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[opensuse] curious warning message "wihite on black background" of Plasma
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

I had a full screen warning, white writing on black background. It went: Your screen saver has been damaged. Please press CTL+F2 and enter (now I do not remember exactly but it was: screenctl unblock or something similar). I noticed that unlike normally when CTL+F1 is free, this was taken by some system funktion and only CTL+F2 was available. It was for me more convenient to reboot the system (to be sure that nothing is "zombying" around). Did anybody else see such a warning? Seems to be related with the recent crashes of plasma when using the "change user" function. Is there a logfile to eventually gather information should this happen (could be useful for a bug already opened on the issue). Thank you. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000451 -- 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] Cannot Login to new system
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Terrance Eck > Gesendet: Mo. 07.03.2016 19:12 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: [opensuse] Cannot Login to new system > > I installed the 64bit Leap 42.1 and when it rebooted and presented the > login screen my password failed. I was > able to get into the terminal mode (ALT-F1) and I could login as user > and root. How can this problem be solved? > > Thanks > It would be good to get back using Linux > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- So just to be a bit more sure: this is a fresh install of leap on a PC or a Laptop? What does mean "my password fails". That means you login and it gets all black screen with only the cursor or you stay at the login of sddm? Did you install with "update during installation" or did you just install from DVD and wanted to update later? In case you did not update yet. Login in tty1 and su - then do zypper ref then zypper dup (provided that up to now you have only the default repos activated and provided you have a working internet connection. Once done, try to restart the whole machine and to login. Ah, i forgott, there may be a keyboard layout problem. When loging in to sddm, did you check at the left in the upper screen that the right keyboard layout is supported? If your password has y and z inside try to invert them while login in, maybe it is just this little. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- 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] usbip ?
by Greg Freemyer 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

All, Has anyone setup a USB server via usbip? Apparently usbip is a default feature of recent Linux kernels. I know little about it. My use case is I have 4 license dongles that allow commercial software to run. Currently I have to physically move it from one computer to another to run the licensed software. I would like to setup a dongle server that had all the license dongles permanently connected, then use usbip to export them out to the client machines. I'd be fine with exclusive access, meaning only one client at a time could run the licensed software, but I would really like the flexibility of not having to physically move the dongles around. The client PCs are are running Windows, but it seems the server could be running openSUSE. I already have a PC designated to be designated for this task. Any insights? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- 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] Cannot Login to new system
by stakanov＠freenet.de 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Just to be sure. You are using nouveau driver. This could be the problem. Could you try to login into safe mode setting during the boot up? There is he second line of grub telling you to pass special parameter. Could you set up there the paramenter "nomodeset" to grub when starting up? Where nomodeset is the parameter and has to be written without the gimmicks. Try to log in then. You can also try to change password via yast. You can reach yast any time in the command line version (as you can login as yourself and su - then write yast. You will find yourself in a old but nice texmode interface. To navigate you use the tab and the enter key. You can create a new user with an easy password (user test, password test). Say yes to the questions (as you will delete that user at the end if all works. Then login into test with the new account. Does this work as expected? As for your question: yes everything works from the tty 1 interface (Fn + F1) If you want to try, with the yast interface you can also join the nvidia repo with the proprietary driver if you still to not manage to login. Then you select the appropriate driver for your graphic card, install and exit yast. Reboot and you are done. That I would try it as last step. Let me know if you need advice and if you have problems. P.S. it comes to my mind that graphical login will fail if for some reason you are out of space or in the root directory (if you did choose it too small) or if you selected a separate /home and you are out of space in that home directory. In both cases login will jump back to the sddm. you can check as root with df -h this will give you the free space on the partitions you have. None of the "use%" values are allowed to be 100%. You may post here if you have doubts. --- Mail & Cloud Made in Germany mit 3 GB Speicher! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000450 -- 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: backporting OBS build of Base:System(systemd v = 228) to Leap; builds, but rpm install returns "Problem: nothing provides this-is-only-for-build-envs needed by systemd" ?
by PGNet Dev 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

> Leap's systemd is at v = systemd-210-86.1.x86_64. Since it's now clear from systemd-maintainers that there's no interest in upgrading Leap release, cc:'ing here to get some insight on getting @OBS builds working & installable ... -- 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] gimp 4.9 16 bit
by buhorojo 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

leap 42 Hi We've tried both the unstable gimp repositories presented at sofware.opensuse.org but both go into a wrong libgimp dependency loop and won't load. Then when we have the correct libgimp another dependency, etc., Does anyone have a working 4.9? Thanks -- 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 Alienware 17 R3 laptop
by don fisher 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

I have a few questions, some of which may be pretty dumb. I did look on Google for help with the graphics resolution but with no success. Has anybody else set one of these up? 1. My graphics consists of a Nvidia GTX980M and and Intel HD Graphics 530. Two controllers I guess. The native screen resolution is 3840x2160. When I attempt to load the Leap DVD installation, which I believe uses the Nouveau driver on the Nvidia hardware, the text is so small I can hardly read it. I do not understand how to control the mapping between the graphics controller and the screen. I was able to boot up one of my existing leap 4.1 distributions that resides on a USB drive. But again I could not read text on the screen due to the small size. I ran xrandr and it displayed various possible x/y resolution pairs. I executed one of the options, xrandr 1920x1440, and was able to get a magnified window of reduced size. Is there a way to tell X that I desire a zoom by at least a factor of two? When I attach an external monitor, windows can find it and write to it without problems. But windows may be using the Intel graphics rather than the Nvidia adapter. Anyway, xrandr does not show anything for the external HDMI port. 2. The Ethernet and wlan hardware is not recognized by the distribution DVD media. Windows says the Ethernet is a Killer e2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The wlan is Killer wireless-n/a/ac 1535 wireless network adapter. Are these supported in the openSuse distribution, and if so why doesn’t the installation disk see them? Sorry, but with no network and invisible text on the screen life is a bit difficult. Any suggestion or pointers would be appreciated. As an aside, I attempted to run the Alienware on board diagnostics and was again presented with the unreadable small text. I did read the Alienware manuals and see no reference to screen resolution. 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] Question for Leap KDE Pim-suite 5 users
by stakanov＠freenet.de 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

For Leap: Did anybody change from kde PIM 4 in Leap to Version 5 and: did this take over all settings and mailboxes without problems? If you had quirks which one? And did you find a work around? Did the migration of kgpg based wallets work? Does anybody use smartcard based gpg mail encrytion with 5? Does it work?. Any warnings to be mentioned? Sorry for the many questions but before trying to migrate I try to gather some info. Thank you. --- Alle Postfächer an einem Ort. Jetzt wechseln und E-Mail-Adresse mitnehmen! https://email.freenet.de/mail/Uebersicht?epid=e9900000451 -- 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] resolved [was: HELP openSUSE_13.1 => 13.2 zypper frozen]
by Greg Freemyer 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

at least for now zypper is doing work again. there was a background rpm task doing an install of device_mapper. Once I killed that background task, and deleted the lock file (/var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock) zypper started working again. On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > This is a first for me. > > I can't get zypper to install anything. Maybe I have a corrupt database? > > == details == > > I was upgrading a server from 13.1 to 13.2. No X functionality at all. > > I did: > > - zypper up (to get the final set of 13.1 updates) > - zypper rr (to remove any extra repos) > - sed to update the repos to 13.2 > - zypper ref > - zypper in zypper (just to be sure it was the latest) > - zypper dup > > It downloaded ~1400 packages, then started installing. > > zypper froze for over 10 minutes on device-mapper install. > > I used cntrl-C to kill zypper. > > Now I can't get anything to update or delete via zypper. > > It just freezes. > > zypper goes thru the preliminary steps, then it freezes on the output > line where it says the install is in progress. > > Thanks > Greg > -- > Greg Freemyer > www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- 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 openSUSE_13.1 => 13.2 zypper frozen
by Greg Freemyer 05 Mar '16

05 Mar '16

This is a first for me. I can't get zypper to install anything. Maybe I have a corrupt database? == details == I was upgrading a server from 13.1 to 13.2. No X functionality at all. I did: - zypper up (to get the final set of 13.1 updates) - zypper rr (to remove any extra repos) - sed to update the repos to 13.2 - zypper ref - zypper in zypper (just to be sure it was the latest) - zypper dup It downloaded ~1400 packages, then started installing. zypper froze for over 10 minutes on device-mapper install. I used cntrl-C to kill zypper. Now I can't get anything to update or delete via zypper. It just freezes. zypper goes thru the preliminary steps, then it freezes on the output line where it says the install is in progress. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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