I installed openSuSE12.2 three days ago, everything worked fine after first boot updates, no restricted multimedia codecs, nVidia driver, with only barebone apps, Firefox was automatically updated on 2nd reboot, including oss, non-oss, nvidia driver & essential Packman multimedia (libdvdcss, was done before Packman). Firefox that shipped with distro worked fine but now crashes every time it started. As a default browser of KDE4.8.5, I am now without a browser although I associated all html, xml's with Konquerer. Opera is running no probs.

I tried to capture error log based on Hans' tutorial tips, but there were nothing for Firefox crashes not. I can see there are bug reports without extensions in the /.mozilla directory. GIMP crashed when I right-click to "open with.."any image file. Same result on start from menu. This is the output from Konsole re Gimp

daisyb@linux-dwdt:~> gimp
Illegal instruction
daisyb@linux-dwdt:~>
(file-jpeg:6782): LibGimp-WARNING **: file-jpeg: gimp_flush(): error: Broken pipe

(file-jpeg:6782): LibGimp-WARNING **: file-jpeg: gimp_flush(): error: Broken pipe

(script-fu:6771): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error

Most pressing issue is that the Disk Information GUI does not show any info (screenshot attached but cannot use GIMP to annotate more clearly). Anyway, the space where bars showing device, filesystem, total space & available space is now just a blank. I don't know when that happened exactly because I have been engrossed in sorting out the graphics driver working, codecs, KMail, Kontact, PIM, printer etc. Only noticed it yesterday when I plugged in a USB stick to copy files and could not access it. CDs or DVDs won't show up either. In Yast Hardware, all the plugged in removable drives were listed, both DVD & CD drives also. K3b does not work either because it kept saying there are no empty media to write into. Also, my HP LaserJet USB printer was not detected even after installing driver & plugin.
http://users.on.net/~dwhb1/MyComputer_sysinfo.jpg
sorry, image have exceed allowed size, but with GIMP dead, I have no means to edit so it can posted here

I am only a basic level user, therefore cannot even attempt to guess when or why it happened. My memory of sequence of events was not all that clear because of all the problems popping up one all at once. I will gather my thoughts and post in appropriate areas of this forum.

I hope I can get help to solve the MyComputer sysinfo display behaving normally and of most important to get Device Notifier pick up USB plugged in. Of course, the USB printer being picked up by CUPS would be great, but thtat belongs to another forum area. Everything worked ok right up to after nVidia driver was installed and steps to get it working were performed based on instructions from linuxquestion forum to get the nVidia XServer settings config working .

Thanks in advance!

if "Everything worked ok right up to after nVidia driver was installed and steps to get it working were performed based on instructions from linuxquestion forum to get the nVidia XServer settings config working" I would focus on that as the possible cause.

openSUSE instructions for Nvidia install are here http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers, what did the forum you followed have you do? In recent releases you should not need to "get the nVidia XServer settings config working" to normally have the Nvidia proprietary drives to work.

The forum where I got the instructions re nVidia driver was Linuxquestions.org. Followed these instructions after instllation of driver.
www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux- ... page2.html. It was a thread with similar problem as mine that I picked up from.

open yast.
go down and select 'system services'.
in the new window, at the top select 'expert mode'
the window has now changed the content and just below expert mode where you just clicked, you can change your 'default runlevel' change it to number '3'.
reboot.
you will boot into the command line. login, su to root and run the following command.

nvidia-xconfig

if you can't such to root, it means on the install you went with the default and use sudo instead, if this is the case, don't worry about su to root. instead once you've logged in, just initiate the following.

sudo nvidia-xconfig

once that has all been done type yast under root (su) or if you use sudo;
sudo yast
you will be in the n cursers mode of yast. once again
press down twice to go to 'system' and enter.
go down eight times to 'system services' enter.
press tab 8 times to get to highlight expert mode, enter.
press tab 17 times to highlight the run level, enter.
press down and a little window will display, highlight option '5' enter.
press f10
press f9
run the appropriate command below depending if you use sudo or not.

reboot

sudo reboot

As this was the last thing I did that could have messed with the system, I am not sure whether it was the cause of MyComputer not displaying disk info including removable drives, CD/DVD, usb printer not discovered and Firefox & Gimp not able to start. Except for monitor not displaying 1920x1080, MyComputer was ok. Firefox crashed after online update ran and I have not used Gimp until after nVidia driver was installed, so I do not know whether this was before or after updates.

I hope the above info will let you guage what could be the cause and whether you can help me solve my dilemma. Thanks very much in advance

the Nvidia thing you did, which seems a convoluted way to do it, doesn't do anything but create a new xorg.conf file after backing up the current one so I don't see why it would mess your system. You did this because you were not seeing the correct monitor resolution? Are you seeing it now?

fyi - printer doesn't show in sysinfo, at least for me. If you run yast -> hardware -> printer, does it show and is it configured? You might need, on this screen, to click add and then configure it.

FireFox - can you rename the folder ~/home/.mozilla

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mv ~/home/.mozilla ~/home/.mozilla-old

and then try running it

Were you ever able to see/mount usb and dvd devices?

your cd/usb devices problem may be udev related (udev is the device manager for the Linux kernel) if so can you see if the following packages are installed and install those missing and reinstall those already installed then reboot

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udev
libudev0
libudev0-32bit
python-pyudev
udev-configure-printer
libgudev

You may also wish to check the output of "udisks --dump" to see if it lists all the disks you expect it to list. A failure for this operation to complete indicates that UDisks may not be operating correctly.

google01103 wrote:the Nvidia thing you did, which seems a convoluted way to do it, doesn't do anything but create a new xorg.conf file after backing up the current one so I don't see why it would mess your system. You did this because you were not seeing the correct monitor resolution? Are you seeing it now?

fyi - printer doesn't show in sysinfo, at least for me. If you run yast -> hardware -> printer, does it show and is it configured? You might need, on this screen, to click add and then configure it.

Printer showed in yast > hardware >printer. I selected plugin but can't print test page. "lp" was added to user already during driver install.
This is the printout on failure to print:
HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102w-15 root 17408 Mon Oct 29 22:04:20 2012
printer HP_LaserJet_Professional_P1102w disabled since Mon Oct 29 22:04:22 2012 -
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed
In the cups error log, this line recurred many times at end of doc:
Unable to bind socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address already in use.

FireFox - can you rename the folder ~/home/.mozilla

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mv ~/home/.mozilla ~/home/.mozilla-old

and then try running it
I moved as per your code but Firefox still wouldn't start. All I got was the Crash Reporter. Firefox stopped working in my previous 2 installs of 12.2. Every time it happened after Apper updated the second time. Firefox started as version 14, but after update to v16, it crashed and never could start again.

Were you ever able to see/mount usb and dvd devices?

They were displayed in MyComputer after installation. I have burned DVDs and copied files for backup to removable USB disk drives. Only noticed them gone about 2-3 days ago Then nepomuk appeared for the fist time telling me that it was not configured.

fdisk -l does not show up the 2 optical drives, only USB drives when they are plugged in.
Yast Hardward Info shows CD-ROM, (/dev/sr0); DVD (/dev/sr1)
Smart Install (/dev/sr2) - I do not know what this one is. As it has a name "HP Smart Install", could that be reference to the USB HP LaserJet printer?

bcooksley wrote:You may also wish to check the output of "udisks --dump" to see if it lists all the disks you expect it to list. A failure for this operation to complete indicates that UDisks may not be operating correctly.

This is the udisks dump output:
(udisks:315): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

Thanks so much for the help I'm getting here.

printer problem - probably a bad cups.conf file

try as root

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/etc/rc.d/cups stop
mv /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf-bad
cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.default /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
/etc/rc.d/cups start

you probably need to reconfigure your printer in Yast

google01103 wrote:your cd/usb devices problem may be udev related (udev is the device manager for the Linux kernel) if so can you see if the following packages are installed and install those missing and reinstall those already installed then reboot

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udev
libudev0
libudev0-32bit
python-pyudev
udev-configure-printer
libgudev

Did all that, rebooted but K3b still opened with "cannot find optical drive" message. The "Burn" button is dimmed out, therefore cannot format or burn CD/DVDs

The UDisks error message you mentioned, the lack of K3b being able to find a DVD Burner and the SysInfo system are all directly related.
Both K3b and the SysInfo display use Solid, a KDE library which abstracts access to hardware information. On modern systems it uses UDisks and UDev to provide this information.

Unfortunately in this case UDisks is not responding to queries from KDE - which is why both are broken.
I would suggest asking your distribution for assistance here - you could be missing packages, have a broken UDisks installation or bad system D-Bus permission rules for some unknown reason.