Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
Hans Witvliet wrote:

 As said, use LVM
 
 with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount
 them for shrinking

Seconded, though my preference is for ext3 - downside is the annoying
tendency to do a full check just when you least want it, but on the plus
side it seems more tolerant of dirty umounts

 Have a nice day,

 Same to you,
 Final remark, for small partitions (100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs

Surely you mean ext2?

 And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed.

A good point, though presumably journalling has little effect on read
performance so the main effect is a small loss of capacity.

I thought ext3 was the default now on OSL? FWIW, I'd like to see LVM by
default too.


Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:

defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;
defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Roadmap

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 15:19 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

 We are happy to announce the final roadmap for openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE

 ...

 Thu, Aug  9 openSUSE 10.3 Beta1 release
 Thu, Aug 23 openSUSE 10.3 Beta2 release

 [/malicious mode on ;-) ]

 Have you considered how many people will be on vacation, out of reach of
 network? Me, for instance :-p

Yes - and that's one reason why we added another Beta compared to 10.2
;-)

Also: You can start testing early - start with Alpha4 now if you like,

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha4 dependencies validation

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Le May 16, 2007 07:53:22 pm Cristian Rodriguez R., vous avez écrit :
 André Malin escribió:
  It seems to take ages to do the the dependencies validation when adding
  packages at the initial packages selection.
 
  Regards,

 try performing an installation while sending the logs to other machine
 and open a bug report.

 Already open #275100

Thanks - we did not run into this during our internal QA :-(

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Re: [opensuse-factory] MD5SUMS for 10.3A4 DVD's

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi list,

 We have the MD5SUMS for the DVD Delta Iso's but do we have the MD5SUMS for 
 the 
 resultant DVD Iso's? 

Uploaded yesterday - check: 10.3-Alpha4/iso/delta/MD5SUMS.of.DVDs


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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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richard (MQ) schreef:
 Hans Witvliet wrote:
 
 As said, use LVM

Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience
with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now.

 with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount
 them for shrinking

How do you move apartition that is large enough?
You shrink the one that is behind it, and then?
Can you perform these tasks while the data is on it?


 Seconded, though my preference is for ext3 - downside is the annoying
 tendency to do a full check just when you least want it, but on the plus
 side it seems more tolerant of dirty umounts

ext checks every 2 month's...reiser checks everything very thouroughly
after hang or crash..
 
 Have a nice day,

 Same to you,
 Final remark, for small partitions (100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs
 
 Surely you mean ext2?

for /boot ext 2 is allright..;-)
 
 And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed.

maybe they did not change in the past, but since 10.2, /usr is
growing...(where does it stop? How big should it be made to have room
enough, and not to much.., same for /var, changed the size since 10.0 3
times: too big, made smaller, now in 10.2 it is allready too small,
To make seperate /var/log is a very good idea ;-)
 
 A good point, though presumably journalling has little effect on read
 performance so the main effect is a small loss of capacity.
 
 I thought ext3 was the default now on OSL? FWIW, I'd like to see LVM by
 default too.

Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the fs.. :-(
 
 
 Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
 propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:
 
 defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;
 defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...

It could as well suggest all needed partitions, in the proper size :-)




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Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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 As the subject.
 They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying.

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 I uninstalled beagle, and installed the old locate, for me is better.

Right now, i am feeling like uninstalling also, but B in 10.1 was worse
than this one...( works in the background more, less cpu usage..)

 I have'nt removed the beagle dbs or files; for example what names has
 those files, and where are it to remove completely it?
 
 Have a nice night!

Thnx;-)
Keeps most of it in your /home, in hidden files ofcourse..
( i noticed that is impossible to make a back-up with beagle running in
FF..had to shut it down indeed..)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] VJ decompression error

2007-05-22 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi,

On Monday, May 21, 2007 at 22:00:14, Juan Erbes wrote:

 After a problems with my ISP (Timofonica), I must to go back to my old
 56k sporster Robotics and my older ISP (in the absense of adsl), but I
 has frequently disconnections problems with it.
 The dmesg result is:
 
 PPP: VJ decompression error

Did you try disabling VJ compression?

Put novjccomp into /etc/ppp/options

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
M9. wrote:

 Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience
 with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now.
 with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount
 them for shrinking
 
 How do you move a partition that is large enough?
 You shrink the one that is behind it, and then?
 Can you perform these tasks while the data is on it?

man lvm

I *strongly* advise booting to 'rescue' mode (i.e. running from RAM,
without *any* disc partitions mounted) before making any changes.

I'd also suggest that doing it without backing up important data first
is really not a very sensible practice, but you will probably get away
with it.

 Seconded, though my preference is for ext3 - downside is the annoying
 tendency to do a full check just when you least want it, but on the plus
 side it seems more tolerant of dirty umounts
 
 ext checks every 2 month's...reiser checks everything very thouroughly
 after hang or crash..

Indeed so, but in my experience reiserfs is less capable of dealing with
problems (e.g. caused by dirty umounts) when they do occur. This seems
particularly pertinent to USB storage in my experience.

I'd quite agree that the regular checking is a pain, more so because of
teh tendency to do it without warning or a chance to postpone it.

 And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed.
 
 maybe they did not change in the past, but since 10.2, /usr is
 growing...(where does it stop? How big should it be made to have room
 enough, and not to much.., same for /var, changed the size since 10.0 3
 times: too big, made smaller, now in 10.2 it is allready too small,
 To make seperate /var/log is a very good idea ;-)

I think the previous poster meant that they don't get written to much
once installation is complete (only when installing / upgrading). I'd
agree that they change significantly between OSL versions.

 Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the fs.. :-(

:-(

 Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
 propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:
 
 defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;
 defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...
 
 It could as well suggest all needed partitions, in the proper size :-)

A good suggestion, I hope it is seen by the YaST programmers...?

PS - No need to cc me, I'm on the list.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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richard (MQ) schreef:

 PS - No need to cc me, I'm on the list.
 

Just pressed reply and cc'd mailinglist ;-)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce

Pascal Bleser wrote:

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Alexey Eremenko wrote:

This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS
partition:
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs

Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows
users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE
!


Oh, really.


But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install
openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\)


we ?
Sure, go ahead, implement a proof-of-concept then come back with !!!.


This means either enhance our current Basic Setup Routine and
Yast-setup to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to
write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus,
We can go both directions at once. :)


Go ahead. The source code is available.

PS: opensuse-factory: Discussion about all Alpha, Beta, RC and Factory
versions of openSUSE
http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Development_Lists

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I state - LINUX IS NOT WINDOWS, nor is it a Windows clone. Learn it or 
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users were once and perhaps are still Windows users, me an exception, I 
could never use the stuff without uttering a constant stream of 
expletives and curse every call I get to help solve the many Windows 
problems people land on me.
On Sunday I went to fix a Windows box and had a discussion with 2 very 
bright lads who thought Bill Gates had invented the computer. I just 
took them back in history as far as Eckert and Mauchly, Univac and IBM - 
the computer before Bill Gates was born.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Topics dist meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 10 May 2007 11:14:12 NZST +1200, JP Rosevear wrote:

  Are you talking about 128MB of *disk* space or *RAM* space? Please make
  and keep this distinction clear!
 
 Disk space.

Thanks!

  What is the intended/envisaged use of such an installation / system?
  
  Do you think a small system which has only 128MB of software storage
  space (hard disk, flash card, ...) has =256MB of RAM to run SUSE
  version-any on?
 
 Sure, thin clients do.  This requirement is not being pulled out of thin
 air.  Also linux on a usb stick type installations.

Ok. Sounds very useful. I still think there is a use case for low-RAM
systems too. Ubuntu just announced they're wanting to create a version
for small/embedded systems, though it looks like to me there's not much
ubuntu left when finished. I guess the same hammer doesn't solve every
problem ;)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 22 May 2007 02:18:49 NZST +1200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

 linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB
 RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.)

Thanks. No mistaking the hard hang, so there can't have been a swap
partition.

How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE
system on 128MB RAM?

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce

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richard (MQ) schreef:

Hans Witvliet wrote:


As said, use LVM


Used it fist time last week on a 32bits machine, not much experience
with it, but some people advise me to use it, just like now.

with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount
them for shrinking


How do you move apartition that is large enough?
You shrink the one that is behind it, and then?
Can you perform these tasks while the data is on it?



Seconded, though my preference is for ext3 - downside is the annoying
tendency to do a full check just when you least want it, but on the plus
side it seems more tolerant of dirty umounts


ext checks every 2 month's...reiser checks everything very thouroughly
after hang or crash..

You can use e.g tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sda1 to stop ext3 doing that.


Have a nice day,


Same to you,
Final remark, for small partitions (100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs

Surely you mean ext2?


for /boot ext 2 is allright..;-)

And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed.


maybe they did not change in the past, but since 10.2, /usr is
growing...(where does it stop? How big should it be made to have room
enough, and not to much.., same for /var, changed the size since 10.0 3
times: too big, made smaller, now in 10.2 it is allready too small,
To make seperate /var/log is a very good idea ;-)

A good point, though presumably journalling has little effect on read
performance so the main effect is a small loss of capacity.

I thought ext3 was the default now on OSL? FWIW, I'd like to see LVM by
default too.


Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the fs.. :-(


Totally untrue. Many good reads on the subject out there. reiser2 is not 
being further developed, but the reiser4 team is very hard at work and 
they have many customers using reiser4. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8102



Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:

defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;
defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...


It could as well suggest all needed partitions, in the proper size :-)




Even Sun has gone away from slicing and dicing large disks into smaller 
ones. I've heard the arguments about accidentally erasing a partition, 
but they are all under / and if you rm -rf /, checkmate! I always have / 
and swap only, even on the largest Sun/Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise systems 
when I used to do Solaris installs for customers.
What has bitten me a number of times is a faulty IDE port on a number of 
motherboards when all disks get clobbered, only once did I hit the enter 
key with, rm -rf / directory instead of rm -rf /directory, 
CTRL-C, but lots bullets had gone before I could take my finger off the 
trigger and data was lost. LVM sidelines the arguments, but backups are 
the only insurance whatever path you choose.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Andreas Jaeger wrote:

 * Shared library policy
   see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy
 
   If nobody raises objections, we'll move forward with it and add it to
   the packagers manual.


 I would raise several objection:


 0) Static only packages
 1) Packages with some devel files in the main package.

 If package is static only or package provides devel files (e. g. .pc
 file) without splitting -devel package, it must provide -devel package,
 either as a virtual symbol or as a package (by skipping of file list of
 the main package).

 Packages linking against the library or referring devel files from the
 package (e. g. .pc files), must refer to foo-devel, not foo.

 It allows painless move to shared library and painless splitting in
 future.

 Example:
 package foo with static-only stuff:
 Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}

 Real life example:
 Package check moved from static to shared library after 10.2.
 Several other packages were splitted.
 Both raised need to adopt many other packages.

So, what is your objection here?


 2) Naming of devel package.

 This is bad proposal, at least for packages using pkgconfig to refer to
 their libraries. These libraries can use arbitrary soname without
 breaking API (but breaking soname ABI).

 Example:
 We have package libgsf with libgsf-1.so.114 and libgsf-1.pc.

 Naming package libgsf114-devel is a pure nosense, because:

 - If the next version will be named libgsf-1.so.115, libgsf115-devel
   will most probably conflict with libgsf114-devel anyways.

 - Packages searching for API-compatible libgsf114-devel will fail.

 - When new branch will be created, it will get name libgsf-2.so.0, so
   this rule will upgrade to libgsf0-devel.

 So my proposal:

 Shared library package should be named libgsf1_114, but devel package
 should be named libgsf1.

 If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
 same time (for example because includes are packaged in a versioned
 directory and shared libraries have a versioned name like libgtk1.so.1)
 the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same number as the
 shared library package, lib$NAME$NUM-devel.

 -devel packages should have another number, which should be deduced from
 pkgconfig name. If we will not do it, similar problem as soname one
 problem will remain for devel packages.

 Proposal was sent a year ago:
 If package allows installation of more devel versions at once or we
 decided to provide more conflicting devel packages in one OpenSUSE
 version and pkgconfig files use numbers, which

 The proble here is real and we have hacks in Build Service to fix
 version compatibility.

 devel package should be named libgsf1, package itself probably
 libgsf1_114.

 #!/bin/bash
 function propose_package_name {
 echo -n $1 | sed 's/[0-9]*$//' 
 echo $(rpm -ql $1{,-devel} 2/dev/null | grep '\.pc$' |
 sed 's/.*[^0-9.]\([0-9.]*\)\.pc/\1/;:1;s/\.0$//;t1;s/\.//g' | sort -u)
 }
 for PACKAGE in $@ ; do
 propose_package_name $PACKAGE
 done


 3) Shared library for more packages.

 - There is no reason why a -devel package cannot provide
 development
   files for multiple shared library packages.

 Yes, in particular cases there it is:

 If shared library packages are: avahi, avahi-glib, avahi-qt3, avahi-qt4
 and you will create only one avahi-devel, you must logically add
 Requires for all four upper mentioned packages. It will unintentionally
 introduce need of installation of qt3-devel and qt4-devel, even if you
 want to compile only against glib.


 4) Missing rule: Devel package dependency chain.

 Devel package dependency chain should be complete and no package should
 be missing. If you install this package, it must depend on all needed
 packages for pkg-config, libtool, #include and symlink targets.

 foo-devel package must require foo, either explicitly or implicitly, if
 it is needed for development.

 There is not yet any tool for automatic collecting of devel
 dependencies, but I am thinking about a tool collecting packages
 from .pc files and #include.

 Preferred way to do it:
 Requires:   %{name} = %{version}

And how can we get rid of these later again?  We currently have a lot of
packages with too many dependencies ;-(

 5) Missing rule: How to call ldconfig

 (It's probably already in packagers manual.)

I hope so ;-)

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[opensuse-factory] FYI: Freetype is broken in FACTORY

2007-05-22 Thread Andreas Jaeger

FYI: Current freetype in FACTORY is broken, use the version from Alpha4
instead of updating,

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[opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread jdd
You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update 
brake the computer boot...


the menu.lst of grub is badly rewriten and the previous kernel and 
initrd are deleted


this may be related to a special config..

I have on my drive

* hda1 swap
* hda2 10.2
* hda3 SLES

boot menu was (from memory, it's no more here)

floppy
10.2 * (default)
SLES
new compiled kernel

The new grub menu.lst is below (because not anybody needs to read it). 
It default to floppy boot!!!


the sles boots, hopefully! but not the others. vmlinuz and initrd (in 
/boot) are linked to the compiled kernel 0.3 (not by me!!) so the fix 
wads simple: shorten the entries of openSUSE 10.2 (/dev/hdc2)


but it's a chance the new kernel works (it only allows more usb debugging)

jdd (must leav now, will fill a bug later if necessary)

default menu.lst

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue May 22 13:38:25 CEST 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread jdd

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:


How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE
system on 128MB RAM?


many

I actually try to catch for may lug old laptops. many have only 128Mb 
ram and laptop ram is expensive (and it's not always possible to add)


10.2 runs without any problem in it (with swap), install also, but 
with some tricky step. Automatic swap should be very nice why not a 
swp file?


should it be possible to use a swap file (or ask for swap partition in 
case not readable probably empty disk) until partitioning is asked 
for, then free the sawp, and repartion?


jdd

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Richard Guenther wrote: 
 On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
 
  Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
   Andreas Jaeger wrote:
  
   * Shared library policy
 see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy

   0) Static only packages
   1) Packages with some devel files in the main package.
  
   If package is static only or package provides devel files (e. g. .pc
   file) without splitting -devel package, it must provide -devel package,
   either as a virtual symbol or as a package (by skipping of file list of
   the main package).
  
   Packages linking against the library or referring devel files from the
   package (e. g. .pc files), must refer to foo-devel, not foo.
  
   It allows painless move to shared library and painless splitting in
   future.
  
   Example:
   package foo with static-only stuff:
   Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}
  
   Real life example:
   Package check moved from static to shared library after 10.2.
   Several other packages were splitted.
   Both raised need to adopt many other packages.
  
  So, what is your objection here?
 
 I don't get this either.  Note the shared libaray naming and packaging
 policy is about shared libraries, not static ones or naming a -devel
 (or not -devel) package.

Yes, but it's related. If package changes from static to shared library
and the static package was referenced as libfoo, you are in problem: All
BuildRequires are now broken. 

The second mentioned thing can be re-formulated as a missing item in the
policy: 

Is it allowed to package shared library altogether with development
files (.a, .pc, .so, .h)? Is it allowed to package development files to
package, which does not have -devel in its name?

I think that it should not be permitted, even if it causes bigger number
of packages. Otherwise it introduces missing devel dependencies (see
below).

 Shared libraries may reside in /lib{,64} or /usr/lib{,64} only if
 there are development files packages separately in a -devel package to
 link against those libraries. See (1) on how to handle different
 cases.

This looks too strict. There are many packages, which create shared
library for more binaries inside one package. What is the benefit to
link say metacity binaries with
/usr/lib/metacity/libmetacity-private.so.0 instead of
/usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0?
This rule will need additional wirk to change many packages and
additional work even to check that all packages conform to this rule.

   2) Naming of devel package.

   So my proposal:
   
   Shared library package should be named libgsf1_114, but devel package
   should be named libgsf1.
 
 This is exactly what the policy suggests.  Where do you read otherwise?
 Maybe the wording can be improved.

No, it suggests libgsf1_114-devel:

If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
same time ... the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same
number as the shared library package.

Proposed change:

If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
same time ... the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same
number as the shared library package. If package provides a pkg-config
file or another development configuration script or shared library uses
epoch number, the -devel packages should be suffixed with the number of
it.

   If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
   same time (for example because includes are packaged in a versioned
   directory and shared libraries have a versioned name like libgtk1.so.1)
   the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same number as the
   shared library package, lib$NAME$NUM-devel.
 
 I see this is a quote from the policy.  The wording needs to improve here
 as $NUM does not suggest a suffix different from $SONAME is allowed.

But it's already part of the policy, last article Package Naming.


Andreas Jaeger wrote:

 There is not yet any tool for automatic collecting of devel 
  dependencies, but I am thinking about a tool collecting packages
  from .pc files and #include.
 
  Preferred way to do it:
  Requires:   %{name} = %{version}
 
 And how can we get rid of these later again?  We currently have a lot of
 packages with too many dependencies ;-(

We need an automatic tool for it. Missing devel dependencies introduces
additional BuildRequires in other packages which are even worse to get
rid.

It is definitely not complicated for .pc files, but more complicated
for .la files and .h files.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread richard (MQ)
jdd wrote:
 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
 
 How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE
 system on 128MB RAM?
 
 many

+1

(bring back SUPER and Micro-SuSE ?)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Richard Guenther
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

 Richard Guenther wrote: 
  On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
  
   Stanislav Brabec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
   
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
   
* Shared library policy
  see: http://en.opensuse.org/Shared_Library_Packaging_Policy
 
0) Static only packages
1) Packages with some devel files in the main package.
   
If package is static only or package provides devel files (e. g. .pc
file) without splitting -devel package, it must provide -devel package,
either as a virtual symbol or as a package (by skipping of file list of
the main package).
   
Packages linking against the library or referring devel files from the
package (e. g. .pc files), must refer to foo-devel, not foo.
   
It allows painless move to shared library and painless splitting in
future.
   
Example:
package foo with static-only stuff:
Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version}-%{release}
   
Real life example:
Package check moved from static to shared library after 10.2.
Several other packages were splitted.
Both raised need to adopt many other packages.
   
   So, what is your objection here?
  
  I don't get this either.  Note the shared libaray naming and packaging
  policy is about shared libraries, not static ones or naming a -devel
  (or not -devel) package.
 
 Yes, but it's related. If package changes from static to shared library
 and the static package was referenced as libfoo, you are in problem: All
 BuildRequires are now broken. 

Huh?  If you had a static library only the BuildRequires should have
been to FOO-devel.  And that may actually have been the only package
that existed.  Now, at the point you introduce a shared library you
simply introduce a lib package for it and be done.

 The second mentioned thing can be re-formulated as a missing item in the
 policy: 
 
 Is it allowed to package shared library altogether with development
 files (.a, .pc, .so, .h)?

No.  This is strictly forbidden.

 Is it allowed to package development files to
 package, which does not have -devel in its name?

This should also not be done.

 I think that it should not be permitted, even if it causes bigger number
 of packages. Otherwise it introduces missing devel dependencies (see
 below).

Sure, but again this is only on the edge of the shlib policy (maybe we
shouldn't have added all the words about the non-shlib parts).

  Shared libraries may reside in /lib{,64} or /usr/lib{,64} only if
  there are development files packages separately in a -devel package to
  link against those libraries. See (1) on how to handle different
  cases.
 
 This looks too strict. There are many packages, which create shared
 library for more binaries inside one package. What is the benefit to
 link say metacity binaries with
 /usr/lib/metacity/libmetacity-private.so.0 instead of
 /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0?
 This rule will need additional wirk to change many packages and
 additional work even to check that all packages conform to this rule.

It avoids polluting the global shlib namespace.

2) Naming of devel package.
 
So my proposal:

Shared library package should be named libgsf1_114, but devel package
should be named libgsf1.
  
  This is exactly what the policy suggests.  Where do you read otherwise?
  Maybe the wording can be improved.
 
 No, it suggests libgsf1_114-devel:
 
 If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
 same time ... the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same
 number as the shared library package.

 Proposed change:
 
 If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
 same time ... the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same
 number as the shared library package. If package provides a pkg-config
 file or another development configuration script or shared library uses
 epoch number, the -devel packages should be suffixed with the number of
 it.

I changed it to 

If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the 
same time (for example because includes are packaged in a versioned 
directory and shared libraries have a versioned name like libgtk1.so.1) 
the -devel packages should be suffixed with a number that allows 
identifying the 
version of the library (usually this is the same number as the shared 
library package suffix $NUM). So such a -devel package would be named 
lib$NAME$NUM-devel. 

If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the
same time (for example because includes are packaged in a versioned
directory and shared libraries have a versioned name like libgtk1.so.1)
the -devel packages should be suffixed with the same number as the
shared library package, lib$NAME$NUM-devel.
  
  I see this is a quote from the policy.  The wording needs to improve here
  as $NUM does not suggest a suffix different from $SONAME is allowed.
 
 But it's already part of the 

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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jdd schreef:
 Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
 
 How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE
 system on 128MB RAM?
 
 many
 
 I actually try to catch for may lug old laptops. many have only 128Mb
 ram and laptop ram is expensive (and it's not always possible to add)

For example: 2x 256MB (top) for Compaq Armada E500, costs me: EUR 184,-,
incl 19% taxes: EUR 34,96 = EUR 218,96 , and this was the cheapest place
i could find! (and what to do with the 64, and 128MB modules, i have left?)

 10.2 runs without any problem in it (with swap), install also, but with
 some tricky step. Automatic swap should be very nice why not a swp file?
 
 should it be possible to use a swap file (or ask for swap partition in
 case not readable probably empty disk) until partitioning is asked for,
 then free the sawp, and repartion?
 
 jdd
 

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread jdd

M9. wrote:


For example: 2x 256MB (top) for Compaq Armada E500, costs me: EUR 184,-,
incl 19% taxes: EUR 34,96 = EUR 218,96 , and this was the cheapest place
i could find! (and what to do with the 64, and 128MB modules, i have left?)


send them to me (for free :-)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Meeting Minutes Dist Meeting 2007-05-10

2007-05-22 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Richard Guenther wrote:
 On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

  Yes, but it's related. If package changes from static to shared library
  and the static package was referenced as libfoo, you are in problem: All
  BuildRequires are now broken. 
 
 Huh?  If you had a static library only the BuildRequires should have
 been to FOO-devel.  And that may actually have been the only package
 that existed.  Now, at the point you introduce a shared library you
 simply introduce a lib package for it and be done.

I have had static only library check. Now upstream moved to shared
library and I had to update BuildRequires of all packages to
check-devel. See the bottom of this mail for proposed change.

  Is it allowed to package shared library altogether with development
  files (.a, .pc, .so, .h)?
 
 No.  This is strictly forbidden.

  Is it allowed to package development files to
  package, which does not have -devel in its name?
 
 This should also not be done.

Agree for both. Could it be mentioned in the policy. Or is it already a
part of another policy?

   Shared libraries may reside in /lib{,64} or /usr/lib{,64} only if
   there are development files packages separately in a -devel package to
   link against those libraries. See (1) on how to handle different
   cases.
  
  This looks too strict. There are many packages, which create shared
  library for more binaries inside one package. What is the benefit to
  link say metacity binaries with
  /usr/lib/metacity/libmetacity-private.so.0 instead of
  /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0?
  This rule will need additional wirk to change many packages and
  additional work even to check that all packages conform to this rule.
 
 It avoids polluting the global shlib namespace.

But still: It needs an additional work to even check conformance to this
rule. And the result is having one directory with file and link instead
of file and link in the libdir, need of rpath, and diverging from
upstream.

 I changed it to 
 
 If more than one version of a -devel package can be installed at the 
 same time (for example because includes are packaged in a versioned 
 directory and shared libraries have a versioned name like libgtk1.so.1) 
 the -devel packages should be suffixed with a number that allows 
 identifying the 
 version of the library (usually this is the same number as the shared 
 library package suffix $NUM). So such a -devel package would be named 
 lib$NAME$NUM-devel. 

Agree.

 Files needed to develop programs using shared libraries contained in 
 lib$NAME$NUM.rpm are packaged in a -devel package.  Those files include 
 lib*.so, lib*.la and all headers.  Optionally those files can also be 
 placed in $NAME.rpm, in the case that it also comes with other tools or 
 documentation. But _if_ there is a *-devel.rpm package then it contains 
 all lib*.{so,la} and headers.
 or did you, above, object to Optionally those files can also be
 placed in $NAME.rpm... especially?

I propose to add:
If placing of development files to $NAME.rpm can introduce future
confusion, add virtual Provides: %{name}-devel = %{version} and refer
to package in BuildRequires as $NAME-devel.

It covers above mentioned problem of static - shared library move and a
situation, when strictly development package starts to provide runtime
files.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread Vahis
M9. wrote:
 snip

  Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
  propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:

  defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;

A separate /home is important IMHO.

A suggestion to keep old home if there is one already when installing
might be good, too.

  defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...

 It could as well suggest all needed partitions, in the proper size :-)

No opinion here because the ones not wanting the default should know
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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

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jdd schreef:
 M9. wrote:
 
 For example: 2x 256MB (top) for Compaq Armada E500, costs me: EUR 184,-,
 incl 19% taxes: EUR 34,96 = EUR 218,96 , and this was the cheapest place
 i could find! (and what to do with the 64, and 128MB modules, i have
 left?)
 
 send them to me (for free :-)
 
 jdd
 
So you want me to pay even the shippingcosts?



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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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Vahis schreef:
 M9. wrote:
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 Final comment - if changes are made to the YaST partitioner, could I
 propose a 'newbie' (simple) mode button:
 defaults when set: swap plus single / ext3 partition;

 A separate /home is important IMHO.

Out of the question, most important, keeps all settings..

 A suggestion to keep old home if there is one already when installing
 might be good, too.

Allways the best, because all settings are allready there ;-)

 defaults when unset: LVM, separate /boot (ext2), /home (ext3), swap, ...
 It could as well suggest all needed partitions, in the proper size :-)

 No opinion here because the ones not wanting the default should know
 what they want.

Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition,
it is never clear what the size most optimal should be..
That is the point...
If it was easy to rearrange the sizes, like with PQ PM, you could easily
adapt the size to the needed size...
That is why should be clear where the growth should be, so the size
could be adapted in front..(because of the lack of a good partitioner..;-)



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Re: [opensuse-factory] Installing on SATA HDD with SATA DVD-Burner

2007-05-22 Thread rex
Keith Goggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-21 20:30]:
 Now openSUSE 10.2 GM is pre X-Org 7.2 so the Proprietary Driver would 
 probably 
 work there but sadly 10.2 does not support SATA HDDs and SATA Burners :-(
 
 Can anyone tell me how to install 10.2 GM with the necessary SATA support? 

10.2 works with my SATA HD and SATA DVD burner. There are no PATA
devices in the system. I've seen others post here about installing 10.2
from SATA DVDs. What happens when you try?

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:31 +0200, M9. wrote:

 Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition,
 it is never clear what the size most optimal should be..
 That is the point...
 If it was easy to rearrange the sizes, like with PQ PM, you could easily
 adapt the size to the needed size...
 That is why should be clear where the growth should be, so the size
 could be adapted in front..(because of the lack of a good partitioner..;-)
 

Well, /opt and /usr can be calculated (yast does it)
Or if you want it QD, install the whole bunch as you think you might
need it, with just a root partition, have a look what you need, and
re-install it properly (opt  usr at 75%)

/srv you can also plan ahead (mysql, apache, ldap, tftp, ...)
/home is always a surprise
/tmp auto-purge weekly
/var/log is your own admin responsibility to keep tidy
btw, i did mean ext3 for small partitions that varies, not ext2 or
reiser:
journaling is nice for systems that change.
But a 100MB reiser-FS is filled for 30% with internal datastructures.
For large partitions (250GB) ext is a pita), it takes ages to make.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation

2007-05-22 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
 On Tue 22 May 2007 02:18:49 NZST +1200, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:

  linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB
  RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.)

 Thanks. No mistaking the hard hang, so there can't have been a swap
 partition.

 How many people are interested in running a smallish text-only(?) SUSE
 system on 128MB RAM?

I do a lot, and I have a lot of clients that do.  Especially schools.
That want to get a way from MS.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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Hans Witvliet schreef:
 On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:31 +0200, M9. wrote:
 
 Well, since some dirs, like /usr and /var vary from edition to edition,
 it is never clear what the size most optimal should be..
 That is the point...
 If it was easy to rearrange the sizes, like with PQ PM, you could easily
 adapt the size to the needed size...
 That is why should be clear where the growth should be, so the size
 could be adapted in front..(because of the lack of a good partitioner..;-)

 
 Well, /opt and /usr can be calculated (yast does it)
 Or if you want it QD, install the whole bunch as you think you might
 need it, with just a root partition, have a look what you need, and
 re-install it properly (opt  usr at 75%)
 
 /srv you can also plan ahead (mysql, apache, ldap, tftp, ...)
 /home is always a surprise
 /tmp auto-purge weekly
 /var/log is your own admin responsibility to keep tidy
 btw, i did mean ext3 for small partitions that varies, not ext2 or
 reiser:
 journaling is nice for systems that change.
 But a 100MB reiser-FS is filled for 30% with internal datastructures.
 For large partitions (250GB) ext is a pita), it takes ages to make.
 
 HW

I am just ready with the install of Alpha4...
I changed everything i needed to:

/boot from 30MB  100MB
/ , 1GB, same
/usr, from 3.5  4GB
/var ,1GB, same, but added:
/var/lib, 1GB,(lib was the cause:400MB)
/opt, 2.5GB same,
/tmp, 2GB, was 3GB.
swap, something like rest: about approx.374MB.
/home, 20GB,
/shared, 42GB.

But LVM did not work for me, i added everything manualy with the other
partitioner, simpeler for me...

Now we'll see how long it lasts ;-)

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Re: [opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:44, jdd wrote:
 You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update
 brake the computer boot...


Here was mess. 
In menu.lst initrd was listed with version string. for both old and new 
kernel. Old version of kernel and initrd that should be rescue if new doesn't 
work wasn't linked anywhere and if it was modules were deleted. 

New version was first in the list and set as default. There was Failsafe 
option for new kernel as second and than old entries?! What would be the 
purpose? 

BTW, new kernel worked fine.

There seems to be problem with kernel sources too. 
I compiled new kernel with system clock of 1000 Hz where I changed version 
string suffix from default to custom, but new compilation overwrote default 
kernel modules instead to install it in a new subdirectory, which was the 
problem as I manually copied kernel to /boot directory, but modules were 
installed in wrong place. 

After installation of old kernel from DVD system and cleanup of /boot 
directory and menu.lst I was able to boot, but YOU has no clue what happened 
and there is no update offered. 

Second problem is that it is offering samba update that was installed twice 
and after reboot it comes up again. It is patch 3350-0. 

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[opensuse-factory] Rootmodus not possible from configpanel, in A4.

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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It is not possible to get in the root modus to change samba settings, or
log-in without password, is this known, or should i file a bug?
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[opensuse-factory] What did you guys do to /etc/fstab?

2007-05-22 Thread M9.
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fstab looks realy horrible!
All unnessesary info makes it difficult to see what is what..
(of course i know what is what, but it looks like...terrible..)

for ntfs-3g, i had to go to 10.2 repo...

Amarok works without libxine1, (which is not to find), thnx!!!

(new signature shows Alpha4 btw.)
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

2007-05-22 Thread Sid Boyce

M9. wrote:


Sid Boyce schreef:

M9. wrote:

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Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the
fs.. :-(

Totally untrue. Many good reads on the subject out there. reiser2 is not
being further developed, but the reiser4 team is very hard at work and
they have many customers using reiser4. http://kerneltrap.org/node/8102


Not totaly, the article (nice to tell me about it ;-) shows the fear was
there...
This pleases me, never had any problems with reiserfs,
i mostly am not realy in a hurry when booting up, so if some checking
has to be done is ok with me.

I've been using reiserfs since about SuSE 6.2, that was back when 20 Gig 
was the big har drive. I had a power cut and fsck.ext2 took ages while 
the SuSE 6.2 box was up with no delay. Likewise, I've had no problems 
with reiserfs. When many guys were rubbishing reiserfs, saying it was 
causing corruptions and I was also having corruptions, I was advised to 
go to ext3, but I got corruptions with ext3 also. The problem turned out 
to be a bad IDE controller.



Even Sun has gone away from slicing and dicing large disks into smaller
ones. I've heard the arguments about accidentally erasing a partition,
but they are all under / and if you rm -rf /, checkmate! I always have /
and swap only, even on the largest Sun/Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise systems
when I used to do Solaris installs for customers.


I myself accidentally errased a few, not nice, i agree. Not having a
back-up, is lots of extra work, not to speak of unreplaceble things like
 family digipics...(reason to burn them from then..)
But for me totaly no reason not to use them.

Since there are these large disks, the reason to partition them is even
more nessesary, one can now install various OS on one disk, without any
problem.
Cutting these OS partitions apart would seem not wanted, but i do still
believe in doing exactly that ;-)
I am from the time, a 500MB HDD was all I had, and the trouble i have
had every day to get about 20% free space, you do not want to know...

The idea of: Room enough, just throw all on it!, does not fit me.

I prefer to use virtual machines. I started using VMware back in the 
early days to run WFW 3.11 under Linux, I used their 6.0 betas which 
have run out of licence and I'm not prepared to buy 6.0. Virtualbox is 
OK for the x86 box and I'm about to test KVM any day now, everything is 
in place, just need to try one of their built images. Rebooting a Linux 
box is something I rarely do other than to bring up a new kernel. I may 
look again at kexec as it has been out a long time, partially worked 
when it first came out.



But as many men, as many opinions..
And as long as 'i' do not have to do it the way 'you' want me to, we all
are happy ;-)
Long live the freedom of choice!!!

Hear, hear!, but about 13 years ago I asked some guys why they chopped 
their disks up and then were forced to have symlinks going every which 
way when space ran out, answer was they didn't know, that was what they 
were told and that's what they did. Likewise I asked colleagues why at 
every command prompt on Solaris they hit the enter key about 10 times 
before typing in a command - they saw the experts doing it. In 1993 we 
got a new Sun workstation in the office and it ran out of space with the 
way the disk was sliced as then recommended by Sun, so in order to build 
software, they had to NFS mount the Linux PC I had set up and build it 
on the Linux hard drive. Whatever keeps the people warm and happy, but 
if you ever saw time wasting practices like guys under Solaris not using 
bash, preferring to use ksh -o vi and using vi commands with the 
dexterity of a concert pianist to recall and modify the command line, 
you would think it's more like fat, dumb and happy. Fallacies can and 
often do become Best Practice.


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Re: [opensuse-factory] kernel update brake the boot

2007-05-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 19:35, Rajko M. wrote:
 On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:44, jdd wrote:
  You are probably already informed :-), but the last 10.2 kernel update
  brake the computer boot...

 

 Here was mess.
It was, but not as described. 

Old kernel was removed as jdd stated. 
Default I set right after installation and forgot about it. 

Here is untouched version of menu list after second attempt to update:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue May 22 21:16:43 CDT 2007
default 2
timeout 30
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

title openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 
resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent show
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.3-default

title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 - 2.6.18.8-0.3
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.3-default root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal 
showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=of
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.3-default


title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/hda5 
splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.3-default


title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 
splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd


title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off 
acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd




And this is after edit:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue May 22 21:16:43 CDT 2007
default 0
timeout 30
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message

title openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/hda5 
splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.3-default

title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda5 
splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off 
acpi=off noresume edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

  
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[opensuse] internet connection sharing problem on home network problem

2007-05-22 Thread Gustav Degreef

I'm having trouble setting up a home network to share one internet
connection.  I have two laptops both with ethernet cards and both with
wireless cards.  One laptop is connected to a wireless access point
and I am trying to use that machine as a router to share the internet
connection with the second laptop (via wireless).  First, is this
possible?

I ask because I've had no success.  I have followed the basic
instructions on these two pages:

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16579.html

and

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16022.html


Machine 1 Running Suse 10.1 updated regularly.  Isp access via a
wireless network.  Machine 1 has access to the network via eth0 linked
via an ethernet cable to a wireless access point.  The isp assigns
fixed ip 192.168.xxx.202.  The access point is not hooked up to a
wireless router.  The isp gateway is 192.168.xxx.254.  eth1 is the
wireless card which I have given the fixed ip 192.168.2.1  I have
internet access without problems on this machine

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:D3:04:7E:AA
 inet addr:192.168.xxx.202  Bcast:192.168.xxx.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
 inet6 addr: fe80::216:d3ff:fe04:7eaa/64 Scope:Link
 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 RX packets:10245 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:6164 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
 RX bytes:2408404 (2.2 Mb)  TX bytes:818320 (799.1 Kb)

eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:02:6D:0D:20
 inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
 inet6 addr: fe80::213:2ff:fe6d:d20/64 Scope:Link
 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
 RX packets:75 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
 TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
 RX bytes:2108 (2.0 Kb)  TX bytes:1094 (1.0 Kb)
 Interrupt:185 Base address:0xc000 Memory:d400-d4000fff

machine 1:~ # /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth1
192.168.xxx.0   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0  00 eth0
127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  00 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.xxx.254 0.0.0.0 UG0  00 eth0


Machine 2 - running suse 10.0 online update regularly.  I can ping
machine 1 but I get not ping the default gateway nor other sites.  The
result I get is that the network is unreachableI have enabled ip
forwarding and ip masquerading on machine 1.  I have tried turning off
the firewalls,

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:F9:A4:AF
inet addr:192.168.2.2  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fef9:a4af/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1724 (1.6 Kb)  TX bytes:2734 (2.6 Kb)
Memory:b0104000-b0105fff

machine 2:~ # /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00
wlan0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0  00
wlan0
127.0.0.0   0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0   U 0  00 lo
presario:~ #


wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:F9:A4:AF
inet addr:192.168.2.2  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fef9:a4af/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1724 (1.6 Kb)  TX bytes:2734 (2.6 Kb)
Memory:b0104000-b0105fff

Any pointers would be much appreciated.  Gustav
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Re: [opensuse] internet connection sharing problem on home network problem

2007-05-22 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 01:03, Gustav Degreef wrote:
 First, is this
 possible?
Yes.

You need to setup the default gateway on machine (2) to point to the 
address 
on machine (1).   Machine (1) must have ip forwarding turned on of course.


On machine (2):
In yast select network devices--network card-- edit   then click 
routing.

Enter the address of the machine (1).

retry.


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Re: [opensuse] [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)

2007-05-22 Thread G T Smith
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Randall R Schulz wrote:
 On Monday 21 May 2007 10:21, Greg Freemyer wrote:
 All,
 
 I suppose the others trying to staunch the flood of off-topic posts on 
 this list are getting tired of having to say it and perhaps some think 
 there's only a few who care, so I'll chime in this time and say:
 
 If you know it's off-topic and go so far as to mark it as such, then
 SEND IT TO THE OFF-TOPIC LIST!
 
 Please!
 
 
 Randall Schulz

a) Not everyone interested in volunteering or making a useful to
contribution for such event will subscribe to the OT list.

b) Strictly speaking this is about assistance in helping setting up
Linux, so is much less off topic than some, and is arguably on topic...

c) I do NOT think that this is a particularly diplomatically useful
response  I can only assume that you neglected to read the OP before
responding...


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Re: [opensuse] What Novell?

2007-05-22 Thread G T Smith
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Kai Ponte wrote:
 I know this is probably OT to many of you, but I thought you'd
 appreciate it.
 
stuff deleted

 He went on further to describe how pathetic the marketing is compared to
 the onslaught of MS marketing that he and his management must fight
 every day. Ron apparently gave some wimpy reply that they are working
 on it and that marketing should get better. To which my buddy - a CNA
 from the 3.12 days - replied that he'd heard this for over a dozen years.

I remember the Novell management team getting the same harangue about
marketing from delegates at the SUNS organised Novell Technical
Conference at Salford U. about a decade ago.. Novell have produced many
technically excellent products over time but Novell Marketing people
could not sell water to a thirsty man in the sahara desert IMHO...


 
 Nice to hear we're at least talking to the Novell management.  :P
 
We talk but do they listen?


 
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Re: [opensuse] Corrupted audio driver 10.2/64bit?

2007-05-22 Thread G T Smith
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Patrick Shanahan wrote:
 * Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 22:20]:
 I don't know internals of 
   rpm --rebuilddb
 but I was using it and it seems that it doesn't search hard disk for 
 installed 
 third party software.

 The sound driver is:
   realtek-linux-audiopack-4.05f.tar.bz2
 and it will compile alsa driver and some XRealMixer v0.5 from sources. 
 John mentioned that he removed directories, but I didn't ask which as 
 installing alsa via YaST should bring sound in order. 
 
 Using an rpm-based system requires the use of rpm packages.  The use
 of tar-balls will corrupt the rpm system and do not show up in the rpm
 database.  Tar installations can replace libraries required by your
 (rpm) installed system and break things as you seem to have found with
 the alsa package.  Removal of tar installations and source built
 installations is very difficult.
 
 You must be experienced and knowledgable to incorporate a mix.  The
 only really safe usage for the unknowning is those tar packages which
 are self contained static packages which install in their own
 directory and are removable by deleting that directory structure.
 
 If you *must* build a driver (as it appears) you should incorporate
 the use of checkinstall which generates rpm packages for
 installation after build and allows for save removal, if necessary or
 desired.
 

Just installed checkinstall and in the absence of a man page... decided
to use

checkinstall -h

to find out about usage  the result was... well.. a bit weird :-o I
think I have deciphered enough to use it, but I get the impression
documentation needs a little work :-)

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[opensuse] Enlightenment e17 and e16

2007-05-22 Thread G T Smith
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In attempting to get hold of something to edit my enlightenment menus I
accidentally torched my e16 installation. It was easy enough to restore
the e16 setup, but it seems the e17 (from Pacman) rpm a) does not
install e17 completely correctly, b) removes the e16 installation.

According to the enlightenment site e16 and e17 can coexist, Has anyone
got these to co-exist on SuSE? If so how? I would prefer not to
re-invent the wheel...

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[opensuse] KDE question?

2007-05-22 Thread Mohammad Bhuyan

Hi,

Can anybody give me a technical insight on

1. If the KDE that's included in OpenSUSE is a customized version than
the standard KDE released from KDE.org? I have seen mentions in the
internet relating to something about OpenSUSe maintaining its own
KDE?!!!?

2. If its not customized than one can expect to get the KDE release
from KDE.org and install it in ones current OpenSUSE installation.
Right?

3. If its indeed customized, anybody has any technical
overview/summary of the customizations done / areas customized?

Regards,

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[opensuse] zypper enable/disable

2007-05-22 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
Hi

I have a bunch of repositories I like to enable/disable:

Punchball:~ # zypper sl
# | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name| URI
--+-+-+--+-+---
1 | Yes | Yes | YUM  | some name | some url

Aka:
# | Enabled | Refresh | Type | Name| URI
--+-+-+--+-+---
1 | No  | No  | YUM  | some name | some url

How is this done via zypper on the commandline?
just switching the flag.

Only way I found working was deleting them,
then adding them with -d
zypper sd url
zypper sa -d url



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Re: [opensuse] Removal of OT posters Was: Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread Russell Jones

JB2 wrote:

On Mon 21 May 07 21:51, Pueblo Native wrote:

  

...throw yourself in front of an oncoming semi.



  Test that for us and tell us how it comes out.
  


Actually a better suggestion:
List mods, could you threaten to remove or ban Pueblo, Patrick, et al if 
they continue posting completely OT material apropos nothing, please? 
Posting OT in relation to something already being discussed (that is 
OnT) is one thing, but just spamming the list with random articles, 
jokes, anecdotes, funny pictures, etc is another.


Posting about OSuSE related news (i.e. news about events which directly 
affect and involve OSuSE or Novell) is a grey area as they are 
non-technical but relevant: I think they should still be marked OT but 
tolerated. Perhaps there should be a opensuse-inthenews list?


OTOH, one can just filter [OT] flagged messages to the big circular 
folder. So I'd ask people consider this and remove the [OT] flag if they 
come back on topic.

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Re: [opensuse] internet connection sharing problem on home network problem

2007-05-22 Thread Gustav Degreef

Success

Mark,
Thanks for the really fast response and tip.  I thought I had tried
that before, but what I must have done before was to put the machine 2
address in the gateway under the expert configuration tab of the
routing section in yast2.  Now both machines are connected to the
internet.  I really appreciate your help.  I am in a small village
outside of Novi Sad in Serbia since the past month and so had no one
to personally turn to for help.  Gustav

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On Tuesday 22 May 2007 01:03, Gustav Degreef wrote:
 First, is this
 possible?
Yes.

You need to setup the default gateway on machine (2) to point to the 
address
on machine (1).   Machine (1) must have ip forwarding turned on of course.


On machine (2):
In yast select network devices--network card-- edit   then click 
routing.

Enter the address of the machine (1).

retry.


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Re: [opensuse] Major problem ! Delta iso doesn't work !

2007-05-22 Thread Russell Jones

JB2 wrote:

On Sat 19 May 07 15:24, Druid wrote:
  

On every list there are trolls and fan-boys, many with social skills in
inverse proportion to their ambient anger levels.  The best thing to do
is to ignore them and just get on with life.  That's my 2c-worth, anyway.
  

I think



  When are you going to prove that?
  

Could you stop making personal attacks, please.
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Re: [opensuse] RE: Have you experienced a general sligish DNS resolution - OT - Just slightly

2007-05-22 Thread G T Smith
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Carlos E. R. wrote:
 
 The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:06 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
 
 Thanks for your comment. I understand I can trust a cached DNS server to
 just do what is can do without defining zones, however in this case I
 don't want to let it do what it wants to - if I did it would probably
 just ask my ISP DNS servers first and then other local DNS servers.
 
 Why I elected to define external zones is that I wanted a cached answer
 from a source well outside the country - so in some ways I have
 circumvented a situation where a cached answer could come from a local
 source.
 
 You don't need to define any zones to achieve that behaviour.
 
 What you need is playing with the options in /etc/named.conf:
 
 forward first;
 forwarders { One_IP; Another_IP; };
 
 with this two lines, the named daemon will ask first those DNSs servers 
 you list there - and you choose them local or in the antipodes. Or remove 
 those lines and it will always ask the root servers.
 
 But you do not need to define any zone at all.
 

There is the further option of defining a forward zone (see below)...
This would direct queries about a particular address space to a
particular server. This would require a fair bit of TLC. (and I am
assuming that is what is being done here, trying to synchronise as a
slave zone without permission is quite likely to be interpreted as an
attempted security hack whether it succeeds or not).

 zone domain_name [ ( in | hs | hesiod | chaos ) ] { 
   type forward;
   [ forward ( only | first ); ]
   [ forwarders { [ ip_addr ; [ ip_addr ; ... ] ] }; ]
   [ check-names ( warn | fail | ignore ); ]
 };

This could reduce the negotiation traffic

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[opensuse] Offtopic posting, was: [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)

2007-05-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* G T Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-22-07 05:22]:
 a) Not everyone interested in volunteering or making a useful to
 contribution for such event will subscribe to the OT list.

Then they should restrain themselves and refrain from posting OT.

 b) Strictly speaking this is about assistance in helping setting up
 Linux, so is much less off topic than some, and is arguably on topic...

grep -i suse article
results in no output

 c) I do NOT think that this is a particularly diplomatically useful
 response  I can only assume that you neglected to read the OP before
 responding...

You think that Randall posted after noticing the subject line rather
than reading the post?
What response would be diplomatically useful and, providing you have
a better response, why didn't you diplomatically advise the poster
the proper channel for his post?

I cite a partial quote from a respected member of this list:

quote
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:24:04 +0200
From: Pascal Bleser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [...]
The opensuse@opensuse.org list is already unusable for anything besides
pointless off-topic discussions.
So please, let us use *this* list for real work, actions, not
blathering.
/quote

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Re: [opensuse] Corrupted audio driver 10.2/64bit?

2007-05-22 Thread Jos van Kan
G T Smith wrote:

 
 Just installed checkinstall and in the absence of a man page... decided
 to use
 
 checkinstall -h
 
 to find out about usage  the result was... well.. a bit weird :-o I
 think I have deciphered enough to use it, but I get the impression
 documentation needs a little work :-)
 

You don't need any options listed in the -h list. Ordinarily you would
./configure [options]
make
make install
to install a tarball and to use checkinstall you just replace make install
with checkinstall. That will build an rpm package that you either install with
rpm -Uvh /complete/path/to/RPM-PACKAGE
or with Yast. When you use Yast you have to add the
/complete/path/to/RPM-PACKAGE to the Yast sources. Alternatively you could click
in Konqueror on the file, because that fires up Yast, with the path already
added IIRC.

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[opensuse] Monitor and Soundcard problems

2007-05-22 Thread Karl Edler
Hello,

I recently installed SuSE 10.2 on a system that was running SuSE 10.1.
Unfortunately the new system did not properly configure my monitor or
sound card. I was able to fix both problems and I want to give my
solution to someone who can integrate it into future SuSE releases.

Where should I put this information???

Karl
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[opensuse] Problems getting Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB to do 5.1 with 10.2 64bit

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Fiene
Sound is working with the alsa dmix plugin and various applications but 
i have no idea how to setup 5.1.

speaker-test only works for both front channels, nothing more!

Here is my .asoundrc:

pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcmdmixer
}

pcm.usb-audio {
  type hw
  card 1
}

ctl.usb-audio {
  type hw
  card 1
}

pcm.dmixer  {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm hw:1,0
period_time 0
period_size 1024
buffer_time 0
buffer_size 4096
rate 48000
channels 6
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 1
}


Any help would be highly appreciated!

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Re: [opensuse] Monitor and Soundcard problems

2007-05-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Karl Edler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-22-07 08:37]:
 I recently installed SuSE 10.2 on a system that was running SuSE 10.1.
 Unfortunately the new system did not properly configure my monitor or
 sound card. I was able to fix both problems and I want to give my
 solution to someone who can integrate it into future SuSE releases.
 
 Where should I put this information???

go to:http://opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Re: [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread Joachim Schrod

Brad Bourn wrote:

LET ME GIVE YOU THE ALL CAPS ONE THEN, FOR MORE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT.


Thank you for providing another entry for my KILL file.

Joachim

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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video

2007-05-22 Thread Jim Flanagan
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
 On 2007-05-21 06:38, Jim Flanagan wrote:
   
 snip

 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce. This is what lead me 
 to beleive that x is not configured properly, but it may be something else. 
 Not sure what exactly the problem is. Another problem is clicking in My 
 Computer returns an i/o error. 
   
 
 That file belongs to xorg-x11-Mesa. Try re-installing that (and the
 -devel package if you are using it).


   
I did not find a package called xorg-x11-Mesa, but I did find simply
Mesa and Mesa-devel. I updated those, but did not uninstall first. They
updated from the skynet source. No change in behavior, screensaver still
returns the same error message. Did I find the right packages?

Jim F
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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video

2007-05-22 Thread Jim Flanagan
M Harris wrote:
 On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:01, Jim Flanagan wrote:
   
 In KDEconfigure
 desktopscreensaver, I get the message:
The specified library screensaver could not be found.
The diagnosis is:
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce
 
   I'm sorry Jim, I missunderstood you... thought you couldn't get the X 
 configured correctly.  Just to make sure we're on the same page... does you X 
 setup work... in other words, do you get a desktop ?  

   So, the problem is the screensaver?  Does   xscreensaver work?  

   Just remove and reinstall the following packages:

   kdeartwork3-kscreensaver
   kdeartwork3-xscreensaver
   xscreensaver

   If this does not work, just to be clean about it, remove kde and 
 reinstall 
 kde.




   
Well, I feel like in stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. I keep getting
back to where I was, but no better off. I tried Daryl's suggestion and
updated Mesa and Mesa-devel, not change. Then i uninstalled the patterns
KDE Desktop and KDE Base. Told all the dependencies to delete as well,
system then booted into terminal, no X. The re-installed KDE and Xorg.
Now I'm back to desktop, but all is exaclty where I had left it before.
All my programs are still here, tbird etc. and screensaver still won't
work. Glxinfo still retunrs the same error message. Perhaps I should try
uninstalling KDE again, but this time delete /etc/x11?? then reinstall??

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[opensuse] Re: Removal of OT posters Was: Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Russell Jones wrote:
 JB2 wrote:
 On Mon 21 May 07 21:51, Pueblo Native wrote:

  
 ...throw yourself in front of an oncoming semi.
 

   Test that for us and tell us how it comes out.
   
 
 Actually a better suggestion:
 List mods, could you threaten to remove or ban Pueblo, Patrick, et al if
 they continue posting completely OT material apropos nothing, please?
 Posting OT in relation to something already being discussed (that is
 OnT) is one thing, but just spamming the list with random articles,
 jokes, anecdotes, funny pictures, etc is another.

That's the beautiful thing about reading these lists via Gmane and using
a newsreader. One simple keystroke, and the entire thread is ignored, for
now and forever.

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Re: [opensuse] Problems getting Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB to do 5.1 with 10.2 64bit

2007-05-22 Thread Frank Fiene
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 15:14, S Glasoe wrote:
 On Tuesday May 22 2007 7:44:00 am Frank Fiene wrote:
  Sound is working with the alsa dmix plugin and various applications
  but i have no idea how to setup 5.1.
 
  speaker-test only works for both front channels, nothing more!
 

 http://alsa.opensrc.org/Terratec_Aureon_5.1_USB_MK.2 looks like it'll
 help.


Hmmm, seems to work a little bit better, but whereever i plug my 
speakers in (i have no 5.1 at work, so for testing i plug in normal 
speakers in one of tht three output slots), speaker-test makes only 
noise on Front Left and Front Right, with slightly different sound with 
the Subwoofer port.

So i think at the moment i have a 2.1 system. ;-) Better than before!

I have to try the routing thing in the asoundrc file.
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[opensuse] Re: KDE question?

2007-05-22 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Can anybody give me a technical insight on

Just one man's answers.

 
 1. If the KDE that's included in OpenSUSE is a customized version than
 the standard KDE released from KDE.org? I have seen mentions in the
 internet relating to something about OpenSUSe maintaining its own
 KDE?!!!?

I don't believe it is a customized KDE.  Yes, there are certain apps
that get installed, and there is the special menu (which can be toggled
to use the standard KDE menu). But that's about it, as far as I know.

 2. If its not customized than one can expect to get the KDE release
 from KDE.org and install it in ones current OpenSUSE installation.
 Right?

No, it would be better if you got the one from a SUSE build source. An
easy way to do this is to use YaST-Software Packages and change the
Filter: to be Patterns, and pick the KDE Desktop and KDE Base
systems.

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Re: [opensuse] Removal of OT posters Was: Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread JB2
On Tue 22 May 07 05:25, Russell Jones wrote:
 JB2 wrote:
  On Mon 21 May 07 21:51, Pueblo Native wrote:
  ...throw yourself in front of an oncoming semi.
 
Test that for us and tell us how it comes out.

 Actually a better suggestion:
 List mods, could you threaten to remove or ban Pueblo, Patrick, et al if
 they continue posting completely OT material apropos nothing, please?

  Why Patrick? AFAIR, I've never seen anything OT here from him.

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[opensuse] Changing refresh rate

2007-05-22 Thread Cristea Bogdan

I want to change the refresh rate of my monitor to a higher value than
the defaults values. I have tried to modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf
file in order to add the desired refresh value, but nothing is changed
in the list of values displayed by sax2 for example. Any suggestions?
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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video

2007-05-22 Thread S Glasoe
On Tuesday May 22 2007 8:40:17 am Jim Flanagan wrote:
 Well, I feel like in stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. I keep getting
 back to where I was, but no better off. I tried Daryl's suggestion and
 updated Mesa and Mesa-devel, not change. Then i uninstalled the patterns
 KDE Desktop and KDE Base. Told all the dependencies to delete as well,
 system then booted into terminal, no X. The re-installed KDE and Xorg.
 Now I'm back to desktop, but all is exaclty where I had left it before.
 All my programs are still here, tbird etc. and screensaver still won't
 work. Glxinfo still retunrs the same error message. Perhaps I should try
 uninstalling KDE again, but this time delete /etc/x11?? then reinstall??

 Jim F

Can't remember if you have moved or deleted your ~/.kde directory and deleted 
everything in /tmp related to this particular login ID and then rebooted. 
That would clear out any weird settings left over from whatever. By 
un/re-installing KDE you won't get a clean ~/.kde so any possible bad or 
wrong settings are retained.

Did you create a new user ID and does it have the same problems?
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Re: [opensuse] [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread Brad Bourn
On Monday 21 May 2007 8:51 pm, Pueblo Native wrote:
 JB2 wrote:
  On Mon 21 May 07 14:01, Brad Bourn wrote:

  woot!
 
  last word
  
 
No, you twit, this is the last word...  you are now plonked
 

 
 Oh no, Brad, JB2 has plonked you, what  will you ever do?  Do you just
 drown your sorrows in liquor, or throw yourself in front of an oncoming
 semi.  Oh the sheer horror of it all.  Oh the humanity.
 
 You like.  It's the most dramatic I could think of on short notice.


I wish more of the complainers would plonk me.  Funny thing is, they've used 
that as the last word, most powerfull threat, oh, no, what will I ever do 
type of plugging ears and humming reaction to me.  

And the truth of the matter is, that there are some people that actually have 
knowledge about all things suse.  They even (while complaining about OT) 
contribute to what they complain about.  I subscribe to the list to learn and 
help.  Those that don't want my help because they are too worried about 
controlling the list by threats and name calling instead of leading by 
example doesn't bother me.  Those that won't help me because of same, 
wouldn't be a good lasting relationship either.  However, I can forgive them 
their shortcomings and often I will only click on their responses to get some 
of that knowledge.  But more and more, the only knowledge I get from them is 
how to abuse and belittle other posters because they don't follow what they 
think is necessary for posting to the list.  Eventually I get frustrated 
enough that the only thing these people seem to be contributing is 
conforming, all or nothing, zero tolerance, our way or the highway attitudes 
that would seem to be just the opposite of what an open community of folks 
with different backgrounds, beliefs, habits, education, experience, etc. 
stands for, or gets its benefit from.

And it seems to be the same people.  People that would be smart enough to 
filter out such posts.  So that obviously isn't the point.  The point seems 
to be controll.


So, if the first thing you look for in a post is conformity, plonk me PLEASE!  
I don't conform, I innovate.


If all top posted responses elicit an immediate critique, plonk me PLEASE! 
I believe there is a place for them, and I for one appreciate a quick one line 
answer to a well defined syntax question.


Bottom line, think for yourself.   You list cops should start your own secret 
list that nobody that doesn't conform can subscribe to.  Of course you all 
know everthing that ever was and is (naturally, since you are soon adept at 
knowing what is OT and what isn't), so I don't know what you'll do when you 
don't have innovators to chide, but some people like the ol' circle jerk.



B-)


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Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes

2007-05-22 Thread Simon Roberts

- Original Message 
From: JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Suse Linux List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:50:27 AM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:00 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of 
 myself :(
 
 She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I proudly 
 told her that evolution would do this without difficulty. Hah, bloody wrong 
 :( I've been round the houses with 10.2, first it didn't recognize the 
 device, then I tried to install new versions, all manner of nonsense. I've 
 tried compiling and installing from source, but now I think I'm close.
 
 I finally figured out that the system wasn't doing the patch downloads, so 
 when I got that configured properly, I found hundreds of updates, including 
 evolution and gnome-pilot updates. Well, next I found that the system would 
 recognize the palm, and would sync, but that there were no evolution conduits 
 offered. Then I located them in /opt/gnome/share/blahblah/conduits, but 
 worked out that the set the system was working with are in /usr/local...blah. 
 So, I copied them over.

Why is the system set in /usr/local?  Nothing from the official
distribution should be in there.  Sounds like either a source install or
rpms from a non-standard repo.
-

I suspect this is a consequence of my having tried to build from source 
previously. That's part of my problem; the original install with 10.2 didn't 
work at all for this device, and there were no patches. I tried to build from 
scratch, that didn't work either (it's a while ago now, so I've lost track of 
exactly what did happen, but I don't think everything compiled). Then in the 
last couple of days I found the patches and installed them, then discovered 
that I could not see the e-xxx conduits, and that's where I am now.

Which was why part of my original question was, how do I clean up and do a 
fresh install of just the evolution, gnome-pilot, etc. related parts. There's 
configuration and stuff on this machine that I don't want to trash by a fresh 
install of the whole system, but I think if I can reinstall the evolution and 
pilot stuff, then patch it, it might well work ok.

Suggestions?

Cheers,
Simon
 
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Re: [opensuse] Changing refresh rate

2007-05-22 Thread Petr Klíma
Please add your hardware specification (graphics card, monitor or
display). In case you have nVidia or ATI graphics card, please tell us
whether you use opensource drivers (search for nv or radeon in
/etc/X11/xorg.conf) or whether you have installed drivers form
corresponding company's website.

You should add what refresh rates you have got and what you would like
to set up.

Without these informations, we can only guess, such that you don't have
correctly set-up your monitor informations etc.

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Re: [opensuse] Offtopic posting, was: [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)

2007-05-22 Thread Brad Bourn
And what besides a critique did you contribute here?

Linux in the classroom is VERY important in my opinion.


and even moreso for SuSE/Novell.


The majority of server installs I did when I was a tech was Novell in schools.

I have done lots of work for school districts, and I prefer SuSE.  

I started reading this thread hoping to interject my success with ltsp, and 
would like to see SuSE more involved with k12ltsp.org.  Seems a perfect match 
with the benefit of Novell's inroads already with the school system.

I forget which distro Jim is/was using for ltsp, but is wasn't SuSE.  I used 
SuSE for my ltsp stuff and did the best I could to champion it with him for 
that project.

What Novell is doing with M$, what they are doing with SuSE, what is happing 
in the markets, public opinion, (even jokes, which poke at known public 
opinions) is all relevant to SuSE a go.

The more information I have to champion the cause (SuSE, not list etiquette), 
the better.  That this list provide technical information / answers to the 
folks that are discovering SuSE, is a great thing.  That this list 
contributes to arming those that are able to help make a go of SuSE, and 
bring in more users, gain insights that help pacify PHB's, all the better.  

The people that complain about posts, and contribute only if the letter of the 
law is followed only stifle progress.


B-)

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 6:12 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
 * G T Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-22-07 05:22]:
  a) Not everyone interested in volunteering or making a useful to
  contribution for such event will subscribe to the OT list.
 
 Then they should restrain themselves and refrain from posting OT.
 
  b) Strictly speaking this is about assistance in helping setting up
  Linux, so is much less off topic than some, and is arguably on topic...
 
 grep -i suse article
 results in no output
 
  c) I do NOT think that this is a particularly diplomatically useful
  response  I can only assume that you neglected to read the OP before
  responding...
 
 You think that Randall posted after noticing the subject line rather
 than reading the post?
 What response would be diplomatically useful and, providing you have
 a better response, why didn't you diplomatically advise the poster
 the proper channel for his post?
 
 I cite a partial quote from a respected member of this list:
 
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 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:24:04 +0200
 From: Pascal Bleser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [...]
 The opensuse@opensuse.org list is already unusable for anything besides
 pointless off-topic discussions.
 So please, let us use *this* list for real work, actions, not
 blathering.
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Re: [opensuse] Enlightenment e17 and e16

2007-05-22 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
G T Smith wrote:
 In attempting to get hold of something to edit my enlightenment menus I
 accidentally torched my e16 installation. It was easy enough to restore
 the e16 setup, but it seems the e17 (from Pacman) rpm a) does not
 install e17 completely correctly, b) removes the e16 installation.

The Suse enlightenment package installs its config files in ~/.enlightenment;
the packman e16 package stores them in ~/.e16; the e17 package goes into ~/.e

 According to the enlightenment site e16 and e17 can coexist, Has anyone
 got these to co-exist on SuSE? If so how? I would prefer not to
 re-invent the wheel...

so, from above, you don't have to do anything to get them to coexist.

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Re: [opensuse] internet connection sharing problem on home network problem

2007-05-22 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 05:57, Gustav Degreef wrote:
 Success

 Mark,
 Thanks for the really fast response and tip.
You are most welcome.

... good day to you.




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Re: [opensuse] Removal of OT posters Was: Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning

2007-05-22 Thread Pueblo Native
Russell Jones creatively edited:
 JB2 wrote:
 On Mon 21 May 07 21:51, Pueblo Native wrote:

  
 ...throw yourself in front of an oncoming semi.
 

   Test that for us and tell us how it comes out.
  

After you, my good pal, since you're so fond of taking words out of context.
If you want to ignore somebody do so, but to publicly announce it as
though you matter to that particular person or anybody else just smacks
of  ego and  self-importance.  I'm not here to win a popularity contest
and I doubt anybody really cares who you ignore, plonk or whatever you
wish to do to put on the blinders.  There are people on this list that
could put drama queens of both genders to shame.  Check yourself.
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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video

2007-05-22 Thread S Glasoe
On Tuesday May 22 2007 11:18:59 am Jim Flanagan wrote:
 I did not delete ~/.kde or /tmp before reinstalling KDE. Thats a good
 idea. I think I'll delete /etc/X11 as well.

Don't know if deleting /etc/X11at the same time is a good idea. I'd save that 
for a next step.

 Existing other users and a new user experience the same problems.

 This may or may not be related, but clicking on My Computer on the
 desktop returns this error:
An error occurred while loading sysinfo:/:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_sysinfo'.

 Jim F

kio_sysinfo is provided by kdebase3-SuSE-10.2-x.y.rpm I believe. Maybe you are 
missing more than a few KDE rpms. Possibly select almost everything in YaST, 
Software Management that starts with KDE* instead of going for package 
groups may load the missing rpms.
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[opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Bob
Does anyone know how to stop this message from being displayed when 
someone logs in using SSH


sshd[26987]: pam_unix2: session started for user , service sshd

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Re: [opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop

2007-05-22 Thread torben




Well, we can probably guess the bios from your laptop model and 
processor. What is the laptop, and what does it say on the screen when 
you open My Computer (KDE) or Computer (GNOME)?




The laptop is model from a danish company called PrimeTech, and the
processor is a Intel Celeron 1.4 GHz. The laptop is almost 1 years old,
and I cannot the model number.
But again the software in bios is from Insyde Software Corporation.


Best regards
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Re: [opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop

2007-05-22 Thread torben
I am using 2.6.18, so it is a good idea. But I havent 
installed/upgraded/configured a kernel for year in hand. Can I just 
install the rpm- package and expect everything is working? If not, can 
you easily give me a good link to how to upgrae the kernel.


Best regards
Torben



Cristea Bogdan wrote:

What kernel version do you have? I recommend to download the latest
version, 2.6.21, from the openSuSE site:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/x86_64/kernel-source-2.6.21-10.x86_64.rpm 


Bogdan

On 5/21/07, torben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have a laptop with a strange behaviour. If I turn on ACPI when I boot
the machine, the USB connections do not work (or at least, they work
very bad. A USB mouse is very very slow).

If I turn off ACPI when I boot the boot the machine, the USB connections
do work but the wireless card does not work.

I would like to have a setup, where both the wireless network card and
the USB ports are working at the same time.

I had been looking at
http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_reference/data/sec_pmanage_acpi.html 


but I have my problems to find oout, which module I should include, and
which I should exclude.

I hope someone know how to help me.

I could imagine some information of the BIOS system would be a great
help, but I do not know how to get the information for the BIOS. Only
thing I can see is, the BIOS is based on software from Inside 
Software CDU.



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Re: ***SPAM*** [opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:55 -0400, Bob wrote:
 Does anyone know how to stop this message from being displayed when 
 someone logs in using SSH
 
 sshd[26987]: pam_unix2: session started for user , service sshd
 

No, and why would you want to unless you were breaking into the system?

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Re: ***SPAM*** [opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Bob
Because it is displayed to the console as well as the syslog and we are 
using an IBM product called Toolkit and when that product tries to 
connect and run scripts on the linux machine, it destroys products 
display screen ad makes it impossible to read. Somehow this message to 
the console got turned on when I configured LDAP but I don't know how.


Kenneth Schneider wrote:

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:55 -0400, Bob wrote:
  
Does anyone know how to stop this message from being displayed when 
someone logs in using SSH


sshd[26987]: pam_unix2: session started for user , service sshd




No, and why would you want to unless you were breaking into the system?

  

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Re: [opensuse] Offtopic posting, was: [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)

2007-05-22 Thread Richard Bos
Op Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:14:58 schreef Brad Bourn:
 I forget which distro Jim is/was using for ltsp, but is wasn't SuSE.  I
 used SuSE for my ltsp stuff and did the best I could to champion it with
 him for that project.

http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP

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Re: [opensuse] Offtopic posting, was: [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)

2007-05-22 Thread Brad Bourn
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 1:01 pm, Richard Bos wrote:
 http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP


Fn EXCELLENT

Thanks Richard!


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Re: ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** [opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:00 -0400, Bob wrote:
 Because it is displayed to the console as well as the syslog and we are 
 using an IBM product called Toolkit and when that product tries to 
 connect and run scripts on the linux machine, it destroys products 
 display screen ad makes it impossible to read. Somehow this message to 
 the console got turned on when I configured LDAP but I don't know how.
 

Ah... the crystal ball lights up dimly, I see now that you did something
with LDAP and this started. Maybe now some of the other folks can come
up with an answer for you. Perhaps something in the syslog config or
maybe you have tty10 being displayed instead of tty1 (which should not
show any log activities like they do in tty10).

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Re: [opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop

2007-05-22 Thread torben


Cristea Bogdan wrote:

  After downloading the rpm, use yast to install sources in the
default location /usr/src.
Change to the installation directory (e.g. usr/src/linux-2.6.21-8) and
execute the following commands as root:

make menuconfig (or xconfig) //here you should change some options in
oder to match your hardware config.

But first I think I need to modify grub so I can switch back to the 
old kernel. This point I think I can manage.
Secondly, I would prefer to use the old kernel configuration as a 
starting point for the configuration of the new kernel.
Can I somehow export the configuration of the old kernel and use it as 
a starting point for the new kernel?



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Re: [opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop

2007-05-22 Thread Thomas Hertweck

torben wrote:
 [...]
 Secondly, I would prefer to use the old kernel configuration as a 
 starting point for the configuration of the new kernel.
 Can I somehow export the configuration of the old kernel and use it as 
 a starting point for the new kernel?

Yes. With SuSE kernel sources, you can just run make cloneconfig in
the new kernel source tree and this will clone the configuration of the
currently running kernel. With vanilla kernel sources (however, it works
of course also with SuSE kernel sources), you can copy the existing old
configuration (e.g. /boot/config-2.6.xyz or /usr/src/oldkernel/.config)
to a file called .config in the new kernel source tree and then run
make oldconfig. Both approaches do not use a build directory, but you
might not want to use one anyway...

HTH, Th.
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Re: [opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
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The Tuesday 2007-05-22 at 15:21 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:


 On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:00 -0400, Bob wrote:
  Because it is displayed to the console as well as the syslog and we are 
  using an IBM product called Toolkit and when that product tries to 
  connect and run scripts on the linux machine, it destroys products 
  display screen ad makes it impossible to read. Somehow this message to 
  the console got turned on when I configured LDAP but I don't know how.
  
 
 Ah... the crystal ball lights up dimly, I see now that you did something
 with LDAP and this started. Maybe now some of the other folks can come
 up with an answer for you. Perhaps something in the syslog config or
 maybe you have tty10 being displayed instead of tty1 (which should not
 show any log activities like they do in tty10).

Something similar happened to me with 7.3 when I wanted to dump some 
messages to tty11: some of them came in the rest of the consoles too. The 
place to look is the syslog config (to undo the change), but I never 
discovered why they went to the incorrect ttys.

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Re: [opensuse] SSH Login Message

2007-05-22 Thread Bob
I actually systems. The test one that I configure for LDAP a few months 
ago doesn't do this. It is the production one that does now so I can 
compared config files between the 2 systems. The syslog config on both 
systems are the same.


Carlos E. R. wrote:
Something similar happened to me with 7.3 when I wanted to dump some 
messages to tty11: some of them came in the rest of the consoles too. The 
place to look is the syslog config (to undo the change), but I never 
discovered why they went to the incorrect ttys.
  

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[opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Van Lone

I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to
cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc 

I found reference to gtkterm, but there does not appear to be an RPM
for it, and I'm just wondering whether there is a util that comes
with suse distros?

Peter





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Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Seth Arnold
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:35:49PM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
 I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to
 cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc 

screen /dev/ttyS0 9600(or whatever)


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Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Van Lone

On 5/22/07, Seth Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:35:49PM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
 I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to
 cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc 

screen /dev/ttyS0 9600(or whatever)



thank you ... this looks promising. How do I know/discover which
/dev/tty* device = my actual serial port? I looked in YAST hardware
info, and  there is much there, but nothing clearly labeled
serial port 1 or com1 or etc 

As for minicom, I will try this as soon as I can get to my install
DVD. Same goes for gtkiterm -- apparently this also ships with the
distro but it not installed by default. Sounds like it and minicom are
the closest match to a hyper-term like option

Peter
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[opensuse] Keyboard with buttons

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Arnold
I have a Dell keyboard with home, refresh, close, back and forward buttons on 
it. These buttons do not work when pushed. Is there a way to make these buttons 
work on SLED10 with firefox2?

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Re: [opensuse] Keyboard with buttons

2007-05-22 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 17:15, Chris Arnold wrote:
 I have a Dell keyboard with home, refresh, close, back and forward buttons
 on it. These buttons do not work when pushed. Is there a way to make these
 buttons work on SLED10 with firefox2?
Yes,

... the first thing you need to do is determine whether the keys are 
visible 
to the kernel... this is easy:

From a black screen alt-F1 console use the showkey command... do not do 
this 
from a terminal on the desktop 

With showkey running press all the the special multimedia keys... and 
look 
for responses.  If the key does nothing, then press the F10 key to look at 
the kernel messages... the kernel will tell you whether the key was 
recognized and what its scancode is.  You can add easily scancodes to the 
kernel with setkeycodes command.

Next, you will need to map the kernel keycode to the X events you want 
for 
firefox... or multimedia... whatever...  using xev.

Run xev from a terminal on your desktop.  It will open a window that 
you will 
focus with your mouse and then type into it... the keycodes will appear for 
keypress and keyrelease...   write them down... you then map those events to 
the action you want using the keyboard utilities in the control panel.  

All of the buttons on all keyboards can be mapped to do anything you 
want to 
do... sometimes its a little work... but it is always doable in linux.




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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with syslog-ng syntax

2007-05-22 Thread Registration Account
Darryl I tested yesterday with the space and there is no difference.

I did however make some progress with the following

source src { unix-stream(/var/log/skot); internal(); udp(ip(0.0.0.0)
port(514)); };

This script does parse and it does create a file names skot and it
does bind with UDP 514, however it writes nothing. I think I know need
to specify the facility ==Local0 to which the sending device
defines. With Wireshark I can just listen to UDP514 and see the
truncated data, however syslog-ng seems not to be written that easy.

It appears that in the case where we want syslog-ng to listen to a port,
we cannot use regular source syntax and form. It appears from the manual
that the moment the source is a port the source logic and syntax
changes dramatically.

Now I think I only need to specify the correct facility. I dont think
(rightfully) syslog-ng has a command that globally listens to 'anything'
on a port

Your thoughts if you have time.

Scott

Darryl Gregorash wrote:
 On 2007-05-21 16:06, Registration Account wrote:
   
 I was clear to perform a copy and paste. Sorry the syntax error remains.
 I can see your equal () and equal {} I have not a clue why the syntax
 wont parse.
   
 
 I pasted the line into a console and see I didn't mix up the
 braces/parentheses after all, as you've noted.

 All I can think of now is a syntax error in the documentation. The line
 I quote from there is as follows:

   
 destination d_file { file(/var/log/skot ); };  
   
 

 The format in the actual syslog-ng.conf file on my system is instead
 suggestive of the following:

 destination d_file { file(/var/log/skot); };

 Note the absence of the space following the file name.

 Yes, I'm really grasping at a rather small straw here.


   


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Re: Re: Re: [opensuse] Keyboard with buttons

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Arnold
-Original Message-
From: M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:24:16 -0500
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Keyboard with buttons

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 17:15, Chris Arnold wrote:
 I have a Dell keyboard with home, refresh, close, back and forward buttons
 on it. These buttons do not work when pushed. Is there a way to make these
 buttons work on SLED10 with firefox2?
Yes,

... the first thing you need to do is determine whether the keys are 
visible 
to the kernel... this is easy:

From a black screen alt-F1 console use the showkey command... do not do 
this 
from a terminal on the desktop 

With showkey running press all the the special multimedia keys... and 
look 
for responses.  If the key does nothing, then press the F10 key to look at 
the kernel messages... the kernel will tell you whether the key was 
recognized and what its scancode is.  You can add easily scancodes to the 
kernel with setkeycodes command.

Next, you will need to map the kernel keycode to the X events you want 
for 
firefox... or multimedia... whatever...  using xev.

Run xev from a terminal on your desktop.  It will open a window that 
you will 
focus with your mouse and then type into it... the keycodes will appear for 
keypress and keyrelease...   write them down... you then map those events to 
the action you want using the keyboard utilities in the control panel.  

All of the buttons on all keyboards can be mapped to do anything you 
want to 
do... sometimes its a little work... but it is always doable in linux.




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Kernel see the strokes and all is well, except, in control center, i do not see 
where to map the numbers to the buttons. I looked in the keyboard applet and 
i was able to map the vol buttons in the shortcuts applet. Where exactly do i 
map the browser buttons to the browser? Thanks again for the help




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Re: [opensuse] gtkterm -- or -like prog for sled/open suse 10.1?

2007-05-22 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:35 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
 I need to use my laptops serial port, to connect via serial cable to
 cisco switches, fiber channel switches, etc 
 
 I found reference to gtkterm, but there does not appear to be an RPM
 for it, and I'm just wondering whether there is a util that comes
 with suse distros?
 
 Peter

I always used seyon to connect to the Cisco equipment. Worked very well
every time. The tty would most likely be ttyS0.

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Re: [opensuse] rpm problem

2007-05-22 Thread Bob S
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 01:10, Pascal Bleser wrote:
 Bob S wrote:
  Running 10.2 64 bit. Tried to install an src rpm. RPM version is
  rpm-4.4.2-76 rpm won't accept the --rebuild or the -bb commands.
 
  Any ideas why?

 rpmbuild --rebuild
 rpmbuild -bb

Thanks Pascal

Bob S
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[opensuse] Wanna umask inhereted from parent directory

2007-05-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all,
Most of the time I administer Redhat server. However, recently I spend more 
and more time exploring Opensuse.

There's one thing that I don't get it yet regarding sgid and umask in 
Opensuse.

In RH, when I create a directory say 'test', chmod it 3770. It will look like 
this:
drwxrws--T 2 root sales 4096 2007-05-23 08:16 test
Then, when I create a file inside the directory, it will have permission like 
this:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 geecko sales 4 2007-05-23 09:14 filegeecko (notice the 
rw-rw-r--).

I do the same in Opensuse. But, the file created in the directory have the 
permission:
-rw-r--r-- 1 geecko sales 4 2007-05-23 09:17 filegeecko (notice the 
rw-r--r--). This permission makes other user in sales group cannot edit 
geecko's file. User geecko has to specifically set the permission to 664 on 
the file.

How do I achive the default umask inhereted from the parent directory? I read 
some suggestions from google to adjust the global default umask, but I think 
it's a bit risky, or is it the only way?

Thank you very much.
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Re: [opensuse] Keyboard with buttons

2007-05-22 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 20:20, Chris Arnold wrote:
 Kernel see the strokes and all is well, except, in control center, i do not
 see where to map the numbers to the buttons. I looked in the keyboard
 applet and i was able to map the vol buttons in the shortcuts applet.
 Where exactly do i map the browser buttons to the browser? Thanks again for
 the help
Assuming the kernel has the keys mapped, AND xev shows a valid keysym 
for 
each key  please check with this:

from a terminal konsole on your desktop, enter:

xev | grep -i keysym

Now, press the key you are interested in and then move your mouse over 
the 
xev window and the keysym data should appear in your terminal window.  If the 
key has a valid keysym for the scancode, then no problem.  Otherwise you will 
need to bind a keysym to the scancode with xmodmap.  In your home directory 
you simply create a file called  .Xmodmap  with the entries you need--- for 
instance:   (these are just examples, yours will be different)
keycode 223 = XF86LogOff
keycode 233 = XF86Forward
keycode 234 = XF86Back
etc

Then you make them available with:

xmodmap  .Xmodmap  ===please notice the dot in the name

You can look at the keysym database  /usr/X11R6/X11/XKeysymDB  for 
valid 
symbols that you can bind.

After you add the entries to your  .Xmodmap  file in your home 
directory, and 
run   xmodmap .Xmodmap,   then test your keysym entries by running the xev 
experiment again... this time you should see the keycode and the keysym 
binding.

You are now ready to have KDE do something with the keysym bindings.  
You do 
this within the Control Center using the following directions:

Pull up the appropriate control center panel with :

SUSE === Control Center === Regional  Accessibility === Hotkeys

1) Create an action group name based on your keyboard... mine is a 
Dynex 
internet keyboard... so I just called my new group  Dynex.
2) Create an action subgroup under that for Firefox
(you can have many groups and subgroups, like one for 
Thunderbird)
3) Under Firefox create a K-menu Entry simple
a) call it  search(no quotes)  (it will be used to start 
firefox)
b) click keyboard shortcut... and press the button on your 
keyboard for 
starting firefox... the keysym bound for that button will fill in the 
shortcut box... we're almost done
c) click menu entry   (it will contain the program name)  and 
enter  
firefox  (no quotes)  in the field
d) click   Apply

4) [ let's do another one for the forward button ]
4) Under Firefox group create a  Keyboard Shortcut Keyboard Input  
simple
a) call it page forward   (no quotes)
b) click keyboard shortcut and press the forward multimedia key 
on your 
keyboard to fill in the shortcut keysym binding
c) click keyboard Input Settings and make the keyboard input  
Alt+Right  and 
send input to active window 
d) click  Apply


Simply repeat these instructions for as many keys as you want to 
define 
all 19 keys on my Dynex are configured to do something... 

keep in mind that these bindings only work while kde is up and 
running...   
for instance,  I have a key that ejects my cdrom (and also closes it) from 
the keyboard... but I cannot use that button to open the cdrom door from my 
black screen consoles... nor does it work in run level 3.  Of course the 
keyboard can be mapped for run level 3 also... but that is another story.

Also,  the keyboard shortcuts for the apps you are configuring must be 
known 
to you... for instance you must know that  Alt+Right  is the page forward in 
Firefox. 

The first few of these you dink around with will be a little confusing, 
but 
after you do a couple you'll have the whole keyboard mapped in no time.

Caveat:  If you're using gnome, consider using KDE just kidding... there 
is probably a way to do this same thing in gnome... but I don't have a clue 
how because... I don't use gnome...   :)

Have lots of fun.








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Re: [opensuse] Install Subversion RPM

2007-05-22 Thread Jonathan Arsenault
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:32 -0400, Chris Arnold wrote:
 Hello all! I am running SLED and my end goal is to install Subversion RPM 
 from the opensuse site. When i try to install the opensuse RPM, i get 
 dependency failure: does not find neon-26 and when i try to install neon from 
 opensuse site, it wants to remove openoffice package. How do i get neon 
 installed and then subversion RPM's?
 
 Subversion is part of the SDK on SLE platform, take a look at
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/SLES_SDK for more
information.

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] installing / updating / erasing apache2 modules

2007-05-22 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-05-21 18:16:00 -0400, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote:
 Marcus Rueckert escribió:
 
  imho the problem is more general.
 
 Yes, and I was unableto figure a better solution, that's the reason why
 I used that. ;)
 
  lets say i upgrade apache + modules:
  
  %postun in the apache package does:
  %restart_on_update apache2
  
  now the other modules will be installed.
  that can already take your server offline. if the apache mmn changes the
  old modules that are still installed wont be loaded in the newer apache.
 
 there is yet another issue with this approach, the restart must be
 done when the transaction finishes, if I install apache2-mod_php5 it may
 pull other PHP modules that really needs to be updated **before**
 restarting.

as we cant use rpm transactions (many installer install one rpm per rpm
call) we have to use some external script here. and each php module just
does %restart_on_update apache2 e.g. aswell. so they trigger a restart
of it aswell. [1]

  which can be picked up by some SuSEconfig script in the end.  [1]
 
 wasnt it deprecated ? ;)

i know we try to minimize the usage of it. you can always bring up a
better idea for the problem.;)

darix

[1] Although this gets a bit tricky. who will restart my php fastcgi
init script?;) do we want to have it in the distro at all?

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Re: [opensuse-wiki] litigious account

2007-05-22 Thread jdd

Rajko M. wrote:

BTW, if it is only advertising it was discussed before and considered 
inappropriate. I wouldn't wait for response to blank page


I already blanked the page :-) - I wrote a mail in the case this would 
be unintentional


 and set delete
template with remark of inappropriate content. 


as a sysop I can delete the page and will do

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