September 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [opensuse] Installing Opensuse 13.2 on a Macbook 2.1 (2006)
by Benjamin 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Hallo again! I managed to install refind through an old osx and then with refind i managed to install oS 13.2 but when i everytime i start the laptop the entry of oS is shown in refind. When i select it a black screen is coming say: "No bootable device found…insert a bottable…". And: When i insert the Install-DVD while the laptop is booting i reach at first the menu of the install-dvd. When i then select "Boot from harddisk" everyhing works fine and grub2 is loaded and oS ist working like a charm… I think it has to do with the bootmanager (refind) and the bootloader of oS. I also tried the follwoing: created a folder "Opensuse" in the /sda1/EFI/efi/ and put in there the vmlinuz… kernel and the corresponding intird… this lead to the result that the bootoption has shown up in the refind menue buzt when i select it the process hangs up. I also tried to rename the kernel with .efi ending. I also tried to enable efistub but i don know how to do this… Help is appreciated ;) Thanks, Benjamin. Ps.: Thanks Simon for your good advice! Am 03.09.2015 um 17:36 schrieb Benjamin: > Hi! > Thanks for the hint, i will try it asap and let you know…Thanks! > > Best, Benjamin. > > Am 03.09.2015 um 12:16 schrieb Simon Heimbach: >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> have you got refind installed? Especially on older Macs there's no >> way around overwriting your EFI-firmware. >> You find the download and an instruction here: >> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ >> After having installed refind, you can easily boot from a DVD, >> install opensuse and GRUB and then have a choice what you want to >> boot during the startup of your computer. >> >> Read the instructions carefully. I don't know what happens if you >> have Win installed via Bootcamp. You might run into some trouble and >> you better be safe than sorry :). >> >> Regards! >> Simon >> >> >> Am 02.09.2015 13:52, schrieb Benjamin: >>> Hi Guys! >>> I have a problem with the installation of Opensuse on a Macbook 2.1 >>> (the white one with the black spot to the right). I tried o whole lot >>> of different methods install oS but nothing seems to work. I tried to >>> insert the dvd, some live cds also via usb and i tried also to make an >>> seperat partition in the internal hdd on which a put the installation >>> iso with dd command. But nothing seems to help, the installation media >>> is not even detected by the startup manager of the macbook. I'm sorry >>> to ask here because too I'm not a friend of apple ;) but anyway…The >>> only thing i managed to do is the follwoing Question: >>> I installed Windows XP which i had on an old cd. From win xp i tried >>> to install oS 13.2 via the installer. In the bootmenu i can see the >>> 13.2. installer but when i select it, i get an error concerning the >>> harddisk. The Error Message is simply, that there is something rotten >>> with the harddiskconfiguration. Then the black screen appears and the >>> system hangs. >>> I know that it is quite special stuff because the Laptop is from the >>> year 2006 but maybe someone knows o word about that…Thanks. >>> >>> Best, Benjamin. >>> >>> >>> Ps.: I also tried it with the 12.2 dvd. But the same error occurs. >>> Pss.: Beside Win XP i also managed to start gparted via a >>> live-Cd…helpful that stuff! >> > -- 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] 13.2 Rescue PXE
by Matwey V. Kornilov 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Hello, Now I am experimenting with openSUSE 13.2 Rescue CD booting from CD, but I cannot enable SSH using kernel command line. I tried "sshd=1 password=linux", "usessh=1 password=linux" - nothing works. I would like to boot rescue system through PXE exposing ssh access. -- 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] Re: pdfchain in publishing repository has broken depencies
by Malcolm 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:37:23 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 09/18/2015 06:31 AM, Malcolm wrote: > > Hi > > This isn't necessary because the rpm build knows it wants it, your > > system can't locate to install causing the error you see. > > > > The package is in the default repos, so do you have additional > > repositories that may have switched something? > > > > If you search for the package, do you find it? > > No, > > The problem is a package naming error in 13.1 somewhere: > > Problem: nothing provides libgdkmm-3.0.so.1()(64bit) needed by > ^^^ > libgtkmm-3_0-1-3.10.0-1.1.x86_64.rpm > ^^^ > > rpm is looking for: > > libgdkmm > ^^^ > > when it should be looking for: > > libgtkmm > ^^^ > > See the difference 'gdk' verses 'gtk' in the names? Where does > this come from? > Hi Both the gdk and the gtk libraries come from the libgdkmm package, the build knows them both but your system doesn't seem to... At the following link look in the right hand column "Requires" and on the left part is libgdkmm-3.0.so.1()(64bit and the right part provided by shows libgtkmm-3_0-1 https://build.opensuse.org/package/binary/Publishing/pdfchain?arch=x86_64&f… The following link show it provides it; https://build.opensuse.org/package/binary/openSUSE:13.1/gtkmm3?arch=x86_64&… -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 | GNOME 3.10.1 | 3.12.44-52.10-default up 2 days 0:49, 4 users, load average: 0.43, 0.36, 0.28 CPU Intel® Core i3-3227U CPU @ 1.90GHz | GPU Intel® HD Graphics 4000 -- 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: Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Why do I feel that KDE is slow
by Thierry de Coulon 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

On Friday 18 September 2015 08.46:56 David C. Rankin wrote: > Well, I have wickedly fast load times with all applications, no complaints, > kde is blazingly fast on my 7 year old laptop ... KDE3 that is... I've got that too. I've got TDE. -- 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] cannot rm file or directory from filesystem's / (permission denied)
by Felix Miata 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

Googling for cannot files/directories from / seems fruitless, everything being directed either deeper or to things I tried. This summarizes most of what I have tried: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] ... md1 : active raid1 sdb9[3] sda9[2] 10650988 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/163 pages [0KB], 32KB chunk # tune2fs -l /dev/md1 tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Filesystem volume name: 09suse131 Last mounted on: /mnt Filesystem UUID: 057eab05-ebb3-4bfe-8a08-4dc60cc044d3 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 667648 Block count: 5325494 Reserved block count: 266274 Free blocks: 2939203 Free inodes: 528883 First block: 0 Block size: 2048 Fragment size: 2048 Reserved GDT blocks: 512 Blocks per group: 16384 Fragments per group: 16384 Inodes per group: 2048 Inode blocks per group: 128 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Sat Apr 12 01:43:08 2014 Last mount time: Sun Sep 20 16:20:30 2015 Last write time: Sun Sep 20 16:27:31 2015 Mount count: 2 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Sun Sep 20 16:09:43 2015 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 17 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 2c8dc3c9-9c5e-4e8d-805c-6d5f5b85f62a Journal backup: inode blocks # mount | grep /dev/md1 /dev/md1 on /mnt type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) # ls -l /mnt/out -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 120 Apr 16 2014 /mnt/out # lsattr /mnt/out -------------e-- /mnt/out # rm /mnt/out rm: remove regular file /mnt/out? rm: cannot remove /mnt/out: Permission denied # rm -f /mnt/out rm: cannot remove /mnt/out: Permission denied Same/similar happens with two non-standard (non-FHS) 0775 directories and three 644 files, and trying to delete any of them using MC. It also happens when it's the running 13.1 / filesystem. Forced fsck didn't help. IIRC, this filesystem was originally EXT3, later updated to EXT4 following some cmdline instructions found Googling. Short of backup, delete stubborn entries from backup, format the filesystem, and restore, can anyone suggest any relatively user friendly way to remove these stubborn files? -- "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] Can't download packages from OBS error with connection...
by André Verwijs 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Can't download packages from OBS error with connection... Error connecting to http://api-opensuse.suse.de///published/server:database:postgresql/openSUSE…: Response was: #<Net::HTTPBadRequest:0x007f9d7c1f8c60> <status code="400"> <summary>Can't use string ("/srv/obs/repos/server:/database:") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/obs/server//bs_repserver line 3925.</summary> </status> screenshot: Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqh8wj3oxi110iv/OBS-error.png?dl=0 Copy.com - https://copy.com/Hkkl4ilKrpSE8tsb Google Drive - http://tinyurl.com/nc4nbs4 MS OneDrive - http://1drv.ms/1NKh4Vs haven't tested with other packages.... André -- 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] Increasing size of Live USB root partition?
by Andrei Borzenkov 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

I am playing with Live USB before killing perfectly working Ubuntu preinstalled on my new notebook :) Live CD/USB image is ~900MB. I wrote it to 2MB USB stick, but after installing couple of packages and playing with it for half an hour I got "no space left on device" for root. Is it possible to increase size of root partition (before booting it for the first time or after - does not matter). TIA -andrei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Why do I feel that KDE is slow
by Xen 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

On 09/05/2015 03:17 PM, Anton Aylward wrote: > On 09/05/2015 07:36 AM, Xen wrote: >> >> I don't know what else, but especially the alt-f2 thing is extremely >> slow to come down, in the first place. Why should such a dialog take >> more than no-time to drop down?. > Good question. > > Why does it take time for you but no noticeable time for me? I don't know that is my question I guess. I don't think it is a matter of differing perception here. It is just a regular 4-year old laptop. 4GB ram. 2x1.87 GHz cpu. Nothing special, nothing weird, nothing bad. Old 1.8" SATA HDD. Reportedly, not as fast. Maybe it is a matter of perception, I don't know. But it is definitely not instant with the keypress. It can't be a disk issue because such things must be cached. Maybe it's just a slight delay combined with the animation. The slight delay is there in the first place. If I play around with it (keep pressing it) the delay grows sometimes to more than a second. Maybe you don't place just high demands, I don't know. I just notice it. I also have reference material (just coming from Windows a short while back). Well, I have been using a version of Linux most of the time during the last 8 months (when I had a computer) but the few weeks of Windows have left me with that indelible impression of slowness here. The way pressing alt-F7 from a tty to get back the graphical screen, is instant. Absolutely instant. I have used the Windows win-R, type notepad, enter, for so many years. There is a big difference between what I am doing now. I am trying to do the same with KWrite, and it is at least 3x slower, meaning I have to pause before I go on. I'm not used to that, and nor do I think I can ever get used to that. Usually what happens is that you try to find alternatives like binding a key, but that is a nasty workaround that you ideally don't want to use. You like to be able to use any default system like you're used to. My workflow in Windows was just instant instant instant. Things like Notepad and Putty. I can say alt-tab is also not instant here. Using the default big-thumbnail horizontal switcher of KDE 4. Thumbnails I can't interpret visually ;-). What's the use even. Most of the window switchers are quite useless. The small icons are much too small. The big icons are much too big. And not all icons scale the same; for instance Opera and Quassel don't scale up, but Thunderbird and Console do. The grid is even more useless than the thumbnails. Cover and flip switch are nice but too 'verbal'. Too much movement/visual difference. I have now settled for the "Informative" vertical list without icons for a while. Sure, a simple alt-tab is almost instant, but not quite. The visual impression is that of an outline of a window being drawn including fill, and then that drawn outline being faded in. Title and buttons are having a fade-in here. The window is instant but the text and buttons are not, which is a visual effect of having to wait. It is not handled by KWin's "Fade" apparently. Perhaps it is subtle but it makes a large difference in how you perceive the system responds to you. The plasma 5 window switcher (the vertical one) is also quite useless btw. You know what I'd say to myself? Maybe you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place. Maybe you should stop using a computer for a while. Stay away from it for a while. If I'd then speak of designer incompentence, I'd say: you can't blame the developers for your life being a mess. ;-). Maybe I should indeed just stay away from computers. Answer: that would be very right for you. Format the entire hard drive, put Windows back on it, and send it back to where it came from. Right now. But I'd lose all the software! You can rebuild it. Then I wouldn't need to blame anyone anymore for my experiences. -- 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] pdfchain in publishing repository has broken depencies
by David C. Rankin 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

All, Selecting 'pdfchain-0.4.4-11.1.x86_64' from repository 'publish' for installation. Resolving package dependencies... Force resolution: No Problem: nothing provides libgdkmm-3.0.so.1()(64bit) needed by pdfchain-0.4.4-11.1.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install pdfchain-0.4.4-11.1.x86_64 Solution 2: break pdfchain-0.4.4-11.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies The problem was the spec only listed gtkmm3-devel as a build dep: BuildRequires: gtkmm3-devel when it is also needed as a runtime dependency: Requires: gtkmm3-devel I branched the project and updated the spec. Now how do I tell the guys running the publishing repo to look at the changes and incorporate them in the publishing package? -- 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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Re: [opensuse] Yast/Grub2 keeps seeing a ghost [solved]
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

On Thursday 17 September 2015 02.08:33 John Andersen wrote: > You've probably copied the /boot as well. > In the past, when replacing drives, I've had to boot up with a live > of some sort, then mount the /boot partition, and spend a little > time editing Grub files, and adjusting GUIDs of the drives and > partitions. Yes, I did - I need it as the kernel is there. I did edit what I found, I anyway never use the UUIDs (They probably are usefull to someone, but not to me. I seldom add or remove drives to a machine, but I do copy partitions and there the UUIDs are a pain and not a help). On Thursday 17 September 2015 05.34:08 Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > Check /etc/default/grub_installdevice Cпасибо Андрей ! That was what I was looking for. /dev/disk/by-id then gives the needed information. Now yast/bootaloader works again, Thank you. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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