August 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Print to file not available
by Thomas Taylor 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

After a recent system re-install (hard drive crash) the "print to file" option is no longer available on the print menu (ctrl-P), only the installed printers are shown. These are the same printers that were installed on previous install. The "print to file" option is not available in "Yast > hardware > printers" and also is not an option in CUPS setup. Is this option installed by programs such as Okular? (installed 4.11.5-150) openSuSE 13.1 KDE 4.11.2 In the previous install I was able to do CTRL-P, select "print to file", and save it to a *.pdf file. This is useful if I don't want to print the whole document, only a selected portion. Thanks, Tom -- When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. - Anonymous ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor KG7CFC openSUSE 13.1 (64-bit), Kernel 3.11.6-4-default, KDE 4.11.2, AMD A8-7600, GeForce GTX 740 T/PCIe/ 16GB RAM -- 3x1.5TB sata2 -- 128GB-SSD FF 37.0, claws-mail 3.10.1 registered linux user 263467 -- 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: [open OFF LIST suse] political surreality thread [OT]
by Carlos E. R. 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-22 05:06, Anton Aylward wrote: > On 08/21/2015 10:44 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >> Mmm... seems Spain is not the only stupid in the game :-P > > Its not really "Pot:kettle::Black", it too global, to pervasive and > in some places quite insidious. Yep. I know. It is a move pushed by people (multinational enterprises) with a lot of money, so they do it in all the countries they can. The government here just happens to be excessively "obedient". Spain may have a backlash and go the way of Syriza in Greece, though. > Meanwhile, I can go along to my local hardware store and buy a > grid that's about a square meter, leave it on the dashboard of my > car. it might be trickle charging the car batter, for all the good > that might do, ha ha ha, or it might be charging my {phone, tablet, > laptop}. > http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/coleman-2-5w-solar-battery-maintainer-011… > > http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/coleman-solar-battery-charger-20-watt-12-… But in a car it is about pointless. A car engine makes 50..100 KW of power on fuel, thus the 5 watts of a panel means nothing. Unless, of course, you don't use the car much. On a boat in the harbour yes, it does make a difference, specially on sail boats. They need to keep a light or two (even "parked") and a pump sometimes. But a wind generator seems to be more effective or cheap, it seems. > or useful if you're out camping and want to watch a movie on your > tablet. > http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/coleman-40w-folding-solar-panel-0112043p.… > > or hold a disco party on the beach > http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/eton-rukus-portable-bluetooth-sound-syste… I > still have some canadiantire vouchers :-p > As, as one friend has it, keep your electronics powered when you're > out on the boat, which is well away from the grid, and you don't > want to run up the motor. Yep. > Since this has nothing to do with the power grid its not a > political hot item. is it? No, it shouldn't :-) Maybe I should buy a cabin in the mountain. :-) But then, no fibre internet :-( - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXYW4oACgkQja8UbcUWM1xLGgD+KfKQgCy1CZBsFYMDBu3BsX9P 5z3MIK0OEchX/XeTyEIBAIK6kooCfTE2RCNZjNrtBkgK3NqaYOl2VKyi7KKO12av =MmYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] total failure with all webRTC and VOIP calls since the dawn of time
by gumb 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '15

I posted here at the start of last year but had no response to this message: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2014-01/msg00864.html So here's a very long follow-up, but you can't blame me for not giving enough detail :) (someone invariably will) Abysmally, more than a year and a half later, I'm still having endless problems making any form of voice/video calls under anything but Skype, and even that has presented many issues in recent years to the point of sometimes being unusable. I'd like opinion or advice from anybody else who successfully makes calls from one openSUSE or Linux machine to another, using a webRTC solution such as Firefox Hello or Talky (in Firefox, not Chrome), or alternatively Jitsi. These are what I have tried to absolutely no avail, thus I think throwing other applications into the hat is of little use even if it works for you; there is likely some other fundamental problem that needs resolving. Is it possible that either the openSUSE firewall or AppArmor could block any or part of these services? Even if so, that doesn't explain problems I've had on another machine running AVLinux. Here's some of the issues I've been encountering since trying to make such calls over the last 3 years to another openSUSE user in another country: - Audio or video is non-existent at one end or both - Audio is so choppy and robotised to the point of being inaudible - Audio is delayed by anything up to three minutes in reaching the other end (I hear my own echo minutes after I've spoken, in a voice resembling the final dying words of the head of the Daleks) - Video freezes after a short while, or is garbled As such, I've never once been able to make a successfull call. These are amongst the many things I've tried (list non-exhaustive): - Several computers (desktops / laptops, 32/64-bit) - Different distros (always Linux, but I've tried under both openSUSE and AVLinux) - Different distro versions (from at least openSUSE 12.3, perhaps earlier, through to 13.2 on one device). The main machines at both ends have had fresh installs at least once. - Different sound servers (AVLinux for example uses Jack and doesn't have PulseAudio installed; previously I tried with ALSA on openSUSE) - Different Phonon backends in KDE (Gstreamer is the only one that now seems to work on my main 13.1 installation; installing the latest VLC backend available from official updates results in error messages) - Multiple webcams, microphones or the built-in mic on my laptop - Multiple sound mixers: alsamixer, PulseAudio Volume Control, KMix, some others on AVLinux, and playing about with all the settings I can find within. See this screen capture from yesterday, for example: http://susepaste.org/43266483 - Anything obviously wrong? - Firefox versions from 22 thru 40 (for Firefox Hello / Talky), and enabling/disabling video acceleration in the browser - Different Internet Service Providers from two separate addresses at each end (we've both moved in the time I've been trying to fix this; in all cases these are broadband services that present no noticeable bandwidth problems, indeed PlusNet at the UK end prioritise VOIP traffic for the relevant account type) - Router settings (static/dynamic IP, mixed IPv4/6 or IPv4 only). Both ends now use Ethernet connections though I have also tried with wifi. I don't wish to install nor use Chrome/Chromium at both ends just for this one purpose. By many other user accounts/experiences, solutions such as Firefox Hello should 'just work'. I've been trying since webRTC first got implemented in Firefox around version 22. It never works for me. Yesterday I spent another hour trying out various things. In Jitsi, having checked and monitored my mic and output levels in three different mixers, then verified both the webcam and mic are picking up correctly in Jitsi's settings (XMPP/Jabber call) upon establishing the connection, no video appears at either end, the mic monitor levels show nothing and neither end can see nor hear anything. None of the mixer apps show any changes. Jitsi, with its ill-fitting interface that clashes with my dark theme, also causes video issues when I open other windows like KDE System Settings or Konsole. I haven't experienced video issues anywhere else before on this system. In Firefox Hello, I activate the mic/webcam when prompted, my own video shows, though it usually freezes after a couple of minutes and hogs the machine's resources, forcing a hang-up and re-establishing of the call. My daily machine is a laptop with a Core 2 Duo @2.4GHz, 4GB of RAM, an nVidia Quadro NVS 135M (proprietary driver), and an Intel 530 SSD. I can run multiple other simultaneous programs with no problem. When the other party joins, I see their video, albeit at a slow frame rate, I can just about make out their robotised voices, but they hear what I say up to three minutes later as incomprehensible gobbledegook, by which time my video's frozen again. In Talky, I see my video, but nothing at all happens when the other party joins the call. There is no indication / sound / video. They tell me they reached the same screen as me with their own video shown in the left column, after activating the mic/webcam, but nothing more happened. As I mentioned, even Skype causes difficulties although we used to use it regularly with no problems. I've been guarding an ancient (ten-year-old) 32-bit laptop in reserve that I have to wheel out just for this purpose. It runs oS 13.2 with LXDE and once upon a time handled Skype under KDE as my main machine, but in the last three years Skype calls have got progressively unreliable and are sometimes unusable too, with garbled robot stuttering voices. This is insane! I'm lost as to what more I can try. Anybody else hitting their head against the wall in the same way? gumb -- 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] lost root login
by Patrick Shanahan 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

For reasons I perfer not to mention, I disable root login in "yast users" and now cannot su to root or login from the prompt. Attempting to login as root says incorrect password and I know the password is not incorrect. How to recover? tks -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- 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] Yast segfault in Tumbleweed
by John Layt 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hi, Yast has started segfaulting after running an update: ithaca:/home/odysseus # yast2 --qt Run command: /sbin/yast2 sw_single & YaST got signal 11 at file /usr/share/YaST2/modules/PackagesUI.rb:303 /sbin/yast2: line 434: 3252 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS Any ideas? This is on Tumbleweed Note that the ncurses interface works fine. John. -- 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] Farewell commands totally messed up
by Albert Oszkó 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hi all, I have this problem for some time, and now I decided to try to fix it. I have a Lenovo G505 laptop with oS 13.2 and KDE 4.14.9. I have UEFI and secure boot. There are two users: my wife and me. Logging out from the session is e.g to change users, is totally impossible in the normal way. When I am the active user, and right click on the table to log out, the system gets suspended/hibernated/locked up. I cannot decide since suspension and hibernation never really worked on this machine. They seemingly work, but the system cannot wake up. When my wife tries to logout, the system shuts down cleanly instead. I have no idea where to begin. Any hints out there? Albert -- 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] html5 video
by jdd 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello, I try to setup html5 video as mp4 files. This page http://dodin.org/~piwigo/testplayers/testhtml5.html works in nearly any browser, showing two videos, but the second one do not show in my Firefox (openSUSE 13.2 uptodate), when it was build with the exact same handbrake script HandBrakeCLI --optimize --encoder x264 --x264-profile high -i $a -o html5/$b.mp4 I get the same (mime type) error on my android phone and firefox direct link http://dodin.org/~piwigo/testplayers/testhtml5.mp4 gives me "corrupted file", but only in firefox :-( do you see any thing I miss? thanks jdd -- 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] sound independent from desktop login session
by Istvan Gabor 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello: I would like to play music on my computer independent from the user session. For example if I start playing music as user 1 on vt7 and user 2 logs in on vt8, the second desktop takes over sound control and turns the sound off (playing the music is not stopped at vt7, only volume is turned off). How to set sound so that it would continue playing (would not turn off volume) when the desktop is changed? I use KDE3 with ALSA and KDE4 with pulse audio. 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] very slow display
by jdd 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello, since some time my display become extremely slow my computer is a 5 years old one, with an nvidia gt215 and free driver any recent change? thanks jdd -- 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] openSuSE 13.1 xfs issue
by Carlos E. R. 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-21 02:12, Lew Wolfgang wrote: > On 08/20/2015 05:06 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: I can't reply to you off-list, so I'm back to reply on-list. Your server thinks I'm a spammer: <wolfgang@....>: host sanrail.com[66.240.238.202] said: 550 5.7.1 Rejected: 217.116.26.100 listed at sip.invaluement.com (in reply to MAIL FROM command) > Hi Carlos, > > I downgraded to xfsprogs-3.1.11-2.1.2.x86_64 and all seems to be > well. > > What was going on with xfs "corruption"? Did xfsprogs-3.2.2-45 > help? Yes. There was a problem with hibernation causing corruption, and the repair tools were unable to correct the corruption. I had to update the tools to fsck my system. Meanwhile, a patch was applied to the kernel, so that the corruption should not happen now. It was Bug 899785 - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXWcmsACgkQja8UbcUWM1zc/gD/e6vrNN8tYft1cPUbpltN3F8Q h1Q576cYhGLBCbd7AMQBAJZXtX67aUFhg4f2tVbUexoSTczZdTETp4aTMwa4x7MU =EPTs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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