8-24.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT libowncloudsync0-2.0.1-15.5.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT libconfig9-1.4.9-4.1.2.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT libavutil54-2.8-24.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT libavcodec56-2.8-24.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:19 AM CDT flash-player-11.2.202.521-135.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:18 AM CDT libstreamanalyzer0-0.7.8-13.123.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:16 AM CDT libsoxr0-0.1.2-8.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:16 AM CDT chromium-pepper-flash-19.0.0.185-1.1.i586 Wed 30 Sep 2015 08:15:16 AM CDT -- 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] Konsole crash when exiting from ssh session since updates earlier this week
by Christopher Myers 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

I was just curious if anyone else has been having issues with Konsole crashing when you exit from an SSH session? I haven't had any problems before this week, but it's been pretty frequent since installing the latest oS 13.1 patches a few days ago. Chris -- 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] separate disks
by buhorojo 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi http://ofertaexpress.pccomponentes.com/toshiba_canvio_alu_2_5_2tb_usb_3.htm… Does anyone have experience with these for to work offline? It says windows ntfs only. I wonder if we could hack a different file system onto it. Or will our opensuse portables work ok? Also, we wonder if we upload to our google domain, does it syncronize the whole 2tb each time? 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] Leap, question about smartcards with gpg. Regression?
by stakanov＠freenet.de 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

Hi, I wanted to ask if anybody else tried to use the cryptostick or an opensc smartcard in leap and encounters problems. I did and while I am able to get in konsole gpg --card-status as su -, I cannot get any card status in konsole as a user. As a result also gpa fails "fail to open card". Therefore it seems that in leap there is a regression with permissions. In 13.2 the same card runs flawlessly as a user. Anybody else exprienced this? In case I will have to file a bug. Cli as user: gpg --card-status gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Errore della scheda gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Errore della scheda The card is good and in su- the card gives complete output. # gpg --card-status Application ID ...: D27600012401020000050000xxxx0000 Version ..........: 2.0 Manufacturer .....: ZeitControl Serial number ....: 00001xxx Name of cardholder: [not set] Language prefs ...: de Sex ..............: male URL of public key : [not set] Login data .......: [not set] Signature PIN ....: forced Key attributes ...: 3072R 4096R 3072R Max. PIN lengths .: 32 32 32 PIN retry counter : 3 0 3 Signature counter : 4 Signature key ....: AD88 9619 0569 B313 5916 FDAE 443B 12F4 1A77 8DF8 created ....: 2015-08-30 18:03:32 Encryption key....: FC6B D738 657F 2788 86C5 B547 697A 7A51 F184 B3F1 created ....: 2015-08-30 18:00:27 Authentication key: E6A1 9CAE 7FBF E0D3 6EDB 76A7 9A74 732F 45B8 2A22 created ....: 2015-08-30 18:21:01 General key info..: [none] scdaemon[4661]: updating slot 0 status: 0x0000->0x0007 (0->1) scdaemon[4661]: scdaemon (GnuPG) 2.0.24 stopped --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- 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] Developing Leap 42.1 Info
by Douglas DeMaio 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

The release date for Leap 42.1 is approaching and to make this release is as successful as the last, we could sure use your help. There are several things we can do as a community to improve awareness of Leap both inside and outside of the Free and Open Source Software community. I kindly ask everyone involved with the openSUSE project to update the wiki in preparation for the release at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.1. Our last release, 13.2, was very successful and it would be great if we can replicate that effort by updating the information for 42.1, so it looks similar to https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:13.2 Developers, packages maintainers and anyone else knowledgeable about what has changed in the new versions could add information to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Major_features42.1, which we can use to replace https://en.opensuse.org/Features on the day of the release. Screenshots are also important and anyone can do it! Just help replace the 13.2 screenshots on https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.1/Screenshots/1 page with Leap 42.1 screenshots. It will replace the https://en.opensuse.org/Screenshots page on Nov. 4 with the updated screenshots. Media - Please retweet, +1 or share all info related to the release of Leap 42.1. Test the Beta, RC1 and release and express your opinion about it. Let people know what you like about it or what could improve for Leap 42.2. Submit articles to open source media outlets, write blogs and comment articles related to openSUSE. Attend FOSS and Open Source events to help others learn about openSUSE. If you want to represent openSUSE at these events, contact me and I?ll see what marketing material I can send you. Have a lot of fun! Doug -- 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] separate disks
by stakanov＠freenet.de 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

¡Hola! So I cannot tell you about google. But for all external SATA I have ever seen applies the following: The SATA interface is branched onto a card inside the box that does the communication via the USB channel. USB3.0 as HDD interface is actually worth the money if you have 3.0 or 2.1 on your PC or laptop because even in the case of 2.1 in my experience it is still faster, even if slightly. With 3.0 hdd to 3.0 PC it becomes really fast. Besides, inside is a normal HDD in standard format. So if one day it brakes and the box is still good, you can simply change the HDD. NTFS is only on it, because it is thought to work "out of the box" with people using Windows and technically not capable to format a disc. I tried several flavours on my disks: ext4, fat32, ntfs, luks encrypted ext4. All worked out of the box in Opensuse. It may be a bit more difficult to mount multiple partitions in automatic, with or without luks encryption. But it is possible, I recall having it done I do not know what google uses to synchronize. If you use rsync you will sync only the changes and you can even fine-tune what and how often you do synchronize (but you have to RTFM, intended). Hope that helps. Hasta pronto. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! http://email.freenet.de/basic/Informationen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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