openSUSE is a free and open source operating system based on the Linux kernel.
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How to remove Linux software RAID MD device?
I'm trying to install openSUSE 12.3 on the new server. It is this machine.
There are 2 HDDs connected to the SAS controller. What I want to achieve is a NON-RAID configuration where 1.HDD is used for ...
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openSUSE. How to route traffic using two different Networks
My system details:
openSUSE 12.3 KDE.
I have a Wifi card and an ethernet card.
I subscribe to two internet connections from two different companies:
Company A provides 2MBps unlimited bandwidth. ...
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How do I run a program installed by root as a non-root user?
I'm really a novice in Linux. I'm currently running an OpenSUSE version and I would like to run a program that was installed by root as a non root user.
In other words, how do I configure the ...
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How to read newsgroup?
How do I read/send messages on newsgroup? I'm very interested on newsgroup but I have no idea how to read or send any message to them. What software should I to use? how does it work really? do I ...
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Cannot change default paper size in CUPS
I'm running suse 12.1x86 (Gnome 3) with cups 1.5.x (guessing, I'm not at my pc right now). We have a network-connected Xerox printer and recently we changed its IP.
Connection to the printer was ...
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Boot OpenSuSE installation in QEmu-KVM using QEmu-KVM as the bootloader
I am trying to pass kernel parameters to a virtual OpenSuSE installation without typing them on a boot prompt, using the ability of KVM to load the kernel directly.
First, I mount the installation ...
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How to activate ctrl+a in linux Opensuse?
Recently I installed Linux openSUSE 12.2 on my laptop. Ctrl+a is not working correctly. I used to press Ctrl+a to mark everything, all the text, and etc. Here, Ctrl+a moves the cursor to the ...
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How to remove “Built with SUSEStudio”? (Suse Studio)
Does any one know how to remove "Built with SUSEStudio" logo which is used in the bootsplash, ,login Background, in the LIVE CD/DVD which built by SUSEStudio?
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Citrix-XenApp Error (SSL-Server 61) with FF on OpenSuse 12.2: how to bypass?
good day dear Superuser,
I am trying to utilize Citrix XenApp to remotely access my work
userid and applications from home. I can login and see my virtual
desktop/applications, but when I try to run ...
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Forbid interactive shell on OpenSUSE
I got a set of assignments at work to do to see how can I work around Linux systems (namely I was recommended openSUSE since I will be working with SLES). Most of those assignments are pretty ...
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How can I recover files that ecryptfs seems to have lost?
I'm having a really strange problem with ecryptfs. I run openSUSE 12.3 with Gnome 3.8 and ecryptfs (as well as LUKS full-disk encryption over an LVM that contains / and /swap). I often leave my ...
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flash disk size is not normal after using suse image writer
Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to ...
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Task-Mechanistic-Firefox now running on port localhost:52074 - doable?
i tried to install Task-Mechanistic-Firefox-0.01.tar.gz
unfortunalty without generating a report for all the processes
but let me tell you - some investigations
during the tests sevral new brwoser ...
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installing Task Mechanistic::Firefox failed due to Make-test [closed]
fans
as it failed many many times to install Mozrepl with Mechanize::FireFox i tried another package
this here Task::Mechanistic::Firefox
which comes packed with the prerequesites -
i did the ...
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bad Make-Test while running installation of a perl module
i run opensuse 12,3 - all is installed fresh
now i wanted to install mozepl and www mechanize firefox
this ended up in a bad Make-Test while running installation of a perl module
# '
...
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How to match the font “Helvetica” to “Adobe Helvetica”
I'am using OpenSuse 12.2 and installed various font-packages. Fontconfig is triggered by SuSEConfig. So far, the installation seems ok. But I have the following problem:
I have to use the font ...
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OpenSuse-system-upgrade & third-party-repos: serious risk may break the whole system
I’m running OpenSuse 12.2 on a notebook - now I want to do an update to 12.3
Note: there are only a very very few third-party things on the machine - such as:
clipcrab
amarok and some more
Well, ...
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How to check if opensuse-12.3 iso-release download is corrupted?
I want to upgrade from openSuSE 12.2 to 12.3.
Therefore I have burned a ISO file of the openSuSE 12.3 distribution (32bit).
To be precise I did this twice since I wondered, that this process resulted ...
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k3b gives out wrong reports about opensuse 12.3 Release;
well i burned a opensuse copy but i am not sure if i did burn this iso right.
_note; opensuse 12.3 has got 4.7 Gigabyte
i guess that i burned less
note: but the K3B programme told me that all went ...
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How do avoid context menu in opensuse to open on mousepress
I am using opensuse 12.1 via a virtual maschine. I'm using Gnome 3.2.1 and having this annoying problem, that whenever I want to open the context menu with the right mouse button it opens directly ...
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Permission denied linux mail command
I ran a simple command "mail" on my Suse Linux 11.1 box and it's display "/var/mail/john: Permission denied"
I had two users, john and peter
When I login as peter and ran "mail" it display the same ...
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Can't unlock linux user account
I've got a Linux box (OpenSuSE 11.3) with a locked-out user account. I logged in as the root account to unlock it with passwd -u <user>, but I get a message 'Cannot unlock the password for ...
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Aptana Under linux
Hey, I downloaded the Aptanastudio 2.0 and unzipped it in the desktop.
Im trying to run Aptana studio 2.0 under OpenSuse 11 and i get the following error...
Any idea y? Thanks
JVM terminated. Exit ...
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Migrate from MBR to UEFI with an encrypted system partition
I had the idea of converting a live and running openSUSE installation from MBR to GPT/UEFI. I followed this tutorial and successfully converted disk keeping partitions and associated data. My original ...
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How close to death is my Linux hard drive [duplicate]
I want to test my hard disk that is on opensuse 12.2 -
update see some results below
I have installed S.M.A.R.T.
How would you start the tests?
note: can I run a single test that runs all the ...
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Configure PS3 Eye in openSUSE
Searching for a solution has proven futile so far.
I recently installed openSUSE 12.3 and decided to test whether or not the PS3 Eye camera would work with it out of the box. It does work but the ...
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How do I reinstall/enable snapper?
I had errors in my root filesystem (btrfs) so I recreated it from a backup but now, snapper doesn't work anymore:
# /usr/bin/snapper -v -v -v -v create --description test
IO Error.
# snapper -v ...
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No wireless connection after installing OpenSUSE 12.3
I just installed OpenSUSE 12.3 on my laptop with Gnome. I'm unable to connect to any wifi. I don't even have the "Wireless" submenu on the top right of my screen. All I have is the "Wired" submenu. I ...
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Need to find which drives are mirrored within RAID-10 array
I have a home media server running on openSUSE 12.2. I'm using eight 2TB drives in a RAID-10 configuration. I deliberately bought two different types of drives: four Seagate Barracuda Green and four ...
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Installation of Citrix-client on Opensuse 12.2 - works only halfway
I need some help.
I wanted to install citrix client on a opensuse-system. Well I took the manual form this website -
see this link: ...
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How do I create blurry effects with GIMP
I am new to gimp and I have no clue if this is the right place to ask, so bear with me and steer me in the correct direction if i am wrong in asking this.
How do I create blurry visual effects?
I ...
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OpenSuSE 12.3 kbd service failing at boot
An install of OpenSuSE 12.3 (but upgraded from 11.2) displays this message
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Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) done
Master Resource Control: runlevel 3 has been ...
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openSUSE 12.3 KDE Lan networking
I've just installed openSUSE 12.3 on my PC and faced a problem
I have a DSL connection with Tp-link Td-8811 modem. I configured my modem on PPPoE so it will connect to Internet automatically whenever ...
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How to check space on a opensuse-linux-system?
I wanted to check the space that I have on the machine: I tried it with this command:
df -h
linux-wyee:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 6.9G 12G ...
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Should I use the openSUSE installer to encrypt /swap until ecryptfs is updated to work with systemd?
I recently installed openSUSE 12.3. I didn't use any partition encryption in the installer. Immediately after the install was complete, I installed ecryptfs-utils and ran ecryptfs-migrate-user -u ...
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Shift+Space combination gives an invisible character but not space
I've recently installed OpenSuse 11.3. I've noticed that combination of SHIFT + SPACE creates some kind of invisible character (but not space). This combination is very easy to hit accidentally and ...
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Is it possible to prevent creation of .directory files?
I'm on OpenSuse 12.3 and I wonder if there's a way to prevent creation of .directory files (preferably under some specific directory)
The question arose for the need of a "clean" directory. I'm ...
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set title in terminal
I`m using opensuse (xfce environment)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64)
VERSION = 11.4
CODENAME = Celadon
unfortunately whenever I am using more than one terminal (using Tab option), It starts to ask me ¨set a ...
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Which partition to use for Suse 12.3 bootloader?
When installing opensuse 12.3 a partition for the bootloader should be specified.
When I previously installed ubuntu for example I set the bootloader to be installed on the entire drive : e.g. sda ...
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How do I solve a recurring authentication error?
I'm running openSuSE 12.2, a fairly standard install, didn't do anything crazy with it. It pops up a red "Failed to gain Authentication" box in the lower right of the screen every 5-10 minutes or so. ...
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Messed up /etc permissions
I was going to modify my.conf file so I wanted to change its permissions, but I ran the code in the current dir instead of only the file
Now all files in the /etc (and the folders) have 777 ...
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Can't move or resize windows - fluxbox
I recently uninstall fedora on my laptop and installed opensuse instead.
Everything was working fine.
Since I used fluxbox with fedora and I still use it with opensuse, I decided to use my old ...
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XEN 4.1.3 on OpenSuSE 12.2 not seeing keyboard of Dell XPS 1330
The title really says it all. When booting the XEN Hypervisor kernel, everything works flawlessly, except that the keyboard is not seen at all.
If I plug a USB keyboard, it is recognized and I can ...
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OpenSuse 12.2 and drbd
I am trying to setup tow NFS servers mirrored by drbd using OpenSuse 12.2 x64.
There is a yast2 package for the drbd which I installed.
The module is found under yast2 - Mischellaneous.
I get the ...
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how to configure virtualhosts - apache2 opensuse
I'm trying to configure virtual hosts in Apache2 running on openSuSE. I read so many tutorials but I still don't know how to make it.
Can somebody help me? I am using only localhost and I want to ...
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Is anybody able to use “tor” on opensuse?
I am using Tor successfully on my pc. but on VirtualBox, OpenSuse is fine with connecting Internet. But failing to start Tor.
FYI:
opensuse 11.3
i have guest edition installed
on VirtualBox ...
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how to disable blinking cursor in opensuse 12.2 kde virtualbox
I have just installed the newest OpenSUSE 12.2 with KDE into my VirtualBox.
I have one problem. When my cursor is animated (watches and other), it's blinking.
How can I disable it?
Thanks
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github with linux and cvs: which tools are the best? [closed]
github with can be runned with linux and cvs-tools. What tools and grapic interfaces are the best one for a newby?
If I need to get access to my files on my home computer from work or from anohter ...
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mozrepl with Python or Ruby
installed MozRepl (to work with Perl) on my notebook - on openSUSE 12.2.
I have a number of websites where I have to get screenshots in thumbnails.
Usually I work with www::mechanize but images have ...
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Cannot hibernate Windows after installing openSUSE 12.2
Originally my machine dual-booted Fedora 17 and Windows 7, and everything was fine. When I switched to openSUSE 12.2, it repartitioned my Linux partitions (e.g. I had a 1GB swap partition and it made ...
