January 2016 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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