[opensuse-announce] Get Involved! Bug Slashing Weekend 11-12 August

2007-08-10 Thread Francis Giannaros
So openSUSE 10.3 Beta 1 has now been released and it's looking great.
A long-discussed topic on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the
suggestion of having a Bug Slashing day or weekend.

The aim of the weekend is to try to help developers and packagers by
trying to clear up the Bugzilla, finding out which bugs need to be
addressed, seeing if particular bugs can be reproduced and how, and
where necessary seeing which open 10.2 bugs still apply to current
Factory (10.3 Beta1). It's also the place to ask about a particular
bug, or ask any other queries about whether you have found a bug.
These days have run very successfully within other projects, so it's
certainly time for us to give it a go too!

It should be good fun all day (though of course showing up for any
amount of time is good) and it's a great way to contribute and get
directly involved. Here are the details:

* Where: #opensuse-bugs on irc.freenode.net. For a general technical
introduction to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) see http://www.irchelp.org/
* When: this weekend. 11-12, all day, all timezones.

http://opensuse.org/Bug_Slashing will have more up-to-date news and
information on bugs to address, bug handling techniques etc. nearer to
the time.

Hope to see you there and Have a Lot of fun!
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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:30:48AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
 Seems it will be the first time, I won't be able to participate in an
 (open)SUSE beta test. My test computer has the ASUS M2N-MX motherboard.
 The noapic boot parameter needed for 32bit kernels isn't the biggest
 problem, the nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) interface
 (perfectly supported under 32bit openSUSE 10.2) is neither recognized
 nor functions with manually loaded forcedeth driver. Meaning the test
 box has no network available, making testing basically impossible.
 
 Until my motherboard gets supported then,

Is there a bug number for this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
 Greg KH wrote:
  On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:30:48AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:

  Seems it will be the first time, I won't be able to participate in an
  (open)SUSE beta test. My test computer has the ASUS M2N-MX motherboard.
  The noapic boot parameter needed for 32bit kernels isn't the biggest
  problem, the nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) interface
  (perfectly supported under 32bit openSUSE 10.2) is neither recognized
  nor functions with manually loaded forcedeth driver. Meaning the test
  box has no network available, making testing basically impossible.
 
  Until my motherboard gets supported then,
  
 
  Is there a bug number for this?
 
  thanks,
 
  greg k-h

 Nope, since there is too much trouble to supply all the information to
 Bugzilla from a box that is not connected to the internet. That is
 exactly why my internal beta test rules tell me: bow out. Plus: either
 only my MCP61 ethernet chip is not supported then Bugzilla is of no help
 to, or openSUSE 10.3 does not support the chip in general, then my
 Bugzilla entry is not needed.

Well, that sounds like a pretty serious kernel regression.  And, if you
can't report it, well, we can't help fix it.

So the odds that it will be fixed for the final 10.3 release is pretty
slim.

Can you just try booting with the 10.3 kernels on your 10.2 release?
That will let you help test and provide us with hopefully enough
information to fix this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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[opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
Seems it will be the first time, I won't be able to participate in an
(open)SUSE beta test. My test computer has the ASUS M2N-MX motherboard.
The noapic boot parameter needed for 32bit kernels isn't the biggest
problem, the nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) interface
(perfectly supported under 32bit openSUSE 10.2) is neither recognized
nor functions with manually loaded forcedeth driver. Meaning the test
box has no network available, making testing basically impossible.

Until my motherboard gets supported then,

FMF

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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread CyberOrg
On 8/10/07, Frank-Michael Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 Bug 299141 Submitted

Good thing you did that, otherwise with Bug slashing weekend coming we
would all have threaten you with even more dire consequences than it
won't be fixed in 10.3 if you don't file a report.

See: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-08/msg4.html

Cheers

-J

PS: Just kidding about the direr consequences ;)
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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
Greg KH wrote:
 On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
   
 Greg KH wrote:
 
 On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:30:48AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
   
   
 Seems it will be the first time, I won't be able to participate in an
 (open)SUSE beta test. My test computer has the ASUS M2N-MX motherboard.
 The noapic boot parameter needed for 32bit kernels isn't the biggest
 problem, the nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) interface
 (perfectly supported under 32bit openSUSE 10.2) is neither recognized
 nor functions with manually loaded forcedeth driver. Meaning the test
 box has no network available, making testing basically impossible.

 Until my motherboard gets supported then,
 
 
 Is there a bug number for this?

 thanks,

 greg k-h
   
   
 Nope, since there is too much trouble to supply all the information to
 Bugzilla from a box that is not connected to the internet. That is
 exactly why my internal beta test rules tell me: bow out. Plus: either
 only my MCP61 ethernet chip is not supported then Bugzilla is of no help
 to, or openSUSE 10.3 does not support the chip in general, then my
 Bugzilla entry is not needed.
 

 Well, that sounds like a pretty serious kernel regression.  And, if you
 can't report it, well, we can't help fix it.

 So the odds that it will be fixed for the final 10.3 release is pretty
 slim.

 Can you just try booting with the 10.3 kernels on your 10.2 release?
 That will let you help test and provide us with hopefully enough
 information to fix this.


   

Bug 299141 Submitted
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Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3 beta1 download?

2007-08-10 Thread M9.
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Jonathan Arnold schreef:
 Arto Viitanen wrote:
 Donn Washburn wrote:

 There seems to be bittorrent distribution of 10.3 Beta 1. I managed to
 download NonOSS and Language Add-On
 images. When I tried to download the  DVD, it took about a day to
 download 3.6 GB of the 4.01 GB. Then the
 download stopped. I tried on another machine, but KTorrent says that
 download will take 587 days. I bet
 
 I just did it yesterday, and it took about 2 hours. Not sure why it is going
 so slow for you.
 

Here the downloadspeed varies a lot. Between 50 and 150K
Yesterday with A7 this speed was 225K, with just one seeder(!)
There are atm 25 (46) seeders here, and 44 (163) leechers...
Est time about 8 Hours and 25 Minutes.
888, MB from 4.04GB...

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Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3 beta1 download?

2007-08-10 Thread Arto Viitanen

Donn Washburn wrote:

Terje J. Hanssen wrote:

According to DesktopLinux.com the openSUSE 10.3 beta1 was released on
LinuxWorld August 7.
The download page still contains Alpha 7. When will Beta1 become 
available?


http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS7931889340.html

Rgds,
Terje J. Hanssen


I kind of dug around and all that I found was 10.2 in CD or DVD

There seems to be bittorrent distribution of 10.3 Beta 1. I managed to 
download NonOSS and Language Add-On
images. When I tried to download the  DVD, it took about a day to 
download 3.6 GB of the 4.01 GB. Then the
download stopped. I tried on another machine, but KTorrent says that 
download will take 587 days. I bet

Opensuse 10.5 is already published then...

So what about those KDE-CDs? Can I use it (I now have 10.2, so I cannot 
use deltas)?


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Re: [opensuse-factory] AHCI not working after Upgrade from 10.3 Alpha5 to 10.3 Beta1

2007-08-10 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi all,

 I have a problem with my installation of SuSE 10.3. I installed the
 Alpha5 version
 as the 10.2 version wasn't running on my System with the following
 chipset (due to
 problems with the AHCI drivers) Northbridge AMD 690V; Southbridge AMD SB600;
 I/O Chip: ITE IT8716. My Mainboard is a Gigybyte MA69VM-S2.
 The 10.3 Alpha5 Version was runninng and installing great on this
 system, but the 10.3 Beta1
 don't run at all anymore. I updated the Alpha5 Installation doing a
 Factory Update with the new DVD from yast2 which worked fine, but
 after the reboot, to activate the newly installed kernel, the system
 cannot boot up again, it hangs with the following error messages:
 ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
 ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)

 Those messages repeat for 3 times then it tries to fall back to 1.5
 Gbps but also no success.

 Then the other 4 sata Ports are also probed like this and also give
 the same errors too.

 After this I tried a clean Install of 10.3 Beta 1 from the KDE CD
 which isn't working as
 the system hangs while loading the AHCI drivers during installation,
 the same as I observed with 10.2.

 What can I try to resolve(or to work around) the problem?

Please do report a bug in bugzilla.novell.com so that the kernel
developers can investigate and fix this.

Thanks,
Andreas
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Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE 10.3 beta1 download?

2007-08-10 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Arto Viitanen wrote:
 Donn Washburn wrote:
 Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
 According to DesktopLinux.com the openSUSE 10.3 beta1 was released on
 LinuxWorld August 7.
 The download page still contains Alpha 7. When will Beta1 become
 available?

 http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS7931889340.html

 Rgds,
 Terje J. Hanssen

 I kind of dug around and all that I found was 10.2 in CD or DVD

 There seems to be bittorrent distribution of 10.3 Beta 1. I managed to
 download NonOSS and Language Add-On
 images. When I tried to download the  DVD, it took about a day to
 download 3.6 GB of the 4.01 GB. Then the
 download stopped. I tried on another machine, but KTorrent says that
 download will take 587 days. I bet

I just did it yesterday, and it took about 2 hours. Not sure why it is going
so slow for you.

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[opensuse-factory] AHCI not working after Upgrade from 10.3 Alpha5 to 10.3 Beta1

2007-08-10 Thread Andreas Hoffmann
Hi all,

I have a problem with my installation of SuSE 10.3. I installed the
Alpha5 version
as the 10.2 version wasn't running on my System with the following
chipset (due to
problems with the AHCI drivers) Northbridge AMD 690V; Southbridge AMD SB600;
I/O Chip: ITE IT8716. My Mainboard is a Gigybyte MA69VM-S2.
The 10.3 Alpha5 Version was runninng and installing great on this
system, but the 10.3 Beta1
don't run at all anymore. I updated the Alpha5 Installation doing a
Factory Update with the new DVD from yast2 which worked fine, but
after the reboot, to activate the newly installed kernel, the system
cannot boot up again, it hangs with the following error messages:
ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)

Those messages repeat for 3 times then it tries to fall back to 1.5
Gbps but also no success.

Then the other 4 sata Ports are also probed like this and also give
the same errors too.

After this I tried a clean Install of 10.3 Beta 1 from the KDE CD
which isn't working as
the system hangs while loading the AHCI drivers during installation,
the same as I observed with 10.2.

What can I try to resolve(or to work around) the problem?

Greetings
Andreas
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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
Klaus Kaempf wrote:
 * Frank-Michael Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 10. 2007 08:49]:

   
 Nope, since there is too much trouble to supply all the information to
 Bugzilla from a box that is not connected to the internet.
 

 But you do have a machine with internet connection since you were
 able to send this mail ;-)

 Please boot 10.3 beta1 on the problematic system, switch to a bash-prompt
 by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, plug in a usb-stick and run

 - mount /dev/sda /mnt # resp. sdb, sdc or whereever the usb stick appears
 - hwinfo  /mnt/hwinfo
 - dmesg  /mnt/dmesg# (see below)
 - umount /mnt

done, by double reboot, without USB stick ;-); Bug 299141

FMF

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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Frank-Michael Fischer
Greg KH wrote:
 On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:30:48AM +0200, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote:
   
 Seems it will be the first time, I won't be able to participate in an
 (open)SUSE beta test. My test computer has the ASUS M2N-MX motherboard.
 The noapic boot parameter needed for 32bit kernels isn't the biggest
 problem, the nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) interface
 (perfectly supported under 32bit openSUSE 10.2) is neither recognized
 nor functions with manually loaded forcedeth driver. Meaning the test
 box has no network available, making testing basically impossible.

 Until my motherboard gets supported then,
 

 Is there a bug number for this?

 thanks,

 greg k-h
   
Nope, since there is too much trouble to supply all the information to
Bugzilla from a box that is not connected to the internet. That is
exactly why my internal beta test rules tell me: bow out. Plus: either
only my MCP61 ethernet chip is not supported then Bugzilla is of no help
to, or openSUSE 10.3 does not support the chip in general, then my
Bugzilla entry is not needed.

FMF
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Re: [opensuse-factory] bow out of this beta test?

2007-08-10 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Frank-Michael Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 10. 2007 08:49]:

 Nope, since there is too much trouble to supply all the information to
 Bugzilla from a box that is not connected to the internet.

But you do have a machine with internet connection since you were
able to send this mail ;-)

Please boot 10.3 beta1 on the problematic system, switch to a bash-prompt
by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, plug in a usb-stick and run

- mount /dev/sda /mnt   # resp. sdb, sdc or whereever the usb stick appears
- hwinfo  /mnt/hwinfo
- dmesg  /mnt/dmesg# (see below)
- umount /mnt

(I'm not quite sure if dmesg is sufficient, /var/log/boot.msg is probably
better)

Then take the usb stick to the system with internet and provide
the files in a bug report.

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[opensuse-factory] some remarks on beta1 install

2007-08-10 Thread jdd

two general remarks:

* the new dns writing sheme is not obvious. I missed the tag the first
time. If fixed IP is selected, one should be asked for gateway/dns at
install time (only)

* The word download is used for any install source, including the
dvd. so I could download release notes when no dns was present...
this is confusing.

one small problem:

I use to install grub on the root partition (not the mbr). like this I
can keep many distros on the same disk. I use old grub entry to boot
the new 10.3

but the new disk sheme come on... and the kernel didn't recognise the
hda6 (in fact (hd0.5) from grub). It kindly ask if it could go on and
use the 6th partition of the new sheme, a very good and smart
question... but the question was masked by the blue screen. It didn't
seem to be waiting time. Something is to be done to be even more
smart, not anybody likes to hit esc to see the boot detail...

* I really don't like the blue screens, they are too much like the
unfamous blue screen of death of the competitor :-(((

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Re: [opensuse-factory] some remarks on beta1 install

2007-08-10 Thread jdd

jdd wrote:


* I really don't like the blue screens, they are too much like the
unfamous blue screen of death of the competitor :-(((


don't worry, this time it's my mind who crashed :-))

jdd

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Call for testing: Alpha7 Live CDs

2007-08-10 Thread Jónas Helgi Pálsson
Hi

On Sunday 05 August 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:

 Report problems in this thread - this is a very first try of 10.3 live CDs,
 so we better wait for the beta with bugs :)

I gave the (kde) CD a spin in a HP Compaq dc7700 pc. That gave me this output 
after loading the kernel:

Loading KIWI CD Boot-system...

- Including required kernel modules...
- Probing module: e1000
- Probing module: ehci-hcd
- Probing module: generic
- Failed to detect CD drive!
- rebootExcepion: reboot in 60 sec...

and it did reboot afterwards.

I do recall not being able to start (DVD) install of openSUSE 10.2 on it as it 
said it did not find installation media. Rescue mode worked IIRC.

If it would be useful I could try to boot it in recue mode with a beta1 
installation CD and post some dmesg lspci outputs. What more would be 
useful information?

regards
j

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[opensuse-factory] YaST2 Control Center - icon order

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Buschbacher
Hello!
Can someone tell me what file controls the order of Icons, the Text, and
the texts of the bottom 'helpline'. I really don't like the order
especially in the Software-Section as it looks to me very unordered, and
the texts do not really take (new) users by the hand to quickly take the
right actions.
If I knew where the config for this is done, it would be easier to me to
make suggestions that can't be misunderstood and I did not find it with
some help of locate.
Peter Buschbacher
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Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha7 - first Impressions

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Buschbacher
Hello!
I was waiting for beta1 before I took a closer look on the open issues
of your answer.
Because I'm not experienced in using bugzilla I also would like to get
feedback, if my bugreports are helpful, or what I can change to help more.

Stanislav Visnovsky schrieb:
 Hi!
 
 Thanks for the report!
 
 Dňa St 8. August 2007 02:01 Peter Buschbacher napísal:
 Hi all.
 This Weekend I gave Alpha7 a try, after reading Stephans workaround for
 the vmware-related bug.
 First of all I like the green theme for beeing colorful but
 unostentatious. Installation worked fine, just a black screen which was
 blinking with some boot-like messages while hardware-configuration made
 me a little unsecure.
 
 Yes, this is due to graphics card detection.
 
 But maybe that had something to do with the missing networkadapter, I
 addded to the vmx while pausing the installation.
 And I had no Problems with the most annoying bug. hd was recognized after
 first and later reboots. I used a 10G growable virtual disk, split into
 files (IDE 0:1)with xp as host.

 Clock is set to UTC. So the KDE clock does not show local time though in
 kontrolcenter Timezone is Berlin/Germany. Where should that behaviour be
 fixed?

 Then I wanted to test the softwaremanagement tools. Here I got opposed
 to some bugs or at least strange behaviour.

 1. To me it´s not clear what's the concept of having two yast2-Modules
 doing nearly the same like Additional Product Repositories and
 Software Repositories. 
 
 The new label says Community repositories. Is it better?

Please diskuss better solutions with us at Bug 298884 - Yast Control
Center Entry: Software/Community Repositories (
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298884 )

 
 If the new one should help new users, they have 
 to find this one first. Maybe it just needs a better name. - And the order
 of the Icons in Yast2 Control Center - Software seem quiet random to me in
 the moment.-
 
 That's something we might look into. Please, open a bug report.


I asked for help in another thread of this list about where to find the
config files that are responsible for the order of icons in Yast Control
Center. Then I will make an enhancement request on this issue.

 
 For this purpose I like the solution of Kubuntu with an easy Installation
 Tool directly in the menu and the more powerful, less usable one in the
 system-undermenu.
 Anyway, at the moment the new Repo-Manager just did not add any repo
 when I tried.
 
 I don't understand. What do you mean by new Repo-Manager?

I meant the module 'yast2 inst_productsources'. In fact it will be
possible with this module to add the non-OSS repository before
Installation. And if we think it should be first choice for newbies to
use it also after installation instead of 'yast2 inst_sources' then the
best would be everyone finds this one first. But I don't think we should
do that. A standard task of a new user trying out linux will be adding
complete multimedia-support. And that should be made as easy as possible.
For this case the possibility to choose 'Community Repositories' alias
'yast2 inst_productsources' is just another trap for the user that does
not help him for his task.
By the way will it be possible to get guru or packman packages from the
new one-click web interface?


 
 2. After adding a factory repository (type:YAST) in the old Software
 Repositories-GUI I wanted to close the window, but it did not close.
 There were 3 minutes of busy mouse-cursor blinking before a popup
 message told me Building repository * cache. The progress bar stays at
 0% for 4 more minutes then changes for a minute to 12% then window
 disappears.
 It should be the first priority to inform the user about a lengthy
 operation, and not to leave him alone with a roaring fan and a nervous
 mouse arrow.
 
 The missing progress issue is fixed in FACTORY now.

This is indeed fixed in Beta1. But there are some more situations where
I would like to have a quick first reaction from the system. E.g when I
try to abort Yast2 while refreshing sources.
Added Bug 299536 - Yast2 - Quick Feedback on clicking Abort
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299536

 
 3. Software Management (yast2 sw_single):
 I'd like to have one permanent pop-up for all relevant messages during
 the start of sw_single. The blinking of dozens(?) of windows that I
 anyway can't read makes me nervous. I want the software to calm me down
 especially in case of error, and then give me some hint about what to
 do. Warning: There was an error in repository initialization doesn't
 meet that. I want to know which repo, ( what error,) and what I can do
 about it.
 
 I suggest to open bug reports for those 2 issues.

Added Bug 299532 - yast2 software management - permanent pop-up for all
relevant messages ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299532 )

Found Bug 298827 - sw_single: MediaException warning text is unhelpful
( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298827 )

 

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[opensuse] Followup: 10.2 SAX/8600GT/nVidia Binary Driver Strange Problem

2007-08-10 Thread Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
Hi,

I have previously posted this message describing problem with 8600GT and 
nVidia binary driver 100.14.03. Below I have included lspci and log 
information, which might be necessary to track down the problem.

 I have just assembled new PC with Intel Core2 Duo, Gigabyte m/b,
 Intel P35 Chipset, and Asus 8600GT/512MB PCIe video card.

 Software: SuSE 10.2 with latest kernel update, latest nvidia driver
 from its web site installed manually (modprobe nvidia works)

 However, neither sax2 neither  sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia do not work as
 expected - sax2 ALWAYS switch to framebuffer mode.

 I have replaced video card with MSI 8600GT, installed it into another
 PCIe slot, problem still exists.

 Strange enogh, since lspci DOES lists this video card. Additionally,
 Windoze works on this PC, so it is not a hadware problem.



lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0402 (rev 
a1)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI 
Controller (rev 02)



sax2 -p (seems like problem with detection)
SaX: root Chip: 0 is - VESA Framebuffer Graphics 01:00:0 0x10de 0x0402 AGP 
fbdev



nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'

creation time: Thu Aug 9 21:53:12 2007
 end of file:
- Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (100.14.11):
executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
- done.
- Driver file installation is complete.
- Running post-install sanity check:
- done.
- Post-install sanity check passed.
- Shared memory test passed.
- Running runtime sanity check:
- done.
- Runtime sanity check passed.

sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia log:
09-Aug 22:02:10 I [ Sysp: XStuff detection data
Card0 = DDC : undefined
Card0 = Name : Monitor
Card0 = Vendor : Generic
Card0 = Primary : 01-00-0
Card0 = Chipset : undefined
Card0 = Vsync : 61
Card0 = Hsync : 63
Card0 = Vesa : 1280 1024 62 60
Card0 = FbTiming : 1280x1024 102.62 1280 1312 1472 1632 1024 1028 1032 
1048 -HSync -VSync
Card0 = Dacspeed : 220
Card0 = Modeline : undefined
Card0 = Memory : 4096
Card0 = Current : 01-00-0
Card0 = RawDef : None
Card0 = Option : None
Card0 = Extension : None
Card0 = Module : nvidia
Card0 = Display : CRT
Card0 = VesaBios : 3.0

09-Aug 22:02:11 I [ Sysp: 3D detection data
Card3D0 = Install : none
Card3D0 = Remove : none
Card3D0 = Packages : none
Card3D0 = Active : 1
Card3D0 = Answer : no
Card3D0 = ScriptReal : none
Card3D0 = ScriptSoft : none
Card3D0 = Flag : none
]
09-Aug 22:02:12 X Startup...
09-Aug 22:02:12 X Startup on new Server: :0.0
09-Aug 22:02:12 X Logging File contents: /tmp/sax2-4257/xorg.conf [

Section Device
BoardName Framebuffer Graphics
BusID 1:0:0
Driver nvidia
Identifier Device[0]
VendorName VESA
EndSection

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3beta1?

2007-08-10 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 2007/08/09 14:17 (GMT+0200) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed:

 Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:

 When/Where do I get to downlaod 10.3beta1? Don't see it in the download 
 page.

 It will be available later today - once it's announced on opensuse-announce,

 Do those of us who HTTP/FTP install Factory need to wait? 3 days ago I was
 prevented from success by https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=296332
 which hasn't yet been marked fixed.

 I assume that the last sync which happened this morning is complete.

 The bug you mention should be fixed - I'm confused ;-)

It was broken repository meta data :-( - fixed now.  I hope by now you
can access it again,

Andreas
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Re: [opensuse] How to use Courier-imap-debuginfo package

2007-08-10 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Wai Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Hi,

 I'm installing courier-imap on my opensuse 10.2 server.
 I can't get it to work.
 It said authentication error when I connect to the pop3 and send the
 username and password.

What errors are shown on the server?  Did you add the exact password to
the config files on the server?

 I guess the problem is in the courier-authlib. I've looked into the
 log files and could not find any clue. I have set the DEBUG_LOGIN=2 in
 the authlib config file, there still no extra info in the log files.

Did you restart all courier processes after changing the config file?

 I then found a Courier-imap-debeuginfo package in the opensuse build
 server. I installed the package. Now, the question is how do I use it
 to get debug info for imap?

The debuginfo package contains the symbols so that source level
debugging with gdb is possible.  It does not give you any more debugging
output,

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[opensuse] Re: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Doug McGarrett wrote:

 Fully agreed
 Although I confess being a silent PC geek and there is hardly anything
 that nerves me more than noisy PCs that I must work with for hours ,
 this does not apply to keyboards.

 This is typed on a Model M style keyboard with 122 keys that I got from
 ebay for 10€.
 Looks like this
 http://www.shoppalstores.com/ibmmodelm/image//2002021-004.jpg
 
 The pictured keyboard is apparently a foreign version.  I'm using 2 model Ms
 on my computers, and all the keys work with Linux or Windows, except probably 
 the Scroll Lock, Print Screen, and Pause keys that I've never seen work on 
 anything. My American model M's do not have any keys left of the Tab, Caps-
 Lock, Shift, Ctrl.  And the bottom left alpha key is Z.

Well, with Model M interchangeable keycaps foreign versions do not
matter so much, you can always replace the keycaps with what is correct
for your language.
Mine is actually a 122 Keys Model (much larger and heavier) with 24
Functionkeys that was meant to be used with an AS/400 Console. And this
is the reason, not all Keys generate a keycode on a PC which you can
then (re)map according to your needs.

Eberhard
 
 --doug, wa2say
 
 Unfortunately not all keys work with a PC, but all I need and much more
 is there.
 This one is also suitable for self-defence and in case you need a hammer
 but do not one, you do not need to buy one.


 They are great, they are even greater when your PC is silent and they
 are greatest when there is no one else in the room who is constantly
 complaining about your IBM klicky-keyboard noise. ;-)

 Lately I found a solution to the latter problem and bought my wife
 another Model M.
 Now we are both on Klickey-Keyboard, she never wants to use anything
 else keyboardwise and most important, we are in love, once again. ;-))


 regards
 Eberhard

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[opensuse] nokia E65

2007-08-10 Thread jdd

Hello :-)

do you know any way to sync a nokia E65 with opensuse?

I can see the sd card in data transmission mode, but not the included 
memory


the pcsuite mode crashes Konqueror...

thanks
jdd


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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Clayton
On 8/10/07, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
 also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
 after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
 around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.


  ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
  go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.
 
  How do you do the port forwarding you mention?

 It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
 excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
 for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
 If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
 a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
 choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
 up.

Just to clarify... The choice for BitTorrent in the linked website is
for the Windows application... KTorrent is not listed... KTorrent and
Azureus are close enough that the instructions and explanation for
Azureus can be adapted for KTorrent... so... maybe the Azureus link is
a better one.

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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread G T Smith
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 Hello,
 
 I have just been put in front of a computer with Suse 10.1 x86_64, a  NEC 
 ND-4550 DVD burner on /dev/hdc and a few DVD-R disks. I need to copy some 
 critical files to those dvds as soon as possible, as I have the feeling the 
 drive is failing and, for some reasons I haven't investigated yet, X won't 
 start. Nice, uh? :-(
 
 I have tried:
 
 growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=/dev/zeroto blank it
 and then the command at the end of this mail, pasted with its whole output.
 
 What am I doing wrong, or missing? SI have checked, and that burner does 
 support dvd-r. Surely something very stupid,
 being tired as I am these days, but I really need to backup those
 files out of that hard drive as soon as possible before the computer
 dies on me or I can investigate if its problems can be fixed.
 
 Normally I still use CDs, that's why I am unfamiliar with DVD quirks,
 but the files this time are too many and too big to go with CDs.
 
 And no, unfortunately there is no other way to backup those files (no other 
 computer to which I could connect it, no broadband or enough
 online space to upload the files somewhere...)
 
 I have already tried to look up those error messages via google, but
 frankly haven't recognized anything useful.
 
 So please help me to walk through this: what is the exact, foolproof way to 
 burn the whole content of a directory from the command line, from unwrapping 
 the dvd from the case to removing it from the burner? what are the exact 
 command to type, and in which sequence?
 
 Thank you a lot, guys,
 Ando
 
 root:/mydata # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1
 Executing 'mkisofs -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1 | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc 
 obs=32k seek=0'
 INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
 Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
 use -input-charset to override.
 Using 2007.TAR;1 for  /20070809_mailarchive.tar (20070809_pictures.tar)
 /dev/hdc: FEATURE 21h is not on, engaging DAO...

An odd one.. 5:21h seems to be something to do with packet reading

 /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
 :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type

This means the drive does not support (or recognise) the media.

 /dev/hdc: Current Write Speed is 16.4x1385KBps.
 :-? resuming track#1 from LBA#0
 :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
 :-( media is not formatted or unsupported.
 :-( write failed: Wrong medium type
 
 

See below for growisofs error codes...

http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127


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Re: [opensuse] Yast setup

2007-08-10 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Pi 10. August 2007 00:13 Michael Juntunen napísal:
 I trashed my kernel. I have been thinking of replacing
 the HD anyways so I will probably just reinstall the
 OS from scratch.

 My question is where does yast keep the the config
 info like the update servers?  I am hoping to just
 copy it from the old HD onto the new one after I get
 the initial install done.

Which openSUSE version?

Stano
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Re: [opensuse] Followup: 10.2 SAX/8600GT/nVidia Binary Driver Strange Problem

2007-08-10 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 05:55 +0300, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I have previously posted this message describing problem with 8600GT and 
 nVidia binary driver 100.14.03. Below I have included lspci and log 
 information, which might be necessary to track down the problem.
 
  I have just assembled new PC with Intel Core2 Duo, Gigabyte m/b,
  Intel P35 Chipset, and Asus 8600GT/512MB PCIe video card.
 
  Software: SuSE 10.2 with latest kernel update, latest nvidia driver
  from its web site installed manually (modprobe nvidia works)
 
  However, neither sax2 neither  sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia do not work as
  expected - sax2 ALWAYS switch to framebuffer mode.
 
  I have replaced video card with MSI 8600GT, installed it into another
  PCIe slot, problem still exists.
 
  Strange enogh, since lspci DOES lists this video card. Additionally,
  Windoze works on this PC, so it is not a hadware problem.
 
 
 
 lspci:
 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0402 
 (rev 
 a1)
 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI 
 Controller (rev 02)
 
 
 
 sax2 -p (seems like problem with detection)
 SaX: root Chip: 0 is - VESA Framebuffer Graphics 01:00:0 0x10de 0x0402 AGP 
 fbdev

Sax knows nothing about the nvidia binary driver. It will not detect
cards that are detected by that driver and not the stock X.org drivers.
In fact, it will do just what you report. You must ignore Sax for this.
The most you can do is run the sax command nvidia suggest as part of a
SUSE install. Note that this command directly sets the name of the
driver to the nvidia binary. It does not do any sort of a probe.

So, is your problem really that sax reports that the device is a VESA
framebuffer device instead of an nvidia device? If so, then
check /var/log/Xorg.?.log to see what X ultimately decides. It seems
that you have nvidia set as the driver in xorg.conf. That should do it.
The stock X.org driver is called nv.

 
 
 
 nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
 
 creation time: Thu Aug 9 21:53:12 2007
  end of file:
 - Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (100.14.11):
 executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
 executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'...
 - done.
 - Driver file installation is complete.
 - Running post-install sanity check:
 - done.
 - Post-install sanity check passed.
 - Shared memory test passed.
 - Running runtime sanity check:
 - done.
 - Runtime sanity check passed.
 
 sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia log:
 09-Aug 22:02:10 I [ Sysp: XStuff detection data
 Card0 = DDC : undefined
 Card0 = Name : Monitor
 Card0 = Vendor : Generic
 Card0 = Primary : 01-00-0
 Card0 = Chipset : undefined
 Card0 = Vsync : 61
 Card0 = Hsync : 63
 Card0 = Vesa : 1280 1024 62 60
 Card0 = FbTiming : 1280x1024 102.62 1280 1312 1472 1632 1024 1028 1032 
 1048 -HSync -VSync
 Card0 = Dacspeed : 220
 Card0 = Modeline : undefined
 Card0 = Memory : 4096
 Card0 = Current : 01-00-0
 Card0 = RawDef : None
 Card0 = Option : None
 Card0 = Extension : None
 Card0 = Module : nvidia
 Card0 = Display : CRT
 Card0 = VesaBios : 3.0
 
 09-Aug 22:02:11 I [ Sysp: 3D detection data
 Card3D0 = Install : none
 Card3D0 = Remove : none
 Card3D0 = Packages : none
 Card3D0 = Active : 1
 Card3D0 = Answer : no
 Card3D0 = ScriptReal : none
 Card3D0 = ScriptSoft : none
 Card3D0 = Flag : none
 ]
 09-Aug 22:02:12 X Startup...
 09-Aug 22:02:12 X Startup on new Server: :0.0
 09-Aug 22:02:12 X Logging File contents: /tmp/sax2-4257/xorg.conf [
 
 Section Device
 BoardName Framebuffer Graphics
 BusID 1:0:0
 Driver nvidia
 Identifier Device[0]
 VendorName VESA
 EndSection
 
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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Clayton
Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.


 ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
 go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.

 How do you do the port forwarding you mention?

It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
up.

C
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Re: [opensuse] keyboards, was: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott
Robert Smits wrote:
 On Thursday 09 August 2007 18:52, James Knott wrote:
   
 Robert Smits wrote:
 
 On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote:
   
 Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without
 any encoder logic.  I designed  built my own encoder and used that
 keyboard with my IMSAI 8080.
 
 Had one of those. Mine came with the optional 4K memory, and I entered
 programs in with toggle switches I Byte at a time. In 1976 I got cassete
 tape drives, and then 8 inch floppy drives (1.2 MB each). Don't miss CP/M
 all that much, though.
   
 Mine didn't come with any memory.  I bought a 16K board, loaded with 4K
 from another vendor.  My system eventually reached 20K.  I also used
 cassettes with it, but never graduated to floppies.  I eventually
 connected it to my ham radio gear, a modem and also a Model 35 ASR
 Teletype.  I designed and built an 8 port serial I/O card for it (only
 installed 4 UARTs) and in the process found a bug in the 8250A UART chip
 that National Semiconductor didn't know about.  I also wrote a lot of my
 own software, though I bought an editor, monitor, assembler and BASIC
 (Scelbal) from Scelbi.  I did a lot of learning with that box.  Had a
 lot of fun with it too.  It's hard to believe I bought it almost 31
 years ago!
 

 I used mine for connecting to usenet via ubc, and then as my packet radio 
 terminal when we used V3 protocol before AX25. I'm VE7HS.
   
I got into packet radio with an XT clone and a Heathkit HK-232, the kit
version of the AEA PK-232.  I'm VE3ZU.


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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Clayton
 Router is DLINK DIR655
 Setup port forwarding as follows
 Logged into router and set TCP port to 6881 and UDP port to  as in
 Ktorrent contog

 Also set virtual server, no effect.

 Stopped Suse Firewall, also enabled port in it with no change
 Stopped DLINK firewall, then enabled ports, no change.

 Loaded upnpplugin in Ktorrent. Do a rescan, it shows nothing, its as if
 it does not even do anything.

 Guess I am just stuck with a buggy ktorrent.

Buggy?  Have you updated to the latest version?  The only version I
had any issues with was the original one off the DVD.  And... don't
assume that just because it is slow that it is buggy.  There are a
million factors that can influence.  You said you were in Taiwan, and
that local speeds were fine, but outside of Taiwan, you got much
slower downloads... it could be a simple matter of the ISP doing
traffic shaping and limiting BitTorrent traffic.  A lot of ISPs do
that.

C.
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Re: [opensuse] how big hard drive I can use on my machine?

2007-08-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/08/10 10:38 (GMT-0400) Jonathan Arnold apparently typed:

 Afan Pasalic wrote:

 I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
 am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot, it's
 to big?

 Jumping in here late, but for my older machine, I just bought a cheap
 IDE card and it worked like a champ. Even if it sees it, it probably won't
 be UDMA-100, so it'll be really slow.

It won't be slow enough for most people to notice. PIII 667 has a 133 MHz FSB
with at least UDMA66, possibly UDMA-100. Most UDMA-100 devices can't saturate
the bus, so the difference between UDMA66 and UDMA-100 is generally hard to
detect, and in any event is not really slow or even slow. Slow is
UDMA33 or worse. OTOH, on a machine old enough to be running a 667 class CPU
the BIOS might not be able to handle it, in which case either it would have
to be a non-boot device, or else connected to an add-in card.
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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1

2007-08-10 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:59 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
 On 8/10/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
   On 8/9/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have raid-1 setup as follows.
   
MD3, 20 GB as /(SDA2, SDC2)
MD4, 267 GB as /home  (SDA3, SDC3)
Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
   
Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
no operating system.
   
What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
  
   I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
   you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
   drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
   installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
   tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
   primary drive.
  
   You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
  
   md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
   md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
   md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
  
   What does:
  
   cat /proc/mdstat
  
   say?
  
   BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
   'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!
 
  No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It
  was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set
  MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.
 
 The Ubuntu partitioning shouldn't be a problem, though I usually give
 new drives the once-over with:
 
 shred -n 0 /dev/[drive_to_be_shredded_here] -vz
 
 Are these PATA (old ATA) or SATA drives?

SATA

Art

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Re: [opensuse] Followup: 10.2 SAX/8600GT/nVidia Binary Driver Strange Problem

2007-08-10 Thread Stuart Murray-Smith
 I have previously posted this message describing problem with 8600GT and
 nVidia binary driver 100.14.03. Below I have included lspci and log
 information, which might be necessary to track down the problem

Hi Andrei

Did you follow instructions as per:

http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

Also, did you throw the switch:

--x-module-path=/your/path/to/xorg/modules/

Mine is:

# /usr/bin/sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.09-pkg1.run
--x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/

HTH

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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1

2007-08-10 Thread Stuart Murray-Smith
On 8/10/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
  On 8/9/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   I have raid-1 setup as follows.
  
   MD3, 20 GB as /(SDA2, SDC2)
   MD4, 267 GB as /home  (SDA3, SDC3)
   Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
  
   Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
   no operating system.
  
   What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
 
  I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
  you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
  drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
  installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
  tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
  primary drive.
 
  You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
 
  md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
  md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
  md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
 
  What does:
 
  cat /proc/mdstat
 
  say?
 
  BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
  'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!

 No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It
 was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set
 MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.

The Ubuntu partitioning shouldn't be a problem, though I usually give
new drives the once-over with:

shred -n 0 /dev/[drive_to_be_shredded_here] -vz

Are these PATA (old ATA) or SATA drives?

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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Clayton
  Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
  also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
  after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
  around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes 
  left.
 

 even on a good day a reg http dload for me never is higher than maybe
 450-500 kb/s, standard 5 meg cable connection here which I thought was
 pretty fast but my god!!!  1200 kb/s??  thats insane!!  I want your ISP
 how much they get for a 10meg connection?

:-P It's an ADSL2 connection with Alice in Germany.  It's 16Mbit down
and 1Mbit up for 50 Euro per month.. unlimited use (and a 24 hour IP
refresh).  For broadband, I'd consider it pretty standard here... it's
slower than I had when I lived in the Netherlands.  I was up to 20Mbit
(cable) there.  In a couple places in the NL they have 100Mbit
internet (in Den Haag and Neunen... and possibly a few other towns).

On the connection I have, it's not uncommon for me to get an average
of 1200kbps on my downloads with Torrent files - especially with
openSUSE torrents.  I see peaks around 1500kbps... the only tweaks I
have done is to open the port range for KTorrent and set the download
speed in KTorrent to unlimited (I throttle back the upload for seeding
so I don't saturate my upload).  Http downloads are never as fast for
me as Torrents for openSUSE.

It also might be worth noting that the stock KTorrent from the 10.2
DVD/CD does not perform anywhere near as well as the newer versions...
I'm running the latest build from... Packman I think.

C.
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[opensuse] Re: apparmor and bin.ping from factory

2007-08-10 Thread Dominic Reynolds
+++ Jan Engelhardt [10/08/07 20:23 +0200]:
 Hi,
 
 
 so by default, the yast control panel apparmoar/Profile Mode 
 Configuration shows:
 
   bin.ping enforce
   sbin.klogd enforce
   etc.
 
 With bin.ping being enabled, one cannot use the ping utility anymore, 
 neither as normal user nor as root. According to strace,
 
 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
 
 already fails. Is this really intended?
 
 
 
   Jan
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from the command line. Thanks for the report. Will update the policy for the
next release.

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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1

2007-08-10 Thread Stuart Murray-Smith
On 8/9/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have raid-1 setup as follows.

 MD3, 20 GB as /(SDA2, SDC2)
 MD4, 267 GB as /home  (SDA3, SDC3)
 Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb

 Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
 no operating system.

 What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?

I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
primary drive.

You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:

md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}

What does:

cat /proc/mdstat

say?

BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!

HTH

Stuart

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Re: [opensuse] postfix isn't accepting connections anymore. Any changes to postfix?

2007-08-10 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote:
 This is problably a DNS timeout problem. Postfix is trying to resolve the
 client ip and checks the reverse dns as well. Without working dns you will
 run into many problems.
 
 Yesterday I added disable_dns_lookups = yes to main.cf without help.
 But today everything is running well. If it's about DNS (you are
 probably right) are there more than this switch. Thanks Sandy.

Almost Everything that has to do with hostname resolution and transport
decisions will depend on dns. That includes RBLs, connecting clients,
sending mails to other hosts, but also checks like
- reject_unknown_sender_domain
- reject_unknown_recipient_domain
- reject_unknown_client_hostname
- reject_unknown_helo_hostname
- reject_sender_mx_access ...

A good reliable DNS resolution is a prerequisite for running a mailserver.

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Re: [opensuse] postfix isn't accepting connections anymore. Any changes to postfix?

2007-08-10 Thread Johannes Nohl
 I telnet the server on port 25. Now the so called banner should be
 sent. But it isn't. So no chance to drop HELO. And after a while the
 connection will be closed.

Sorry for the noise, after three days the problem is gone. Suddenly as
it came. Don't know. Maybe a spam attack. Thanks Theo.
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Re: [opensuse] postfix isn't accepting connections anymore. Any changes to postfix?

2007-08-10 Thread Sandy Drobic
Johannes Nohl wrote:
 Thanks Theo for your fast answer.
 
 I ran out of ideas. My postfix installation on a opensuse 10.0 isn't
 accepting connections anymore. Out of sudden!! I didn't change
 anything (last what I did was using the apt upgrades for apache and
 php the day before but there can't be any relation I guess).
 While port 25 is dead submission port 587 is working as expected. Log
 files are still growing since spammers were rejected (mail and
 mail.info).
 Either it's not accepting connections, and thus not rejecting them
 either, or it is accepting connections and maybe rejecting (because of
 something you've changed). It can't be both.
 
 I telnet the server on port 25. Now the so called banner should be
 sent. But it isn't. So no chance to drop HELO. And after a while the
 connection will be closed.

Please send output of postconf -n.

When you restart Postfix and try to send a mail, what do you see in the
log? Please post the log lines.

This is problably a DNS timeout problem. Postfix is trying to resolve the
client ip and checks the reverse dns as well. Without working dns you will
run into many problems.


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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread steve

Clayton wrote:

Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.
  


even on a good day a reg http dload for me never is higher than maybe 
450-500 kb/s, standard 5 meg cable connection here which I thought was 
pretty fast but my god!!!  1200 kb/s??  thats insane!!  I want your ISP 
how much they get for a 10meg connection?


  

ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.

How do you do the port forwarding you mention?



It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
up.

C
  


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[opensuse] esound global conf

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi,


I am currently on a quest on where to add ESPEAKER=hostofdevice to make 
it available globally. /etc/profile is not read in every case, and 
neither is /etc/bash.bashrc.local (at least when not using bash). Ideas?

thanks,
Jan
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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graham wrote:
detected by locale settings.

 in the original post you did do a blanking operation (which should have 
 failed) but if it
 succeeded will have created a blank unwriteable disk. Do not attempt to 
 format a +R disk...

(blushing) now that I think again about it, the disc which
is in the drive right *now* surely is a -R (not +R but it
doesn't make any difference as far as formatting, does it?)
drive which was formatted, that is made unwriteable as you say, right?

So, shame on me for *this* specific disc, I'll trash it and
retry as soon as I'm back at that PC a few hours from now.

Lesson one: either DVD-R or DVD+R discs must NOT be formatted
before burning, OK?

Fact is, I came here in despair _after_ I had had some
almost identical problems, which unfortunately I failed
to write down, with other -R discs which I had not blanked
so I am still pretty sure there is not only my own lack of
sleep at work here. Which surely is present, I promise I
will sleep and try to avoid dumb things like formatting -R discs after I've 
saved those files...


 Otherwise, the last time I came across this kind of issue was with a
 possibly flakey tape unit sharing the same cable as the the DVD unit.

Inside this box (the motherboard is the one I said in the
other message) there are only one sata disc and this burner
Not sure if they are connected via the same cable. I believe they aren't 
because when I assembled it for the owner I
remember it had plenty of connectors for just two drives,
so it is very likely I put them on separate cables going
to separate connectors/controllers on the board. I will check
as soon as I get there again.

Thanks,

Ando
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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread G T Smith
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Graham wrote:
 
snip

 This could be bad media .. (needs to be eliminated from equation).. if
 you are trying with something that has already failed to be written to
 you can get this response... If you have not already done this try again
 with fresh media, BTW it is possible to recover the media with DVD+RW
 media but R media it is one shot and thats it, in the original post you
 did do a blanking operation (which should have failed) but if it
 succeeded will have created a blank unwriteable disk. Do not attempt to
 format a +R disk...


Or a -R DVD.. for that matter

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[opensuse] Re: [opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 device? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Ando,

 If you are using GUI (KDE in my case)

I am not sure I can restart X, anyway I guess I can run the same yast options 
at the command line yast, so:

 Log in as root =start YAST=click on option Harware, then first correct
 your hdc device settings in option IDE dma MODE. This shuld be enough.

You mean I can try again to burn DVDs after changing this only
 option? Or is also the second part mandatory? Also:

 Take good care with following. In same option Hardware
 there is icon Disk controler it is probibly set as piix
 because it is system default, change
 this optino to ata-piix ONLY if you are sure that ATA
card is installed on you system.

I am not sure I understand this part. The motherboard is
a ASUS A8N-VM CSM with everything integrated, disk controller included, and 
it has been running a sata hard
disk and this ata DVD drive (nec nd 4550) for months before
having problems). It means it has the equivalent of a ata card installed, or 
not?

Thanks a lot to you all, guys.

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Re: [opensuse] Who said Linux doesnot get Virus infections

2007-08-10 Thread Fergus Wilde
On Thursday 09 August 2007 15:18, James Knott wrote:
 Tero Pesonen wrote:
  On Thursday 09 August 2007, Fergus Wilde wrote:
  he proprietary video formats issue is one for the lawyers, not Linux
  people. These formats don't play back because copyright and patent
  owners or abusers will not allow free access to them and have
  threatened and bullied, and even prosecuted, people trying simply to
  view files using open source systems.
 
  This distinction is extremely important. Badger your government about
  it, not those working on Linux multimedia, who have shown time and
  again that they can easily overcome any technical issues when not
  threatened by corporations and their legal teams.
 
  I do understand this. I'm not blaming people working on opensource
  multimedia -- they are the people who make it possible for me to view
  these videos! The problem is, that an average user coming from Windows
  does not (based on my experience) know anything about the whys and hows
  relating to video codecs on opensource platforms. If things won't just
  work out of the box or with the install of a media player, the said
  things become an issue. Most people have never even heard of video codecs
  in their life. They just start Windows Mediaplayer or whatever and open
  the video file, or as is often the case, the video source or file
  automatically opens the correct player.
 
[snippage, see below]

 FWIW, a friend has an IBM ThinkPad, that came loaded with Windows 98.  A
 couple of years ago, she upgraded to XP and found she could no longer
 play video DVDs.  After some checking, we found that she has to buy the
 necessary software, from a web site that's very irritating and difficult
 to navigate through.  She decided against providing her credit card info
 and went without DVD video playback.  Another issue is when you install
 such things, you often get a load of crapware along with it.  So, it is
 not always so easy for Windows users either.

Right enough - I was surprised, when asked to support XP at work, that Media 
Player can actually cope with only quite a limited subset of formats in a 
default install. My boss had to pay to download some third party kit before 
he could even watch a commercial DVD. After that, he still kept encountering 
things that caused Media Player to offer to go online and download codecs, 
which it mostly failed to do successfully. So like James, I'm not at all sure 
Windows folk get the easy ride you mention. And despite my rigorous checking 
of the hardware of his PC, at least half the time real player knackers XP to 
the point where it has to be rebooted to get acceptable performance back.
Cheers
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Re: [opensuse] nokia E65

2007-08-10 Thread G T Smith
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oops..

 jdd wrote:
 Hello :-)
 
 do you know any way to sync a nokia E65 with opensuse?
 
 I can see the sd card in data transmission mode, but not the included
 memory
 
 the pcsuite mode crashes Konqueror...
 
 thanks
 jdd
 
 
 
 Ah.. symbian phones and Linux... basically a bit of an exotic issue...
 the E65 is I believe a s60 v3 device...
 
 I would suggest trying out ...
 
 http://my-symbian.com
 
 or
 
 http://www.allaboutsymbian.com
 
 as start points for further info
 
 For my 9500 I have been experimenting with funambol (a Java based SyncML
 server) for synching, it works to some extent but the linux client tools
 are somewhat half built. Server installation is not trivial. Contacts
 sync OK but calendar support is more than a bit iffy (this seems to be a
 case of modifying the appropriate plug-in on the server side), the

Supposed to read as ...

 client plug-in for thunderbird (+ lightning) does work but the evolution
 sync tool needs a lot of TLC (the thunderbird extension is supposed to work 
 with Sunbird but it

 never has). (Forget KDE application support it really does not exist...)


Just a bit too trigger happy...

 Most of the other linux based SyncML support is pretty ropey, and
 usually geared towards palm based PDAs.
 
 As SyncML is a mobile communications standard the lack of open source
 support for is a bit of a concern.
 
 I currently use a free FTP server on my 9500 and transfer data by WiFi
 when at home, It is no use for GPRS on my network cos the address space
 is NAT and there is no security on the server. There are FTP clients
 available for symbian phones, but they cost,
 
 The Nokia phone stuff is not really appropriate for symbian phones...
 the old PSION support stuff can work (I do not have a s60 phone so
 cannot verify it for those) but I did get some results with this on the
 9500/9210/SE p800/SE p9xx phones.
 

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Re: [opensuse] nokia E65

2007-08-10 Thread G T Smith
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jdd wrote:
 Hello :-)
 
 do you know any way to sync a nokia E65 with opensuse?
 
 I can see the sd card in data transmission mode, but not the included
 memory
 
 the pcsuite mode crashes Konqueror...
 
 thanks
 jdd
 
 

Ah.. symbian phones and Linux... basically a bit of an exotic issue...
the E65 is I believe a s60 v3 device...

I would suggest trying out ...

http://my-symbian.com

or

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com

as start points for further info

For my 9500 I have been experimenting with funambol (a Java based SyncML
server) for synching, it works to some extent but the linux client tools
are somewhat half built. Server installation is not trivial. Contacts
sync OK but calendar support is more than a bit iffy (this seems to be a
case of modifying the appropriate plug-in on the server side), the
client plug-in for firefox (+ lightning) does work but the evolution
sync tool needs a lot of TLC (it is supposed to work with Sunbird but it
never has). (Forget KDE application support it really does not exist...)

Most of the other linux based SyncML support is pretty ropey, and
usually geared towards palm based PDAs.

As SyncML is a mobile communications standard the lack of open source
support for is a bit of a concern.

I currently use a free FTP server on my 9500 and transfer data by WiFi
when at home, It is no use for GPRS on my network cos the address space
is NAT and there is no security on the server. There are FTP clients
available for symbian phones, but they cost,

The Nokia phone stuff is not really appropriate for symbian phones...
the old PSION support stuff can work (I do not have a s60 phone so
cannot verify it for those) but I did get some results with this on the
9500/9210/SE p800/SE p9xx phones.

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Re: [opensuse] SLES9 and MySQL5

2007-08-10 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2007/8/10, Michal Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Ciro Iriarte wrote:
  2007/8/9, Michal Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
  Ciro Iriarte wrote:
  Probably i'll copy the datafiles (as soon as i get the needed space)
  to a vmware installation and try to update mysql or probably reinstall
  it (rpm -e mysql/rpm -i mysql-5.blah).
  If you have the possibility to test your app in a testing environment,
  then this is definitely the recommended way. rpm -Uvh should work as
 
  That probably won't do it,  the package are not the same. We currently have:
 
  mysql-4.1.10a-3.4  taken from suse 9.3
  mysql-client-4.1.10a-3   taken from suse 9.3
  mysql-shared-4.0.18-32.1 --- stock, needed by php  and other
  packages. It'll be a mess to try to compile php with the new libs i
  guess
  mysql-devel-4.0.18-32.20 --- stock too
 
  MySQL5:
 
  libedit-devel-2.10.snap20070302-11.1.x86_64.rpm
  libedit0-2.10.snap20070302-11.1.x86_64.rpm --- huh?
 
  libmysqlclient-devel-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm
  libmysqlclient15-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- confused
  libmysqlclient_r15-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- confused
 
  mysql-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- goes in
  mysql-Max-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm -- not interested in
  mysql-bench-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not interested in
  mysql-client-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- goes in
  mysql-debug-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not interested in
  mysql-test-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm -- i don't think we need it
  mysql-tools-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not sure
  pgpool-3.1.1-4.3.x86_64.rpm   -- sounds out of place

 And what's the problem? 'rpm -Uvh mysql-5.0.*.rpm mysql-client-5.0.*.rpm
 libmysqlclient15-5.0.*.rpm' will give you a working mysql5 setup. And
 it'll keep the 4.x libs for apps linked against it (php).

 Michal


Ok, i'll try it.. I'm curious about the difference between
libmysqlclient15 and libmysqlclient_r15.

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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graham wrote:

  root:/mydata # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1
  Executing 'mkisofs -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1 | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc 
  obs=32k seek=0'
  INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
  Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
  Using 2007.TAR;1 for  /20070809_mailarchive.tar (20070809_pictures.tar)
  /dev/hdc: FEATURE 21h is not on, engaging DAO...

 An odd one.. 5:21h seems to be something to do with packet reading

Hm... sorry, where do you read 5: in the message above?
And why do you think it has to do with packet reading?

  /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
  :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type

 This means the drive does not support (or recognise)  the media.

You mean the actual drive (meaning it's physically unable to burn DVD-R, but 
that's not the case from the reviews I've found) or its software driver / 
device file? May it be some configuration physical microswitch in the drive?

  /dev/hdc: Current Write Speed is 16.4x1385KBps.
  :-? resuming track#1 from LBA#0
  :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
  :-( media is not formatted or unsupported.
  :-( write failed: Wrong medium type

 See below for growisofs error codes...

 http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127

Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't find any SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h combination in 
that page or the one it points to, 
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/keys.txt

I have printed them and will study them more carefully, but any furhter help or 
suggestion on how to (re)run
growisofs is very welcome.

On a related note, did i do wrong or right to blank
the dvd before attempting this write command (see
original message for the exact syntax)?

THanks,
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Re: [opensuse] keyboards, was: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 09 August 2007 21:52, James Knott wrote:
 Robert Smits wrote:
  On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote:
  Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without
  any encoder logic.  I designed  built my own encoder and used that
  keyboard with my IMSAI 8080.
 
/snip/

As long as we're reminiscing here, I must jump in with this:  In 1981 I bought
the Big Board CPM computer, which came as a kit of components, with no
peripherals.  I found a 10 monitor and a keyboard from someplace that had
a shift key, but only produced upper-case keycodes.  It must have been used
with a teletype machine or something similar.  Not being a programmer,
certainly not in assembler, I built (with some trial and error, since I'm also
not a digital but an RF engineer) a converter out of TTL logic to produce
both upper and lower case characters under control of the shift key.  The Big 
Board would take parallel keyboard input, as well as serial, so this was not 
too difficult to do.  (Genuine serial k/b's usually only came as part of a 
terminal, which was pretty darned expensive back in the day.)

In another aside, I found, with the help of another engineer who was 
experienced in video, that the BB was deficient in video bandwidth, so I 
figured out how to cure that, and wrote it up for the Micro-Cornucopia.
They sent me a Tee-shirt, which I still have, marked AUTHOR.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: apparmor and bin.ping from factory

2007-08-10 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:49:31PM -0600, Dominic Reynolds wrote:
 +++ Jan Engelhardt [10/08/07 20:23 +0200]:
  Hi,
  
  
  so by default, the yast control panel apparmoar/Profile Mode 
  Configuration shows:
  
  bin.ping enforce
  sbin.klogd enforce
  etc.
  
  With bin.ping being enabled, one cannot use the ping utility anymore, 
  neither as normal user nor as root. According to strace,
  
  socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
  
  already fails. Is this really intended?
  
  
  
  Jan
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 next release.

It should be OK in Beta1, at least it is for me.

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[opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 d evice? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the c ommand line

2007-08-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Graham wrote:

  /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
  :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]:
   Wrong medium type

 This means the drive does not support (or recognise)
 the media. See below for growisofs error codes...
 http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127

After reading that page more carefully I realized that
it basically says if your DVD burner is connected to
a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as
a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors.

So:
1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive (IIRC) 
burned CD-roms just fine? And
the fact that the error code i get is not exactly the same?

2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a UDMA/33 
cable while the system
believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how do I fix it
if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or
in some config file?
(changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all 
possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite
unstable and it would really be better to burn the dvds
before powering it off)

Thanksa thousand!
Ando
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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Yavor Ivanov
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:13 +0200, Clayton wrote:
 On 8/10/07, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
  also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
  after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
  around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes 
  left.
 
 
   ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
   go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.
  
   How do you do the port forwarding you mention?
 
  It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
  excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
  for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
  If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
  a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
  choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
  up.
 
 Just to clarify... The choice for BitTorrent in the linked website is
 for the Windows application... KTorrent is not listed... KTorrent and
 Azureus are close enough that the instructions and explanation for
 Azureus can be adapted for KTorrent... so... maybe the Azureus link is
 a better one.
 
 C.
The average speed of the x86 dvd torrent is very low. This night I have
downloaded only 2 GB of it. There are a lot of leachers and I will keep
my Ktorrent running as long as I can so that the average speed
increases. Please all of you do the same!

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Re: [opensuse] SLES9 and MySQL5

2007-08-10 Thread Michal Marek
Ciro Iriarte wrote:
 2007/8/9, Michal Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Ciro Iriarte wrote:
 Probably i'll copy the datafiles (as soon as i get the needed space)
 to a vmware installation and try to update mysql or probably reinstall
 it (rpm -e mysql/rpm -i mysql-5.blah).
 If you have the possibility to test your app in a testing environment,
 then this is definitely the recommended way. rpm -Uvh should work as
 
 That probably won't do it,  the package are not the same. We currently have:
 
 mysql-4.1.10a-3.4  taken from suse 9.3
 mysql-client-4.1.10a-3   taken from suse 9.3
 mysql-shared-4.0.18-32.1 --- stock, needed by php  and other
 packages. It'll be a mess to try to compile php with the new libs i
 guess
 mysql-devel-4.0.18-32.20 --- stock too
 
 MySQL5:
 
 libedit-devel-2.10.snap20070302-11.1.x86_64.rpm
 libedit0-2.10.snap20070302-11.1.x86_64.rpm --- huh?
 
 libmysqlclient-devel-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm
 libmysqlclient15-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- confused
 libmysqlclient_r15-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- confused
 
 mysql-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- goes in
 mysql-Max-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm -- not interested in
 mysql-bench-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not interested in
 mysql-client-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm --- goes in
 mysql-debug-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not interested in
 mysql-test-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm -- i don't think we need it
 mysql-tools-5.0.45-2.1.x86_64.rpm  -- not sure
 pgpool-3.1.1-4.3.x86_64.rpm   -- sounds out of place

And what's the problem? 'rpm -Uvh mysql-5.0.*.rpm mysql-client-5.0.*.rpm
libmysqlclient15-5.0.*.rpm' will give you a working mysql5 setup. And
it'll keep the 4.x libs for apps linked against it (php).

Michal
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Re: [opensuse] How to use Courier-imap-debuginfo package

2007-08-10 Thread Wai Wong
Thank you, Andteas,

  I'm installing courier-imap on my opensuse 10.2 server.
  I can't get it to work.
  It said authentication error when I connect to the pop3 and send the
  username and password.

 What errors are shown on the server?  Did you add the exact password to
 the config files on the server?

The message from courier-pop3d in the log file said:
authentication error: Input/output error

Actually, I'm using the courier-authlib package with authmysql to do
authentication.
I've created the database and inserted username and password into the tables.

  I guess the problem is in the courier-authlib. I've looked into the
  log files and could not find any clue. I have set the DEBUG_LOGIN=2 in
  the authlib config file, there still no extra info in the log files.

 Did you restart all courier processes after changing the config file?

Yes, I restarted all courier modules.

According to the Courier document at
http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README.authdebug.html

This should give me detail messages, but my system still does not say
anything more.
So, I could not find out exactly where it went wrong.

Can see anything wrong? Could you please help?

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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:29 +0300, Yavor Ivanov wrote:
 On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:13 +0200, Clayton wrote:
  On 8/10/07, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
   also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
   after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
   around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes 
   left.
  
  
ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.
   
How do you do the port forwarding you mention?
  
   It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
   excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
   for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
   If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
   a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
   choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
   up.
  
  Just to clarify... The choice for BitTorrent in the linked website is
  for the Windows application... KTorrent is not listed... KTorrent and
  Azureus are close enough that the instructions and explanation for
  Azureus can be adapted for KTorrent... so... maybe the Azureus link is
  a better one.
  
  C.
 The average speed of the x86 dvd torrent is very low. This night I have
 downloaded only 2 GB of it. There are a lot of leachers and I will keep
 my Ktorrent running as long as I can so that the average speed
 increases. Please all of you do the same!
 
Mine has been running since last night (Thursday Night), it now Friday
evening. It was around 400 MB this morning after running all night,
don't know what it is now as it  is at home and I am at work.

Art

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Re: [opensuse] postfix isn't accepting connections anymore. Any changes to postfix?

2007-08-10 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Fri, 10 Aug 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

  I telnet the server on port 25. Now the so called banner should be
  sent. But it isn't. So no chance to drop HELO. And after a while the
  connection will be closed.
 
 Sorry for the noise, after three days the problem is gone. Suddenly as
 it came. Don't know. Maybe a spam attack. Thanks Theo.

Postfix does *not* fall over because of a spam attack. It's
designed to be able to handle 100s, or on very beefy hardware 1000s,
of simultaneous connections per second
I agree with the other repliers though, it was probably a DNS problem.

One question: why didn't you post the output from the grep command as
requested; do you really expect people to dig out an answer from
their xtal bowls?

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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Clayton
 Mine has been running since last night (Thursday Night), it now Friday
 evening. It was around 400 MB this morning after running all night,
 don't know what it is now as it  is at home and I am at work.

That is very slow :-(  Comcast is where? USA?  What speeds are you
getting from your ISP in general?

I am on ADSL2 with 16Mbit DL... when I fire up an openSUSE Torrent, it
maxes my connection and the DVD iso arrived in a little over an hour
(I didn't time it exactly, but it was very fast).  It is definitely
not the Torrent itself that is the problem... not enough peers...
closed router config traffic shaping from your ISP...
Maybe time to test your network access speeds with
http://www.speedtest.net or something...?



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Re: [opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 device? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread zoran

Ando,

If you are using GUI (KDE in my case) then do as following,
Log in as root =start YAST=click on option Harware, then first correct 
your hdc device settings in option IDE dma MODE. This shuld be enough.

Take good care with following. In same option Hardware there is icon Disk 
controler it is probibly set as piix because it is system default, change 
this optino to ata-piix ONLY if you are shore that ATA card is installed on 
you system. DO NOT experiment with this optin it can crash system completly.

Kind regards,
Zoran

On Friday 10 August 2007 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schreef:
 Graham wrote:
   /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
  
   :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]:
  
Wrong medium type
 
  This means the drive does not support (or recognise)
  the media. See below for growisofs error codes...
  http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127

 After reading that page more carefully I realized that
 it basically says if your DVD burner is connected to
 a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as
 a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors.

 So:
 1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive
 (IIRC) burned CD-roms just fine? And the fact that the error code i get is
 not exactly the same?

 2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a
 UDMA/33 cable while the system believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how
 do I fix it
 if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or
 in some config file?
 (changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all
 possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite unstable and it would
 really be better to burn the dvds
 before powering it off)

 Thanksa thousand!
 Ando
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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Graham wrote:
 
 root:/mydata # growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1
 Executing 'mkisofs -R -J /mydata/20070809/dvd1 | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdc 
 obs=32k seek=0'
 INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
 Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
   use -input-charset to override.
 Using 2007.TAR;1 for  /20070809_mailarchive.tar (20070809_pictures.tar)
 /dev/hdc: FEATURE 21h is not on, engaging DAO...
 An odd one.. 5:21h seems to be something to do with packet reading
 
 Hm... sorry, where do you read 5: in the message above?
 And why do you think it has to do with packet reading?

Switching to DAO mode is a part clue... 2lh only seems to be associated
with 5 ... suggests it tried a packet read function and switched to Disk
At Once... I dont think this is a problem .. just odd it is reported...

 /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
 :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
 This means the drive does not support (or recognise)  the media.
 
 You mean the actual drive (meaning it's physically unable to burn DVD-R, but 
 that's not the case from the reviews I've found) or its software driver / 
 device file? May it be some configuration physical microswitch in the drive?
 
 /dev/hdc: Current Write Speed is 16.4x1385KBps.
 :-? resuming track#1 from LBA#0
 :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]: Wrong medium type
 :-( media is not formatted or unsupported.
 :-( write failed: Wrong medium type
 See below for growisofs error codes...

 http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127
 
 Maybe I'm dumb, but I don't find any SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h combination in 
 that page or the one it points to, 
 http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/keys.txt

Unfortunately this list is pretty random...

5:30 errors seem to be mainly media related... 08..10 are all media
errors.. I do not think the list is comprehensive ... To get more you
need to look at source code...

This could be bad media .. (needs to be eliminated from equation).. if
you are trying with something that has already failed to be written to
you can get this response... If you have not already done this try again
with fresh media, BTW it is possible to recover the media with DVD+RW
media but R media it is one shot and thats it, in the original post you
did do a blanking operation (which should have failed) but if it
succeeded will have created a blank unwriteable disk. Do not attempt to
format a +R disk...

Otherwise, the last time I came across this kind of issue was with a
possibly flakey tape unit sharing the same cable as the the DVD unit. If
the device is sharing the cable with something else disconnect the
something else and try again.

Not clear what else is on machine but putting devices with different
data transfer rates on the same cable can cause some difficulty if one
is misbehaving.


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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:58 +0200, Clayton wrote:
  Mine has been running since last night (Thursday Night), it now Friday
  evening. It was around 400 MB this morning after running all night,
  don't know what it is now as it  is at home and I am at work.
 
 That is very slow :-(  Comcast is where? USA?  What speeds are you
 getting from your ISP in general?
 
 I am on ADSL2 with 16Mbit DL... when I fire up an openSUSE Torrent, it
 maxes my connection and the DVD iso arrived in a little over an hour
 (I didn't time it exactly, but it was very fast).  It is definitely
 not the Torrent itself that is the problem... not enough peers...
 closed router config traffic shaping from your ISP...
 Maybe time to test your network access speeds with
 http://www.speedtest.net or something...?
 
 
 
 C
I downloaded a couple of DVD isos the other day via firfox, it was
clicking along at 850 KB/sec (From university here in Hsinchu) ISP is
hinet.net here in Taiwan, but I know going outside of Taiwan I will not
get that speed, usually about 200 to 300 KB/Sec.

Art

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Re: [opensuse] keyboards, was: New desktop

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott

Doug McGarrett wrote:

On Thursday 09 August 2007 21:52, James Knott wrote:
  

Robert Smits wrote:


On Wednesday 08 August 2007 19:08, James Knott wrote:
  

Incidentally, many years ago, I bought a huge Cherry keyboard, without
any encoder logic.  I designed  built my own encoder and used that
keyboard with my IMSAI 8080.


/snip/

As long as we're reminiscing here, I must jump in with this:  In 1981 I bought
the Big Board CPM computer, which came as a kit of components, with no
peripherals.  I found a 10 monitor and a keyboard from someplace that had
a shift key, but only produced upper-case keycodes.  It must have been used
with a teletype machine or something similar.  Not being a programmer,
certainly not in assembler, I built (with some trial and error, since I'm also
not a digital but an RF engineer) a converter out of TTL logic to produce
both upper and lower case characters under control of the shift key.  The Big 
Board would take parallel keyboard input, as well as serial, so this was not 
too difficult to do.  (Genuine serial k/b's usually only came as part of a 
terminal, which was pretty darned expensive back in the day.)


In another aside, I found, with the help of another engineer who was 
experienced in video, that the BB was deficient in video bandwidth, so I 
figured out how to cure that, and wrote it up for the Micro-Cornucopia.

They sent me a Tee-shirt, which I still have, marked AUTHOR.

--doug
  
That Cherry keyboard was unique.  The standard keyboard keys had white 
key tops and all the other keys, function, number pad etc., had gray 
tops.  There were almost as many gray as white keys.  That keyboard was 
wired as two separate keyboards, each with it's own scanning matrix, in 
one physical package.  The white keys were one keyboard and the gray 
keys the other.  My encoder combined the two into one big keyboard, with 
the 8th bit used to signify which set of keys was in use.  I used a 2716 
EPROM to convert the scan codes to ASCII and I included auto repeat 
etc.  It worked well.  Some time after that, I was taking a digital 
logics course at Ryerson, in Toronto.  One of the projects was to build 
a hex keyboard.  I just showed the instructor what I had designed  
built and that was good enough to get full marks for the project.  ;-)  
BTW, the only reason I took that course, was because it was a compulsory 
prerequisite for some other courses I wanted to take.  There wasn't much 
I actually learned in it, though it was fun to play with the Commodore 
CBM we used to connect to some projects.  I also became an assistant 
instructor, helping the other students with their projects.




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Re: [opensuse] Re: apparmor and bin.ping from factory

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt

On Aug 10 2007 22:15, Marcus Meissner wrote:
 This is incomplete policy for ping - you can correct by running aa-logprof
 from the command line. Thanks for the report. Will update the policy for the
 next release.

It should be OK in Beta1, at least it is for me.


apparmor-utils-2.0.2-28
apparmor-parser-2.0.2-39
apparmor-profiles-2.0.2-35
apparmor-docs-2.0.2-39

here...

Jan
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Re: [opensuse] Re: apparmor and bin.ping from factory

2007-08-10 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:32:07PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
 
 On Aug 10 2007 22:15, Marcus Meissner wrote:
  This is incomplete policy for ping - you can correct by running aa-logprof
  from the command line. Thanks for the report. Will update the policy for 
  the
  next release.
 
 It should be OK in Beta1, at least it is for me.
 
 
 apparmor-utils-2.0.2-28
 apparmor-parser-2.0.2-39
 apparmor-profiles-2.0.2-35

apparmor-profiles-2.0.2-38 here.

So perhaps I got some factory updates too somehow.

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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:08 +0200, Clayton wrote:
 Again for reference.. tagged the DVD torrent for download and it's
 also coming in at over 1200kbps.  I started the downlaod (4.01GB) just
 after I sent the first reply in this thread... so
 around 45 minutes ago, and the DVD is over half done... about 25 minutes left.
 
 
  ISP is hinet.net, but do not know if the throttle torrent back. I also
  go much faster on the addon cd and another cd, but only 20 to 40 KB/sec.
 
  How do you do the port forwarding you mention?
 
 It depends on your router... and your firewalls.  This site has some
 excellent info on what it's all about including specific instructions
 for most router models  http://portforward.com/routers.htm
 If you follow it through by selecting a router model, it will give you
 a long list of links for applications, and BitTorrent is one of the
 choices... tells you exactly what ports are needed and how to set it
 up.
 
 C

Tried this with no success.

Router is DLINK DIR655
Setup port forwarding as follows
Logged into router and set TCP port to 6881 and UDP port to  as in
Ktorrent contog

Also set virtual server, no effect.

Stopped Suse Firewall, also enabled port in it with no change
Stopped DLINK firewall, then enabled ports, no change.

Loaded upnpplugin in Ktorrent. Do a rescan, it shows nothing, its as if
it does not even do anything.

Guess I am just stuck with a buggy ktorrent.

Art

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[opensuse] apparmor and bin.ping from factory

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi,


so by default, the yast control panel apparmoar/Profile Mode 
Configuration shows:

bin.ping enforce
sbin.klogd enforce
etc.

With bin.ping being enabled, one cannot use the ping utility anymore, 
neither as normal user nor as root. According to strace,

socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

already fails. Is this really intended?



Jan
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[opensuse] Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718

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Re: [opensuse] postfix isn't accepting connections anymore. Any changes to postfix?

2007-08-10 Thread Johannes Nohl
 This is problably a DNS timeout problem. Postfix is trying to resolve the
 client ip and checks the reverse dns as well. Without working dns you will
 run into many problems.

Yesterday I added disable_dns_lookups = yes to main.cf without help.
But today everything is running well. If it's about DNS (you are
probably right) are there more than this switch. Thanks Sandy.
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Re: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-10 Thread James Knott
Ben Kevan wrote:
 Vodka here

   

A pint o' Guinness please.  ;-)

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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 installation on Raid 1

2007-08-10 Thread Art Fore
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 15:37 +0200, Stuart Murray-Smith wrote:
 On 8/9/07, Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I have raid-1 setup as follows.
 
  MD3, 20 GB as /(SDA2, SDC2)
  MD4, 267 GB as /home  (SDA3, SDC3)
  Swap as SDA5 1 gb and SDC5 1 gb
 
  Installation went fine on installation, but on reboot, it says disk has
  no operating system.
 
  What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?
 
 I'm going to guess that you've installed this onto SATA drives, and/or
 you've enabled RAID in your BIOS. RAID-1 works awesomely on PATA
 drives, but one {may|may not} get the above error message when
 installing to SATA on some of the 'less-expensive' mobo's. Things get
 tricky when one writes grub to the MBR, and need to swap out the
 primary drive.
 
 You can also put swap into RAID as well. Consider two PATAs in parallel:
 
 md0-swap-swap-{hda1|hdb1}
 md1-ext3-/boot-{hda2|hdb2}
 md2-ext3-/{hda3|hdb3}
 
 What does:
 
 cat /proc/mdstat
 
 say?
 
 BTW, mdadm automaticly rebuilds your RAID devices if you startup using
 'Rescue' on the 10.2 DVD :-) Way cool!
 
 HTH
 
 Stuart
 
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No, raid is not enabled in bios, I am using the Suse software raid1. It
was originally partitioned with Ubuntu, but on Suse installation, I set
MD3 to / and MD4 to /home and formated them extt3.

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[opensuse] Re: how big hard drive I can use on my machine?

2007-08-10 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Afan Pasalic wrote:
 hi,
 I just bought internal 500GB ATA HD, 7200, 100MB/s for $99.
 am I able to use it on PIII, 677MHz, 512MB RAM, openSuse 10.2? ot, it's
 to big?
 
 thanks.
 
 -afan

Jumping in here late, but for my older machine, I just bought a cheap
IDE card and it worked like a champ. Even if it sees it, it probably won't
be UDMA-100, so it'll be really slow. Get a replacement IDE card and
openSUSE will work like a charm, like a Promise or Adaptec.

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[opensuse] RE: Problems with beta KLAMAV toolbox and and type of suspend

2007-08-10 Thread Registration Account
If you have installed the GUI interface of clamAV ==
KlamAV it is still beta however it will inhibit s2disk
and suspend2ram. It seems the real-time agent cannot be
halted. If other find this an issue and you cave
confidence to write a bug report hears a heads up.

IF KlamAV whilst resident will suspend for you please
let me know

Morning to all 08:45 GMT +10

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Re: [opensuse] Upgrading OpenOffice 2.0 to 2.2

2007-08-10 Thread Fernando Costa
I added the repositories in yast and the upgrade was done without
problems. Not looking any features, I'm just an upgrade frikie... :-P

F

primm wrote:
 On Thursday 09 August 2007 08:24, Clayton wrote:
   
 in some cases, reboot is required. dont know why :)
   

 When I went from 2.0.4 to 2.1 I just added

 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-x86_64

 to installation sources in yast and chose the new version. It pulled in some 
 java stuff but no reboot was necessary. 

 Just out of interest, what features o ooo are you looking for that are not 
 available in the 2.0 suse version?

 Lynn
   
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Re: [opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 device? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 10 August 2007 04:23, zoran wrote:
 If you are using GUI (KDE in my case) then do as following,
 Log in as root =start YAST=click on option Harware, then first correct

Start YaST  give a root password  select Hardware 

It is not good idea to login in GUI as root. Some nasty bug in GUI 
applications that run as root can trash your system. If you start console 
program than any application from there you will see quite a few error 
messages in some of them. 

YaST is designed in different way than other GUI applications, as it has to be 
run as root. There is much more testing to ensure that it will not harm the 
system, at least not more than inexperienced user with wrong decisions ;-) 

 your hdc device settings in option IDE dma MODE. This shuld be enough.

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Re: [opensuse] DVD burner wrongly seen as a UDMA/100 device? was: Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 10 August 2007 03:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Graham wrote:
   /dev/hdc: reserving 2278432 blocks
  
   :-[ RESERVE TRACK failed with SK=5h/ASC=30h/ACQ=05h]:
  
Wrong medium type
 
  This means the drive does not support (or recognise)
  the media. See below for growisofs error codes...
  http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=2127

 After reading that page more carefully I realized that
 it basically says if your DVD burner is connected to
 a UDMA/33 cable and the system tries to use it as
 a UDMA/100 device, you'll experience errors.

 So:
 1) can it be something similar in my case? Considering that that drive
 (IIRC) burned CD-roms just fine? And the fact that the error code i get is
 not exactly the same?

Errors produced by attempt to use device designed for 33 MB/s transfer rate on 
66 or 100 MB/s will be registered in /var/log/messages as device failure. Few 
last messages you can see also in virtual terminal 10 (Ctrl-Alt-F10), or 
better open console window and run:
  tail -f /var/log/messages
than try to access device. Drop CD in tray and try to read it. 

BTW, device designed for 33 MB/s and set on 66 MB/s will appear at best as 
very slow reading CD. More probable is that it will be not recognized at all. 

 2) How do I check it for sure, that is how do I recognize if there is a
 UDMA/33 cable while the system believes to have a UDMA/100 device? And how
 do I fix it if this is what happening? In the bios? How? Or
 in some config file?
 (changing the cable, ie turning off the pc, I'd rather avoid it if at all
 possible, since as I mentioned the system is quite unstable and it would
 really be better to burn the dvds
 before powering it off)

Maybe not applicable in your case, but taking HD out of that computer and 
installing in good one as second drive might be better solution than 
attempting to use failing one to create backup. External hard drive might be 
good idea too. 

 Thanksa thousand!
 Ando

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Re: [opensuse] Upgrading OpenOffice 2.0 to 2.2

2007-08-10 Thread Tero Pesonen
On Saturday 11 August 2007, Fernando Costa wrote:
 I added the repositories in yast and the upgrade was done without
 problems. Not looking any features, I'm just an upgrade frikie... :-P

I've personally found that sometimes upgrading software simply for the 
sake of upgrading only brings in new bugs while adding no new useful 
features or improvements. This has especially been the case with 
OpenOffice.org, and to lesser extend with KDE bug fix / stability 
releases.

I've found myself upgrading working stuff less and less often. 

Now I'm back on OOo 2.0.4, as it seems the best compromise for the time 
being. It isn't Emacs-stable, but it isn't KWord either. It has its 
issues, but nothing too serious. 

Tero

 F

 primm wrote:
  On Thursday 09 August 2007 08:24, Clayton wrote:
  in some cases, reboot is required. dont know why :)
 
  When I went from 2.0.4 to 2.1 I just added
 
  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/OpenOffice.org/10.2-x86_64
 
  to installation sources in yast and chose the new version. It pulled
  in some java stuff but no reboot was necessary.
 
  Just out of interest, what features o ooo are you looking for that
  are not available in the 2.0 suse version?
 
  Lynn


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[opensuse] Question on Clamav

2007-08-10 Thread Adam Jimerson
Does clamav log everything it outputs by default or do you have to tell it to 
do so in the syntax?  The resion why I am asking this is clamscan says that I 
have some infected folders, don't know where, and I would like to check to 
see if it is not giving me a false positive or not.


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Re: [opensuse] Upgrading OpenOffice 2.0 to 2.2

2007-08-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
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The Thursday 2007-08-09 at 07:09 -0400, James Knott wrote:

  Next install OpenOffice from rpm, reboot your system and all should be
  fine
 
 Why reboot?  The only software change that requires a reboot is the kernel.

Mmm...

There is a little known detail.

When you update something from rpms, often there are services and programs 
that need to be restarted, because they keep using an old version of 
libraries that were updated, but as the programs were started previous to 
the update they keep using the old version. This a feature/side effect of 
*nix filesystems (files in use are not really deleted).

You can detect those files running this after an update:

lsof | grep -E 'RPMDELETE|;|path inode='


Of course, knowing which programs or services need to be restarted, and 
doing so, is enough. But not knowing which are those, a reboot is an 
alternative. An overkill, but it works when you don't know what needs a 
restart.

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Re: [opensuse] Cannot burn DVDs from the command line

2007-08-10 Thread Carlos E. R.
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The Friday 2007-08-10 at 11:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  in the original post you did do a blanking operation (which should have 
  failed) but if it
  succeeded will have created a blank unwriteable disk. Do not attempt to 
  format a +R disk...
 
 (blushing) now that I think again about it, the disc which
 is in the drive right *now* surely is a -R (not +R but it
 doesn't make any difference as far as formatting, does it?)
 drive which was formatted, that is made unwriteable as you say, right?
 
 So, shame on me for *this* specific disc, I'll trash it and
 retry as soon as I'm back at that PC a few hours from now.
 
 Lesson one: either DVD-R or DVD+R discs must NOT be formatted
 before burning, OK?

No DVD of any kind needs previous formatting. Only re-writeable media 
needs to be blanked, and that only if previously recorded (ie, not for the 
first use).

Plus, -R dvd media needs to be supported directly by the DVD drive (by the 
manufacturer). Ie, the manufacturer needs to program the drive on how to 
burn each specific make of -R dvd media in the market. At least, AFAIK. 
For practical purposes it simply means that some dvd-r media you will not 
be able to burn, and some will.


P.S.: Please, use a proper mail program. The one you use breaks threading.

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Re: [opensuse] Certificate troubles - solved

2007-08-10 Thread Mike
On August 8, 2007 1:57 am, Registration Account wrote:
 Mike you will have to backup your Certificates using
 the backup button. When you back them up jut make sure
 that you recall the password you will be asked for up
 to 3 times. You can use the same password to help not
 getting lost. The backup file will be created and you
 can copy that file to a new installation and then use
 the import button and supply the passwords to restore the.

Well I couldn't see any backup button, but I did stumble upon another bunch of 
certificates.

I renamed the vsign3.pem file I found here   /etc/ssl/certs/expired/  
And I was able to connect.

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Re: [opensuse] Yast setup

2007-08-10 Thread Michael Juntunen
Ooops.  I hit reply and it went to the individual
instead of to the group.


:(

Michael



--- Michael Juntunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Ohh sorry.
 
 10.2.
 
 
 is this info moved around in the different versions?
 
 
 --- Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Dňa Pi 10. August 2007 00:13 Michael Juntunen
  napísal:
   I trashed my kernel. I have been thinking of
  replacing
   the HD anyways so I will probably just reinstall
  the
   OS from scratch.
  
   My question is where does yast keep the the
 config
   info like the update servers?  I am hoping to
 just
   copy it from the old HD onto the new one after I
  get
   the initial install done.
  
  Which openSUSE version?
  
  Stano
  
 
 
 
  


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[opensuse] Is there an sendmail.mc file for the default sendmail.cf

2007-08-10 Thread Bruce Ferrell
I'm trying to maintain the access database and add pop before smtp to
sendmail.  the /etc/mail/Linux.mc file doesn't generate a working
sendmail.cf

Help?!
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Re: [opensuse] Is there an sendmail.mc file for the default sendmail.cf

2007-08-10 Thread Bruce Ferrell


Bruce Ferrell wrote:
 I'm trying to maintain the access database and add pop before smtp to
 sendmail.  the /etc/mail/Linux.mc file doesn't generate a working
 sendmail.cf
 
 Help?!


Never mind.  I figured how to generate it:

/sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sendmail -m4


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[opensuse] compress? uncompress? Why are they gone?

2007-08-10 Thread Ken Jennings
openSuse 10.2
2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 x86_64  GNU/Linux

Is compress/uncompress really not available in the distro?  I went to install 
it and Yast Software Management won't show me any package that either 
provides or is named compress.  Oddly, the man pages are installed.

Yes, I know compress is a lame, old program. But, I'm working with some .Z 
files from a customer  and the normally cooperative zcat objects to 
decompressing and displaying them.  Can anyone tell me where to find  current 
source for compress?  I found a web site with some source labelled 4.3d from 
1990.$@(#) compress.c,v 4.3d 90/01/18 03:00:00  Is this current?

Thanks,
Ken Jennings
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[opensuse] Services start order affecting shutdown?

2007-08-10 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi,

I have a machine that is cycled once a day. On the shutdown of the
machine I notice that amavisd-new has to be given a KILL signal by the
system after it fails to end after the system has given it a TERM signal.

I am wondering whether my recent foray into Yast:System:System Services
has something to do with it as I was having issues with ClamAv. I no
longer have a problem with ClamAv and everything I disabled has been
re-enabled but I am wondering if the order I did it in is important ie
where there is a 'parent' and 'children' processes ie amavisd as a
parent and Spamassassin, ClamAv are the child processes.

Should the parent processes be started first or the child ones ie start
amavisd before or after spamd and clam?

Should I remember it like real life ie you can't have kids without
parents so parents have to be started first?

TIA
Hylton
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[opensuse-packaging] Xinetd now honours disable line

2007-08-10 Thread Ales Nosek
Hi,

Xinetd was patched to honour disable line in service configuration files
(stored in /etc/xinetd.d). Xinetd now aborts parsing of the config file
as soon as it reads the line disable = yes. This was made to prevent
Xinetd
from dropping warnings into logs which where not relevant.

Futher information can be found at:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254613

Please, when you make updates of services which run under Xinetd, move
the disable line to the beginning of the config file.

For example file /etc/xinetd.d/echo:

# default: off
# description: An echo server. This is the tcp version.

service echo
{
type= INTERNAL
id  = echo-stream
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
user= root
wait= no
disable = yes
FLAGS   = IPv6 IPv4
}

should be

service echo
{
disable = yes
type= INTERNAL
id  = echo-stream
socket_type = stream
protocol= tcp
user= root
wait= no
FLAGS   = IPv6 IPv4
}

Thanks,

Ales
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[opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Petr Cerny
Hi,

is there some page on opensuse.org where we can announce new packages?
Not every OpenSuSE user is reading mailing lists (neither wants to do
so). Would anyone be interested in using such page (ideally this would
be a non-static page)?

Best regards
Petr
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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Petr Cerny
Bernhard Walle wrote:
 * Henne Vogelsang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-10 12:05]:
 On Friday, August 10, 2007 at 11:59:44, Reinhard Max wrote:
 is there some page on opensuse.org where we can announce new 
 packages? Not every OpenSuSE user is reading mailing lists (neither 
 wants to do so). Would anyone be interested in using such page 
 (ideally this would be a non-static page)?
 Good idea, but as a wiki page, it might quickly become a mess and if 
 not everybody enters their new packages, it's usefulness would be 
 limited.

It has to be editable only indirectly (e.g. by mail - c.f. below)

 Wouldn't it be better to generate lists of recently added, updated or 
 otherwise touched packages out of the build system's data? This would 
 be much more accurate at no extra work for the packagers.
 A mail2rss setup for lists.opensuse.org is on my TODO. I just did not
 find any decent converter yet...
 
 Gmane already offers this. See
 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.opensuse.user for example and
 choose one of 
 
 RSS feeds:
 
 1. All messages from the list, with excerpted texts.
 2. Topics from the list, with excerpted texts.
 3. All messages from the list, with complete texts.
 4. Topics from the list, with complete texts. 

OK, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be rss-ed. Yet what I
wanted was something slightly different. Probably easiest way would be
by having a separate mailing list where one can send alerts on updates
of his projects, if these updates are ready for users. Together with
some group keywords, this could supply the missing package grouping
(nowadays only partly supplied by project/subproject division) in BS as
well.

Petr
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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Leo Eraly

Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Hi,

On Friday, August 10, 2007 at 15:27:54, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:


On pátek 10 srpen 2007, Petr Cerny wrote:

OK, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be rss-ed. Yet what I
wanted was something slightly different. Probably easiest way would be
by having a separate mailing list where one can send alerts on updates
of his projects
Maybe we could mark such important changes directly in the changelog. 


If we are writing things up manualy anyway why dont you submit a story to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] We can then make a category Checkin-News or
whatever...

Henne

I like the idea! It would be a good start to get an overview about all 
stuff that is entering the OBS.


But make this as simple as possible. Low extra effort stuff makes people 
adopt it very quickly...



Kind regards,

Leo


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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Petr Cerny
Henne Vogelsang wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Friday, August 10, 2007 at 15:27:54, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:
 
 On pátek 10 srpen 2007, Petr Cerny wrote:
 OK, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be rss-ed. Yet what I
 wanted was something slightly different. Probably easiest way would be
 by having a separate mailing list where one can send alerts on updates
 of his projects
 Maybe we could mark such important changes directly in the changelog. 
 
 If we are writing things up manualy anyway why dont you submit a story to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] We can then make a category Checkin-News or
 whatever...

AFAIU this [EMAIL PROTECTED] has some people attached to it. :)
Yet new packages announcment is something whch can be done by a bot
(hence my proposal to create separate mailing list which would be piped
into rss).

Best regards
Petr

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: In need of a category for .desktop file

2007-08-10 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Philipp Thomas wrote:
 * Adrian Schröter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070807 20:39]:
 
  the check tells you that you would get multiple menu entries.
  You need to add further Categories to limit the entries to one menu.
 
 I know that. What I don't know, having never had to deal with these things,
 is what to use, given that the XDG list doesn't seem to give me what I need.
 Seems that calls for a X- category?

Something like this is apparently missing in the specification is a
reason to fix specification, not to use X-.

X- categories might be useful for special menu systems (like GNOME
control center, YaST), not the main application menu.

For now choose random category and wait for something useful.

The process of adding category is not simple. It requires specification
change, assigning of drawer in the menu systems and a new icon for it
from artists.

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[opensuse-packaging] Re: kernel-*.spec fixed strings are no fun

2007-08-10 Thread Jan Blunck
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:34:31 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

 the kernel-*.spec files contain a lot of hardcoded strings, such as
 2.6.22.1 for what's currently cooking. This causes a major pain when
 trying to bump the version by oneself. All occurrences need to be
 replaced by more-or-less blunt scripts (simple perl -pe 's///'), since
 the .in files are not available. If these could please be added to the
 kernel-source pack, that would greatly simplify work.

Well, most of the scripts need direct access to our internal CVS server. 
So just putting them somewhere doesn't help. Although this is something I 
already have on my to-do list.

 Moreover, I think
 that strings, where possible, should be replaced by rpm tags. For
 example this obvious one:
 
   Provides: kernel = 2.6.22.1-%source_rel (and other places)
 
 this can easily be replaced by %version-%source_rel. The other major
 thing being
 
   Name:   kernel-default
   (and other places of course)
 
 which could be replaced - since the macro is already there - by
 
   Name:   kernel-%build_flavor

Right, this is something that can be done in a shorter time frame I 
guess. I'll look into that.

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi,

On Friday, August 10, 2007 at 11:59:44, Reinhard Max wrote:
 On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 at 11:52, Petr Cerny wrote:
 
  is there some page on opensuse.org where we can announce new 
  packages? Not every OpenSuSE user is reading mailing lists (neither 
  wants to do so). Would anyone be interested in using such page 
  (ideally this would be a non-static page)?
 
 Good idea, but as a wiki page, it might quickly become a mess and if 
 not everybody enters their new packages, it's usefulness would be 
 limited.
 
 Wouldn't it be better to generate lists of recently added, updated or 
 otherwise touched packages out of the build system's data? This would 
 be much more accurate at no extra work for the packagers.

A mail2rss setup for lists.opensuse.org is on my TODO. I just did not
find any decent converter yet...

Henne

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Reinhard Max
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 at 11:52, Petr Cerny wrote:

 is there some page on opensuse.org where we can announce new 
 packages? Not every OpenSuSE user is reading mailing lists (neither 
 wants to do so). Would anyone be interested in using such page 
 (ideally this would be a non-static page)?

Good idea, but as a wiki page, it might quickly become a mess and if 
not everybody enters their new packages, it's usefulness would be 
limited.

Wouldn't it be better to generate lists of recently added, updated or 
otherwise touched packages out of the build system's data? This would 
be much more accurate at no extra work for the packagers.

cu
Reinhard
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[opensuse-packaging] Next Milestones openSUSE 10.3

2007-08-10 Thread Stephan Kulow
Hi!

[resent to the packagers list as it's mostly for packagers]

Just a heads up, so you don't need to read the roadmap all week :)

Aug 17 (friday in one week): 
  - translations are done and will be integrated into the packages, some might
come late as we had trouble with translation process.
  - Last day for any kind of version updates and only possible for non-crypto
leaf packages in patch level versions (e.g. 2.4.0 - 2.4.3)
  - The features that got a late admission approval need to be submitted
unless they got an extended deadline (which should be just one if 
I remember correctly)
 
We will only allow package splits if they are:
   a) strictly necessary
   b) not affecting any other package (include patterns)
   c) approved by me (or by Christoph in my absense)
  (can in rare cases overrule the other two rules)

Aug 20 (monday after):
  - Last round of bugfixes that need to go into beta 2

Happy Bugfixing.

Greetings, Stephan

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Re: [opensuse-packaging] new packages announcment

2007-08-10 Thread Vladimir Nadvornik
On pátek 10 srpen 2007, Petr Cerny wrote:
 OK, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be rss-ed. Yet what I
 wanted was something slightly different. Probably easiest way would be
 by having a separate mailing list where one can send alerts on updates
 of his projects, if these updates are ready for users. Together with
 some group keywords, this could supply the missing package grouping
 (nowadays only partly supplied by project/subproject division) in BS as
 well.


Maybe we could mark such important changes directly in the changelog. 

Vladimir
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Re: [opensuse-packaging] dropping jabberd from distribution (what about gimp-unstable)

2007-08-10 Thread Stanislav Brabec

Daniel Rahn píše v St 08. 08. 2007 v 21:22 +0200:
 On Wed, Aug 08, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
  On SLED, updating Epiphany through the GNOME:Stable repository requires
  updating xulrunner through the Mozilla repository.
 
 Where is the SLED repo for GNOME:Stable that you are referring to?
 I don't see one, so I still fail to see where the issue with the Mozilla
 repo is.

 If you are using openSUSE 10.1 packages on SLED, and some dep there can
 only be resolved by using packages from other repos, I'd say that's more
 an issue of GNOME:Stable, not of the Mozilla repo (ignoring whether
 using the 10.1 repo is supported on SLED at all).

This is a feature of the 10.1 repository, not a bug.

Both GNOME:*STABLE projects for SUSE_Linux_10.1 are based on
mozilla/SUSE_Linux_10.1 repository.

It was done to prevent duplication of work with mozilla updates.

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