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[opensuse] oSC16 - Organizing Team Meeting 9
by ddemaio 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Hi All Today, April 5, we will have an organizing meeting for the openSUSE Conference on the opensuse-project channel on freenode IRC at 1700 UTC. We will vote on the winning design for the tshirt design contest during the organizing meeting / https://en.opensuse.org/OSC16tshirtcontests Thank you to all the members to submitted tshirt designs. Below is the agenda for today's meeting: #info Entertainment Planning #info Structure #info Marketing Status #info Keynote Status #info Trello Cards #info Outreach/Education Status #info Equipment update #info Swag update In 10 days (April 15) is the deadline for the call for papers for oSC16. Time is running out; submit your proposal today / http://events.opensuse.org/ v/r Doug

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[opensuse] hdparm -B default (96) causes -> Load_Cycle count now 27X Manuf Recommended
by David C. Rankin 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

All, Where is the default Advanced Power Management setting for 'hdparm -B' set? I've looked at yast sysconfig and picked through /etc, but cannot find the setting. The allowed hdparm apm are setting from 1-127 allow drive spindown, 128-254 does not allow spindown, 255 disables. $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Load_Cycle 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 1422966 I need to set this setting at a minimum of 128 to prevent further spindown. With the default of 96, since I installed 13.1 on a new 750G laptop drive, I have experienced more than 1.4 million cycles (which exceeds the manufacturer lifecycle estimate of 50,000 -- by a lot, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive_failure#Landing_zones_and_loa…) I didn't install 13.1 until 7/2014 or a bit less than 2 years ago. With the processes running on the laptop, that is one cycle a minute (approximately). Granted, I'm not sure all 1.4 million are complete spindowns or simply some other power-saving feature moving the RW-head to the landing zone, but the Load_Cycle_Count is way above what sounds remotely reasonable for 22 months of drive use. I would like to set apm at some value above 128 to prevent unnecessary spindown. Where can I find where this is set by default and set a new value?? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- 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] Dbus daemon not loading all systembus services
by Sacha Loitz 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Hello I'm running OpenSuse Leap and it seems like I have a problem with my dbus daemon. It doesn't load these systembus services: |net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper.service net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.service org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.service org.kde.fontinst.service org.kde.k3b.service org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.service org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkwallet5.service org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkwallet.service org.kde.kcontrol.kcmremotewidgets.service org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.service org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.service org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.service | How do I get them loaded? I especially have a problem with the missing backintime service as this causes backintime to end in an exception at startup. ls -la /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ insgesamt 136 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2266 3. Apr 18:15 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110 13. Jan 09:05 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 1. Okt 2015 fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198 1. Okt 2015 fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 13. Jan 09:05 net.launchpad.backintime.serviceHelper.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106 25. Okt 15:45 net.sourceforge.smb4k.mounthelper.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95 13. Okt 21:15 org.bluez.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 11. Sep 2015 org.freedesktop.Accounts.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 971 7. Nov 18:42 org.freedesktop.Avahi.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.hostname1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.locale1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 413 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.login1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 417 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.machine1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 445 11. Sep 2015 org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 29. Feb 11:04 org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 14. Okt 01:12 org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 18. Nov 17:00 org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 835 30. Sep 2015 org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 364 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.systemd1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 419 25. Feb 21:11 org.freedesktop.timedate1.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 11. Sep 2015 org.freedesktop.UDisks2.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 11. Sep 2015 org.freedesktop.UPower.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 25. Okt 13:22 org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94 27. Mär 18:54 org.kde.fontinst.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2. Apr 22:14 org.kde.k3b.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 27. Mär 18:54 org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 26. Mär 12:33 org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkwallet5.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 24. Mär 13:20 org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkwallet.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 1. Apr 00:26 org.kde.kcontrol.kcmremotewidgets.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 3. Mär 18:17 org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 3. Mär 19:53 org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 3. Mär 22:44 org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106 30. Sep 2015 org.opensuse.CupsPkHelper.Mechanism.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 15. Jan 18:12 org.opensuse.Snapper.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139 25. Okt 15:51 org.opensuse.YaST.modules.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126 25. Okt 15:51 org.opensuse.yast.SCR.service qdbus --system :1.0 org.freedesktop.systemd1 :1.1 fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1 :1.10 org.opensuse.Network.Nanny :1.11 :1.16 :1.17 :1.18 :1.19 :1.2 org.freedesktop.Avahi :1.22 :1.24 org.freedesktop.DisplayManager :1.25 :1.28 org.freedesktop.UDisks2 :1.29 org.freedesktop.UPower :1.3 org.freedesktop.ModemManager1 :1.30 :1.32 com.redhat.NewPrinterNotification :1.33 :1.34 :1.35 :1.36 :1.37 :1.38 :1.4 org.freedesktop.login1 :1.40 org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1 :1.42 :1.43 :1.46 :1.47 org.bluez :1.49 :1.5 org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 :1.50 :1.51 :1.53 :1.54 :1.55 :1.58 :1.59 :1.6 org.opensuse.Network.DHCP6 :1.7 org.opensuse.Network.AUTO4 :1.8 org.opensuse.Network.DHCP4 :1.9 org.opensuse.Network org.freedesktop.DBus Thank you! -- 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] stale mounts?
by Roger Oberholtzer 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

I have edited my /etc/fstab to reflect recent changes in our shared drives (CIFS-based). I have unmounted all of these drives. However, when I mount the new ones, the old ones are sometimes mounted. They have changed, for example, the IP address for the server. However, sometimes the newly mounted drives list the old IP address. Which is no longer available. I am uncertain how they are messing with the server address externally. But the old address spec does not exist in /etc/fstab. Perhaps it is being picked up from /etc/mtab? How can I get mtab to reflect the current mounts and forget any that are not mounted? This is a 12.3 system. Update is in the pipeline... Roger Oberholtzer -- 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] sound clocks with cron [WAS: no screen saver?]
by Carlos E. R. 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1604051305461.6209(a)Grypbagne.inyvabe> On Monday, 2016-04-04 at 22:34 +0200, Yamaban wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:55, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@...> wrote: > >> On 04/04/2016 20:45, Yamaban wrote: >>> Yeah, that's more or less a mess of debugging code >>> that should be cleaned up, but hey, it works with >>> very little changes since OSS 12.3 and a box ago. >> >> That's a lot of debugging info and code indeed... :-o >> >> You run it under a particular user? why? Maybe the same one as has the >> desktop? > > Well, my system is (discounting test-users and guest-user) a > single user system, and this is mostly to show that it can work. I forgot that I did the same to my script, for the same reason. > Given that the old box did not want to work with alsa mixer, > and system-wide pulseaudio is discuraged, this was the most > easy way to get it working without extra hoops. > > So, yes, the same user as my desktop user. Same reasoning as mine, a year or two ago... I forgot the details. I also have a script playing a sound on boot, that one runs as root before there is any session: cat /root/ThingsNeededForBoot/hal9.au > /dev/audio 2> /dev/null & Sometimes it has failed, but I can't track it, being intermitent. Similar to the clock cron job, it is also working. > When the new box came, I just moved the script and the sound files, > and changed as little as possible to get it working again. > > Non the less, the "magic" is in setting up the needed environment > to satisfy paplay / pulseaudio. yes... I'll have to study your script more carefully. > The thing with detecting a blanked / switched monitor was a extra, > that was needed at one time (extra sound with own power-supply), > later I got the buildin speaker in the screen working via hdmi, but > then the monitor would activate and switch on just to play the sound. > > So that stayed in, and it works. Ah. I will look at that, too. Sometimes I go for a nap and leave the computer running, only to awake to the "clock"! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcDnaIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xf5ACdHnGu8LuXWIXB40Ra+das8Wy7 MTwAn0uQYZss/4q1mX1k9hiv7RyofxlI =btvx -----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: [opensuse] sharing a home dir across multiple different GUIs/versions ?
by stakanov＠freenet.de 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Per Jessen > Gesendet: Di. 05.04.2016 10:51 > An: opensuse(a)opensuse.org > Betreff: [opensuse] sharing a home dir across multiple different GUIs/versions ? > > I haven't looked into this yet, just thinking out loud - what issues > might there be in sharing a homedir (via NFS) between multiple versions > of e.g. KDE? > > We have KDE3, 4 and -5 for instance. > > > -- > Per Jessen, Zürich (13.1°C) >http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht Ende----- Don't do it. IMO itI would be catastrophic a) problems because the more recent kgpg version would convert the keys into non compatible new standard (will happen with Leap 42.2 and TW). b) kde3, kde4 and 5 having different versions of libreoffice. If you do not use exactly the same Version in all three you will face constant conversions. c) I doubt firefox, seamonkey and chromium are all the same. d) biggest and most ugly thing are the config files in .kde .kde4 etc. e) desktop backgrounds and settings are not compatible f) icons may not be cross compatible g) colorschemes may not work My advice would be: do not even thing about it. --- 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] My huawei ascend only seen as mass storage after win xp in vbox has seen it SOLVED
by Dave Plater 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Thanks for the help, the culprit was usb_modeswitch, I set DisableSwitching=1 in /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf and my phone registers as mass storage immediately. I now need to figure out a way to get usb_modeswitch to ignore my phone when it's plugged in. I also managed to get my phone to use my computer's internet connection and connect to kdeconnect by setting "usb internet" on on the phone and wicked then set up the phone as usb0. The one problem I have is getting my dhcp server to work, I had to assign a fixed IP to the phone to get it to work. I got the IP address from tcpdump -i usb0 which showed the phone's IP querying from the particular address. Thanks Dave P -- 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] lost display manager on kwin switch - please help!
by tech＠reachthetribes.org 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hi everyone, I put in the following bug report on kwin crashing: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970598 It was suggested that I upgrade to kwin 5.6, so I did, using yast. I made sure I had the correct set of repos for my plasma system, and these are the ones I had according to the advice I was given: Version: Leap 42.1 Qt 5: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ KDE Frameworks 5: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42… So, using yast I selected the package kwin5-5.6.1-130.1.x86_64.rpm, because 5.6 is supposed to have fixed the error of the screen locking up after a kwin crash. It doesn't fix the crash itself, but only the issue with the screen locking up. When I upgraded to 5.6, it had a few other changes, switching some of my packages from a build service repo I was using over to the opensuse repos, and I thought everything seemed fine. But then when I rebooted, it failed to start the display manager. Without the display manager, no network unless you use wicked. So I opened up yast in the terminal, selected wicked, entered the passcode for my wifi service, and exited. Still, no network. I get an IP, but no network. I really need to try and get this back up and running by the end of the day, as I have some really important things starting tomorrow. Any help would be really appreciated. I am currently sending this email from my old 13.2 partition, which I was able to boot into while my main working partition of 42.1 is down. My thought is, enable the network in my 42.1 system, run level 3, and then do a zypper dup on the KDE FRameworks 5 and Qt 5 repositories. But with no network, can't even do that. If I can enable the display manager or the network, either one, then I have a fighting chance. Here is what my display manager reads from zypper when I am in there: # systemctl status display-manager.service display-manager.service - X Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/display-manager.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-04-03 14:31:35 CDT; 6min ago Process: 967 ExecStart=/usr/lib/X11/display-manager start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Apr 03 14:31:34 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: /etc/vconsole.conf available Apr 03 14:31:34 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: KEYMAP: us Apr 03 14:31:34 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: Command: localectl set-keymap us Apr 03 14:31:34 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: I: Using systemd /usr/share/systemd/kbd-model-map mapping Apr 03 14:31:35 tribetrekGlap logger[1073]: /etc/init.d/xdm: No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers Apr 03 14:31:35 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: Starting service sddm/usr/bin/sddm: relocation error: /usr/lib64/libQt5Qml.so.5: symbol _ZTI14QObjectPrivate, version Qt_5 not defined in file libQt5Core.so.5 with link time reference Apr 03 14:31:35 tribetrekGlap startproc[1139]: startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/bin/sddm: 127 Apr 03 14:31:35 tribetrekGlap display-manager[967]: ..failed Apr 03 14:31:35 tribetrekGlap systemd[1]: Failed to start X Display Manager. And here is what my network reading is (don't know what other information I need to post): # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1296 (1.2 Kb) TX bytes:1296 (1.2 Kb) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 80:19:34:BD:EB:88 inet addr:192.168.1.75 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2602:304:b01a:5060:c11e:7df9:edfc:bcf3/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: 2602:304:b01a:5060:8219:34ff:febd:eb88/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::8219:34ff:febd:eb88/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:943 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:81 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:45819 (44.7 Kb) TX bytes:16767 (16.3 Kb) I noticed that there is no broadcast network. The network password is wpa-psk (I think). -- George Box #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.7.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.7.12 | 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] I wonder if there is a quick PDF viewer
by Carlos E. R. 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I wonder if there is a file viewer/browser that displays in the left pane the list of files in a directory, and in the right a quick view of the highlighted PDF file. I tried Dolphin. Quick view does nothing. Preview is active on right pane, does nothing. mc: does raw text view, no decoding. F3 (view) does conversion. crusader: no. Thunar: no. Nautilus: not that I can see. Gnome commander: not that I can see. I'm using 13.1. The use case is that I get correspondence from my bank like one file per "letter", often one page only. The file name is cryptic: not date, not something related to the content. I have to go file by file, hit click on enter to see it in another window, discard, open the next... I would like to see at least the first page in a panel, and the list of files in another. Hit "cursor down", and get a quick view on the other panel automatically. When I find the file I'm interested in, then open it with a real pdf reader. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlcBFz0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WJKQCdH/DklLoNepQHravlQCetYw5w 4TIAmwe56RvnxpsCeS9FM0mwV6cNRRRU =vNtc -----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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[opensuse] leap42.1: KDE3-konsole problem after update for plasma to 5.20
by Werner Flamme 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hi everyone, this morning I did a "zypper patch" that brought a lot of updated packages, with may of the containing "plasma" and "5.20" in their names :) After that patch, I logged off and on again to make sure there is no library hassle in the background. After logon, the screen settings were gone. I use 2 monitors, recognized as HDMI1 and HDMI2 by the KDE system settings. I had to readjust them side by side, but that's not the problem. The problem was that my konsole didn't show up. I use /opt/kde3/bin/konsole, not the usual KDE4 konsole. After starting my konsole3, the menu freezes, and the surface (folder view) of my desktop doesn't accept any klick. Only the freshly opened window was responsive. After a little fiddling, I found out that after opening konsole3, the system seems to be confused. After closing konsole3, I got a message that kinit couldn't start /opt/kde3/bin/konsole. So, I opened a new konsole3, and everything blocked again. The I issued "/opt/kde3/bin/konsole &", and a new konsole3 window popped up. Now I closed the konsole3 startet from menu, and everything runs as before. Has anyone else seen that konsole3 can't be started from the menu? It is not a general KDE3 problem, since Konqueror3 (preferred, because it still supports to distinguish between small and capital letters) runs fine - except that I have to wait a bit longer with my login, since I only get a "cannot contact klauncher" message from it when I log on too soon. Regards, Werner -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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