Re: [opensuse] Question about Wireless

[G T Smith]

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Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 17:04, Matt T. wrote:
>> On Monday 15 October 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
> 
>>> Okay, now back to the usual rants about top posting...
>> Similar problem here.
>>
>> I thought that it would be a problem with my local installation only, but I
>> see about the same happening on an turion64x2 notebook using a D-link
>> (Ralink 63) wireless USB stick. It seems to happen on one network only
>> though, not on others. Router is a Prestige 6000, so all totally different
>> hardware than yours.
> 
> Wierd.
> 
> Okay, but how to diagnose?
> 
> 
> 

I was under the impression that most laptops actively manage power. In
some circumstances they could reduce power to apparently inactive
peripheral devices. With WiFi this could lead to dropped connections
with hardware left in peculiar states. (There are other issues as well
i.e. heat, battery charging... )

I would personally avoid using laptops as server devices except for
testing purposes, they are not really designed for the job.

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[opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Phil Burness]

I am trying to install Amarok from the Packman site but it is complaining 
about some dependencies it cannot find:
libartsgui & flaac.

Does anybody know which rpm packages I need and where they are?

Thanks
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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Aniruddha]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:47 -0700, joe wrote:
> 
> Aniruddha wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:34 -0700, joe wrote:
> >> Aniruddha wrote:
> >>> My brother get his ip adres through DHCP from a large college lan, his
> >>> ip changes with regular intervals. I wonder is it possible reserve one
> >>> particular ip for his machine and if so how do I do this?
> >> Sure - are you the admin of the dhcp server?
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp. 
> 
> Ah - in that case, you're at the whims of the local network admins. In most
> situations I've seen, the address will remain with a machine as long as the
> lease is renewed regularly. If it's unplugged for the weekend though, all bets
> are off come Monday morning.
> 
> Joe

Ok at least now I know it's not my fault :D Thanks all for helping out!

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Aniruddha]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:22 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
> I must have gotten into this thread a little too late.  Why, exactly,
> would you want a static ip in a dhcp environment?  Sorry for the new
> question, but it's better than asking people if they prefer "top or
> bottom" (not in that way, of course) ;-)
> 

Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple, I
use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if his ip
didn't change all the time.
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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

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John Meyer wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> (Ted Harding) wrote:
>>   
>>> On 14-Oct-07 21:42:59, Aniruddha wrote:
>>>   
>>> 
 On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:34 -0700, joe wrote:
 
   
> Aniruddha wrote:
>   
> 
>> My brother get his ip adres through DHCP from a large
>> college lan, his ip changes with regular intervals.
>> I wonder is it possible reserve one particular ip for
>> his machine and if so how do I do this?
>> 
>>   
> Sure - are you the admin of the dhcp server?
>
> Joe
>
>   
> 
 Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp.
 
   
>>> There is one thing he could try, which may or may not work often
>>> enough to to be useful.
>>>
>>> Say he gets a particular IP address one time. Let him note that,
>>> and configure his own machine to have that IP address statically
>>> configured in his machine (this may involve setting up a static
>>> DNS and gateway too, so it might not be trivial).



>>> If it failed at any time, of course, then he'd just have to
>>> revert to DHCP for that connection.
>>>
>>>   
>>> 
>> Some networks will refuse connections from a computer that doesn't have
>> a MAC address that's currently assigned an IP.  Also, network admins can
>> turn into nasty trolls (not that they aren't already ) when they find
>> someone using a static address. 
>>
>>   
> 
> I must have gotten into this thread a little too late.  Why, exactly,
> would you want a static ip in a dhcp environment?  Sorry for the new
> question, but it's better than asking people if they prefer "top or
> bottom" (not in that way, of course) ;-)
> 

Static assignment of DHCP addresses is often used to identify which
devices are allowed to connect to a network. In an academic institution
it is not unknown for students (or staff for that matter) to use their
machines for purposes that what not entirely appropriate to the normal
business of the institution (Not just "Anyone want to hack the Pentagon
today?" but the use of things like Doom which could have a serious
impact on network performance :-) ). It is often considered rather
important to have a good idea of who owned what so you you know who to
blame when something went wrong:-)

In the institution I used to work all devices were registered with an
appropriate entry in our domain with an appropriate address in our class
B address space. This registration was assigned to an individual (or
department).  Anyone who was a member of the institution who was found
doing the above would quite likely face disciplinary action as they
would be violation of the institutions regulations. (The institution
could get quite nasty about this).

As at various times we had individuals accidentally set up machines that
among other things were assigned the external gateway address, and the
addresses of routing kit, so I think you can understand the general
viewpoint on this issue.

With later generation switches one can lock down connections by MAC
address, or monitor which access points were being used which machines
and in theory "alien" machines could be quickly identified and isolated
if required.




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[opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3, USB, i965 chipset

[Nick K. Kozubsky]

Hello,

I've lost my USB hub and it ports.

This problem I see with Intel DP965LT motherboard (with last firmware
MQ96510J.86A.1709.2007.1010.1926)


The dmesg show me constantly this:

hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled
hub 5-0:1.0: Cannot enable port 2.  Maybe the USB cable is bad?
printk: 1 messages suppressed.
hub 6-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled

But it's work fine with windos XP. :-(
Is it problem of kernels khubd ?

Thanks.
Nick.
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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[jdd]

Aniruddha wrote:

Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp. 

Ah - in that case, you're at the whims of the local network admins. In most


and there may not be enough IP in the net for all the 
students+workers, so the necessity to use low lease time


to solve your problem partly, you may be able to ask him to send a 
mail to you and take the IP from the mail (if it works, not sure)


jdd

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Anders Damm]

Use One-klick on http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3 ;-)
/Anders
On Monday 15 October 2007, Phil Burness wrote:
> I am trying to install Amarok from the Packman site but it is complaining 
> about some dependencies it cannot find:
> libartsgui & flaac.
> 
> Does anybody know which rpm packages I need and where they are?
> 
> Thanks
> Phil



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Re: [opensuse] Clean /tmp & /var/tmp on boot

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Rajko M. wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 10:54:24 pm Bob S wrote:
>> Hello SuSE people,
>>
>> On my 10.2 machine I had a setting to clear the tmp files at boot time.
>> Can't seem to find it in 10.3. I thought it was in Yast >  System Settings 
>> or Runlevel.
>>
>> Anybody know ? Remember??
>>
>> Bob S.
> 
> You set what you want to be cleaned in  /etc/sysconfig/cron and than run:
>   SuSEconfig
> 

Yast2->System->SysConfigEditor->System->cron

and you have a couple of choices...

Yast2 will run the SuSEconfig stuff



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Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

[Patrick Kirsch]

Hey,
nordi wrote:
> Looking at the syscalls in more depth, I wrote a small and simple
> program that _only_ does syscalls in a big loop, see attachment. Just
> uncomment the syscall that you want to benchmark.
Maybe it is from interest:
 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/libmicro/
 LibMicro is intended to measure the performance of various system and
library calls.
With that you have nearly all syscalls tested, even with math. analysis
(median, stdddev, 99% confidence level)

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Per Jessen]

James Knott wrote:

> While "static" means unchanging, in a computer network context a
> static address is one that's manually configured on the computer, as
> opposed to DHCP, which requires a server.  That server can then be
> configured to always assign the same address or use the next
> available. 

We're splitting hairs, but I agree with Anders - a static address is
simply one that does not change. Whether it is configured via DHCP or
on the individual server does not matter.  
All of my local servers are configured over DHCP which is the easiest,
whereas my remote servers are all configured individually as I have no
DHCP in the remote location.


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Ted Harding]

On 15-Oct-07 08:27:01, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:22 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
>> I must have gotten into this thread a little too late.  Why, exactly,
>> would you want a static ip in a dhcp environment?  Sorry for the new
>> question, but it's better than asking people if they prefer "top or
>> bottom" (not in that way, of course) ;-)
>> 
> 
> Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple,
> I use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if
> his ip didn't change all the time.
> -- 
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> 
> Aniruddha

Ahh! Then get him to email you whenever he starts a new session
(this could even be set up as a task for when his system starts
up). You should be able to find out the IP address he is mailing
from, from the headers in the email.

(For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).

Best wishes,
Ted.


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[John Meyer]

James Knott wrote:
> You'd want things like servers, printers and routers to have a
> consistent address.  The two methods are static IP, where the device is
> specifically configured or "reserved" IP, where the DHCP server will
> always assign the same IP to the device.
>   

Now that I could definitely see, though the comment about the network
admins living under the bridge (otherwise called the trolls ;-))confuses
me.  If you had those things set up in a network, wouldn't you want the
admin to know and support that, rather than try to set up something that
he or she doesn't know about?
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Re: [opensuse] Network upgrade

[Patrick Kirsch]

Roland Carlsson wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm looking for a solution about how to do a network upgrade from 10.2
> to 10.3. But I have so far not found anything that helped me.
> 
> In Yast there are a tool called "System upgrade" witch I thought would
> perform this service for me. But I can't find out how to tell it that
> there exists a new version of Opensuse that it should upgrad to.
One easy way is, to set the new installation sources with "yast
inst_source" and after that "yast sw_single" and choose "Filter->
Installed Packages" following "Actions -> All Listed Packages -> Update all"


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[opensuse] Dell Latitude D820 +Suse 10.3 +Parallels +wireless

[Art Fore]

I installed Suse 10.3 on my D820. Now I am reinstalling 10.2 because of
the following problems that are not solvable in the short term.

Intel 3945abg wireless card does not work wit iwl3945 driver and from
what I have read on the list and the internet, also not with the ipw
3945 driver.

When running WinXP under parallels 2.2 with the latest upgrade that is
supposed to be for the 2.6.22 kernel, it is so slow to be unuseable,
like 10 minutes to open an application. System monitor shows only 6% cpu
use during this time where as before, it would reach 100% at times.
Think this is a parallels problem though.

I installed it on my x86-64X2 with no problems, but then I am not
running parallels or wireless on it.

Art

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[opensuse] Size and processing increase due to encrypting a partition???

[ken]

For those who've implemented an encrypted partition on a formerly
unencrypted partition, have you noticed an increase in the size of the
data.  (Since one stage of modern encryption involves data compression,
I would think the aggregate data encrypted would actually be smaller
than the same unencrypted.  But I have no empirical basis.)

Secondly, does the processor take a hit doing the encryption?  If so,
how big is it?

Finally, while on the topic... if there are kernel modules for
encryption, these would seem to be prime candidates for compiling into
the kernel.  Which modules are these?  Are there any gotchas involved in
compiling these in?  Or documentation specific to this?


Thanks.


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Jerome R. Westrick]

On Monday 15 October 2007 10:27:01 Aniruddha wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:22 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
> > I must have gotten into this thread a little too late.  Why, exactly,
> > would you want a static ip in a dhcp environment?  Sorry for the new
> > question, but it's better than asking people if they prefer "top or
> > bottom" (not in that way, of course) ;-)
>
> Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple, I
> use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if his ip
> didn't change all the time.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Aniruddha
>
> Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette
> http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

Ahhh, that is what dyndns is for.

Basically,  it's a service that allows you to reserve a DNS name.  The service
transaltes that name to an IP address.  The service offers a program that your
brother can install on his computer which will update the IP address that 
dyndns will translate to.

In this way you can ssh to your brothers PC with a dyndns name,  and always
get the correct IP address...

H...  Somehow my explanation got twisted.

Google for Dynamic Dns, it's designed to solve your current problem...


Jerry


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Re: [opensuse] Another problem with KMail

[Clive]

Hi Doug,

On Monday 15 October 2007 03:47:53 Doug McGarrett wrote:

>
> Unless I'm missing something, and I don't think I am, you go to "Trash" in
> KMail, then "edit" then "select all files" then hit the delete key.  This
> should (and does, at least in 9.3) delete all those files.  I just deleted
> about 250 of them.  Now you can go to the main trash can, in the KDE
> screen, and empty that.  There should now be no deleted files in the
> system. And I did all this in the middle of composing this reply in KMail,
> without shutting it down.
>
> --doug
>
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> --A.M. Greeley

Yes this is the normal way of doing it and it worked fine in all versions of 
SuSE until I got to 10.3.

Even trying to compact all folders and deleting the read mail will not delete 
the wastebin.  Only 12 or so e-mails will get deleted each time I click empty 
wastebin under the right mouse button.

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[opensuse] Where do I find good 'beginning rpm building' instructions?

[Aniruddha]

I would like to contribute to openSUSE by building rpm's of packages
that are not yet available. Where do I find  a good tutorial or
instructions for 'building rpms for dummies'?


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Re: [opensuse] Upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3, no display doesn't work

[Joe Morris (NTM)]

On 10/15/2007 09:12 AM, Keith Chapman wrote:
> Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my
> laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1"
> widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier
> today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot
> up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
>
> Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
>
>   
Check your log (/var/log/messages) for any pertinent error messages. 
Also your xorg log file, and maybe /var/log/warn.  For example, I found
out after google earth was killing X that I no longer had 3D enabled
after upgrading from 10.2.  I tried sax2 (via Yast, Hardware, Graphics
card) and my screen would lose sync when 3D was enabled.  I noticed in
the log that agpgart was going into 8x.  I know in 10.2 it only worked
with 4x, so I changed the AGP Mode to 4, and that fixed 3D and allowed
my machine to once again work with 3D (and google earth no longer
crashed X).  HTH.

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[opensuse] Re: Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[jdd]

Aniruddha wrote:


Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple, I
use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if his ip
didn't change all the time.


I just notice than if you are using ssh, you probably are in the same 
local network? there should be some sort of intranet messenging 
system? if so there must be a login/identification? use it


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

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Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 10:27:01 Aniruddha wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:22 -0600, John Meyer wrote:
>>> I must have gotten into this thread a little too late.  Why, exactly,
>>> would you want a static ip in a dhcp environment?  Sorry for the new
>>> question, but it's better than asking people if they prefer "top or
>>> bottom" (not in that way, of course) ;-)
>> Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple, I
>> use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if his ip
>> didn't change all the time.
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aniruddha
>>
>> Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette
>> http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette
> 
> Ahhh, that is what dyndns is for.
> 
> Basically,  it's a service that allows you to reserve a DNS name.  The service
> transaltes that name to an IP address.  The service offers a program that your
> brother can install on his computer which will update the IP address that 
> dyndns will translate to.
> 
> In this way you can ssh to your brothers PC with a dyndns name,  and always
> get the correct IP address...
> 
> H...  Somehow my explanation got twisted.
> 
> Google for Dynamic Dns, it's designed to solve your current problem...
> 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 

But only if the device is not resident on a NAT network. Then the
static/ dynamic IP issue becomes a little moot. As the gateway router
will have no idea where to forward the external request an attempt to
establish an external ssh session will fail.

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Re: [opensuse] Community research

[Dave Howorth]

Szabolcs Feczak wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I know it is a bit off-topic, but I am doing a research at university
> about online communities (like this one as well),
> and I need primary data, so if some of you would kind enough
> to donate his time and take my survey at:
> 
> http://q.sierraforce.com/ 
> 
> Would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> If you have any problem with the survey please let me know
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sub

This looks very much like a spoof (phishing):

- the OP's claimed email address is corporate rather than a uni
- the mail path is dubious
- the survey itself is not hosted at a uni address
- the survey will not run unless javascript is enabled

Apologies if I'm wrong.

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Joe Morris (NTM)]

On 10/15/2007 05:03 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> Use One-klick on http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3 ;-)
>   
What is up with the link http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp. 
I clicked on it, which then asked me which app should open it, and yast
was preselected.  It then actually launched a Yast module I had not seen
before to add repositories I had already added, but WITHOUT prompting
for root's password.  I am using Firefox.  That sounds like a security
problem big time.  How could any user gain root's access via a link in a
browser, or what exactly is that ymp file?

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Re: [opensuse] Zend Studio 5.5 not installing/working on SuSE10.3 (SOLVED)

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Søndag 14 oktober 2007 00:57 skrev Cristian Rodriguez:
> Verner Kjærsgaard escribió:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > - just tried to install (crucial to me) my Zend Studio 5.5 onto my new
> > SuSE10.3
> >
> > - I got this:
> >
> > Launching installer...
> > java: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
> >
> > - Any hints as to what causes this ?
> > - as always, thank you!
>
> export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
> then work as usual.

- thanks a LOT for the answers. When BOTH are applied (the sed AND the export 
variable) - things work just fine!

- thanks again!
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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Phil Burness]

On Monday 15 October 2007 11:11:49 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 10/15/2007 05:03 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> > Use One-klick on http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3
> > ;-)
>
> What is up with the link http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp.
> I clicked on it, which then asked me which app should open it, and yast
> was preselected.  It then actually launched a Yast module I had not seen
> before to add repositories I had already added, but WITHOUT prompting
> for root's password.  I am using Firefox.  That sounds like a security
> problem big time.  How could any user gain root's access via a link in a
> browser, or what exactly is that ymp file?
>
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I am using konqueror and got the same installation window without a root 
password prompt.

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Jos van Kan]

(Ted Harding) schreef:
> On 15-Oct-07 08:27:01, Aniruddha wrote:
>>
>> Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple,
>> I use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if
>> his ip didn't change all the time.
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aniruddha
> 
> Ahh! Then get him to email you whenever he starts a new session
> (this could even be set up as a task for when his system starts
> up). You should be able to find out the IP address he is mailing
> from, from the headers in the email.
> 
> (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
> connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).

There's a tool that does exactly that, sshipup.

http://www.info-techs.com/download.shtml

It also lets you put it somewhere on a website.

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Re: [opensuse] Where do I find good 'beginning rpm building' instructions?

[Jos van Kan]

Aniruddha schreef:
> I would like to contribute to openSUSE by building rpm's of packages
> that are not yet available. Where do I find  a good tutorial or
> instructions for 'building rpms for dummies'?
> 
> 
http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF

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Re: [opensuse] Clean /tmp & /var/tmp on boot

[James Knott]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 10:54:24 pm Bob S wrote:
>   
>> Hello SuSE people,
>>
>> On my 10.2 machine I had a setting to clear the tmp files at boot time.
>> Can't seem to find it in 10.3. I thought it was in Yast >  System Settings 
>> or Runlevel.
>>
>> Anybody know ? Remember??
>>
>> Bob S.
>> 
>
> You set what you want to be cleaned in  /etc/sysconfig/cron and than run:
>   SuSEconfig
>
>   
It can also be set in Yast > Etc > /etc/sysconfig Editor.  The tmp stuff
is under cron.

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[James Knott]

jdd wrote:
> Aniruddha wrote:
>
 Errr, I am afraid not. He just receives his ip adress through dhcp. 
>>> Ah - in that case, you're at the whims of the local network admins.
>>> In most
>
> and there may not be enough IP in the net for all the
> students+workers, so the necessity to use low lease time
>
With the widespread use of RFC1918 addresses, that's not likely to be an
issue.
> to solve your problem partly, you may be able to ask him to send a
> mail to you and take the IP from the mail (if it works, not sure)
>

Also with RFC1918 addresses, he won't be able to reach the computer
anyway, unless he has a VPN into the network.


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[James Knott]

(Ted Harding) wrote:
> Ahh! Then get him to email you whenever he starts a new session
> (this could even be set up as a task for when his system starts
> up). You should be able to find out the IP address he is mailing
> from, from the headers in the email.
>
> (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
> connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).
>
>   
Now that you know his address is 192.168.2.167, try reaching that
computer.  ;-)

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[James Knott]

John Meyer wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>   
>> You'd want things like servers, printers and routers to have a
>> consistent address.  The two methods are static IP, where the device is
>> specifically configured or "reserved" IP, where the DHCP server will
>> always assign the same IP to the device.
>>   
>> 
>
> Now that I could definitely see, though the comment about the network
> admins living under the bridge (otherwise called the trolls ;-))confuses
> me.  If you had those things set up in a network, wouldn't you want the
> admin to know and support that, rather than try to set up something that
> he or she doesn't know about?
>   
On many networks, you'll find many things are prohibited.
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Re: [opensuse] Question about Wireless

[Kai Ponte]

On Monday 15 October 2007 00:49, G T Smith wrote:

> > Okay, but how to diagnose?
>
> I was under the impression that most laptops actively manage power. In
> some circumstances they could reduce power to apparently inactive
> peripheral devices. With WiFi this could lead to dropped connections
> with hardware left in peculiar states. (There are other issues as well
> i.e. heat, battery charging... )

No, wouldn't use as a server. I just happen to have two laptops running SUSE 
and they're on all the time.  The one I''m writing on (HP/Compaq nw9440) is 
my primary machine and the other is an older laptop (Dell 600m) that I just 
use because I have it.


>
> I would personally avoid using laptops as server devices except for
> testing purposes, they are not really designed for the job.
>
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Re: [opensuse] Re: Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[James Knott]

jdd wrote:
> Aniruddha wrote:
>
>> Lol! I agree 100% ;) The reason I would like a static ip is simple, I
>> use ssh to troubleshoot his system. Therefor it would be handy if his ip
>> didn't change all the time.
>
> I just notice than if you are using ssh, you probably are in the same
> local network? there should be some sort of intranet messenging
> system? if so there must be a login/identification? use it
>
>
SSH is often used for remote access from anywhere.  Just this weekend,
while at the Ontario Linux Fest, I used SSH from my N800, via WiFi at
the site, to my home network.  At work, I also use SSH to reach customer
equipment via the internet.  You can't assume you're on the same network.


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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Anders Damm]

Yes, but you have to type the root password before the actual installation 
takes place.
It's relay a bit confusing and looks strange! 
/Anders  
On Monday 15 October 2007, Phil Burness wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 11:11:49 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> > On 10/15/2007 05:03 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> > > Use One-klick on http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3
> > > ;-)
> >
> > What is up with the link http://opensuse-community.org/codecs-kde.ymp.
> > I clicked on it, which then asked me which app should open it, and yast
> > was preselected.  It then actually launched a Yast module I had not seen
> > before to add repositories I had already added, but WITHOUT prompting
> > for root's password.  I am using Firefox.  That sounds like a security
> > problem big time.  How could any user gain root's access via a link in a
> > browser, or what exactly is that ymp file?
> >
> > --
> > Joe Morris
> > Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64
> 
> I am using konqueror and got the same installation window without a root 
> password prompt.
> 
> Phil 



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[opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[Aniruddha]

Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
group for home folders.

What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
user?


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Aniruddha]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 07:28 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
> > Ahh! Then get him to email you whenever he starts a new session
> > (this could even be set up as a task for when his system starts
> > up). You should be able to find out the IP address he is mailing
> > from, from the headers in the email.
> >
> > (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
> > connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).
> >
> >   
> Now that you know his address is 192.168.2.167, try reaching that
> computer.  ;-)
> 

Ey leave me alone! :p



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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Aniruddha]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:36 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:

> > (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
> > connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).
> 
> There's a tool that does exactly that, sshipup.
> 
> http://www.info-techs.com/download.shtml
> 
> It also lets you put it somewhere on a website.
> 
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How did you find out? (I am using evolution for mail)


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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Friday 12 October 2007 19:07:51 Robert Lewis ste napísal:
> Several friends have asked me why they are getting an error message
> when attempting to install RPMS using the YaST "Software Management"
> choice.  The error message confuses them and they don't know what to
> do, although it is obvious to any experienced user.  An attempt to
> access the installation media when the installation DVD is not present
> in the drive brings on the message.
>
> In each case the OSS and NONOSS repositories have been added so the
> installation DVD is no longer required.  An easy fix is to go edit the
> Software Repository and turn off having the system look for the DVD.
>
> I would like to suggest that the software could be made more
> intelligent to detect if the above two repositories have been added
> and then the original line pointing to the DVD be disabled.
> This prevents the error from happening.
>
> Anytime we can eliminate confusion for new users we have done a good
> thing in my view.

The problem is that we are getting exactly opposite requirement: use DVD as 
much as possible, do not download from the online repos if not absolutely 
needed.

So, it seems this needs to be user-configurable somehow :(

BTW, libzypp does not have support for repo priority, so this is kind of next 
step after we can make it deterministic where the package is downloaded from.

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Re: [opensuse] How do I connect to a Krfb invitation?

[Aniruddha]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 15:21 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 11:47:09 Aniruddha wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:33 +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> > > I wonder how do I connect to a Krfb invitation? Can also connect trough
> > > the internet? Unfortunately the documentation isn't working :(
> >
> > no-one knows? :(
> 
> Use the Remote Desktop Connection (krdc) for example, which is in the menu in 
> the same place as the krfb item
> 
> Or just use any vnc client.
> 
> Anders
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Thanks that did the trick!


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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

[Aniruddha]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot 
> into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install 
> there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before I 
> move to the new version. I've tried 2 different video cards but neither 
> works so far, of is an ATI 9200 AGP, the other is an ATI 9500 AGP. In 
> all cases I get to the command line showing that runlevel 5 has been 
> reached, but no desktop. I have not tried Gnome, but I don't think that 
> matters. To summarize what I did...
> 
> With ATI 9200 card
> 1. Format with ext3, install, did online update, select 3D at the end of 
> the install config, runlevel 5 shows to be reached, but no desktop.
> 2. Re-format with reiser, install, did not do online update, do not 
> select 3D, no desktop.
> 3. Re-format with ext 3, install, did not do online, update, do not 
> select 3D, no desktop.
> 
> I'd really appreciate any help with this.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Jim F

Have you tried changing the driver in xorg.conf to vesa?


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Re: [opensuse] Where do I find good 'beginning rpm building' instructions?

[Aniruddha]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:50 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:
> Aniruddha schreef:
> > I would like to contribute to openSUSE by building rpm's of packages
> > that are not yet available. Where do I find  a good tutorial or
> > instructions for 'building rpms for dummies'?
> > 
> > 
> http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF
> 
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thanks that is a great pdf!

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[jdd]

Aniruddha wrote:

Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
group for home folders.

What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
user?



never did. the reason to create such group is controversial (I don't
have the link to the discussion, though)

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Re: [opensuse] Autoyast

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Monday 15 October 2007 08:38:26 Razi Khaja ste napísal:
> Will AutoYast 2.15.17 built for 10.3 work for 10.2?

I expect no. We do not backport and YaST has gone through quite some changes 
during 10.3 development phase.

Stano

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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Richard Creighton]

Aniruddha wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:36 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:
>
>   
>>> (For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
>>> connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).
>>>   
>> There's a tool that does exactly that, sshipup.
>>
>> http://www.info-techs.com/download.shtml
>>
>> It also lets you put it somewhere on a website.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -- 
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>> 
>
> How did you find out? (I am using evolution for mail)
>
>
>   
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Re: [opensuse] Community research

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 05:08:11 am Dave Howorth wrote:
...
>
> This looks very much like a spoof (phishing):
>
> - the OP's claimed email address is corporate rather than a uni
> - the mail path is dubious
> - the survey itself is not hosted at a uni address
> - the survey will not run unless javascript is enabled
>
> Apologies if I'm wrong.
>
> Cheers, Dave

Google is you friend, and don't forget 'whois' for details :-)
If nothing else guy is spaming lists around with a same email. 

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Joe Morris (NTM)]

On 10/15/2007 08:08 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> Yes, but you have to type the root password before the actual installation 
> takes place.
> It's relay a bit confusing and looks strange! 
>   
I guess I should just try and see, but since the first screen said
something about adding repositories and or deleting these afterwards,
does this also later prompt for a root password before it actually does
anything?  I double checked and yast was running as my user, not root,
so I guess this was my own confusion and paranoia, and not a security
hole.  Sorry for the false alarm.

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Re: [opensuse] Another problem with KMail

[Will Stephenson]

On Monday 15 October 2007 11:45:14 Clive wrote:
> Even trying to compact all folders and deleting the read mail will not 
delete 
> the wastebin.  Only 12 or so e-mails will get deleted each time I click 
empty 
> wastebin under the right mouse button.

Hi Clive

Please make a bug report for this, tell us exactly which packages you are 
using and which type of IMAP account you have.

Thanks

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Re: [opensuse] nvidia GF 7300 LE and opensuse 10.3

[Guillermo Ballester Valor]

El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:
> * Clive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-14-07 19:19]:
> > On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11).
> > > Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems.  Can make the NVIDIA file
> > > available, if you want (x86_64).
> >
> > Yes please Patrick.  I would like to give that a go.
>
> http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run
>

Thanks Patrick!.

Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we 
downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?.

Clive, have you seen any result ?  Because my target is a production machine, 
I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific 
histories about bad configured X.

Thanks,

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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 07:17:14 am Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Dňa Friday 12 October 2007 19:07:51 Robert Lewis ste napísal:
> > Several friends have asked me why they are getting an error message
> > when attempting to install RPMS using the YaST "Software Management"
> > choice.  The error message confuses them and they don't know what to
> > do, although it is obvious to any experienced user.  An attempt to
> > access the installation media when the installation DVD is not present
> > in the drive brings on the message.
> >
> > In each case the OSS and NONOSS repositories have been added so the
> > installation DVD is no longer required.  An easy fix is to go edit the
> > Software Repository and turn off having the system look for the DVD.
> >
> > I would like to suggest that the software could be made more
> > intelligent to detect if the above two repositories have been added
> > and then the original line pointing to the DVD be disabled.
> > This prevents the error from happening.
> >
> > Anytime we can eliminate confusion for new users we have done a good
> > thing in my view.
>
> The problem is that we are getting exactly opposite requirement: use DVD as
> much as possible, do not download from the online repos if not absolutely
> needed.
>
> So, it seems this needs to be user-configurable somehow :(
>
> BTW, libzypp does not have support for repo priority, so this is kind of
> next step after we can make it deterministic where the package is
> downloaded from.
>
> Stano

With todays hard disk capacities it is easy to copy DVD to hard disk and make 
it repository. No need for DVD. Major computer vendors do similar with other 
OS for a long time, having small partition with system backup. 

The repository priority is another issue. 
It was convenient feature of former YaST. 

The workaround to enable/disable repositories that one don't want to use 
trough Software Repositories module is now more work than before, using 
double click to enable/disable repository which is not as obvious as it was 
once before, when was used check box for enable/disable and 
refresh/no_refresh. 

It was the same layout as we have now in Community Repositories, just 2 boxes 
in front of every repository. Easy to change, easy to see status. 

Enable Refresh   Repository name  Path
 x   DVD  /path/to/DVD
 x   HardDisk /path/to/hard/disk/copy
 x   FTP  /some_mirror/uel
 xx  Packman  /packman/url
 xx  MyFavorite   /somewhere/on/the/net

I really don't understand what rationale is behind present UI, but IMHO it is 
usability regression. 

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Phil Burness]

On Monday 15 October 2007 14:14:14 Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 10/15/2007 08:08 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> > Yes, but you have to type the root password before the actual
> > installation takes place. It's relay a bit confusing and looks strange!
>
> I guess I should just try and see, but since the first screen said
> something about adding repositories and or deleting these afterwards,
> does this also later prompt for a root password before it actually does
> anything?  I double checked and yast was running as my user, not root,
> so I guess this was my own confusion and paranoia, and not a security
> hole.  Sorry for the false alarm.
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I carried on and was not asked at any point for a root password and I was not 
running as root.

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[James Knott]

Aniruddha wrote:

Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
group for home folders.

What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
user?


  


I mentioned this a while ago and while it isn't a severe problem if the 
permissions are set correct, they're not in SUSE.  As default, anyone in 
the users group has access to everyone else's home directory.  Either 
change the group or change the permissions to prevent that.  I agree 
that individual groups should at least be an option in SUSE.  You may 
want to change the default permissions, if you don't create individual 
groups.




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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Carlos F Lange]

On Mon October 15 2007 06:17, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> Dňa Friday 12 October 2007 19:07:51 Robert Lewis ste napísal:
> > I would like to suggest that the software could be made more
> > intelligent to detect if the above two repositories have been added
> > and then the original line pointing to the DVD be disabled.
> > This prevents the error from happening.
> >
> > Anytime we can eliminate confusion for new users we have done a
> > good thing in my view.
>
> The problem is that we are getting exactly opposite requirement: use
> DVD as much as possible, do not download from the online repos if not
> absolutely needed.
>
> So, it seems this needs to be user-configurable somehow :(

There could be a check button in the pop-up for "disabling the DVD as 
source permanently". In the same spirit as the automatic addition of 
repos, it would avoid having to close the package manager then opening 
the source manager, then opening the package manager again to have a 
smooth install of many packages.

> BTW, libzypp does not have support for repo priority, so this is kind
> of next step after we can make it deterministic where the package is
> downloaded from.

I think the repo priority is the right direction to automate this 
process. You don't want the DVD to be disabled by default when the 
repos are enabled, because the installation is orders of magnitude 
faster from the DVD, but you want the DVD to be preferred _if_ it is 
available, instead of being requested with a pop-up every time.

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[Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui]

I Have Asus a2m mx vm . I have trying to install 10.3 kde cd.
I'm getting no repositories found error.
When i try to install from HDD, it gives error Fatal error.
"Media already mounted on /tmp/var/ when reying to mount on /tmp/var/.."

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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Carlos F Lange]

On Mon October 15 2007 07:42, Rajko M. wrote:
> With todays hard disk capacities it is easy to copy DVD to hard disk
> and make it repository. No need for DVD. Major computer vendors do
> similar with other OS for a long time, having small partition with
> system backup.

I do that often, but are still some cases, such as in my laptop, where 
the HD space is not enough and I can't waste it with a copy of the DVD.

> [...]
> It was the same layout as we have now in Community Repositories, just
> 2 boxes in front of every repository. Easy to change, easy to see
> status.
>
> Enable Refresh       Repository name      Path
>  x                   DVD                  /path/to/DVD
>  x                   HardDisk             /path/to/hard/disk/copy
>  x                   FTP                  /some_mirror/uel
>  x        x          Packman              /packman/url
>  x        x          MyFavorite           /somewhere/on/the/net
>
> I really don't understand what rationale is behind present UI, but
> IMHO it is usability regression.

I am with you on this one.

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Re: [opensuse] nvidia GF 7300 LE and opensuse 10.3

[Bob Ewart]

Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
> El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:
>> * Clive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-14-07 19:19]:
>>> On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
 Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11).
 Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems.  Can make the NVIDIA file
 available, if you want (x86_64).
>>> Yes please Patrick.  I would like to give that a go.
>> http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run
>>
> 
> Thanks Patrick!.
> 
> Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If we 
> downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel upgrade?.
> 
> Clive, have you seen any result ?  Because my target is a production machine, 
> I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered) terrorific 
> histories about bad configured X.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guillermo
> 

If you install from that link you will need to do a recompilation every
kernel upgrade.

BTW I'm having the same problem with an ASUS EN7300GS card.


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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[James Knott]

Aniruddha wrote:

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:36 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:

  

(For example, your localhost is 192.168.2.167, and you are
connected to wanadoo.nl as 85.144.207.123).
  

There's a tool that does exactly that, sshipup.

http://www.info-techs.com/download.shtml

It also lets you put it somewhere on a website.

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When you examine the message headers, one of the lines will be something 
like this:


Received: from [192.168.2.167] (s5590cf7b.adsl.wanadoo.nl 
[85.144.207.123])by mwinf6209.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 
5E29F1C00085;Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:14:28 +0200 (CEST)


In Thunderbird, there's an option to display "normal" or all headers.  
You have to use all to see this.




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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Benji Weber]

On 15/10/2007, Joe Morris (NTM) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/15/2007 08:08 PM, Anders Damm wrote:
> > Yes, but you have to type the root password before the actual installation 
> > takes place.
> > It's relay a bit confusing and looks strange!
> >
> I guess I should just try and see, but since the first screen said
> something about adding repositories and or deleting these afterwards,
> does this also later prompt for a root password before it actually does
> anything?  I double checked and yast was running as my user, not root,
> so I guess this was my own confusion and paranoia, and not a security
> hole.  Sorry for the false alarm.

It is necessary to display what will be done to the user prior to
requesting root privileges. If root password were asked for
immediately then you are passing arbitrary input that the user has not
been able to review, straight to a process running as root.

This way it's less likely that something malicious could damage the
system without the user noticing.

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[James Knott]

jdd wrote:

Aniruddha wrote:

Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
group for home folders.

What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
user?



never did. the reason to create such group is controversial (I don't
have the link to the discussion, though)


Why not make it an option?  Or at least change the default permissions, 
so that users don't have access to other home directories?


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Re: [opensuse] nvidia GF 7300 LE and opensuse 10.3

[Guillermo Ballester Valor]

El Monday 15 October 2007 13:54:39 Bob Ewart escribió:
> Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
> > El Sunday 14 October 2007 23:23:35 Patrick Shanahan escribió:
> >> * Clive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-14-07 19:19]:
> >>> On Monday 15 October 2007 00:07:41 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>  Suffered the same problem with lockups and 100.14.19 (also w/14.11).
>  Went back to 1.0-9762 and no problems.  Can make the NVIDIA file
>  available, if you want (x86_64).
> >>>
> >>> Yes please Patrick.  I would like to give that a go.
> >>
> >> http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9762-pkg2.run
> >
> > Thanks Patrick!.
> >
> > Before to try, do you know if it is necessary a compilation of module. If
> > we downgrade to that module, do we need a recompilation every kernel
> > upgrade?.
> >
> > Clive, have you seen any result ?  Because my target is a production
> > machine, I would not to make a bad movement ;-) . I read (and suffered)
> > terrorific histories about bad configured X.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Guillermo
>
> If you install from that link you will need to do a recompilation every
> kernel upgrade.
>
> BTW I'm having the same problem with an ASUS EN7300GS card.
>
Bob, thanks for the info.

BTW, I have an ASUS EN7300TC512  card.   Grrr.! .  Likely is a better solution 
to upgrade to a better card.  

Is somebody at nvidia reading this thread?. 

Guillermo



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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Ansgar Esztermann]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> My brother get his ip adres through DHCP from a large college lan, his
> ip changes with regular intervals. I wonder is it possible reserve one
> particular ip for his machine and if so how do I do this?

I guess it should be possible to do a DHCPREQUEST for the desired
address without DHCPDISCOVERing first. Of course, the server might
deny that address.
Besides, I do not know how to configure the client to achieve that
behaviour.


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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 08:53:39 am Carlos F Lange wrote:
> On Mon October 15 2007 07:42, Rajko M. wrote:
> > With todays hard disk capacities it is easy to copy DVD to hard disk
> > and make it repository. No need for DVD. Major computer vendors do
> > similar with other OS for a long time, having small partition with
> > system backup.
>
> I do that often, but are still some cases, such as in my laptop, where
> the HD space is not enough and I can't waste it with a copy of the DVD.

I know that above is not universal solution, it was just another idea, where 
it is applicable, how to make installation possible, without need to stop 
other important task, like listen music, and still have full bandwidth for 
something else. 

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, amarok and MP3's

[Benji Weber]

On 15/10/2007, Phil Burness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I carried on and was not asked at any point for a root password and I was not
> running as root.

The installation cannot occur without sufficient privileges. Either
you didn't continue far enough, or you must have been running the
browser as root, or it would have failed.

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[Benji Weber]

On 15/10/2007, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
> default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
> creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
> long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
> group for home folders.
>
> What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
> user?

What benefit does it give, that we don't have with ACLs already?

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Re: [opensuse] Upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3, no display doesn't work

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On 10/14/07, Keith Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey everyone.. I am pretty new to linux, and installed openSUSE 10.2 on my
> laptop a couple months back. The laptop is a Gateway M680 (17.1"
> widescreen). Everything worked fine on 10.2 out of the box. Now earlier
> today I installed 10.3 fresh over the 10.2 installation. Now whenever I boot
> up, the screen turns black and never comes back on.
>
> Any ideas, or where I can start to look?
>
> Thanks!

Keith,

My Dell did similar.

The below summarizes my now working 10.3 install.

1) Fresh Install terminated with a black screen.
2) I pushed the power button and rebooted (Possibly not the smartest
move.  I was frustrated.)
3) Got some of the final install steps again.
4) Got a display this time, but horribly unusable
5) cntrl-alt-f2 and logged into a text console as root
6) Ran Sax2 multiple times with multiple args.  Non provided a clean display.
7) By pure chance ran "sax2 1600x1200" as my last attempt
8) Rebooted the machine for some reason.
9) My display suddenly started to work just fine and continues to work

Hope you can at least get some troubleshooting ideas from the above.

FYI: I did put all this in a bugzilla, but I did not capture logs
early enough to be really useful.

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[James Knott]

Benji Weber wrote:

On 15/10/2007, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  

Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
default with the same name as the username. For example in Gentoo
creating the user 'aniruddha' also creates the group 'aniruddha'. This a
long time tradition to solve problems caused by using using the 'users'
group for home folders.

What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
user?



What benefit does it give, that we don't have with ACLs already?

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Re: [opensuse] Top posting is just fine - it's a personal choice thing.

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On Sunday 14 October 2007 11:28, houghi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:24:39AM -0400, Michael Comperchio wrote:
> > Since I thread (and probably everyone else does) the list(s), I can
> > simply expand them, the I click from message to message. When people top
> > post I hardly have to move the mouse to read all the new stuff, when
> > people bottom post I have to move the mouse to scroll through (sometimes)
> > pages of stuff I've already read! It's irritating.so I usually just
> > right click and delete those that are bottom posted.
> >
> > I never have understood the logic of bottom posting
>
> Because YOU read mail in a certain way (my using a mouse) does not mean
> everybody else reads it the same way.
>
> Also as others pointed out, it is the rule here, so please addept to the
> houserule. See the URLs below in my sig, especialy:
>
> Conclusion
>
> The old-timers, the real experts, the ones who can really give advice,
> have grown tired of people that use any message style and shape that come
> in mind. Many just "plonk" a message and request for assistance is
> completely ignored. So if you want good advice, please, do only what you
> do when visit someones home, accept hosts customs.
>
> houghi
Adapt to list I shell. I just read the 
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standards at a new job, I'll just have to comply!

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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Monday 15 October 2007 15:42:31 Rajko M. ste napísal:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 07:17:14 am Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > Dňa Friday 12 October 2007 19:07:51 Robert Lewis ste napísal:
> > > Several friends have asked me why they are getting an error message
> > > when attempting to install RPMS using the YaST "Software Management"
> > > choice.  The error message confuses them and they don't know what to
> > > do, although it is obvious to any experienced user.  An attempt to
> > > access the installation media when the installation DVD is not present
> > > in the drive brings on the message.
> > >
> > > In each case the OSS and NONOSS repositories have been added so the
> > > installation DVD is no longer required.  An easy fix is to go edit the
> > > Software Repository and turn off having the system look for the DVD.
> > >
> > > I would like to suggest that the software could be made more
> > > intelligent to detect if the above two repositories have been added
> > > and then the original line pointing to the DVD be disabled.
> > > This prevents the error from happening.
> > >
> > > Anytime we can eliminate confusion for new users we have done a good
> > > thing in my view.
> >
> > The problem is that we are getting exactly opposite requirement: use DVD
> > as much as possible, do not download from the online repos if not
> > absolutely needed.
> >
> > So, it seems this needs to be user-configurable somehow :(
> >
> > BTW, libzypp does not have support for repo priority, so this is kind of
> > next step after we can make it deterministic where the package is
> > downloaded from.
> >
> > Stano
>
> With todays hard disk capacities it is easy to copy DVD to hard disk and
> make it repository. No need for DVD. Major computer vendors do similar with
> other OS for a long time, having small partition with system backup.
>
> The repository priority is another issue.
> It was convenient feature of former YaST.
>
> The workaround to enable/disable repositories that one don't want to use
> trough Software Repositories module is now more work than before, using
> double click to enable/disable repository which is not as obvious as it was
> once before, when was used check box for enable/disable and
> refresh/no_refresh.

Huh? There is a checkbox 'Enabled' in the information pane when you select the 
repo in the table.

Stano
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[opensuse] Accessing package management failed

[Patrick Shanahan]

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A friend w/10.3 i586 install is having a problem with yast2.  The
sw_single option provides a pop-up with:

  Accessing the Package Management Failed
  
  Another process is accessing the package database.
  Package management cannot be used now.
  
  Would you like to continue without having access to
  the package management or retry to access it?
 
 Continue  Retry
 
Retry fails and continue is useless as w/o access there is NO
functionality.

No lock is apparent and rebuilding the rpmdb solves nothing.  No
instance of rpm or yast is present.

what to do ???

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[opensuse] Best IMAP

[Donovan R. Palmer]

I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about implementing 
IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP daemon I should 
try to implement?  So far I have looked at the possibility of Courier.


TIA for any advice. 


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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[CyberOrg]

On 10/15/07, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Benji Weber wrote:
> > On 15/10/2007, Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Much to my surprise I found out that openSUSE doesn't create a group by
> >> default with the same name as the username.

> >> What is the reason openSUSE doesn't create a $username group for each
> >> user?

> >
> > What benefit does it give, that we don't have with ACLs already?

> >
> Currently, with the default configuration users can access other users
> home directories.  At least that was the case up to 10.2.
>

So we advise users to put their 'private' stuff in Document folder
which is not accessible by other users, that and ACL/Right click
remove group permissions takes care of any issues users might have
about others peeking in their folders.

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Re: [opensuse] Dell Latitude D820 +Suse 10.3 +Parallels +wireless

[Ben Kevan]

On Monday 15 October 2007 02:30:17 am Art Fore wrote:
> I installed Suse 10.3 on my D820. Now I am reinstalling 10.2 because of
> the following problems that are not solvable in the short term.
>
> Intel 3945abg wireless card does not work wit iwl3945 driver and from
> what I have read on the list and the internet, also not with the ipw
> 3945 driver.
>
> When running WinXP under parallels 2.2 with the latest upgrade that is
> supposed to be for the 2.6.22 kernel, it is so slow to be unuseable,
> like 10 minutes to open an application. System monitor shows only 6% cpu
> use during this time where as before, it would reach 100% at times.
> Think this is a parallels problem though.
>
> I installed it on my x86-64X2 with no problems, but then I am not
> running parallels or wireless on it.
>
> Art

Art, 

I too run a Dell D820. 

I am running vanilla kernel 2.6.23, vmware 6.0.1 seems to run fine (although, 
it is a bit slower then I remember from a long time ago), I just figured it 
was the XP living inside the VM :)

As for wireless, I fixed it on my machine by modifying the source code that I 
download from source forge. The modified ipw3945.c file is on my bugzilla 
report. Once I built a new ipw3945.ko file.. all was good and wireless is 
fixed. I haven't tried to modify the iwl driver, since I use ipw. I am sure 
they are both related (it is an issue with association and disassociation 
with the AP)
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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Scott Moseman]

On 10/15/07, Donovan R. Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about implementing
> IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP daemon I should
> try to implement?  So far I have looked at the possibility of Courier.
>

I have been running Courier for year with no problems at all.

Thanks,
Scott
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Re: [opensuse] Top posting is just fine - it's a personal choice thing.

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/10/15 10:53 (GMT-0400) Michael Comperchio apparently typed:

> Adapt to list I shell. I just read the 
> http://en.opensuse.org/Opensuse_mailing_list_netiquette link and like coding 
> standards at a new job, I'll just have to comply!

> Anyone know how to make KMAIL open up replies with the caret at the bottom?

If someone tells you how, and you do it, will you automatically remember to
trim away unnecessary quoted material before beginning your reply?
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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Josef Assad]

Den Mon 15. October 2007 17:09:27 skrev Donovan R. Palmer:
> I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about implementing
> IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP daemon I should
> try to implement?  So far I have looked at the possibility of Courier.

Good experiences here with dovecot; a breeze to set up.



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Re: [opensuse] software repository could be made more intelligent

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 09:41:28 am Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > The workaround to enable/disable repositories that one don't want to use
> > trough Software Repositories module is now more work than before, using
> > double click to enable/disable repository which is not as obvious as it
> > was once before, when was used check box for enable/disable and
> > refresh/no_refresh.
>
> Huh? 

I know that is not the biggest problem right now, and I guess that it is not 
directly yours. It is GUI and usability problem. It was mentioned as example 
that user life today is not easier than few SUSE versions ago.  

> There is a checkbox 'Enabled' in the information pane when you select 
> the repo in the table.

Yes, and user has to go line by line and check/change status. While before all 
that was visible at once, which with increased number of repositories would 
be advantage. It is good that module is seldom used. 

For enable/disable operation there is double click that is not mentioned in 
left hand pane. 

> Stano

I'm wondering where to post usability/GUI type of problems. Someone posted few 
days ago his ideas on ux-opensuse.org and there is no comment from UX guys. 
Do they still work for Novell? 

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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Стоян Цалев]

На Monday 15 October 2007 Donovan R. Palmer написа:
> I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about implementing
> IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP daemon I should
> try to implement?  So far I have looked at the possibility of Courier.
>
> TIA for any advice.

"Best" alone means nothing, there's only "works best for my needs". In my 
personal experience, nothing beats Cyrus IMAPD. This is the most powerful, 
flexible and well-tested open source imap server out there. In a way, it 
reminds me of Sendmail - it's power might scare away the faint-hearted ;) So, 
if you need a big gun - cyrus is what I recommend. OTOH, if your need to 
setup something in a quick&easy way, you might try dovecot, courier or 
wu-imap. (I'd go with dovecot, btw.)

Best regards,
Stoyan
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Re: [opensuse] Can I lock a DHCP ip adress?

[Per Jessen]

Ansgar Esztermann wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
>> My brother get his ip adres through DHCP from a large college lan,
>> his ip changes with regular intervals. I wonder is it possible
>> reserve one particular ip for his machine and if so how do I do this?
> 
> I guess it should be possible to do a DHCPREQUEST for the desired
> address without DHCPDISCOVERing first.  

The ISC  dhcp client will normally do a request for the most recently
assigned address first, then a discover if that is nack'ed. 



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[opensuse] Re: Running a program as root from desktop panel

[Jonathan Arnold]

Bryen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
> 
>> I, personally, like top posting. If, for some reason, my memory is so 
>> poor that I can't remember what the thread is about I can always scroll 
>> down to find out.
>>
> So do I, and I find myself taking a bit longer to respond because of
> bottom posting.  But I can see it has its benefits.
> 
>> A couple other things you might need to know to save you from getting 
>> roasted over the flames:
>>
>> Reply ONLY to the list. NEVER to the person [ unless requested to do so 
>> ]. I use Firefox and there is a rather hard to find extension called 
>> "Reply to List". You can Google for it. Follow the instructions on the 
>> site to get it set up. Otherwise use "Reply to All" and remove the extra 
>> address's
>>
> This actually is something of a challenge.  Many of us by force of habit
> click "reply" and I keep having to stop myself before sending and
> re-doing the whole thing.  On other mailing lists, the system always
> changes the "reply-to" header to the actual mailing list.  So when we
> click "reply", it won't reply directly to the person instead of the
> list.  Can't we make that change here?   It would probably make many
> lives easier.  I know manmail does this because I've configured it as
> such to do so in the past.

There is no easy answer to this dilemma of a reply to list or reply to
emailer. Every list needs to come to its own conclusion and this one has
it so that a reply goes to the sender only. Other lists I'm on that have a
reply to list as the default are bombarded with requests to change it to
a reply to sender.

A very nice compromise is to read this list on gmane.org with a news reader
(like Thunderbird). In this case, the reply is to the "newsgroup", which gets
filtered to the mailing list. I highly recommend it.

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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[James Knott]

Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about 
implementing IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP 
daemon I should try to implement?  So far I have looked at the 
possibility of Courier.


TIA for any advice.

I use uw-imap.  It works fine for me.


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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Jim Flanagan]

Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about 
implementing IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which IMAP 
daemon I should try to implement?  So far I have looked at the 
possibility of Courier.


TIA for any advice.
I've tried uw-imap, Dovecot and Cyrus. I like Cyrus the best. It is 
designed for and can handle large scale imap systems, but I run it on my 
home server. Works very well and is robust. It's not hard to set up on 
opensuse.


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Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card

[Jim Flanagan]

Aniruddha wrote:

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
  

Hi all,

I've done several test installs of opensuse 10.3, but none will boot 
into KDM. I formatted over my old 9.3 install in did an clean install 
there, with /home there as well. I always try a test install before I 
move to the new version. I've tried 2 different video cards but neither 
works so far, of is an ATI 9200 AGP, the other is an ATI 9500 AGP. In 
all cases I get to the command line showing that runlevel 5 has been 
reached, but no desktop. I have not tried Gnome, but I don't think that 
matters. To summarize what I did...


With ATI 9200 card
1. Format with ext3, install, did online update, select 3D at the end of 
the install config, runlevel 5 shows to be reached, but no desktop.
2. Re-format with reiser, install, did not do online update, do not 
select 3D, no desktop.
3. Re-format with ext 3, install, did not do online, update, do not 
select 3D, no desktop.


I'd really appreciate any help with this.

Many thanks,

Jim F



Have you tried changing the driver in xorg.conf to vesa?


  
I believe the vesa driver is the default install, which I did. I have 
not upgraded the driver yet, but I'll check it later today to make sure. 
Thanks,


Jim F
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Re: [opensuse] Top posting is just fine - it's a personal choice thing.

[Josef Assad]

Den Mon 15. October 2007 17:37:46 skrev Felix Miata:
> On 2007/10/15 10:53 (GMT-0400) Michael Comperchio apparently typed:
> > Anyone know how to make KMAIL open up replies with the caret at the
> > bottom?
> If someone tells you how, and you do it, will you automatically remember to
> trim away unnecessary quoted material before beginning your reply?

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[opensuse] nis, ldap, nfs mount (amd automount), ypbind and kde in 10.3

[Mohsen Rezayatmand]

I am using nis, ypbind, ldap, and nfs automount (amd).  When I try to 
login to the workstation using KDE desktop session it takes for ever to 
login and load my desktop. However when I use GNOME, login is very fast 
and the desktop loads almost instantly.  Any idea why/what is wrong with 
KDE?


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Re: [opensuse] Accessing package management failed

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 09:55:05 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> A friend w/10.3 i586 install is having a problem with yast2.  The
> sw_single option provides a pop-up with:
>
>   Accessing the Package Management Failed
>
>   Another process is accessing the package database.
>   Package management cannot be used now.
>
>   Would you like to continue without having access to
>   the package management or retry to access it?
>
>  Continue  Retry
>
> Retry fails and continue is useless as w/o access there is NO
> functionality.
>
> No lock is apparent and rebuilding the rpmdb solves nothing.  No
> instance of rpm or yast is present.
>
> what to do ???

I wasn't sure about lock files, but it is easy to reproduce error by running 2 
processes that access package database and look in y2log:
2007-10-15 11:30:46 <1> linux-d2eh(17659) [zypp] ZYppFactory.cc(lockerPid):180 
read: Lockfile /var/run/zypp.pid has pid 17499 (our pid: 17659)

Look in /var/run/ for stale yast.pid or zypp.pid.

The other source of problem might be running updater applet.

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Re: [opensuse] Accessing package management failed

[Rajko M.]

On Monday 15 October 2007 09:55:05 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:

...
> No lock is apparent and rebuilding the rpmdb solves nothing.  No
> instance of rpm or yast is present.
>
> what to do ???

Finally found this one:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-07/msg0.html

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[opensuse] pacpl on 10.3

[Phil Burness]

I had pacpl running on SuSe 10.2. I've tried to add it to my 10.3 system. I've 
looked at 1-click on software.opensuse.org/search and it dowsn't find it. 
I've tried using smart install pacpl and it finds it on the packman site but 
complains of no package provides liblirc_client.so.0

I've tried looking for this on rpmfind and it only shows it available for 
Mandriva only.

Any suggestions on where I can get it?

Thanks
Phil
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[opensuse] guru's smart repo for 10.3

[Sunny]

Hi,
for 10.2 I used this repo:


Where can I find repo for 10.3?

Thanks

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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[James Knott]

Jim Flanagan wrote:

Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about 
implementing IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which 
IMAP daemon I should try to implement?  So far I have looked at the 
possibility of Courier.


TIA for any advice.
I've tried uw-imap, Dovecot and Cyrus. I like Cyrus the best. It is 
designed for and can handle large scale imap systems, but I run it on 
my home server. Works very well and is robust. It's not hard to set up 
on opensuse.


Jim F
When I tried Dovecot, I couldn't get it to see any of the existing 
subfolders under my inbox, even though uw-imap worked fine.  Is there a 
similar issure with Cyrus?


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Re: [opensuse] guru's smart repo for 10.3

[Ben Kevan]

On Monday 15 October 2007 09:41:23 am Sunny wrote:
> Hi,
> for 10.2 I used this repo:
> 
>
> Where can I find repo for 10.3?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
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>
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> a pile of scrap.


This is now mixed in with the Packman repository which can be added 
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Re: [opensuse] mainboard questions

[arijit sarkar]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:08 +0100, Paul Hands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought 2  ASUS mobos for AMD64.

> I would like a 64 bit 
> > system this time. Are there any recommendation out there for good boards.
> >
> > Will be going to 10.3 in the new little while.

Go for ASUS mainboards.

I am using ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMDX2. openSUSE10.3 giving me superb
performance.

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Re: [opensuse] What happened to the $username group?

[jdd]

James Knott wrote:

Why not make it an option?  Or at least change the default permissions, 
so that users don't have access to other home directories?


one should first find the hole discussion. There are pros and cons. 
usually one wants the othger users to ba able to read part of his account


if not there are several security levels in suse, use a harder one and 
there are no more such problems


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Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking: slower than 10.2?

[Ian Smith]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 14:22:48 nordi wrote:
> Forgot to mention that we now have bug #333739, see
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739

Thanks for that!

> Maybe the Suse kernel-guys know if this is a bug or a feature.

Yeah, I was wondering... is this because of different configure options SuSE 
is setting?  Or because of the kernel itself?

Right now I'm installing 10.2 and 10.3, and hopefully 10.0 and 10.1, on a test 
machine.

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Re: [opensuse] pacpl on 10.3

[Patrick Shanahan]

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> I had pacpl running on SuSe 10.2. I've tried to add it to my 10.3
> system. I've looked at 1-click on software.opensuse.org/search and it
> dowsn't find it.  I've tried using smart install pacpl and it finds it
> on the packman site but complains of no package provides
> liblirc_client.so.0
> 
> I've tried looking for this on rpmfind and it only shows it available for 
> Mandriva only.

not the right tool, try pin and/or webpin

> Any suggestions on where I can get it?

11:00 wahoo:~ > webpin -d 10.2 pacpl
Query URL:
http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/searchservice/SearchService/Search/Simple/openSUSE_102/pacpl
   10 results (5 packages) found for "pacpl" in openSUSE_102
* pacpl: Perl Audio Converter - a tool for converting multiple audio types
- 4.0.0beta2 [packman] {i586,x86_64}
@ http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2
>> /usr/bin/pacpl-install /etc/pacpl/po/en.po
- 3.3.1 [BS::home:/yixu] {noarch}
@ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/yixu/openSUSE_10.2
>> /usr/bin/pacpl-install
>> /etc/pacpl/po/en.po


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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Anders Johansson]

On Monday 15 October 2007 18:43:00 James Knott wrote:
> When I tried Dovecot, I couldn't get it to see any of the existing
> subfolders under my inbox, even though uw-imap worked fine.  Is there a
> similar issure with Cyrus?

Cyrus doesn't use your home folder at all. It sets up a separate directory 
hierarchy

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Re: [opensuse] Best IMAP

[Jim Flanagan]

James Knott wrote:

Jim Flanagan wrote:

Donovan R. Palmer wrote:
I have qpopper running on my 10.2 box, but am thinking about 
implementing IMAP. Do any of you have any suggestions as to which 
IMAP daemon I should try to implement?  So far I have looked at the 
possibility of Courier.


TIA for any advice.
I've tried uw-imap, Dovecot and Cyrus. I like Cyrus the best. It is 
designed for and can handle large scale imap systems, but I run it on 
my home server. Works very well and is robust. It's not hard to set 
up on opensuse.


Jim F
When I tried Dovecot, I couldn't get it to see any of the existing 
subfolders under my inbox, even though uw-imap worked fine.  Is there 
a similar issure with Cyrus?



Hi James,

It's been a while since I tested Dovecot, but as I remember, uw-imap and 
Coruier read different mail box file formats. One reads mbox, the other 
maidir (don't remember which is which at the moment). The beauty of 
Dovecot is that it can be configured to read one or the other format. In 
Dovecot you may want to adjust this setting if you are having trouble.


In any case, all of the above read mail from /var/spool/mail. Cyrus 
works differently. When you set up opensuse to use Cryus imap, it will 
store mail in /var/spool/imap. I think it is because Cyrus imap does 
lots of active stuff behind the sceens in managing your mail. When you 
look at logs for example, there are lots of entries where cyrus imap is 
doing reads and other stuff to it. In practice I never notice a thing. 
Except for the fact that it has other benefits such as error correction. 
I've noticed in the past when moving a large number or emails from one 
folder to another (say a months or more worth of opensuse emails) 
uw-imap for example might get overwhelemed, and I wound up loosing some 
emails in the process. Since I started using Cyrus imap, this has never 
happened. Sometimes (agian moving large amounts of email at one time) 
the move process might fail, but Cyrus restores all mails to their 
original location. Active fault tolerance. This is one of the reasons I 
like Cyrus.


But, you have to set it up differently, i.e. the mail is stored in a 
different location and in a cyrus format than the other imap solutions. 
You set it up using yast, which configures all that stuff for you. It is 
not hard.


Oops, I've rambled again. Hope I answered your Dovecot question.

Jim F
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