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[opensuse] something like vnstat (internet usage stats) for OS 13.2?
by Daniel Bauer 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi, I need to find out how much down-/upload I use (to know what mobile contract to choose). Googling pointed me to a program named vnstat, but that exists only for ubuntu (or to be compiled from source, which is "too much" for me). Is there something like that or a simple way to find out for OS 13.2 available somewhere, ready to install and use? I just need simple numbers: how much did I download and upload from/to internet on this single machine per day. thanks for your help. Daniel -- 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] 13.2, 42.1, TW "installed" printer cannot print on any installation except one 42.1
by Felix Miata 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

[No replies from factory list since sent Friday AM, so reposted here.] Patrick Shanahan composed on 2016-01-07 16:56 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata composed: >> Patrick Shanahan composed on 2016-01-07 16:16 (UTC-0500): >> > did you try: >> > systemsettings5 -> printers >> As far back as I can remember I always got YaST2 to do it, so didn't even >> think to look there. >> > re: Configure Desktop -> printers >> I switched to a different machine to try, and TW instead of 42.1, >> plasma5-workspace-5.5.2-1.1.x86_64. System Settings menu has no printer >> selection to try. It has in hardware: >> input devices >> display and monitor >> multimedia >> power management >> device actions >> removable devices >> So I tried localhost:631. It claimed to have created my printer, but print >> test page fails with simply: "Print Test Page <name> Error. Unable to print >> test page: No such file or directory" > Appears you put your end-of-msg and sig a little early.... > (or maybe that is an attachment that didin't *attach* correctly in your > client). My copy's attachment looks exactly right. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2016-01/msg00106.html does too. > these lines may give you some guidance: >> D [07/Jan/2016:16:23:43 -0500] [Job 3] Unable to auto-configure PostScript Printer - no bidirectional I/O available! >> D [07/Jan/2016:16:23:43 -0500] [Job 3] PID 17905 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtops) stopped with status 1. >> D [07/Jan/2016:16:23:43 -0500] [Job 3] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. >> D [07/Jan/2016:16:23:43 -0500] [Job 3] PID 17906 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd) exited with no errors. No luck finding me anything helpful. > do you have the correct ppd file? There is only one, in /opt/brother/Printers, with symlinks in /usr/share/cups/model/ and /usr/shre/ppd/brother/. To somewhat reiterate the problem, then describe events of the day: 1-I installed 42.1 two weeks ago on this machine, including Brother's cupswrapper and lpr driver rpms for my printer, successfully and without incident (instructions on http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/before.html?c=us_ot and http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/instruction_prn1a.html?c=us_ot and http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/instruction_prn3.html?c=us_ot via http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html?c=us_ot ) then set it up successfully via YaST2 printer module, printing the YaST2 test page and multiple pages from various apps. 2-Tuesday I encountered trouble printing one particular web page with 6 different Gecko browsers, but not with Firefox 10 or Konq3. This turned out to be an apparent problem with (my bank's bill pay) report page intended for printing, which I reported by email and phone to my bank's web support department. 3-Earlier today when my bank responded with instructions via email, I followed those I hadn't already done. 4-I then attempted to verify the problem isn't limited to this PC by trying to print the same page on another PC, host hpg33. My first try was to have been on one running 42.1, but the YaST2 printer driver installation process wasn't resulting in ability to print a test page. I confirmed printer functionality by printing from this 42.1 host, msi85. 5-Next I tried on a third PC, host gx745, this time with Tumbleweed/Plasma and 13.2/KDE4. The YaST2 test page failures repeated, so I deleted those, then created one via localhost;631. It claimed to succeed, but test page print again failed. I deleted that one too, then tried installing via Brother's installation shell script. It too failed at the test page step. At various times I confirmed printer still works by printing from this 42.1 PC. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Print/BR5470/vtcap.txt is a screen dump from running the script. 6-Pain in my back like never before experienced began, interfering with thought processes and thus inhibiting progress finding the problem. 7-I tried on a fourth PC, host gx62b, again TW and K5. Nothing different. Test page failed. Again I reconfirmed ability to print on this 42.1 PC. 8-I returned to 42.1/K5 host hpg33, tried a couple of times again to create via YaST2 printer, without improvement, so I exited Plasma, and used zypper to remove *cups* packages, which also uninstalled ghost*, 5470 printer rpms, and most of K5. 9-I restored OEM versions of zypp.conf and and zypper.conf, then zypper installed every *cups* and ghost* rpm that I found installed on this PC. That installed packages that hadn't previously been installed. 10-Before reinstalling K5 with zypper, I restored my edited zypp.conf and zypper.conf (disabling recommends/suggests). I followed up installing K5 by again installing the 5470 rpms. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Print/BR5470/cupspkgs-hpg33-os421d.txt lists the currently installed print (AFAIK) related packages. 11-After perusing https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Troubleshooting I set debug in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, then rebooted 42.1. 12-Configuring printer via YaST2 again wouldn't print a test page, so deleted that one and tried one with localhost:631. On completion, CUPS reports state stopped "filter failed", even though I didn't find any button to push to ask for a test page. Reprint button doesn't cause printer activity. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Print/BR5470/cups-accesslog-hpg33-os421f.txt Scattered among the above steps were excursions to Google looking for what to do about various error messages, starting with those quoted by Patrick. Another was 'Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/..', so I compared those two files between this machine and hpg33, and found identical timestamps and file sizes. Nevertheless, I stopped cups, then copied those two files from this machine to hpg33, then rebooted,, reloaded localhost:631, asked for a test page, and again got nothing from the printer, with latest job showing as having been completed. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Print/BR5470/cups-errorlogdebug-hpg33-os421g.… indicates no "E" errors occurred. During the setups, the IP connection test always succeeds. Host hpg33 can ping the printer successfully too. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Print/BR5470/ has many logs accumulated, mostly from host hpg33, split into mutiple files corresponding roughly to different boots. noteworthy is its cups page_log dates back to installation of the first cups packages, and remains 0 bytes. NAICT, the access_logs all indicate nothing but apparent successes. If it wasn't for this machine able to print, I would have to think there's a bug here somewhere causing a failure to print without any log indicating that printing did not occur. But I suspect if there is a bug, it's a missing package that should be a dependency but isn't. My head's swimming in confusion, frustration, and back pain, after around 15 hours buried in this. Can anyone see in any of those logs what I need to do to get any 13.2, 42.1 or TW installation besides this one to print anything? -- "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] Regarding Carlos ER's Mailinglist Ban
by Richard Brown 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi all, Thanks to those participating in the conversation concerning mailing list moderation that did not resort to personal attacks, name calling, or implying ill will towards any particular member of the community. We have reviewed both the direct feedback to board(a)opensuse.org and all comments of the various threads and have come to the following conclusion. While the imposed ban on Carlos from the lists was justified, well intentioned and has resolved the disruption that was occurring on some lists, in retrospect the ban had further reaching impacts than expected, including removing a good source of help from this opensuse(a)o.o mailinglist. For that, we would like to apologise. We have asked the ML admin team to re-instate Carlos on opensuse@.o.o while keeping the positing restriction on other lists in place until February 14th. Again thanks to those participating in the discussion that focused on the matter of the issue. The openSUSE Board Andrew Wafaa Bruno Friedmann Kostas Koudaras Michal Hrušecký Richard Brown (Chair) Robert Schweikert -- 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] On resume from hibernation, firefox always warns of unresponsive script.
by Carlos E. R. 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I often hibernate my machines, and on return Firefox pops a warning, on a random workspace, that says (hand copied): Warning: unresponsive script A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue. Script: http://...somewhere (varies) [stop script] [continue] I typically click on "stop". There is also a tick box to ignore for ever or similar words (sorry, I lost the dialog box now) My guess is that whatever script is caught in the instant hibernation freeze occurs, Firefox wrongly thinks that has timed out because it uses wall time, not real running time. Is this a known issue? Can it be reported, and if so, where? I guess upstream. Ideas? Maybe just click on "ignore"? I don't use the ignore tick, because then it will not warn of unresponsive scripts during normal usage, and I don't want that. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlaWUJ0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V1EgCePUXEixXLNOP+DlvwFUArSaLP PYEAnib3/tZkcLgO3njXC1M4euahe0ue =wqsu -----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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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: John Andersen > Gesendet: Di. 12.01.2016 20:52 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Leap, KDE, Bluetooth: how to create a special keyboard shortcut for an inside application function > > On 01/12/2016 05:48 AM, stakanov(a)freenet.de wrote: >> 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). > > This comes as a shocking surprise to me, and I'm beginning to worry that I should > run out an buy some other kind of mouse to replace this Bluetooth mouse I've been using > on 13.2 and 12.3 for the last few years without a problem. > > After all, if its officially broken, it must be some delusion on my part that I use it every day. > > -- > 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 > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- John you shouldn't be shocked but to be useful to user users you may post differently and give more pertinent information. The problem is known (I found reference to Ark, to Ubuntu but I can confirm also for opensuse 13.2). It hit BT mouse usage when doing the following: dongle protocol 3 or 4, Mouse brand logitech, (it seems that several mice of this brand are touched by this, in my case it was logitech M557). The problem consist not so much in the pairing process (that does work and the mouse reacts as expected). But you loose the possibility to use it again after shutdown, suspend to ram or to disk. These mice will then not wake up (or better to say they will not reconnect. Cursor will blink and communicate with the dongle, but now connection will take place. If instead you do re-pair it from the scratch, it will then work as expected until shutdown or suspend. So if your mouse is not hit by this I am very happy. If your post would have given the reference of which BT mouse and type you are using that yes would be helpful to user users. Not so much to me, as I know already that these mice do not work for that version of bluedevil (it seems to be related with the BT library more than with the blue devil itself. I tried to download from a build-service repo a newer version but this did not help. As the mouse is currently sold for cheap in Italy, I thought it would be useful to have trace of this here, or advice before buying it. Sure, once you will run Leap or Tumbleweed (or just plasma 5) on your PC you will not run into it anymore. https://www.google.de/search?q=M557+does+not+reconnect&gbv=1&sei=eXaVVuStMI… Seems to be broken for kde4 due to a library. In leap it works as expected. Unfortunately the owner does not want to change distribution right now as she was quite happy up to now with opensuse. P.S. dongle was a "Hamlet 4.0" BT (that works otherwise very well and is recognized flawlessly). On the notebook the BT counterpart was a combined qualcom WLAN/BT minicard. Presented the same problem. --- 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] 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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