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Opensuse: kmymoney: symbol lookup error: kmymoney: undefined symbol

jefke — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:29:06 +0000

Had an error message when opening KMyMoney in opensuse:

kmymoney: symbol lookup error: kmymoney: undefined symbol: _ZN14KMyMoneyPlugin14ImporterPlugin16staticMetaObjectEv

Solution: updating KMyMoney!

Something I miss in comparison with Arch, or even Ubuntu: the constant (rolling) updating of your total system. I know selecting all possible updates is possible somehow in Yast, but still…

VirtualBox: WinXP guest from Ubuntu crashing and rebooting in openSUSE

jefke — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:16:53 +0000

At work, I sometimes need Windows for legacy programs, or for not messing up the layout of protected Word documents. For all these little things, VirtualBox (non OSE for me) works like a charm. Since my switch from Ubuntu to openSUSE, however, I was unable to use the virtual windows disk (vdi file) I created under Ubuntu: right after booting up Windows, I would get a glimpse of a BSOD (blue screen), and Windows would reboot (not even leaving me time to study the BSOD). Booting into safe mode wouldn’t help.
Not wanting to create yet another virtual disk, I set out on an epic quest: a veritable search-and-destroy-the-cause mission. What finally fixed the whole thing, was setting the IDE Controller Type (Settings – General – Advanced) to PIX3 instead of PIX4. Apparently, the default setings are different between different distro’s.

Opensuse 11.1: Connection was not provided by any settings service

jefke — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:09:28 +0000

Recently, I put openSUSE on my laptop, with the kde4 windows manager, and it was (kind of) love at first sight. A couple of days ago, however, I played around with some vpn related packages to login to my work’s vpn. Using Yast, I installed a couple of packages and Yast automatically installed some dependencies with them (of course). Little did I know, that I was breaking my wifi…

After I was done, I noticed that while knetworkmanager still showed the available wireless networks, I couldn’t connect to any of them. Clicking on a connection that had been set up before, didn’t seem to do anything. Never underestimate the power of Linux, however. (OK, it shouldn’t have broken in the first place, but well…) What did I find in /var/log/NetworkManager? This:

NetworkManager: wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service “

Not being a Linux-guru myself, this didn’t mean a whole lot to me, but it provided me with the necessary seeds to sow in the google-field, and true enough, after a couple of minutes, google bore a nice ripe peace of fruit: the answer. A short synopsis for the not so adventurous: I had to remove the (inadvertently installed) package “NetworkManager-kde4″, which worked perfectly.

Now openSUSE and I are on friendly terms again.