January 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] OpenSUSE 13.2?
by Emilio Recio 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

It's added at my gateway and there's nothing I can do about it. On 2016-01-13, 10:07, "Anton Aylward" <opensuse(a)antonaylward.com> wrote: >Things like that are totally inappropriate for a mailing list, and of >dubious value in any circumstance. > The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.

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[opensuse] Debian and swap
by jdd 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, May be you remember than recently I had a mess with swap, getting an unknown swp uuid. I just learn than hen installing Debian on a disk, Debian reformat the swap partition with a new uuid... and of course when I had my problem I just installed a Debian on the same drive (but of course an other partition). Reason to use /dev/sdXY for multiboot swap 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] boot any system
by jdd 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, I had recently boot problems, probably related to hardware problems (I stopped debugging this, too hard), I had to boot a damaged install (kernel available, but no initrd) and failed so. It's probably something simple I missed (but the tumbleweed rescue "start linux" system failed also). openSUSE can boot using "vmlinuz-xen" and "initrd-xen" from the /boot folder of the dvd to launch the install. It's easy (for one knowing the grub editor as I do) to copy these two files on any disk and lauch the install from there with grub. but how can I launch a rescue or native system from this? I tried to add "set root=/dev/sdXY" in grub, with no success other kernel/initrd? ideas? 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] making iso from distribution bootable usb stick
by jdd 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, We all probably know several ways to create a bootable usb stick from an iso image. I have lot of them in my openSUSE booth kit. But from time to time, pretty rarely, I get a computer that do not want to boot my usb pen. I had that yesterday, a 32 bits computer that booted leap 64 usb (onbly to say it can't install it, of course), but refused to boot 13.2 32 bits (that booted perfectly on the next computer). So, as I don't want to keep several dvd with me, I would like to know how to extract the iso from the usb device to copy it to a blank dvd (I can have spare ones). optionally, I was said it's possible with debian usb pen to boot any (probably debian) media, plug the usb and continue install from there. Is it possible to do the same with openSUSE? If so, I could use a single boot dvd and run after this any usb pen in other words, is it possible to launch yast-install from the command line? thanks jss -- 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] software updates in LEAP system tray
by George Olson (SUSE list) 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Having just recently gotten Leap up and running on my main desktop and main laptop, I noticed that the software updates reminder is giving reminders pretty regularly now. In older versions of openSUSE, this was run by a program called apper, and I would just uninstall it so that I would run updates at my own convenience. My general practice has been to only run security patches regularly, as in daily, and bigger updates I would check maybe once a month or at longer intervals. I also remember there being a lot of complaints about apper, that was why in older versions I would just uninstall apper and run a zypper patch or zypper update to update everything when I needed to. I am interested in knowing 2 things about the new way of doing it in Leap. 1 - what is the name of the program/application/daemon that is running the software updates reminder that keeps popping up in my system tray? Apper is not installed on my new system, and I was not able to figure it out 2 - What does everyone thinkabout the new software updates management tool? Should I get rid of it and go back to my old practice? (thatis what I intend to do unless there are good reasons not to) Do people like it? Are the updates better now that Leap is a more stable system? -- George Box #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 16GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB Laptop #2: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB -- 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: Re: [opensuse] Leap, KDE, Bluetooth: how to create a special keyboard shortcut for an inside application function
by stakanov＠freenet.de 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Carlos E. R. > Gesendet: Di. 12.01.2016 13:18 > An: OS-en , > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Leap, KDE, Bluetooth: how to create a special keyboard shortcut for an inside application function > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday, 2016-01-08 at 11:49 +0100, stakanov(a)freenet.de wrote: > >> Hello everybody. >> Question: Once it is paired with one, > > I would expect this to be a limitation of the mouse itself, not the BT > stack on the computers. Check its documentation to see if it supports > several computers. If it says "yes", we could try to devise a way... :-? > > - -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. > (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Well, the problem seems to be dual fold. One hand the pairing function for 13.2 is broken for BT mice (the problem is known and a won'tfix because it does substantially work in kde5). So it is fixed in Leap. But I found out today that the pairing function for bluetooth devices is broken at least for Samsung GMS smartphones in Leap too. Pairing fails and several odd things happen (like phones that are not paired are still able to be browsed by the PC, etc. I will check if someone did report this already if not open a bug report. Sure is that even if defining a manual PIN this does apparently not allow the mouse to connect if the other notebook/PC sends the correct password. So probably the mouse is limited (which in case of broken pairing function as in 13.2 makes BT mices for 13.2 useless). The logitech documentation of the device is......pitiful. For the time being we decided to use the mouse only on one machine. P.s. Welcome back. --- 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] I am confused: "high end" graphics Laptop for Suse (in Spain)?
by Daniel Bauer 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hi list(eners) I need to buy a new laptop and am very confused with the new hardware and it's compatibility with OpenSuse (I guess I will install leap?), especially this secure boot thing etc. I see that most of the laptops come with Win10 plus special stuff (cloud space and don't know what else), but I plan to reformat the disks and make a pure, fully encrypted Linux-machine, no dual boot, but Win within a virtualbox (needed for some camera software). What do I have to look for/make sure to have/not have, so that I can do a more or less easy install without being an expert, and without too much time to tinker and solve problems? Anybody has experience with recent HP, Asus, Lenovo? And how about Toshiba, which always seem to be cheaper? The tests I found are outdated (or not dated) or not related to Linux. So any hints are much appreciated! (And if anybody has hints where to best buy in Spain: great!) Thanks Daniel (Must-haves: 15,6", very (very!) powerful and fast in graphics for large image/video editing, good screen, 1TB HD, maybe even + SSD for system, good battery life, I guess with Intel i7 65xx, Nvidia, 16GB mem...) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Barcelona http://www.daniel-bauer.com room in Barcelona: https://www.airbnb.es/rooms/2416137 -- 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] KDE Connect
by John Andersen 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

If you run KDE and have an Android phone, and you haven't heard about this little gem you might want to look into it. Free app for the phone, and a plugin to the KDE system settings panel. I run it on KDE 4.xx on OS 13.2 as well as on KDE5/Plasma 5 on Manjaro Linux. Very slick for sending files, and not having to reach for your phone just see who is sending you messages, clipboard integration, and it even mutes your music on the computer when your phone rings. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- 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 boots randomly
by jdd 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hello, I have a problem with Leap that seems to get worst. Leap boots only randomly (that is boots completely only once in a while). I was thinking it was related to resume, but no more now https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=960392 my last idea is that it's related to kernel 4, because I have no problem booting 13.2 with kernel 3 my first question: * is it possible to setup a kernel for Leap if not booted, for example from a running 13.2 install? now for each test I have to reboot ten times... to have one full reboot! second question: is there a 3.x kernel for Leap? 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] Is there a way to create a portable openSUSE setup?
by Pablo Dotro 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Greetings! I know most of the Ubuntu derivatives can be made into portable, persistent installs in USB drives. Is it possible to do the same with openSUSE? I need to be able to run some hardware compatibility tests and performance measurements in a new set of workstations, and doing them under oS, without disturbing the already installed Windows version is a requirement (hardware compatibility with oS is one of the things I need to test). I need to be able to customize, install, remove and save data to the oS install, so it needs to be persistent between sessions. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to go about it? Thanks in advance! Pablo Dotro DF-FCEyN-UBA -- 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, KDE, Bluetooth: how to create a special keyboard shortcut for an inside application function
by stakanov＠freenet.de 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

Hello everybody. Question: a friend of mine has two PC. a) a home PC midi tower with normal keyboard b) a notebook both have BT support. She has bought a new mouse logitech BT587 and wants to do the following: to take the mouse and use it regularly on both computers. Problem is up to now that I cannot pair the device with both PC. Once it is paired with one, it does not function with the other (of course if the other PC is switched off). The reason is the automated pair function. So: 1) can I "clone" the BT paired folder to the laptop to use the same device with two computers? 2) can I pair both PCs without loosing the mouse on any of them and how would I achieve this. (Leap, KDE) 3) if I cannot do so, there is a problem that arises. I can easily pair the device because of the touchpad of the notebook. But on the PC I have a problem because to pair it with the kde BT I need a mouse, but that IS (or should be) my mouse. So can I create a shortcut that corresponds to an easy keyboard function and point it to the function of: "pair a new device"? In that way that the BT search function opens, the mouse can be selected with up/down keys between the devices and then enter key will pair and from there on the mouse is available, problem solved... Thank you for all eventual solutions. P.S. the user is not "CLI" expert so to define a keyboard shortcut to reach from "naked started desktop" would be the most viable solution in case of case "3". --- 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] help with 4way_handshake_timeout
by don fisher 12 Jan '16

12 Jan '16

The wireless card on one of my systems will not connect. I am running wicked under 13.2. Looking at Google, they suggest changing the channel to improve signal strength, or extending the allowed time out period. Is there a way under openSuse to read the signal strength? What file needs to be modified to extend the time out period? Or other suggestions if the above are bogus hints. 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] packagekitd
by ianseeks 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hi my little Software Updater widget says its "Checking Updates" and its never getting to a point where it decides there are either "None" or "at least one" - how can you inform it to give up and try again later? I checked the System Activity (all Processes, Tree view) and it shows packagekitd with children of snapper.py and btrfs-defrag-pl - i'm not using btrfs, why is it loading a defrag for it? I've also got 4 stopped "plasmashell" entries in System Activity - should they go away? I'm using latest tumbleweed snapshot and kdm... regards Ian -- 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] sometime Dolphin bugs on copy
by jdd 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hello Is there a way to read the logs of Dolphin (Leap, Kde plasma5?) When I try to copy folders from two Dolphin tags, I often get the error "found a file when a folder was expected" as it's not always, I would like to have more infos before posting a bugzilla entry. This just come right now when trying to copy a folder tree, but it's not the first time. Usually closing Dolphin and reopening it allows the copy. I noticed that if the tree was 2016 2016tr1 flile.jpg on the target I find a file "2016" (that was not present before), so the error may be writing a file when a folder was expected 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] Strange update problem - Leap 42.1
by Gustav Degreef 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Hello, I have been unable to update (via zypper, YOU or apper) since some time. It behaved normally after the initial install for some weeks. I can ping "google.com", Skype is working fine and I can access web pages with FF. But Apper says that the "network is offline". YOU fails to access multiple respositories. Also when I try to add a repository, I reach the page where I can select the community repositories but then I click next it gives the error that it failed to find any list of repositories. I have 13.2 on separate partitions and it behaves perfectly fine. On leap, Zypper gives the following: linux:/home/user # zypper patch Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/repodata/repomd.xml': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to download.opensuse.org port 80: Network is unreachable Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): a ABORT request: Aborting requested by user linux:/home/user # zypper ref Download (curl) error for 'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/content': Error code: Connection failed Error message: Failed to connect to download.opensuse.org port 80: Network is unreachable Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): a I have nver seen anything like it. Any help would be appreciated. Gustav. These are my repos linux:/home/user # zypper ls # | Alias | Name | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Type ---+---------------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+--------- 1 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | No | yast2 2 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss_1 | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | rpm-md 3 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | (r ) Yes | No | yast2 4 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1 | Main Update Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | rpm-md 5 | linuxdownload.adobe.com-linux | Adobe Flash Plugin | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | rpm-md 6 | local | local | Yes | ( p) Yes | Yes | plaindir 7 | openSUSE-42.1-0 | openSUSE-42.1-0 | Yes | (r ) Yes | No | yast2 8 | opensuse-guide.org-repo | Libdvdcss Repository | No | ---- | No | rpm-md 9 | packman.inode.at-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | rpm-md 10 | repo-source | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Source | No | ---- | No | NONE 11 | repo-update | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes | rpm-md -- 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] Strange update problem - Leap 42.1
by Gustav Degreef 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

On 01/10/2016 05:01 AM, Gustav Degreef wrote: > An offlist suggestion was: >> >> Try edit /etc/gai.conf. There should be a commented out line such as: >> >> #precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 10 >> >> Change to: >> >> precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100 >> >> You probably just need to remove a '#', there is an explanation in the >> file. Restart network, and try a "zypper ref". >> >> >> Another posibility is you being behind some type of proxy, like on a >> university or corporation. >> I am not behind a proxy, just direct ADSL from local ISP. The suggested changes to /etc/gai.conf had NO effect. I also searched the opensuse forums for any posts on Leap 42.1 and no one seems to have the same issue. Thanks for all the replies, Gustav. -- 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] VirtualBox on LEAP
by George Olson (SUSE list) 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

On 01/03/2016 08:17 PM, Stanislav Baiduzhyi wrote: > It was changed, check out their changelog: > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog > > now its: > /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup > > Excellent, thanks for letting me know! -- George Box #1: 13.2 | KDE 4.14 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 16GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB Laptop #2: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB -- 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] .mod files
by don fisher 09 Jan '16

09 Jan '16

In a related thread, I stated that I used the distribution media with the upgrade option to update my system. As part of that process it did run grub2 and update the boot configuration. I now find that I have 256 .mod files in my root directory. What are they and what should I do with them? A Google link says they are usually generated by grub2, but I do not understand why they were generated or what to do with them. Ideas or pointers would be appreciated. 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] adding static ipv6 routes with YaST
by Per Jessen 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

I'll be testing this again later today, but last night I was having trouble setting up static IPv6 routes with YaST. They were simply never written to /etc/sysconfig/network/routes, nor was the current route table updated. I wanted to add e.g. fe80::1 as default gateway via ethX. 2001:DB8:1234::/48 on ethY. I tried on two different systems, 13.2 and Leap. Ring a bell with anyone? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- 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] Solved a problem: no mp3/mp4 sound via javascript in seamonkey and firefox FYI
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

To leave a trace for anybody in future going through this problem: symptom: no sound at all when a javascript calls MP3/MP4 on a webpage. When this occur, FF, then seamonkey, chromium and in the end even konqueror may be touched. The issue was in my case a corrupt cache. So you need to wipe ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0 Then it works like charm Thank you very much to Wolfgang Rosenauer who did find the solution to what drove me crazy. --- 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] (offtopic) how do you organize your data?
by Xen 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

I will try to keep this short, but I just wanted to ask if somebody had seen something or knows something that I might have missed. First of all this question is about textual or informational data. Just as you can keep e.g. newspaper articles in a folder, and notes in a notebook, and addresses in some address book, so too can you organize the same kind of data digitally. There are three categories of information: - personal (information pertaining to your person and your life) (first level) - notition (self-generated data that you maintain in order to remember things) (second level) - knowledge (archived articles, may included "bookmarks" as well) (third level). In Dutch I call these "personal", "data" and "knowledge" (or persoonlijk, gegevens, kennis). now of course you can just keep collections of text files interspersed with scanned images, saved photos, and so on. The user experience won't be that great, but it is resilient. We can call the three levels: self, group and world, or as it may related to Unix permissions: user, group and others. Typically the closer it is to yourself, the more likely you are to be the producer, and the more it relates to the world, the more likely it is for you to be a consumer, of the information. "projects" for instance may be personal, and private, but they may also be, and typically are, stuff that you show to others. You may not show it to everyone, so projects often fall into the 2nd group, or level. ---------------- but speaking purely of personal data, contact details (address book), notes you intend to keep, etc., we are speaking mostly of textual data at this point not excluding images or scans or photos, but still centered around 'knowledge'. In general, the format that lends itself best to these kinds of things is a WIKI ---------------- The problem with wikis is not only that they are often rather poor in terms of user friendliness or power (underdeveloped programs), the issue is also that you need to run it as a server. There are two classes of wikis that I know of: - runs in a browser as a self-contained system (TiddlyWiki) - requires a server to run ---------------- As a result: - either you store the data locally on your devices - or you use a web service ------------------ The best cross-platform web interface that I know is EVERNOTE. Evernote is available on every platform except Linux, and then you can still use the web interface. It is a proprietary solution but your best bet if you want your data to be easily accessible on mobile devices, although the Android version caused data corruption (corruption of spacing in text). In the past at least, not sure if still. As a personal device (that you might sync to the cloud) the concept of "wiki on a stick" becomes interesting. In order for personal data to be resilient, you need to be able to use it on any device. Unfortunately I know of no "wiki on a stick" solutions that are portable across platforms, and unless files are saved in regular formats (text and jpg,/png) they won't be much use on a cloud. Moreover this will never be really useful on a mobile device unless you have an application the equivalent of Evernote. So there are really two solutions for storage: ------------------- - Keep it on a stick that you keep synced to your regular computer(s) - Keep it on a cloud sync that you keep synced to your regular computer(s). And third: use an integrated solution centered around note-keeping, like Evernote. All of this seems rather poor to me. Currently I'm doing two of the following: - I have a slightly reasonable wiki solution called DokuWiki that I run on a personal VPS server (but I worry about security) - for larger data sets (software, manuals, multimedia) I maintain an OwnCloud server on the same VPS that functions as an online collection and data organisation. Of mostly software (for Windows), music, a bit of video, etc. In principle I could easily link the dokuwiki files to be accessible through OwnCloud. You could even imagine writing a plugin for owncloud to render the wiki files. But as most wiki solutions, DokuWiki is rather poor (so I don't use it much) and OwnCloud itself has an excellent file manager but other than that it is rather poor also. It's the best I can do at this point, although I still have old TiddlyWiki files lying around that contains an older addressbook etc. TiddlyWiki is actually quite userfriendly and also powerful, but in the end you need to do a lot of programming yourself to make it useful, and you are dependant on the thing never to get corrupted. Plus it is hard to run it with all the Java restrictions these days. So the question is really: has anyone done work in this area, and have you accomplished anything beyond what I have now? What I am doing (running my own VPS) would not be feasible for anyone else (everyone else) but you could consider yourself a provider of these things to others (friends, colleagues, etc.). If something like OwnCloud were sufficiently developed, it could start approaching the level of Dropbox or Synology NAS cloud solutions, but it's not really there by a far margin, and of course I made myself unwelcome with one of the authors as I couldn't achieve something that should have been ridiculously simple ;-). Synology has a well-developed platform (and you can run DokuWiki on it) but it requires running an appliance in your home and I require 'outsourcing' it to a VPS. A VPS solution is in-between personal local storage and anonymous/large scale cloud storage. A VPS really falls a bit into the 2nd level. It is not as personal as a stick, and it is not as world as a DropBox or whatever. Currently I only use OwnCloud for non-personal data and anything that is remotely secret/personal I encrypt individually. I also don't use it for anything requiring real filesystem support since I couldn't get WebDav working and it doesn't play nice with permissions if I were to share the filesystem where it stores its files. ================================================== So my question is: have you tried anything in this direction, and where are you now? -- 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] zypper upgrade problem
by don fisher 07 Jan '16

07 Jan '16

When I attempt to run zypper up I receive: File './Essentials/x86_64/libvlccore8-2.2.1-129.1.x86_64.rpm' not found on medium 'http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/packman/suse/openSUSE_13.2/' I do not know what interacts with this package, or how to proceed. I realize there were warning about using the packman repository, but any advice would be appreciated. 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] Leap: Kim setup and jpg prperties
by jdd 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello, I have too more problems... Fresh leap, with Packman. 1) I try to install "Kim" (Kde Image Management) that allows to resize an image (among other things). Previously installing Kim installed also usefull links in the context menu for jpg, for example. On my Leap, this context was not installed, I only get a lot of kim sub modules, but don't know how I an use them 2) I tried to manually add one of the modules to the context menu, using right clic / properties. This added correctly, but proved to be unusable as is... and I can't remove it! each time I try to remove this item from the context menu, the change is reverted! where is stored this thing, where I could fix it by hand? 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] disabling parallel boot
by jdd 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Hello, To debug a boot problem, the parallel starting of tasks is annoying, because the logs are difficult to sort. Is there a way to unset this feature and start each task one after the other? 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][42.1] printing fails only in Geckos
by Felix Miata 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Printing problems in 13.1/KDE3 were the usual niggles carried over from previous releases. Last week I moved to 42.1/KDE3, fresh / install, but kept old /home, and printing has become a problem. My printer is a <year-old Brother HL-5470DW (non-GDI) laser connected on wired ethernet. What prints: YaST2 test page (sanely) Konq 3 (sanely) rv10.0 (mozilla.org binary Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.12; Build ID: 20130103094221; insanely, gigantic text unless shrinking text default sizes to too small to read on screen, 12px or 13px.) KPDF (sanely) What claims to print, yet produces no response from printer: rv17.0 (BS:Legacy rpm Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0; Build ID: 2013111800) rv38.5 (mozilla.org binary Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0; Build ID: 20151214153240) rv42.0 (mozilla.org binary Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.39; Build ID: 20151103174305) rv43.0 (mozilla.org binary Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.41; Build ID: 20151219133840; with existing profile and with virgin profile) Attachment is content from virgin profile FF43 browser console. FF43 was opened solely to open the particular page to test printing with this version and profile. Systemctl stop cups; <delete> cups' cache and spool data; systemctl start cups didn't help. Rebooting didn't help. Current content of /var/spool/cups: total 648 drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 Jan 4 17:45 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 26 19:51 .. -rw------- 1 root lp 844 Jan 4 16:53 c00001 -rw------- 1 root lp 919 Jan 4 17:11 c00002 -rw------- 1 root lp 919 Jan 4 17:12 c00003 -rw------- 1 root lp 914 Jan 4 17:16 c00004 -rw-r----- 1 root lp 17391 Jan 4 16:53 d00001-001 -rw-r----- 1 root lp 291955 Jan 4 17:11 d00002-001 -rw-r----- 1 root lp 291955 Jan 4 17:12 d00003-001 -rw-r----- 1 root lp 21945 Jan 4 17:16 d00004-001 drwxrwx--T 2 root lp 4096 Jan 4 17:16 tmp Current content of /var/cache/cups: total 52616 drwxrwxr-x 3 root lp 4096 Jan 4 17:46 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 27 03:44 .. -rw------- 1 root lp 2138 Jan 4 17:16 192.168.###.###.snmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1885 Jan 3 05:13 broHL5470DW.data -rw------- 1 lp lp 159345 Jan 4 16:06 help.index -rw-r----- 1 root lp 657 Jan 4 17:16 job.cache -rw-r----- 1 root lp 526 Jan 4 17:13 job.cache.O -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 4 17:46 out -rw------- 1 lp lp 53690004 Jan 3 05:05 ppds.dat drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 4096 Dec 27 01:48 rss http://localhost:631/jobs shows no jobs. http://localhost:631/jobs?which_jobs=all lists 4 jobs, but I'm not sure if they are all from actual successes or not. I think all are from genuine successes. https://en.opensuse.org/ seems to have no page dedicated to printer troubleshooting. Whether that matters I doubt, since only "one" program has the problem Searching https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/ seem to produce nothing on point. Advice how to proceed with troubleshooting 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/

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