gmane.linux.suse.general

11.3 repositories

James Knott — 2012-05-26T21:42:55

My firewall runs openSUSE 11.3.  I've noticed lately that the 
repositiories are no longer available.  Have they been shut down?

tnx jk

Data corruption with 3.4 Kernel from Tumbleweed repo

Moby — 2012-05-26T04:02:12

Just a word of caution in case anyone else is boldly tumbling through 
tumbleweed.
I updated to kernel-default-3.4.0-x from the tumbleweed repository 
yesterday.  The machines are primarily used as "nfs servers" and the nfs 
exports are mounted for use by vmware vSphere hosts.  Today, there was 
massive disk corruption on all files being written to the nfs shares.  
Not sure if anyone else is seeing this but just something to keep in 
mind before using the Tumbleweed repo.

nVidia driver and kernel 3.4

Basil Chupin — 2012-05-26T00:54:06

The latest nVidia driver (from the nVidia site itself) is 295.53 and it 
does not require a patch to install.

FYI.

BC

Mounting fuse filesystems from dolphin

Myrosia Dzikovska — 2012-05-25T23:10:06

I am running OpenSuse 12.1 I have a webdav partition, with a mount
point configured in /etc/fstab, mounted via fuse/wdfs:

wdfs#https://webdav.yandex.ru/ /mnt/yandex fuse
users,noauto,username=myusername,password=secret 0 0

It is listed as "noauto" because my laptop is often not online, and so
I don't want it mounting. Everything works just fine from the command
line: I can mount with "mount /mnt/yandex" and unmount with
"fusermount -u /mnt/yandex"

However, the entry for this mount does not show up in the "places"
list in Dolphin, and I cannot figure out any way to add it there. I
can add the /mnt/yandex folder to "places", but it does not give me an
option to mount it. I also tried device notifier, with the option to
show all devices, but it does not show up as a device, either, even
though other fstab entries (like Windows partitions) do.

Is it possible to mount a fuse partition either from Dolphin or from
device notifier? I'd like to make this accessible to a couple of
non-technical users who know how

How to cache openSUSE repositories with Squid

Per Jessen — 2012-05-25T12:52:57

I think I've seen people ask about this occasionally - I've finally
managed to take a few hours and write up how I do it:

http://wiki.jessen.ch/index/How_to_cache_openSUSE_repositories_with_Squid

I've had this setup working since beginning of the year, it saves a lot
of time.

Why are my Opensuse so slow

Gunnar Haaland — 2012-05-24T18:14:31

Thanks for all input about my "slow" Opensuse 12.1.

I have solved my problem.

I pulled the "plug" of my "old" disk, and installed 12.1  with my
Window XP on the SATA disk.

Problem with 12-1 update repo

Roger Oberholtzer — 2012-05-24T11:29:11

I have a 12.1 system I want to update. However, I get the following
error from zypper:

  # zypper cc
  All repositories have been cleaned up.

  # zypper ref
  Repository 'Application:Geo' is up to date.
  Repository 'Education' is up to date.
  Repository 'Factory:Contrib' is up to date.
  Repository 'Nvidia' is up to date.
  Repository 'suse-12.1' is up to date.
  Repository 'suse-12.1 non-oss' is up to date.
  Repository 'suse-12.1 update' is up to date.
  Building repository 'suse-12.1 update' cache [done]
  Error building the cache:
  [|] Failed to cache repo (4).
  Skipping repository 'suse-12.1 update' because of the above error.
  Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.

If I do a 'zypper cc', shouldn't the cache be empty at the start?

I am experiencing a problem with ssh when I run an X app remote from
this 12.1 system. So I want to do an update before sorting that. The
problem is that after a few seconds of running the X app over X, I get a
message about a corrupt p

Seeking recommendations for a CRM that has a descent print and/or pdf function

Duaine Hechler — 2012-05-23T03:31:52

I've looked at the two biggies that my host will autoinstall: SugarCRM and vTiger CRM.

Neither one has a descent print and/or pdf function.

Preferably free and open-source,

TIA, Duaine

Packman repository mistmatch.

Carlos E. R. — 2012-05-23T03:01:22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



Hi,

For several hours, I have been trying to upgrade some packgages from 
packman, without success.

Yast offers to upgrade, for example, wine-mp3 to 1.1.39-12.6. When it 
tries to download it, fails. I look with a browser, and indeed, that 
package is not available, and instead, is 1.1.39-12.7, dated yesterday.

What is hapening?

And when I say to skip, it also skips all updates from the rest of 
repositories, not only those from packman.





Worst, everytime I open yast package manager, it says that on a previous 
session it could bot install something, shall we install now? I say no, 
and on the next fireup, it says the same! Is it possible to tell it to 
forget, as those packages are not in the servers?

I had to taboo it!
Taboo, accept, exit, enter again, say keep it, accept, exit! :-(

And it only remembers the package that got stuck, not the rest of the 
packages I told it to upgrade and that they failed. Probably a good thing, 
or I would have to bl

Fw: using opensuse 12.1 to boot into xen

Peter Welles — 2012-05-23T02:11:24


--- On Tue, 5/22/12, Peter Welles <oldmysticwelles< at >snet.net> wrote:


I recently installed OpenSuSE 12.1 and I want to experiment with the xen
kernel.I down-loaded the xen kernel from the OpenSuSE repository. When I tried
to boot into it, I got the following message:

ERROR 13: invalid or unsupported executable format

[ Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83] ###(Part of Error message)

Would someone suggest how to correct for this error? Thank you.




I am going to send some information along with this request in case it might be
useful:

This is some of the out-put of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000028ef

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63     4209029     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/

no dropbox options when right clicking on 32bit pc

george olson — 2012-05-23T01:37:33

Hi all,

On my office desktop (box #2 below, 32 bit), when I click on dropbox in 
the system tray, it opens the dropbox folder in dolphin. Then when I 
click into the public folder, it navigates there fine.

On my desktop at home, at this point if I right click on a file in order 
to get the public URL, in order to make a link to send out, I get 
dropbox options in the list that comes out on the right click menu. 
However in my office desktop, there are no dropbox options.

any ideas?

Bad repository metadata gwdg.de for several repos

David C. Rankin — 2012-05-22T23:16:37

All,

  It looks like there is a problem with the metadata for several 11.4 repos on
gwdg.de:

File
'./repodata/70a7a6e224b98ab3ab5b29d986d752814e53aa735eb6bcb7c89cef8301f3e962-primary.xml.gz'
not found on medium
'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/devel:/libraries:/c_c++/openSUSE_11.4'

File
'./repodata/54cacc049baa3052d6d7676a84950d9f5a0d3b36b5a759baba17bd4836c1fd46-primary.xml.gz'
not found on medium
'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/games/openSUSE_11.4/'

File
'./repodata/23ea25d7e590a25e0b630f1f324c79b7683fa23303c41506dcb7f0224734cd27-primary.xml.gz'
not found on medium
'http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.4'

  Did I just attempt an update while these sites were busy updating, or is there
a problem with the indexes? It's been that way for over an hour. Let me know if
you want me to bug it or if one of you just want to check and confirm first.

openoffice 3.4 from source works great - export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

David C. Rankin — 2012-05-22T20:31:10

All,

   Just passing along my experience with the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release - 
excellent for the first Apache release. It recreates all prior OO documents 
without the character/paragraph spacing issue that found its way into LO. It 
runs fantastic on 11.4 (I presume it will do the same on 12.x as well) The 
install is simple, but -- uninstall ALL prior OO releases before installing 
3.4 (it installs fine in parallel with LO [OO installing in /opt]) This is 
required due to changes in Java that have taken place since the 3.3 release -- 
you will get a javadlx error if you forget.

   The install is straight forward:

(1) uninstall prior OO versions

(2) download OO 3.4 - http://www.openoffice.org/download/

(3) ungzip/untar the file

(4) cd en-US/RPMS

(5) rpm -Ivh *.rpm

(6) (optional) if you don't have libre installed, then:
   cd desktop-integration/
   rpm -Ivh openoffice.org3.4-suse-menus-3.4-9590.noarch.rpm
   (it conflicts with the LibreOffice menus if installed)

(7) if you have libgtk installed

Access to my windows disk

Gunnar — 2012-05-22T18:29:08

I have lost the access to my windows disk. It is nor possible to write 
to it. I have had the access  earlier. I have tried chmod 777 /windows/C.

Gunnar

zypper threshold for switching to segmented downloads?

Per Jessen — 2012-05-22T07:44:50

Not sure where really to ask this question. 

I am putting the final touches on an article on how to run Squid to
cache openSUSE repositories.  As part of some traffic analysis, I've
noticed that once data is cached locally (and therefore delivered at
9-10Mbyte/s), zypper seems to stop doing segmented downloading. Instead
zypper only uses download.opensuse.org which is where the cache is kept
on the local Squid.

There's no problem, I just want to understand if there is such a
threshold.

Calibre question

James Hatridge — 2012-05-21T23:50:27

HI all,

I use Calibre to convert ebook files from Mobi or TXT to epub. But when I try 
to read the new epub file on my Trekstor reader I get "Invaid file format". 
Does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

JIM

n00b: Using Joomla to create a website.

Roger Luedecke — 2012-05-21T21:17:51

I'm trying to use Joomla to build a website. This may not be the right
approach. But in any event, I want to get an attractive site up quickly,
but as I dig around it looks like I'm going to be doing a lot more HTML
and CSS stuff than I expected. I was going to use a template that uses
the JA T3 framework, which I thought had an admin panel. I have gone
through some of the Joomla documentation, and am just lost at this
point. If i have to do CSS and such, I'll learn it through
Codeacademy.com but I would like some tips, if somebody could point me
to the right direction. I'm open to using another CMS if it would be
easier. I just want to get a relatively simple but compelling site up
for my small business. Should I use a WYSIWYG editor like Kompozer?

I'm just lost, and need some pointers so I can actually understand what
I need to know to get where I want.

bash question - why calling 'calc' from script causes "bg" is undefined

David C. Rankin — 2012-05-21T21:01:16

Bash gurus,

   Here is one I don't understand. I needed a simple script to part gtkrc and 
convert the r,g,b (0.0-1.0) values to (0-255). So I decided to use 'calc' to 
get the floating point values. The script was:

#!/bin/bash

while read l; do
   [[ $l =~ , ]] && [[ ${l:0:1} != [#] ]] && {
     rgb=${l##*[{] }
     rgb=${rgb%\ \}*}
     rgb=${rgb//,}
     r=${rgb%% *}
     g=${rgb% *}
     g=${g#* }
     b=${rgb##* }
     _r=$(calc -p "255 * $r")
     _g=$(calc -p "255 * $g")
     _b=$(calc -p "255 * $b")
     echo "${rgb} => r:$r g:$g b:$b => r:$_r g:$_g b:$_b";
   }
done < gtkrc-file.txt

   The sample gtkrc file is included at the end of the message. Running the 
script resulted in the error:

15:38 providence:~/cnf/kde3> sh parsegtkrc.sh
"bg" is undefined

0.125 0.129 0.149 => r:0.125 g:0.129 b:0.149 => r:31.875 g:32.895 b:37.995

   Huh? It worked, but only for the first value and threw a "bg" is undefined 
error?? OK, lets try it this way:

<snip>
     _r=$(echo "255*$r" | calc -p)
     _g=$(echo "

openssh-hpn for opensuse

James D. Parra — 2012-05-21T18:58:19

Hello,

Are there any opensuse builds for openssh-hpn, high performance ssh? I can't find any and I was hoping that someone here has experimented with it.

Thank you,

James

Add menu to panel

James Knott — 2012-05-21T13:54:05

This is a continuation of a thread in the LibraOffice mail list.

In KDE 3, it was possible to add a section of the main menu to the 
panel, so that you could have a pop-up list of applications.  In OS/2, 
it was possible to add a "Drawer" to the task bar, so that you could 
have a list of applications to choose from.  Is there anything similar 
available in KDE 4 (KDE 3 mode), so that you could click on an icon on 
the panel that opens a list of apps to chose from?  All I can find is 
the menu launcher, which simply duplicates the menu that's normally at 
the left end of the panel.

pulseaudio-1.1-1.2 no sound when selecting input

George Olson — 2012-05-20T11:46:38

Howdy all,

It started this morning with skype. I was trying to skype home and used 
skype call testing service on my lenovo laptop (64 bit) and it would not 
record the sound from my internal mic.

So I opened pavucontrol and looked for the sound indicator bar on the 
"input devices" tab, and the bar was not there. I went to the 
configuration tab, and it was set to "Analog Stereo Output". I switched 
it to "Analog Stereo Input" and the sound indicator bar on the input 
devices tab appeared and indicated sound whenever I talked into the mic. 
But when I went back to the "configuration" tab and switched it back to 
"Analog Stereo Output", the "Input Devices" tab shows that no input 
devices are available and the bar is not there.

This renders skype unusable on my laptop, since in order to use skype, I 
have to have pavucontrol open, and switch the device in focus on the 
configuration tab to Analog Stereo Input when I want to talk, and then 
switch it to Analog Stereo Output when I want to listen to the oth