September 2015 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Yast/Grub2 keeps seeing a ghost
by Thierry de Coulon 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Hello all, I have recently set up a Thinkpad X220 Tablet. As I intended to use some features of the touchscreen, in a first time I have left the original Windows 7 - updated to Windows 10 - and installed 13.2 on the rest of the 320GB Disc. As openSUSE works very well (for what I want to do actually better than Windows), I have decides to replace the original hard disc with a 240GB SSD, on which I have copied the openSUSE install (with PartedMagic). I intended to then boot into the system with Rescatux and reinstall Grub. however this failed: I can't start Yast/Bootloader. i get the following error: Internal error. please report a bug report with logs. Details: Unknown udev device /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HITACHI_HTS7232_E38.44563HDN1SN-part3 Caller: /usr/share/YAST2/lib/bootloader/device_mapping.rb:in 'to_kerneldevice' The "unknown udev device is evidently the original hard disc, part3 being the original root partition. The question is where is this stupid information saved and how can I get rid of it? It's the first time I get this error when moving partitions. I've solved the basic problem (installing grub)by running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg grub2-install /dev/sda So the most important works, but I can't seem to be able to let Grub know that I changed the timeout - and anyway I'd like to understand why I can't let the Hitachi drive disappear from grub's memory. 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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[opensuse] general question USB stick
by C. Brouerius van Nidek 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Having one USB stick with 14,4 GB I wondered why a 4,4 GB iso file could not be copied to this stick. Formatted as Fat it informed me that it could only hold 4,2 GB. Have formatted now with ext2 and it now takes the iso file with ease. Could somebody give me some background info? -- Linux User 183145 using KDE4 and LXDE on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 20150909 (x86_64) Kernel: 4.2.0-6.g31d60fb-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.14.10 13:48pm up 1:34, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.28, 0.59 -- 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 log into Gnome desktop after updates
by Adam Sailer 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Cannot log into Gnome desktop after updates Hello, I'm experiencing this issue on two different computers after running updates this weekend. I click on my username, enter my password, click the 'sign in' button, and then nothing happens. I've tried clearing the contents of /tmp/, clearing /home/username/.caches and /home/username/.config... I've even backed up my home directory, deleted my user account, and then created my user account fresh... nothing seems to make a difference. These two machines have NVidia graphics cards, one a GT-240, and the other a GTX-550TI. I'm not sure where to go from here and help would be appreciated. Thank you, Adam -- 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] Suse 13.2: xterm - yast2 - keyboard mapping shifted
by peter.chiu＠stfc.ac.uk 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

I have experienced an odd problem with keyboard mapping and wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this: >From my MS Windows 8 desktop, I use putty to log on a OpenSuse 13.2 machine. All the key mappings are fine on the terminal session. When I enter yast2 & to start up YaST Control Center, in the Search box, my keyboard inputs are shifted by one key, ie. pressing the button "q" will show nothing, but pressing the button "w" will give "q". Likewise, pressing the letter a will show nothing, but pressing the letter s will give a in the Search box. Similarly, 2 becomes 1, 3 becomes 2, and x becomes z and c becomes x... All these however work perfectly fine at the OpenSuse 13.2 console. But it happens again when I use ssh -Y to log on from another Linux box and then start up yast2 again. Should also say, the xterm sessions work fine, just the yast2 window is showing this oddity. Any idea? -- 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] openSUSE releases end of life
by Roger Oberholtzer 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

The end of life statement (https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime) for openSUSE does not state this for openSUSE 13.1 and 13.2. Have the dates been set? Roger Oberholtzer RST Systems Office: +46 (0)10-615 6020 Mobile: +46 (0)70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer(a)ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- 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] Wicked-manager ?
by Koenraad Lelong 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hi, I was using Network manager, but when I booted this morning it was gone. What I mean, the tray-applet didn't work any more. Yesterday I did some investigations in Yast concerning networks, maybe I did something wrong because this morning Network services were disabled. When I tried to enable them in Yast, only Wicked was the choice. Enabling that gave me back my network, but then I couldn't select which (wireless) networks I want to use, or start the VPN's I have. googling told me how to get Network-manager back, so that's OK. Another thing I found however is that it seems Wicked is the future. Is there something similar to the Network-manager applet to control Wicked ? Thanks. Koenraad -- 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] converting text to table
by Istvan Gabor 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

Hello: I would lie to convert a simple ascii or utf8 encoded textfile to a table. The text has no delimiters between columns, but each column in the text file has its specific character lenght. For example in each row of the text characters 1-10 should go into column 1, characters 12-19 into column 2 etc. Is this possible, how? 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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Re: [opensuse] lease do *NOT* automatically install hplip packages..!!
by stakanov＠freenet.de 14 Sep '15

14 Sep '15

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }> There are two ways to packaging decisions One is to have everything > that you might ever need installed, or at least recommended, to makes > things easy when using the system (the kernel does this, it has > drivers for everything possible, but most of them as modules). Space > is cheap nowdays, and so is bandwidth - but not always, not everywhere. > > The other method is to install the minimal amount possible, and > instead install what is necessary later, on demand, automatic or manual. > > Both things are not possible, and each person wants one of the methods > and dislikes the other :-) > > > On the other hand, we have another issue: recommended packages are > handled differently since 13.2. It is not easy to disable them. > > > -- > Cheers / Saludos, > > Carlos E. R. You may then use of course meta-packages or patterns to pull in a whole bunch of rpm. This is the way they do with ktp. so one could do a printer pattern by producer. All this said: this does not take into account the limited (and not so well paid if ever) human resources of the project. Every atomization of the work-flow will cost resources. If the packaging process once set up is automatic the latter argument does obviously not hold. While I personally understand to install the less possible, for reasons of new users coming from outside of the linux world (that have been told that it is not compatible bla bla bla, I would rather stick for hardware driver (like printer) to install all OSS drivers available. These are not a humongous load. Of course if HP, Lexmark, Samsung want to insist on proprietary stuff they should end up in separate packages to be on demand. Just my thoughts about that exchange you had here. Saluti, Saludos, Cheers, :-) --- 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] lease do *NOT* automatically install hplip packages..!!
by André Verwijs 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

Please do *NOT* automatically install (with fresh install or update) the following packages, or remove dependencies. - hplip-sane - hplip-hpijs - hplip - OpenPrintingPPDs-hpijs if you have a HP device (printer scanner), install packages manually... i don't have HP devices so i'm not using it... 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] FF 40 bookmark diagoue -- gone?
by Anton Aylward 13 Sep '15

13 Sep '15

I seem to be missing the bookmark dialogue I once had. The ctrl-D used to let me specify the folder in the bookmarks, tags and comment. This doesn't happen any more. How can I get it back? -- 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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