June 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] modules gobble disk space with built kernel
by Felix Miata 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

/lib/modules/(stock2.6.21kernel)# du -s 60804 . /lib/modules/(my2.6.21kernel)# du -s 538292 . That's a 785% increase in space consumed by my modules over stock modules. Does that happen for anyone building their own Factory kernel? Can a more normal space consumption be made to happen by a mere mortal kernel building novice like myself? What I did was: 1-apply the patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7513 2-zcat /proc/config.gz > .config 3-make menuconfig to add smbfs and change the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION 4-make 5-make modules_install 6-INSTALL_PATH=/boot make install 7-fix the resulting broken /boot/grub/menu.lst -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] FYI: Freetype is broken in FACTORY
by Andreas Jaeger 30 May '08

30 May '08

FYI: Current freetype in FACTORY is broken, use the version from Alpha4 instead of updating, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Can't Rescue 10.3
by Felix Miata 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Friday I determined that 4096 was an inappropriate blocksize for my non-libata hda19 Factory / partition. I booted 10.1 from hda7 and did a cp -a on that partition to another partition, reformatted to the 1024 blocksize, then did cp -a back to it. I then tried to mount and chroot to it in order to run grub-install. Grub-install failed due to the non-existent target device. Copying the hda19 device file from the 10.1 / and trying again didn't help. I tried to do a rescue installation, but both rescue modes apparently failed for a similar or the same reason. Is it possible in Factory to do a rescue? If so, how? -- "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild
by andreas.hanke＠gmx-topmail.de 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hi, from various discussions in bug reports I know that brp scripts for the following are installed in autobuild: - check whether .la files have an empty dependency_libs line - check whether .la and .pc files have references to the build root - check whether .desktop files have all their icons installed Are these scripts publicly available somewhere? They are not distributed with rpm, build or osc and I could not find them anywhere else either. If not, would it be possible to publish these (and others, if present)? Andreas Hanke -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Check RPM packages required by a pattern.
by Samuel Partida 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hello everybody. I would like to make a minimal base system pattern for openSUSE, but as I try to leave the packages marked as required by the base system pattern and those listed on EXTRA_PROV, the installer always tell me that can't resolve all dependencies. Does anyone knows if there is an easy way to know all the required packages for a pattern? I wonder if there is a way to use ZyPP from command line over a pattern so it resolves all dependencies and get the full packages list. What I've done is to install a minimal openSUSE 10.2 on a VMWare machine and then get all the rpm installed. It works, but there should a better way I think. Thanks. -- Samuel Partida Amores ----------------------------------- samuel.partida(a)gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Announcing Hack Week
by Nat Friedman 04 Jul '07

04 Jul '07

Hi everyone, At Novell we've been planning a special internal event that will run this week, from June 25th to 29th. We're calling it Hack Week. During Hack Week, our entire Linux engineering team -- hundreds of people -- will be working on whatever Linux or open source projects interest them. Everyone will work alone or in teams, on existing open source projects or new ideas of their own. No one will tell them what or what not to do -- it's a free week for free hacking, driven by individual passion. To make it easier for our hackers to find and publicize their projects, we've created an Idea Pool web site where we've all spent the last couple of weeks sharing ideas and finding collaborators. This web site is open to the public here: http://idea.opensuse.org/ Although this is a Novell event, we're running it with full transparency. You'll be able to follow our progress and projects on the Idea Pool web site, either with the blog on the front page where we'll post videos from our seven main engineering sites[1], or by watching individual project pages. We invite you to participate where you can. If you'd like to help with a project, feel free to add a comment to the discussion section of the page and volunteer your support. We hope that you'll at least enjoy watching Hack Week progress. If it is successful, we hope to run it again sometime soon, with even more participation from the community. If you're interested in following along, you might check the following sites first: - Hack Week Overview: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/hackweek - Tags: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/blog/welcome-to-the-idea-pool - Idea Pool code of conduct: http://idea.opensuse.org/content/etiquette - Flickr pool: http://www.flickr.com/groups/hackweek/pool/ During the week, we'll use the channel #opensuse-hackweek on irc.freenode.net for general discussion (project-specific discussion will find its own venue). Hope to see you there! Happy hacking, Nat [1] Beijing, Bangalore, Prague, Nuernberg, Boston, Provo, Portland are the main sites --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Installing OSS 10.3 alpha 5 on Acer TM 661
by Michael Eschweiler 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

Hallo, The guys at bugzilla who care and control the bug #230668 (Suspend to disk only works once if ehci_hcd is loaded) asked me to try the s2disk on OSS 10.3 Alpha in order to find out if s2disk with the now kernel works correctly - it does, but I stumbled over some other things, which seem to work not that correct. As I am a user with very little programming experience I don't know which of this things are worth to be reported to bugzilla. Therefore I would like to comment them here: 1. As I didn't want to corrupt my working installation I thought it would be a good idea to install grub on an USB-stick. The setup told the it was unable to install grub on the stick, nevertheless later I found all the files which normally will be copied to /boot on the stick. 2. In the fstab the mountpoint for the root-directory and the swap-directory are created as /dev/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHVxxxx-partX / /dev/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHVxxxx-partY swap on the other side one has to use /dev/sdaX in order to tell the system which partition it has to use for s2disk. I suppose if the complete installation runs correctly, this is written correctly in the menu.lst. But as I had to do it manually it was a little bit confusing that the system doesn't use anymore the hdxY-notation and to find the difference between fstab and menu.lst. 3. On OSS 10.0 the installation-routine recognized the fact that the (video)BIOS of the Acer TM 661 is defective and lacking the correct resolution information. It automatically installed 855resolution from Alain Poirier. OSS 10.2 didn't do that nor does it 10.3. 4. The setup for the x-server writes an xorg.conf-file with the driver 'intel'. This driver doesn't work with the Acer Travelmate 661. I had to change the driver to i810. This is a little bit annoying - for a newbie it will be desastrous. By the way: s2ram still doesn't work correctly (see bugzilla #230123). Best regards Michael P.S.: The hardware: Intel Centrino Mainboard 1400 MHz / RAM 764 MB on board Intel Graphic 855 GM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] OpenOffice_org-2.2. 99.211-2 package
by Chema 30 Jun '07

30 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I download the last OpenOffice_org package (2.2. 99.211-2) from factory to my Alpha5. Well I has surprised much to find changes on it that force me to install other packages like OpenOffice_org-base,OpenOffice_org-calc, OpenOffice_org-draw,OpenOffice_org-impress,OpenOffice_org-math, OpenOffice_org-writer. This packages are not on factory repo. (I already sent the bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288342) There are any note talking about this changes? Regards - -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 openSUSE 10.3 (i586) Alpha5 kernel-2.6.22-rc5-git5-2-default #1 SMP 2007/06/21 22:30:31 UTC i686 GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGhhXqm5lTdgS9W18RAle1AJ48VZTL55HAmBfQxwLc9s8VOOIPegCeN+mq wJ5mecD9B+8JLwSG5G+jNTo= =T7ka -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] noauto for nfs mounts in fstab ignored
by Felix Miata 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

I have all nfs mounts on all my systems set to noauto, but since updating Factory last all accessible nfs mounts in fstab get mounted anyway. Why? -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] xmessages
by Felix Miata 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

How do I make those microscopic windows with the mouse droppings stop popping up on the KDE desktop when apps/windows get closed? If I can't turn them off, how can I make them default to a useful size with legible text? -- "Respect everyone." I Peter 2:17 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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