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[opensuse] grub-customizer
by James Knott 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Any chance of adding grub-customizer to the distro? This would return the boot menu editing function that was lost with the switch to grub2. https://software.opensuse.org/package/grub-customizer -- 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] ideacentre Stick300
by Chuck Payne 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Hi, I am trying to install linux on to a ideacentre stick 300. I been reading they forum where people are getting Ubuntu install with the following ----- n fact, if You have the proper directory stucture for EFI boot on Your USB device (EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi) it will enable You to boot from the USB after pessing ESC at boot time and selecting boot options. The same You can achieve via the 'Boot from file" option, when You select the USB device and find the EFI boot file manually. I've just managed to install Ubuntu Linux (15.10) to the Ideacenter Stick 300 device, so if You need I can provide some tips, how to do it :-) Amos ---- Should I use unebootin and choose the EFI-mode boot loader then ELILO? I guess I will need to use openSUSE 13.2 correct since leap there is no 32-bit version I am asking because I have found these steps ( sorry they are for ubuntu I am trying to change them for openSUSE ) . Do we have by change tablet mix? Broadly speaking, if you need to install Ubuntu (or any other Linux distribution) on a computer with a 32-bit EFI and no BIOS/CSM/legacy-mode boot support, the way to do it is: Use unetbootin or something similar to prepare an installation USB flash drive. (It's possible to get it to work with a CD-R, but this takes more work.) Choose an EFI-mode boot loader for Linux. I recommend ELILO, Fedora's patched GRUB Legacy, rEFInd, or gummiboot because they're relatively easy to set up manually. GRUB 2 is far too difficult to configure manually, and SYSLINUX is too new. Research your chosen boot loader's configuration file format and its needs in terms of kernel location. Check the original CD image to find its boot loader configuration. You need to know what options are being passed to the kernel by the boot loader. Add an EFI/BOOT directory to a FAT partition on the USB flash drive that now holds your Linux image. Ideally, this partition should be an ESP (that is, have a "boot flag" set in parted or have a type code of EF00 in gdisk if the disk uses GPT; or have a type code of 0xEF in fdisk if the disk uses MBR), but some ESPs can cope without that. If the disk doesn't have a FAT partition, you'll need to create one Copy your chosen boot loader's binary file (with a name that ends in .efi) to the EFI/BOOTdirectory on the USB flash drive, and rename it to bootia32.efi -- that is, it should be EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi. Be sure to copy the 32-bit version of the boot loader! Install any support files that the boot loader needs, such as drivers, images, modules, and configuration files. In some cases (such as ELILO and gummiboot), you'll need to copy your kernel and initrd file to the FAT partition that holds the boot loader. Edit the configuration file(s) for your boot loader so that it can launch the kernel with the options you identified earlier by examining the BIOS-mode boot loader's configuration. Reboot to test the boot loader. With any luck it will work and you'll be able to install everything. I can't guarantee that Ubuntu will install a 32-bit EFI boot loader, though. If not, you'll need to boot an emergency system and set that up manually, too. You may also need to debug something, particularly if unetbootin (or whatever you use) doesn't set up the flash drive in the optimal way. Of course, this description is fairly vague about the critical detail of configuring the boot loader. This is because I haven't done it recently (although I have in the past), and the details vary depending on what boot loader you choose. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. -- 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][mozilla][gdb] unhappy with 13.1 (32bit) switch to 42.1 (64bit)
by Felix Miata 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

I had no trouble for a very long time with any Mozillas. Now that I've "upgraded" to 64 bit, (mozilla.org's static binary) Firefox ESR 10, which worked fine in KDE3/13.1-32, instead in KDE3/42.1-64 gives "g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed" instead of starting, and I'm unable to find any solution or workaround, only complaints that "fixed" bugs are not fixed, and stale open bugs on both openSUSE BZ and mozilla.org BZ, none of which for rv10 FF. Trying with a virgin profile or with -safe-mode or with ulimit -c unlimited does not help. Also, $ gdb /usr/local/ffe10/firefox -P ffe10 -safe-mode could not open ffe10: No such file or directory Is gdb broken in Leap? The claimed nosuch seems a lie. 32 bit FF 3.6.28 won't run and I can't locate a 64 bit version of it. FFESR38 (mozilla's), FFESR17 (openSUSE rpm) and SeaMonkeys (both mozilla's and Leap rpms) seem perfectly fine. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920260 suggests maybe some defect in glibc is at the root of the FFESR10 nostart. Suggestions, other than not using FFESR10 and/or switching back to 13.1, welcome. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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 on Lenovo 201 - failure to start any x session
by stakanov＠freenet.de 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

I tried to install Leap on a Lenovo X201, all updates during install. Results so far: if you password protect grub, it works but the unlocking in order to access a "failsafe setting" does not work. If you take of the passwordprotection of grub then then you find out that a failsafe session has simply not been set up. So I will have to do that by hand and since it does not seem that it accepts boot parameters in grub I will have to put them into yast. If somebody knows the settings for a X201 it would be nice to tell me. Login: encrypted lvm works, the boot runs without error up to when sddm should start the session but: if autologin is off: just promt, no sddm screen if autologin is on: tty1 with login , no graphical desktop. user can login via cli, but no x. loging in to preexisting accounts shows normal file structure and content, so not a problem of the hdd or filesystem. Login in a new user shows /bin and just one more fiel (which is normal, the xsession of that user never started. How can I find out why the xsession does not start. I get no error message what so ever. I checked in /etc/sddm.conf and minj VT is set correctly for VT7. dmesg gives no help, no errors journalctl no errors Any way to find out why plasma 5 does not start at all? It would be nice to have at least an error message. BTW: the graphics and mask for the encrypted lvm are displayed normal. So the intel graphics and settings are sensed correctly. At least during boot. --- 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] boot AMD RAID
by Xen 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Has anyone successfully installed and booted from a system on an AMD RAID? I wonder if more is needed is ensuring that "dmraid -ay" is called in the initrd, since the 13.2 installer recognises the arrays. This is the firmware RAID that people derogatively call "fake raid". On my first attempt, the system did install, but it failed to boot properly; I forgot which error I got. Regards, Xen. -- 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] vine videos on 13.2 / firefox 43
by listreader 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Howdy... Yes, seems I have been whining a lot this week... Vine videos don't play on my 13.2 install with firefox 43 (opensuse version) unless I manually go and disable the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. 1.5.1" plugin that is auto-installed. Since I have the flash plugin set as "ask-to-activate", I then also have to click again to allow the vine video to actually run with flash. Disabling / re-enabling process is annoying and there is no "ask-to-activate" option for the OpenH264 plugin. What is the result if I leave this plugin permanently disabled? Will all html5 stuff now fail? Is there that much html5-only stuff out there at this point in time that I will now have to reverse that disable / enable process each time I want to view those? How does everyone else deal with this annoyance? Or, am I even understanding the problem correctly? Thanks. Ralph -- 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] Problems with upgrade to LEAP
by don fisher 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

I am using wicked in Leap 42.1. When I execute wicked show config all I get: lo up link: #1, state up type: loopback config: compat:suse:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lo leases: ipv4 static granted leases: ipv6 static granted addr: ipv4 127.0.0.1/8 [static] addr: ipv6 ::1/128 [static] eth1 device-unconfigured link: #2, state down, mtu 1500 type: ethernet, hwaddr 00:19:b9:85:2c:bb wlan1 device-unconfigured link: #3, state down, mtu 1500 type: wireless When I go to the Yast network settings, it does not give me any option for the devices as in 13.2 If I execute the lsmod command, both the b44 and ssd modules are loaded as expected. It I edit the device under yast and tell it to use b44, and then return the field is blank again. if I wicked ifreload all eth0 no-device wlan0 no-device even though the modules are loaded. grub also appears to have become confused. On boot there is a message that says it is trying to boot by UUID and I get a 1.5 minute timeout while it tries. It is eventually successful. That message does not appear is my dmesg listing, but I do get the following message: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.1.13-5-default root=UUID=67655536-6308-45bb-a4d4-3ce065e5e1f3 video=1920x1200@60 processor.ignore_ppc=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/486575f8-5169-44e7-ba5b-8268e2a7bfb8 splash=silent quiet showopts Should I just run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to make a new one, or is something else going on? Thanks don -- 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] bugzilla wtf
by listreader 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Howdy... I have been trying to file a bug (see thread with title: 13.2 LUKS boot problem). I get the form, fill it out, but am unable to submit because everything continually times out with Bad Gateway. WTF? http://paste.opensuse.org/images/97876747.jpg Ralph -- 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] ban impact
by Ruben Safir 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

Or we can remove this list from the board. Or we can move to a better distro, like Arch and my personal favorite these days, Manjaro without systemd On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 05:11:31AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2015-12-27 01:40, Felix Miata wrote: > > Ruben Safir composed on 2015-12-26 19:18 (UTC-0500): > > > >> you think that he sits with baited bredth reading posts on the > >> website to email users privately? > > > > No. He does it same as before, as they come into his emailbox. He > > only needs click on a different reply button than before, and the > > results don't get peer reviewed or archived. > > Well, it is not the same... I reply to few threads, privately. I have > to wait to see if somebody else replies first. Then I have to collect > the addresses of those people, and concoct a very careful reply... it > takes more time. And I forget interested people. > > And maybe it does not reach some of the appropriate people, and there > is no peer review of what I say. > > > And it is heavy because my soul is heavy, with anger at the injustice. > I am on the second tranquilizer pill today, and another yesterday, in > order to be able to read Richard lies again. > > - -- > Cheers / Saludos, > > Carlos E. R. > > (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlZ/ZPMACgkQja8UbcUWM1xV2gEAgXfDtv8IVu5vgY1iA8efYUFr > ImizG8DGAdNlhvNzrrYA/0DystCrJhm7vCIx8tr0XO2io3oi/iZl1RDl0uWjxpMP > =HOKs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- 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] The Post that got Carlos ER Banded !!
by Ruben Safir 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 05:37:53AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2015-12-27 00:38, Ruben Safir wrote: > > > The question at this point should be, if we create a new mailing > > list for opensuse tech support, would you be willing to moderate > > the list and contribute as usual. If so, I think I can find a home > > for a new OpenSuSE tech support list. > > No, sorry, I can not moderate a list. I don't have those skills. > > And alternative mail list is an idea I had, but it would break up the > community more. > At this point it doesn't make much of a difference for several reasons. Primarily opensuse is slowly dieing, which is why SuSE announced not long ago that they were going to move away from the desktop and put more emphasis in "enterprise" systems. I don't know, I'm not a business maven, but I do know that the where SuSE has succeeded like no other distro was making a truly kitchen sink and integrated desktop. And I don't think they ever leveraged it. Even going back to the Novel take over when they come to NYC, they all but killed ximian, and had no clue as to what X11 was and how it could be leveraged. Everyone just surrendered this area to Microsoft, when everyone knew Microsofts products sucked and wasn't even enterprise ready. The list has dropped from several thousand posts a month, to a few hundred. usenet is all but dead. NOTHING fragmented the community like systemd. Moderating a list is a lot easier than people think. Mostly, just do nothing. It is an illusion that you have to hold peoples hands in order to have working conversation. The real issue is if you can get talent to support a list with real tech support. I can't do that. I wish I could. I even went back to school at age 52 in order to improve that, but I still can't. What will attack traffic is good answers, and visability on the infowebs. It is up to you Carlos. Ruben > - -- > Cheers / Saludos, > > Carlos E. R. > > (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlZ/ayEACgkQja8UbcUWM1xX8QD/UnlkTMRuiUwM9Xf+RWcX/2XU > kZ7KpiLHQPJffDJILGgA/iqywxIDDcMhvoIruPl0uhketPbGpnYrorn9xll1PHq8 > =twB+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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