gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user

Install 12.3 0n Emachine

A. den Oudsten — 2013-04-03T18:03:37

My desktop is an Acer emachine
AMD Athlon (tm) II 160 u processor 800,00 MHz x86_64
nVidia Corporation GeForge nForge 430, 2D drive nouveau, 3D drive 
nouveau Gallium(7.11)
RAM 1.7 GiB, Free memory 998.6 MiB (+306,5 MiB Caches), Free swap 2.0 GiB

I installed 12.2 and when I started up I got green diagonal lines on the 
screen. When I started fail safe, no problems.
After installing 12.3 the same, but there was no fail safe mode. 
Re-installing and Resque gave no solution.
KDE Live disk resulted in the same diagonal lines, but with various 
colours!! and no fail safe!!

I was a little bit surprised. Any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks
André den Oudsten

Unexpected dual IP-addresses on NIC

Koenraad Lelong — 2013-04-03T09:27:39

Hi,

At home, I recently started seeing two ip-adresses on different 
/24-subnets on the NIC's of my laptop, running OS12.2. To be more 
precise, "ifconfig" shows one ip-address, the expected address : 
192.168.185.x, but "ip address show" shows two ip-addresses, 
192.168.185.x and 192.168.1.y. "route" shows two routes for each NIC, 
just as "ip route show" does.
The laptop is a dual-boot with ubuntu 10.04 and there I don't have this.
I looked in the network-settings of yast, but I can't find anything 
problematic.

I have been experimenting with a router that hands out addresses in the 
192.168.1.x-range, but they never were present on the same network. And 
the lease-time of the router is less than a day. And it's not been 
active for more than a week now.

Where could I look to get rid of that second address ?

Thanks,

Koenraad Lelong

Process in disk sleep state

Martin Zhang — 2013-04-03T09:08:11

Hi,
  
  when process in disk sleep sate, i can not do any other work, even shutting down the machine, is it a bug? it is horrible experience to my first using Suse. Could anyone help?

:(

From the April 1st News: Systemd Ditches Gnu C Library for Their own

Linda Walsh — 2013-04-02T19:19:26

Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Mon April 01, 11:25
from the watch-the-world-fork dept.
In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with useless
broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that the time has come
for systemd to gain an email program. He determined that the GNU libc was
insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu hogging email client, leading to
the new systemd libc: " Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We
are sick of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we
greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the OS
userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new libc is not
available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that have not yet adopted
systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a home-grown display server
(Wayland) over the generally accepted one (Mir) we decided creating an
incompatible libc would be the best approach to create a strong platform
following a strict release cadence."

On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."
----
Well, at least I won't have to worry about incompatible patches in the first
release or two...
As for the API call -- if only programming editors had spell check built-in
back in the 60's..

Above was from slashdot.org...a 'reputable' source...usually...
Though in this case...all I can say is this is really gonna screw compat with
other apps... ;-|

XFdesktop on 12.3

Wojciech Paszkowski — 2013-04-02T11:23:16


Hi all.
My XFCE destkop on Dell XPS 1640 dying rendomly with this message in  
konsole :

wojciech< at >XPS-1640:~> xfdesktop

(xfdesktop:5105): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion  
`G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(xfdesktop:5105): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion  
`G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-user.conf", line 9: reading  
configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
xfdesktop: Fatal IO error 11 (Zasoby chwilowo niedostępne) on X server  
:0.
wojciech< at >XPS-1640:~> xfdesktop

(xfdesktop:5770): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion  
`G_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(xfdesktop:5770): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion  
`G_IS_FILE (file)' failed
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/56-user.conf", line 9: reading  
configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

On same hardware in 12.2 haven't  this problem ...

Firewall-zone question

Koenraad Lelong — 2013-04-02T10:28:27

Hi,

I'm configuring new laptops for my daughters. They're almost ready 
(except for a dvd-problem, see a thread in this list), but I'm uncertain 
which firewall-zone I have to put the NIC's in.
On my own laptops I put all NIC's in internal zone, but is this safe ? I 
think mostly it will be, except for hotspots and the like. And on my 
machine I don't have services running (I chould check though ;-) ), but 
I don't know what my "customers" will need in the future, and where they 
will be online.

What's your opinion ?

Regards,

Koenraad Lelong
AE electronics

False positives about trojans in libreoffice-3.4.5.5-4.5.1.src.rpm

Peter Maffter — 2013-04-02T08:09:18

I just had some shock after downloading updates for SuSE.
There are viruses in libreoffice-3.4.5.5-4.5.1.src.rpm !

Rechecked, downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/src/
checked again and so on.


Can someone please add a warning to this file in the repositories pointing to the posting at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-September/018749.html  ?

Would have saved me some time.  ;-)

Disk Drive Technology and partition alignment [WAS: ]Re: 12.3 + ntfs + ext4 + USB3 + different copying speeds

Greg Freemyer — 2013-04-02T04:10:08


Ignorant of disk drive tech? Me?  I'm open to learn, so let's see
where we end up.


My statement, which I stand by, is that the CHS value returned by the
drive is meaningless in modern rotating drives.  Obviously drives
still have cylinders, heads, and sectors, they just don't try to
relate that geometry via the CHS info that was so important prior to
1995 or so.

Further, I state that the S value for sectors per track is not
constant for the entire drive.  You say there are lots of zones.  I'm
open to the idea that there are lot of values for S, depending where
on the disk you are.

Ignoring any zoning effects:

Ie.  S = int( (PI * D) / L)

Where
D = diameter
L =  linear length of a sector

I'm open to the idea that a disk drive would have the cylinders
grouped into zones of fixed S (sectors / track).

I state that S and RPMs drive the transfer rate, so that is why you
see different rates for different parts of the drive.

Ie.
Transfer rate = (RPMs / 60) * S * 512 / 1,000,000 = x MB/sec

Hdd drives run at a constant rpm, so the reason for the variation in
transfer rate is the variation in S from one zone to another.

So for a drive spinning at 7200 rpm and transferring 120 MB/sec for
the outer cylinders, that is about 2000 sectors/track.

Right!


Zones == collections of cylinders with the same # of sectors/track?
If so, we both agree, but I have no idea why you said "wrong".

Anyway that means there is a fixed S (sectors/track) for each zone.
How can you know what the zones are and what the sectors per track are
for any given zone?  Without that info you can't attempt to align your
partitions, so I'm still at a loss that you say partitions are aligned
to tracks in drives made since 1995 or so.


I guess you meant GB?  If a track has 2000 sectors per the above, and
a drive has 4 heads then that's 4 MB per cylinder.  Thus 1 GB is 250
cylinders.

So I guess your saying a zone has roughly 250 cylinders.  I have no
feedback about that, but it seems reasonable.


Hmmm...

I do computer forensics for a living.  I see lots of real world
drives, but mostly windows.  The first partition on most of them
starts at sector 63 or 2048.  63 is from partitioning tools that try
to align the first partition and believe the lie that the CHS data
provides.  Windows xp does that.

2048 is what newer computers typically have.  They no longer worry
about tracks and just align to 1 MB boundaries.  Vista and win7 do
that.

Linux partitioning tools in general got updated a couple years ago to
default to MB alignment.

My favorite tool for listing partition setups is mmls (it only outputs
info since it is a reporting only tool).  (Install sleuthkit it you
want to use mmls).

For my laptop, by chance in Jan I put in a brand new unformatted drive
in Jan and then did a full openSUSE 12.2 install.  Nothing fancy and I
accepted the partition alignment as proposed by the installer:

DOS Partition Table
Offset Sector: 0
Units are in 512-byte sectors

     Slot    Start        End          Length       Description
00:  Meta    0000000000   0000000000   0000000001   Primary Table (#0)
01:  -----   0000000000   0000002047   0000002048   Unallocated
02:  00:00   0000002048   0004208639   0004206592   Linux Swap /
Solaris x86 (0x82)
03:  00:01   0004208640   0012595199   0008386560   Linux (0x83)
04:  -----   0012595200   0046153727   0033558528   Unallocated
05:  00:02   0046153728   0255866879   0209713152   Linux (0x83)
06:  -----   0255866880   0976773167   0720906288   Unallocated

Note that mmls shows not only the allocated partitions, but also the
unallocated space between partitions.

So the the line starting with 02: is the first partition and you can
see it starts at sector 2048.  Note that 4208640 and 46153728 are also
both multiples of 2048, thus all 3 real partitions are 1 MB aligned.

Thus it is clear that whatever default openSUSE partitioner is used
during install does 1 MB alignment.

Now I happen to have a 1.5 TB external drive hooked up.  What does
mmls show for it:

root's password:
DOS Partition Table
Offset Sector: 0
Units are in 512-byte sectors

     Slot    Start        End          Length       Description
00:  Meta    0000000000   0000000000   0000000001   Primary Table (#0)
01:  -----   0000000000   0000002047   0000002048   Unallocated
02:  00:00   0000002048   2930272255   2930270208   NTFS (0x07)
03:  -----   2930272256   2930277166   0000004911   Unallocated

Now that drive was formatted by Seagate at their factory, and guess
what, they too start the first partition at 1 MB.


The rest of your email I'm going to ignore because it seems to be
about how the tools report partitions, not how they create them.

If you want me to test any particular partitioner, just ask.  That 1.5
TB external is a scratch drive.  I can use dd to wipe the partition
table and then use whatever tiool you want to create new partitions.
I don't know which have been updated to default to 1 MB alignment, but
I hope most have by now.

Greg

How to send executable script ?

Dsant — 2013-04-01T17:44:38

I would like to send a script by email to clients. But they would not know to 
use terminal or chmod. If they would just have to double clic on file, it 
would be perfect. Could be under KDE3, KDE4 or Gnome.
When they have saved the file on local disk, how to make it run ? By default, 
the file is opened by the text editor...

-> I can easily customize the script
-> I can ask clients to do anything by phone :) well, not to complicated.

Any trick ?

Dsant

Failed disk? Which one?

Vojtěch Zeisek — 2013-04-01T14:37:58

Hello,
openSUSE experts, recently I have got unpleasant news from logs:

end_device-0:10: mptsas: ioc0: removing sata device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 4, 
phy 3,sas_addr 0x922210b547a6049
[...]
end_device-0:63: mptsas: ioc0: removing sata device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 4, 
phy 3,sas_addr 0x922210b547a6049
phy-0:3: mptsas: ioc0: delete phy 3, phy-obj (0xffff880272981c00)
port-0:10: mptsas: ioc0: delete port 10, sas_addr (0x922210b547a6049)
[...]
port-0:63: mptsas: ioc0: delete port 63, sas_addr (0x922210b547a6049)
audit: audit_backlog=326 > audit_backlog_limit=320
audit: audit_backlog=327 > audit_backlog_limit=320
audit: audit_lost=189 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=320
[...]
audit: audit_lost=423 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=320
audit: backlog limit exceeded
audit_log_start: 32 callbacks suppressed
audit_log_start: 671 callbacks suppressed
mptbase: ioc0:   PhysDisk is now failed, out of sync
mptbase: ioc0:   PhysDisk is now missing, out of sync
mptbase: ioc0:   PhysDisk is now online, out of sync
mptbase: ioc0:   SMART data received, ASC/ASCQ = 5dh/10h
mptbase: ioc0:   volume is now degraded, enabled
mptbase: ioc0:   volume is now degraded, enabled, resync in progress
mptbase: ioc0: RAID STATUS CHANGE for PhysDisk 0 id=4
mptbase: ioc0: RAID STATUS CHANGE for VolumeID 0
mptsas: ioc0: attaching sata device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 4, phy 3, sas_addr 
0x922210b547a6049
scsi 0:0:11:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
scsi 0:0:11:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500320NS      SN05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[...]
scsi 0:0:64:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
scsi 0:0:64:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500320NS      SN05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
scsi target0:0:10: mptsas: ioc0: delete device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 4, phy 3, 
sas_addr 0x922210b547a6049
[...]
scsi target0:0:63: mptsas: ioc0: delete device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 4, phy 3, 
sas_addr 0x922210b547a6049

Once, I had to hard reset it because of kernel panic during RAID syncing 
error. It is tower server IBM X3200 M3 with 4 x 500 GB hot-swap HDD 
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/tower/x3200m3/ It serves as LAMP and 
SFTP. I used built-in SAS utility to create HW RAID 10 which openSUSE 12.2 
sees as one disk. If it is important, it has UEFI, but I use legacy BIOS mode 
(and GRUB 1).
I don't have so much experience with such HW, so I rather ask before taking 
action. It is still running. ;-) So am I correct, that one disc is dying? How 
to recognize which one? And can I really just open running machine the case, 
exchange HDD and wait little bit? ;-)
Have a nice day,
Vojtěch

Konsole : How to show current user when using Alt-Tab

Dsant — 2013-04-01T12:09:59

In Konsole,  how to show current user, when using Alt-Tab on the keyboard ?

details :
You are user1 in konsole
su - user2
press Alt-Tab to switch, Alt-Tab dialog appears. But the name on the screen is 
still user1

I use KDE 3.5.10, but could be the same with kde4


Dsant, from France

DLNA video problem

lynn — 2013-04-01T10:59:27

12.3, minidlna streaming to WD TV live
/etc/mindlna.conf
...
media_dir=V,/home/lynn/Videos
...

Hi
Certain videos, usually .mp4's, sometimes don't appear on the client. 
They can sometimes be made to appear by restarting the server and client 
(a pain). I think that this is an openSUSE or minidlna issue since I can 
transfer the same .mp4 to my Android tablet and DNLA it from there where 
it _always_ appears.  I observe the same behaviour with the firewall 
turned off. I've checked the file and folder permissions and they're all 
lynn:users. The logs seem fine:

[2013/04/01 10:19:15] minidlna.c:884: warn: Starting MiniDLNA version 1
.0.25 [SQLite 3.7.14.1].
[2013/04/01 10:19:15] minidlna.c:990: warn: HTTP listening on port 8200

and photos and mp3's always appear without fail.

Any dlna users?
Thanks,
L, x

modprobe question

Lew Wolfgang — 2013-03-31T19:37:45

Hi Folks,

I'm using 12.3 and liking it.

But a problem with the sound mixer that existed in 12.2 is
still here.  It manifests itself for me with tvtime, where the
cursor left/right keys don't control the volume.  The fix is
to run:

/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss

I tried without success to get this to run automatically at
boot time to no avail.  Does anyone know the current ju-ju
to load this kernel module at boot time?

Thanks,
Lew

texlive packaging

Joseph Comfort — 2013-03-31T18:49:13

I am updating (fresh install) to v12.3.  It looks very good so far. 
However, I am very unhappy with the new texlive packaging. Several 
reasons.
  * Very complex and confusing.  It is very, very difficult to find out 
what collections/schemes are needed to get a particular latex package.

  * Each package has a rpm overhead; it must be downloaded separately; it 
must be installed separately (whether in a collection or not).  Most 
inefficient.

  * The previous packaging provided what I needed out of the box.  Now, 
none of the collections do -- even the collection claimed to be closest 
to the original one.  I have to go find and install some individual ones 
separately (elsarticle, revtex4; lineno is picked up if I include the 
'latexextra' collection).

  * It is a very long process to remove texlive entirely.  I tried with 
YaST2.  Removing collections is not difficult, but there are many font and 
bin rpms left over with no supervising parent that I can see.  Each one 
requires 2 clicks to delete.

I keep an ascii list of rpms.  With about 4000 entries, nearly half are 
texlive stuff, and it could be worse.

There may be some good reasons to try the packaging change.  Currently, 
however, it is not implemented well at all.

I hope the next release either restores the previous packaging, or makes 
huge improvements.

Thank you,
Joe Comfort

BIND 9 Memory Exhaustion and SuSE 12.1

MarkusGMX — 2013-03-31T13:16:11

Hello,

I did not read all the SuSE files but does anybody know if
"CVE-2013-2266: A Maliciously Crafted Regular Expression Can Cause Memory 
Exhaustion in named"
[ http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013030255 ]

is already adressed in the SuSE 12.1 updates ( 
http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ )?


Thanks in advance
ME

BIND 9 Memory Exhaustion and SuSE 12.1

MarkusGMX — 2013-03-31T13:15:33

Hello,

I did not read all the SuSE files but does anybody know if
"CVE-2013-2266: A Maliciously Crafted Regular Expression Can Cause Memory 
Exhaustion in named"
[ http://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2013030255 ]

is already adressed in the SuSE 12.1 updates ( 
http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ )?


Thanks in advance
ME

[12.3 64Bit KDE] - Transmageddon Converter Error?

Jesse Palser — 2013-03-31T05:23:21

[12.3 64Bit KDE] - Transmageddon Converter Error?

Hi,

Running openSUSE 12.3 64Bit KDE fully updated.

I installed Transmageddon video converter, but it won't run?
Here is the Terminal output:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JeZ-l-Lee< at >bumblebee:~> transmageddon
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "transmageddon.py", line 31, in <module>
     from gi.repository import Notify
ImportError: No module named 'gi'
JeZ-l-Lee< at >bumblebee:~>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can someone help me?
Thanks!

Jesse

ipv6 in 12.3

zGreenfelder — 2013-03-31T01:49:59

resending, html denied me the first time.

so my previous install of 12.1 started giving me difficulties and I
decided to try an upgrade; I got all sorts of errors, decided to just
reinstall with the iso.   now I'm left with a (virtual) machine that I
can't seem to update or even use half the things I expect.   after
install the 12/3 OS seems to insist on ipv6, or possibly more
accurately refuse to just use ipv4.

I start yast and check network settings, I have ipv6 turned off, the
proc settings look like it should be off
codex:/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf # cat */disable_ipv6
1
1
1
1
1

and still when I run zypper, I get:

codex:/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf?#Bm9zypper up
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-12.3-Non-Oss' metadata ----------------------[\]
Download (curl) error for
'http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/non-oss/repodata/repomd.xml':
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: Failed to connect to 2001:67c:2178:8::13: Network is unreachable

Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/?] (a): ^Ccodex:/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf #Bm logout


add onto that the fact that runlevel 3 seems to no longer be an option
(if you install it with that set as the default run level, the console
never starts, gets messages about perl or something, looks like a yast
first run is trying to run, if you start with 5, then change inittab,
it ignores runlevel 3 goes to 5, anyway)

zep< at >codex:~> ps -ef | grep X
root       603   545  0 19:14 tty7     00:00:00 /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0
vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-uqSHpb
zep       1451  1411  0 19:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto X
zep< at >codex:~> cat /etc/inittab
id:3:initdefault:
zep< at >codex:~>

12.3 is, in my opinion a _very_ disappointing release.

does anyone have any solutions for these issues?  I've looked through
the archives and did some googling and came up dry.
--
Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.

logwatch does not send mail

Patrick Shanahan — 2013-03-30T15:36:54

openSUSE 12.3
x86_64

logwatch does not send email from cron job


-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
from cl:  logwatch --mailto=<some< at >addr> 
does send mail

does *not* send mail w/o "--mailto.."
-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-


mailto is set in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf

logdigest *does* send mail from cron job

Same problem on two 12.3 boxes

root mail is properly redirected and received via /etc/aliases 

note:  logwatch on 11.2 system works properly.


???

Gnome 3.6 (in 12.3) - revert to notification panel in Gnome 3.4 (12.2)

Andrey Borzenkov — 2013-03-30T04:32:59

Is there any way to get back notification panel as it was in 12.2? In
12.3 it shifts the whole screen up when opened. And it is SL-O-O-O-W.
This effectively makes it unusable to me.

In 12.2 it was small overlay on top of other windows. Fast and useful.

And yes, I'm using nVidia proprietary drivers so I cannot make it to be
any better than it is already.

inexplicable zilla issues

Felix Miata — 2013-03-30T03:44:15

[12.1] zypper rm MozillaFirefox wants to install MozillaThunderbird

Anyone know why?

Anyone know why these packages use caps, or prepend Mozilla to the actual 
program name? Fedora doesn't. Mageia doesn't. No other distro I can remember 
does it. All distros providing them, except for openSUSE, AFAIK are content 
with packages named firefox and thunderbird.