Re: [opensuse] Suspicious Update
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:28 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:25:33AM -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: As I have then same concerns here you go. On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:30 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: zypper lu Repository: | Name | Version | Category | Status --+--+-+--+--- openSUSE-10.3-Updates | openmotif22-libs | 4540-0 | optional | Needed According to the screenshot it is not selected in the updater, and this is correct for optional updates. Ciao, Marcus The question is, is this actually a 64 bit update being offered in a 32 bit system or is it actually a 32 bit program update that is actually needed in a 32 bit system? and if it is a 64 bit update why is it offered in a 32 bit system? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Compiz Update on XGL Build Service 6.0
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:22 -0700, Sloan wrote: cyberpunks wrote: Install ati 8.40 drivers. Remove official ati drivers and ati repository and click here to install the version that is supposed to work on most ATI hardware: http://opensuse-community.org/ati-legacy.ymp Do not run sax2 after installation. Check if symlink to Xgl is created properly: ll /usr/bin/X lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 21 23:02 /usr/bin/X - /usr/bin/Xgl If it is not created, create it. Remove any compiz autostart scripts and reboot. I'm confused - what is the reboot for? Joe There is no need to reboot, just restart your xsession. The easiest way is to logout and then login. When you logout X is automatically restarted. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Missing functionality in Gnome Updater and YOU?
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 16:55 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Kevin Dupuy wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:15 +0200, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: 1) openSUSE Updater (Gnome) In preferences I've tried to check both include optional patches as well as include 3rd party updates. The updater works, but . How to see the details which updates are installed, confirm and possiby uncheck unwished updates, as well as seeing the elapsed time bar? 2) YOU (Gnome) The new YOU interface includes recommended patches and optional updates (not more than the Updater does as far as I can see). How to check for and upgrade to other, newer software versions for All Packages? So far in 10.3 as a workaround I've had to install and login to a KDE session instead, to do what previous worked in Gnome as well: YaST2SoftwareOnline Update Package menuAll packagesUpdate if newer versions are available --Terje 1.I agree that the updater needs to show the status of downloading packages, and a list of what it's downloading. Perhaps that what they can use the Details button for, rather than launching the whole YaST module. YOU never has performed third party updates, only security and critical updates. I think I have seen where YOU do third party updates in a future release. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] awful openoffice splash
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:12 +0200, primm wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 16:54:19 Josef Assad wrote: Kevin Dupuy wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:09 -0500, Scott Jones wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2007, primm wrote: I want to know who at SUSE/Novell let that splash screen leave with that ugly gray around it! gimp's splash is visually consistent with the OO.o splash. I think it's positive to note that - even if you don't like the logo - the strive for visual consistency is A Good Thing(tm). I totally disagree. Make a splash that appeals to women. The gimp need to show what it's at, not what it's for. Men love consistency I know. Women thrive on variety. They make your life more interesting. When was the last time _you_ invited anyone to dinner and asked them if they preferred red or white? Actually you need to have a splash screen that looks very professional so the CEO at Bigcorp, Corp. will get the impression that the product is very professional. I'm not saying that OO is not professional it is the CEO that needs to be impressed so they will use it in their company. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] evolution contacts
Has anyone else that is using 10.3 and evolution noticed their contacts list auto adding addresses even though that setting is turned off? Every time I reply to any email the OP's address is being added to my contacts list. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] evolution contacts
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 12:52 -0500, Bryen wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:38 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Has anyone else that is using 10.3 and evolution noticed their contacts list auto adding addresses even though that setting is turned off? Every time I reply to any email the OP's address is being added to my contacts list. Ken, did you turn it off in Plugins - Automatic Contacts or elsewhere? The only place I see the option is: Edit--Preferences--Mail Preferences, Automatic Contacts And the selection is un-checked. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] evolution contacts
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:14 -0500, Bryen wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:51 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 12:52 -0500, Bryen wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 13:38 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Has anyone else that is using 10.3 and evolution noticed their contacts list auto adding addresses even though that setting is turned off? Every time I reply to any email the OP's address is being added to my contacts list. Ken, did you turn it off in Plugins - Automatic Contacts or elsewhere? The only place I see the option is: Edit--Preferences--Mail Preferences, Automatic Contacts And the selection is un-checked. Ken, Try Edit -- Plugins -- Then Uncheck the Automatic Plugins option. Ah. Didn't look there. It doesn't make sense to have the same option in more than one place and only one works. If the one under Edit-Prefs doesn't work why don't the devs remove it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] 10.3 openSUSE updater
I have performed fresh installs on my laptop and my desktop, preserving home, and have the following happening. On my laptop when instructing the updater to install the update it goes and does this without asking for the root password but on the desktop I am required to provide the password. Is there a setting somewhere for this I have accidentally set on the laptop? I'm sure others in the corporate world wouldn't want this to happen without being able to restore the defaults. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 openSUSE updater
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:24 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: I have performed fresh installs on my laptop and my desktop, preserving home, and have the following happening. On my laptop when instructing the updater to install the update it goes and does this without asking for the root password but on the desktop I am required to provide the password. Is there a setting somewhere for this I have accidentally set on the laptop? I'm sure others in the corporate world wouldn't want this to happen without being able to restore the defaults. This will happen if you configured sudo for your desktop user to just go to root. opensuse updater KDE uses kdesu , which in turn uses sudo. Ciao, Marcus Just shows to go you how short ones memory can get. That was it. Thanks Marcus. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 openSUSE updater
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 21:14 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:24 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: I have performed fresh installs on my laptop and my desktop, preserving home, and have the following happening. On my laptop when instructing the updater to install the update it goes and does this without asking for the root password but on the desktop I am required to provide the password. Is there a setting somewhere for this I have accidentally set on the laptop? I'm sure others in the corporate world wouldn't want this to happen without being able to restore the defaults. This will happen if you configured sudo for your desktop user to just go to root. opensuse updater KDE uses kdesu , which in turn uses sudo. Ciao, Marcus How do configure sudo in yast2 in order to achieve this? Look in the security section, the same place you can add users. Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Lexmark e220 printer
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:12 -0400, Bob Cataldo wrote: When I installed Opensuse 10.3 I had my Lexmark E220 hooked up. The install recognized the printer and I was able to print out a test page. Now when I try to print anything it just sits in the print queue and does nothing. When I go into Yast and try to print a test page nothing happens. When I connect to my office using Citrix, the Citrix client recognized the E220 as my local printer, but nothing will print ( since I can't print locally ). Where would I go to look for error messages for the printer? Under 10.2 I had to fool the computer into thinking I had a HP4. It was good for printing text, but not graphics. Under 10.3 I can't print anything. Any help or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated. KDEmenu--Print System--Print Manager Highlight the printer and use the third pulldown and select Start Printer. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How do I blacklist modules for the onboard audio card?
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:06 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: With every boot the onboard audio card interferes with the PCI Soundblaster card. I think the problem is caused by the modules being loaded for the onboard audio card at each boot. How do I blacklist these modules in openSUSE? /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution Netiquette Question
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 21:02 +0200, jdd wrote: Bryen wrote: I wouldn't exactly call it trimming. More like cut and replace. I have to delete the contents of the To: field, then copy the contents of the CC: field into the To: field. the second step is not usefull (the copy) - at least not in seamonkey jdd But then this thread is not about seamonkey is it? One of the ways is to use ctrl-l to reply to the list only. You used to be able to right click in the message to get a reply-to-list function but I guess gnome developers don't use list mail or want people to have easy access to commands. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Bootable 'Repair Installation' for 10.3
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:57 +0100, d_garbage wrote: Hello list, The 'repair' feature has helped me before and it would be good to have it at hand, for when I (inevitably) bork my shiny new 10.3 install. The original 'repair installation' option on the DVD was broken. Now the yast module has been fixed, can you tell me how to get/make a bootable 'repair installation' rescue disk to replace it? Thanks, David I was going to ask the same question. It would be a simple solution to provide a delta that can be applied to the DVD, but that is up to the good folks at openSUSE to provide. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution Netiquette Question
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 21:46 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 13:50 -0500, Bryen wrote: This makes it a real pain to follow the rules of the road here. And apparently from a recent post I observed, others are having this problem too. I'm not criticizing the rules here, just asking for assistance in how to follow the rules here while still using Evolution, which I happen to like and use as my preferred client. No big discussion wanted here. This is a can of worms. But I have to ask: If the list Netiquette for this list is to reply to the List, why is the Reply-To field set to the original author? Perhaps he, like me, got tired of all the duplicate emails (and set it that way in the client program) because some people simply use reply-to-all instead of reply-to-list. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: Installing vmware server under 10.3
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:37 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: Ignore this. OK. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution Netiquette Question
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 00:55 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-16 at 18:36 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: If the list Netiquette for this list is to reply to the List, why is the Reply-To field set to the original author? Perhaps he, like me, got tired of all the duplicate emails (and set it that way in the client program) because some people simply use reply-to-all instead of reply-to-list. Er... if you set the Reply-To to the original author, you will still get double mails. It might make sense if they set it to the list. Also, many people use reply to all simply because their client programs do not have the reply to list function (mine doesn't). Well, we all know there are still some lame client programs out there. In my case, if you looked, the reply-to is set to the list because _I_ got fed up receiving two emails when people replied to my posts. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution Netiquette Question
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 02:09 +0200, Igor Jagec wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:49 -0500, Bryen wrote: Seems to me that some people don't realize that a Reply-to-list function is not obvious to all. And those who aren't aware of the semi-hidden feature suffer the wrath of others. Yep. There's a nice FAQ about Evolution: http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ In any case, obviously this has been an issue before I came along. I figure the best way to solve this is to submit an enhancement request for Evolution which I just did. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334428 The problem of Evolution is that it is not very much configurable. For instance, we can't edit Reply headers, toolbars, and so on. This is because it is gnome based and gnome is slowly being dumbed down. I have noticed quite a few packages that have a lot of the configurable options removed. One of the reasons I don't use gnome. linux is supposed to be about choice and many of those choices are being removed from the gnome apps. I may end up switching to another email client soon if evolution loses many more user options. Just my $.02. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] System mail in 10.3
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:19 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote: How do you tell the system which user openSUSE should send the system mail to? I know in 10.2 this could be done through YaST - User Management, but that option is not there in 10.3. Any one have a clue of where it has been moved to, or anyway other than YaST to do this? Easiest way is to edit /etc/aliases and add a line like: root: some_user_name Save the changes and run newaliases. All of this is done as the root user. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] System mail in 10.3
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 12:53 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2007 12:12:19 pm Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:19 -0400, Adam Jimerson wrote: How do you tell the system which user openSUSE should send the system mail to? I know in 10.2 this could be done through YaST - User Management, but that option is not there in 10.3. Any one have a clue of where it has been moved to, or anyway other than YaST to do this? Easiest way is to edit /etc/aliases and add a line like: root: some_user_name Save the changes and run newaliases. All of this is done as the root user. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 Thank you I made the change and ran newaliases now I just need to wait and see if it works, assuming it doesn't matter where in the file you need add that line. It is easy enough to test, just send an email to root. From the command line you could use: mail -s test root You will then be able to type in some text and end the message by typing ctrl-d on a new line. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Top posting is just fine - NOT on this list
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 17:14 -0600, John Meyer wrote: While I hate to bring this back to topic (I'm a bud man myself), I have nothing against either top or bottom posting. You can make reasonable arguments for either style, therefore it is a matter of choice. One caveat, though: if you bottom post or interthread your responses I would think that you should go out of your way to delete material that you're not commenting on. I think you'd have a major problem if you quoted six paragraphs only to comment on the first one or two. Also, I would be much more worried if you cut the intro line (so-and-so wrote) improperly with the quote. Just do what I do with the ones that can't to go with the wishes of the majority on this list, create a filter to delete their posts like I just did with you John. I hope some day you don't ask a question I had the answer to cause I'll never see your request. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Top posting is just fine - NOT on this list!
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 19:52 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote: On 10/13/2007 sfreilly wrote: ok, we might as well take bets on how long this thread is going to last before the last post is made. I say sometime near halloween , any takers?? here we go AGAINlol I got Nov. 4, 2007 at 00:00Z I think Henne will take care of it before that. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] New 10.3 install, can't get wireless to work
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:49 -0400, Steve Jacobs wrote: I've searched messages on this list, and haven't seen a solution to this yet. I've got a Dell lnspiron 8500, with the Dell TrueMobile 1300 wireless card. Under Win XP, and Suse 10.1 or 10.2 a long time ago using ndiswrapper, the wireless card works. My wireless network uses WPA2-Personal, AES. I've just installed openSuse 10.3 (32-bit). Following the install, the wireless would not connect. I saw in the install notes that if the network uses a non-broadcast ESSID, I may need to remove the intel wireless driver installed by default, and the other will install automatically. n my system neither of those intel drivers was installed by default. As my wireless card is Broadcom, not Intel, I guessed that was why neither was installed, and also guessed neither will work for me. Do you know which broadcom chip it uses? Some will work without using ndiswrapper. Mine uses the bcm43xx and I needed to use bcm43xx-fwcutter to extract the firmware to /lib/firmware and I also had to turn on SSID broadcast. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP3300 MFP (was HP M1005 MFP)
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 19:23 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/10/2007 10:45 PM, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:21 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Along these lines I have an HP3300 MFP and I can print from any user and I can scan as root but I cannot scan as a regular user and can find nothing regarding any special group or device perms. Any help appreciated. Did you setup the scanner via Yast? Yes. It works for the root user but not as a regular user. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] use 10.2 rpm's in 10.3? possible?
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:54 +0200, Clayton wrote: Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages? It's always possible, just sometimes not advisable. :-) I've generally found that things only really go wrong with older RPMs built against much older libraries/kernel than are in your current version. Of course it depends on the application and how deep it reaches into the system. I run several applications on my 10.2 machine installed from RPMs built for/on 10.0 or 10.1 with no issues or problems at all. They are not system level apps.. just handy apps I like to use from time to time. As an alternative, you could rebuild the apps yourself on your 10.3 machine (assuming sources are available) and use 'checkinstall' to generate an RPM (instead of 'make install'). Or download the src rpm and build it on the 10.3 system. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP3300 MFP (was HP M1005 MFP) [Solved]
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:24 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Oct 11 09:50 Kenneth Schneider wrote (shortened): Mine are: crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 189, 3 2007-10-10 20:00 /dev/bus/usb/001/004 When you set up the scanner unit with YaST, it runs /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/test_and_set_scanner_access_permissions which does some magic to determine the USB device ID and write it to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/80-scanner.fdi so that the udev/HAL/resmgr machinery could do its magic to set an appropriate ACL for the /dev/bus/usb/xxx/yyy device file. But the udev/HAL machinery doesn't notice changed *.fdi files in the running system, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218393#c28 so that only a restart of HAL helps (or a reboot). Or the magic in test_and_set_scanner_access_permissions may not work for your particular model so that there is no entry in 80-scanner.fdi. In this case see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=Pine.LNX.4.64.0707040850200.22081%40nelson.suse.de for several ways how to do it manually - perhaps you like it more to add the users who should be allowed to scan to the lp group. This would seem to be a much simpler method especially for new comers. The simplest solution is to use the saned and the net meta-backend on your local host to access the scanner, for example via YaST scanner setup - Other - Scanning via Network. This did the trick, thank you very much. But the little drawback is that now scanning-frontends for root will see the scanner twice. Once directly as hpaio:... and a duplicate via the net meta-backend as net:localhost:hpaio:... (compare the scanimage -L output as root and as normal user). True, but I very rarely login as root. Most of root's work is done through su/sudo. And the side effect is I should be able to scan using my laptop without having to be physically connected to the scanner. :-) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 04:22 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: Igor Jagec wrote: On Sri, 2007-10-10 at 15:34 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Noticed kernel update for 10.3 386 system and I am concerned that I will end up with a NON-booting system. That concerns me either. I didn't know that SUSE updates kernel packages rather then install new packages and keeps the old ones on the system. Is it possible to roll back the old one, or something, in case we really end up with a non booting system? Fortunately, I didn't end up with a non booting system today, and nVidia drivers works either, but you never know when that might happen. Cheers! You will be happy to hear of two improvements with the new kernel: 1) It works! a) drivers that had stopped working for disk controllers now compile and can load b) it properly 'mkinitrd' to incorporate user supplied module into boot image c) it did not corrupt the MBR when installed as an update like .31 did for me d) the HDA sound support works - I can change volume without loss of sound 2) It leaves a copy of the previous kernel in place. You might want to re-check this. I just upgraded to the new kernel and it deleted the old one. The link to the old kernel actually points to the new one. The new one just uses the full name instead of the link. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP3300 MFP (was HP M1005 MFP) [Solved]
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 10:52 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: for several ways how to do it manually - perhaps you like it more to add the users who should be allowed to scan to the lp group. This would seem to be a much simpler method especially for new comers. The simplest solution is to use the saned and the net meta-backend on your local host to access the scanner, for example via YaST scanner setup - Other - Scanning via Network. This did the trick, thank you very much. But the little drawback is that now scanning-frontends for root will see the scanner twice. Once directly as hpaio:... and a duplicate via the net meta-backend as net:localhost:hpaio:... (compare the scanimage -L output as root and as normal user). True, but I very rarely login as root. Most of root's work is done through su/sudo. And the side effect is I should be able to scan using my laptop without having to be physically connected to the scanner. :-) Verified, I am able to scan using my laptop with the scanner physically attached to my desktop. And it was extremely easy to do using YaST. I will say here that overall I am very impressed with 10.3. Sure I have had a couple of problems, but they have been overcome with the help of people on the list. Hooray to the openSUSE developers. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:35 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: You might want to re-check this. I just upgraded to the new kernel and it deleted the old one. The link to the old kernel actually points to the new one. The new one just uses the full name instead of the link. That is very strange...I have both the new kernel and the old .31 kernel in /boot and my /grub menu.1st had 4 entries, 2 of which pointed to the new kernel and 2 pointed to the old .31 kernel. I am not aware that I did anything special. OK, strike number 2 above unless you get some voodoo witchcraft luck working. At least the controller driver, and I discovered, VMWare love the new kernel, as does my MB which had been resisting all efforts to be tamed. Every kernel so far had something that broke something until now. I'll try and see if I accidentally did something to keep my old kernel, but I rebooted with .31 before I answered this to ensure it still was really there, and it did and just to be sure, I am back on the new kernel. Even the /lib entries for the .31 kernel are intactgo figure. Maybe one of the openSuSE kernel guys will pipe in and tell us if this was a fluke or was by design. I don't doubt you at all, it could be something I did. This is the contents of /boot: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842872 2007-10-08 07:46 System.map-2.6.22.9-0.4-default -rw--- 1 root root 512 2007-10-06 18:13 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-10-06 16:33 boot - . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80417 2007-10-08 07:50 config-2.6.22.9-0.4-default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root1024 2007-10-11 10:04 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-10-11 10:04 initrd - initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4315748 2007-10-11 10:04 initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default drwx-- 2 root root 12288 2007-10-06 16:19 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 2007-10-10 23:58 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138182 2007-10-08 08:29 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-bigsmp.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100801 2007-10-08 08:16 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-debug.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138222 2007-10-08 07:52 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136527 2007-10-08 08:23 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-xen.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136574 2007-10-08 08:25 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-xenpae.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400506 2007-10-08 07:52 symtypes-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116261 2007-10-08 07:51 symvers-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2147342 2007-10-08 07:50 vmlinux-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2007-10-11 10:04 vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1593788 2007-10-08 07:46 vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default You can see that the only kernel I have is 2.6.22.9-0.4 and my menu.lst file contains: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 11 10:04:43 EDT 2007 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message ##YaST - activate ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.9-0.4 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/mapper/lsi_jhicccaiaa_part2 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.9-0.4 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/mapper/lsi_jhicccaiaa_part2 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (fd0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /initrd The entry for openSUSE 10.3 (the old one) points to the vmlinuz entry which is nothing more a link to vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default. Go figure. I could go and install the original kernel along side the latest and have both, but since I'm not having problems with the latest I'll let it go for now. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] HP3300 MFP (was HP M1005 MFP)
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:21 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: Along these lines I have an HP3300 MFP and I can print from any user and I can scan as root but I cannot scan as a regular user and can find nothing regarding any special group or device perms. Any help appreciated. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Swap Software RAID 1 not working, SuSE 10.3
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 16:26 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-10 at 09:49 -0400, James Knott wrote: Mohsen Rezayatmand wrote: I agree, it is not a good idea to Raid swap space, it is also faster if you do not Raid the swap. Given the main reason for RAID is fault tolerance, what happens if the drive holding SWAP craps out and it's not RAID? Would that not tend to cause problems for a running system to lose everything in SWAP? On a server I have at home, everything is on RAID 5, except /boot, which is RAID 1. Yes, but it has been proposed to mount swap on a raid 0, and that doesn't have any fault tolerance, rather the contrary, and it is slower than two swap stripes. That is my point, that swap on raid 0 is not recomended. Why not use filesystem swap (using a file on the mounted partition) as has been suggested a few times in the past? And it was also pointed out that filesystem swap is fast like a raw swap partition. This would effectively put swap on the raid set for the filesystem. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Kernel update for 10.3
Noticed kernel update for 10.3 386 system and I am concerned that I will end up with a NON-booting system. Currently have bug number 331662 open but there has not been any activity on it. I am currently forced to boot to the repair part of the DVD (which fails) and then select boot installed system in order for the system to come up. Since the boot kernel I am currently using actually loads from the DVD how can I proceed with this update? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] opensuse 10.3 box vs iso versions
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Original message -- From: Frank Fiene [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dienstag 09 Oktober 2007, arijit sarkar wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:02 -0600, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: I have just installed opensuse 10.3 86_64 using the iso version. I also ordered the box version from Novell which it has not arrived yet. Q: is there any difference between the iso image and the dvd from the box? website DVD-iso image contains 4.3GB softwares for 32/64 bit systems. boxed version contains 1 dual-layer DVD for x86 system and 1 dual-layer DVD for 64bit system - 16 GB software and printed manuals. It also comes with 90-day installation support by phone and e-mail. This is not correct. I've opened the box and had a look on the DVDs. DVD 1 is the installation source for both 32 and 64 bit, so in sum both single layer installation DVDs on one double layer i think. On the second DVD (also double layer) is additional software and i will have a look what's the difference. I have seen java6 for example. The complete capacity of both is round about 13.4GB. Regards Frankv -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about the manuals? Did they bring them back? A family member is finally tired of Windows enough to try and they would need them to start (or call me at work for everything, due to opposite schedules). Thanks They are available on the install media (I think) or the ftp site in PDF format. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] No windows at or after login - Only text display after 10.3 clean install
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:10 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 01:52:10 pm Aniruddha wrote: snip Try setting the video driver in xorg.conf to vesa. You can edit xorg.conf with this command (if you have nano installed otherwise you need to use vi): nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf In cases like this where GUI was present during install it is also possible to get GUI using installation xorg.conf. Login as root and simply copy: cp /etc/X11/xorg /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old correct line should be: cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-old cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install /etc/X11/xorg.conf -- Regards, Rajko. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] has someone experienced the same problem .... please readme
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 07:03 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: On Sun October 7 2007 06:43, Anders Johansson wrote: On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote: I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem... Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :) It clearly isn't obvious to everybody, Anders. Maybe I've confused the processor line involved in the prior issue, but I do recall having run across that type of problem before. Carl I had a problem installing 10.2 on my XEON system with a SCSI raid controller but the problem didn't show until the installer got to the point of probing the hardware. It couldn't find the harddrive because of a problem with qparted and the cciss controller. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] 10.3 grub error while installing
While installing on my desktop I am getting the following error which prevents me from continuing: Grub Version 0.97 grub setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (/dev/cciss/c0d0p1,0) error 23: Error while parsing number grubquit * What is the reference to hd0 (ide disk?) Is it supposed to be the disk pointed to for installing the mbr? * When looking at the config files I notice the following: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 root (/dev/cciss/c0d0p1,0) kernel vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/mapper/lsi_jhicccaiaa_part2 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd * Why is one section referencing /dev/cciss and the other /dev/disk/by-id? * Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 install problem (low memory)
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 10:03 +0200, Lukas Ocilka wrote: Rajko M. napsal(a): On Thursday 04 October 2007 09:47:58 am Kenneth Schneider wrote: Hardware: Compaq Presario 1720US laptop P3 1G cpu 256M ram During first attempt to install (fresh) while selecting custom software choices the system became very sluggish and eventually crashed the installer. In trying to recreate the problem the system became sluggish again but did not crash and once swap was added the system became responsive again. This could become a big issue for low ram systems where a custom software selection is made. ... Perhaps asking to mount the swap partition before going to the summary screen would be appropriate. After my laptop install is finished I will repeat the process and try to reproduce the crash. If successful I will open a bug report. Ken What are minimum system requirements for 10.3? It is better to tell new users not to make custom software selection on systems that are below minimum. BTW, the low memory can be emulated with kernel parameter mem=256M or whatever small amount one wants to test. For 10.2 the memory requirements were minimum=256 MB RAM for a new basic installation without any additional repositories, 512 (384) with add-ons. In case of update on low-memory system, Linuxrc should mount the swap partition automatically. This might be problematic for new installation on a computer without any swap (or not yet created swap). Anyway, it's always an issue to balance between the amount of available features, software and memory requirements. In this particular case, you might try LiveCD system but I don't promise it will be any better. Yes, but at this point of the install the harddrive has been polled and partitions set and it would be very easy to create and/or mount the swap partition. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] 10.3 install problem
Hardware: Compaq Presario 1720US laptop P3 1G cpu 256M ram During first attempt to install (fresh) while selecting custom software choices the system became very sluggish and eventually crashed the installer. In trying to recreate the problem the system became sluggish again but did not crash and once swap was added the system became responsive again. This could become a big issue for low ram systems where a custom software selection is made. I believe this can be verified by someone else that has a low ram system and by using the expert area of the software selection. If you poke around in the various patterns and also use search to select and deselect packages I think this problem can be easily reproduced. Perhaps asking to mount the swap partition before going to the summary screen would be appropriate. After my laptop install is finished I will repeat the process and try to reproduce the crash. If successful I will open a bug report. Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Binary Compatibility for SCO 5.0.5
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:42 +0800, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi All, I have a customer with SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 running PROGRESS 6.2 and THOROBRED BASIC. I would dearly love to port to opensuse 10.3. Has anyone had any experience (luck!!??) running SCO OpenServer binaries on opensuse? Any recommended web sites or wiki's with detailed instruction? Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Much thanks. Otto. The best solution would be for the programs to be ported to linux. Other than that there used to be a portability program that allowed SCO binaries to run in linux but it probably when the way of the dodo bird when SCO started their lawsuit. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] 10.3 and evolution
I have installed 10.3 on my laptop and have copied my .evolution folder to the laptop but when I go to start evolution it has no knowledge of my connections. What else do I need to copy over? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and evolution
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 00:05 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: You gotto have your .gconf/apps/evolution folder also copied. (and kill/shutdown gconfd daemon) -Srini. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:06 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: I have installed 10.3 on my laptop and have copied my .evolution folder to the laptop but when I go to start evolution it has no knowledge of my connections. What else do I need to copy over? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 That was it, many thanks. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 Binary Compatibility for SCO 5.0.5
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:55 -0500, Dave Grosvold wrote: Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 01:42 +0800, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi All, I have a customer with SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 running PROGRESS 6.2 and THOROBRED BASIC. I would dearly love to port to opensuse 10.3. Has anyone had any experience (luck!!??) running SCO OpenServer binaries on opensuse? Any recommended web sites or wiki's with detailed instruction? Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Much thanks. Otto. The best solution would be for the programs to be ported to linux. Other than that there used to be a portability program that allowed SCO binaries to run in linux but it probably when the way of the dodo bird when SCO started their lawsuit. Thanks for the feedback. You're probably right and indeed that would be the best approach. Unfortunately, there are too man apps and a port would be beyond the cost that the customer is able to bear. Hopefully someone with a similar issue has already solved the problem (wishful hoping!!). Thanks. Otto. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this. I had a customer who was in the same situation two years ago.They had SCO 5.0.5 and Progress v6.2. I developed a custom application for them in 1991, and the app has run without issues for almost 15 years. I finally had to have them upgrade to SLES 9 (which was what was available at the time). and Progress v9.2, which is directly supported on SLES 9 and SLES 10. I'm not sure if Progress will provide technical assistance for their products running on openSUSE. The primary reason for the upgrade was the aging hardware. SCO 5.0.5 didn't support most of the newer hardware, and my client was getting very nervous running the old hardware. They wanted a system that could be supported.by someone other than me if I was run over by a bus! Funny how that works... -- Dave Grosvold The answer to that is to stay away from buses. :-) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and evolution
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:08 -0400, Mike McMullin wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:06 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: I have installed 10.3 on my laptop and have copied my .evolution folder to the laptop but when I go to start evolution it has no knowledge of my connections. What else do I need to copy over? Ken there is an answer for the required directories over on the Ubuntu list, but of more interest is that there is a backup\migration tool for Evolution floating around out there. Well I neither belong to or need to belong to any Ubuntu lists and no tool was just floating around on either my desktop or laptop. WTF is the reason for keeping both separated in the first place? It sure as hell can't be security. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] bcm43xx and WEP
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:43 +0200, fazer wrote: Hi eweryone I have the same problem from 10.1 to 10.3. I'm using WiFi with WEP encryption and not open but shared key Right now I'm using ndiswrapeer to handle it. Is someone found solution how to use bcm43xx with shose kind of settings P.S. Sorry about my english I have the same problem. The last time it worked was with Alpha6. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse] Upgrade from RC2 to final
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:41 +0200, M9. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jaeger schreef: The following worked for me: zypper sa ftp-distribution (once it's available) ^ I guess you missed that part. Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] DVD of 10.3
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 14:18 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote: Can someone please tell me when the DVD of GM10.3 will be made available? (GM on the other media is now already available.) Cheers. http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3 Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Optimizing the package manager
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 18:01 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: On Friday 28 September 2007 15:40:18 Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote: You could just ask whenever the YaST package manage UI comes up. Run some metric that checks the size and/or condition of the zypper database and if it is too big, put up a dialog box that says The Package Database needs to be optimize. Do it now? Warning - this could take some time to complete. Actually, since 3.3.13, sqlite has support for this: 2007 February 13 (3.3.13) * Add a fragmentation measurement in the output of sqlite3_analyzer. So I guess we can use this metric and then we don't need to record the last vacuum. I tried an Oreck vacuum on my database and it didn't help at all. :-)) Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 RC1 installation confusion
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:35 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote: I took all the defaults after installing the DVD I d/l and cut. However, the majority of the installation seems to be coming off the net instead of the DVD which is painfully slow. Over 4-hrs so far and not even close to finishing. I suspect I should have said NO to the early question about installation repositories. Is this correct? This is precisely why it is taking a long time. One of the installation repositories is factory which has newer packages so they will download from there. If so why not reverse the logic so that the DVD is the first place to look for RPMS on install and get updates at the end of the installation. It does, it's just that factory has newer versions. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 install not completing
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 19:41 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Samstag 22 September 2007 schrieb Glenn Holmer: On both a desktop (two tries) and a laptop machine, I was unable to complete the RC1 install. After the reboot, I get a brief flash of GUI, then he drops back to console. I see some bus error messages, and console won't accept root as login. Anybody else seen something like this? I had no errors from Azureus when downloading the DVD, and used verify when burning with K3B. You're using xfs as file system on all of these installations? Don't do that :) Would all of you self righteous people stop telling others to _stop_ using the xfs file system? I've been using xfs successfully for many years _without one single_ problem. This even after numerous power outages because of a faulty UPS. If you are having problems take a good look at your hardware, especially your power supply, because that is where the problem is. If there were too many problems with xfs I am sure the powers that be would stop supplying it the distro. To the OP, it helps a great deal when you include the hardware involved. As has been stated many times on this list crystal balls are in short supply and seldom work when available. Also, have you tried the failsafe install/(upon first boot)? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 install not completing
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 22:12 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Samstag 22 September 2007 schrieb Kenneth Schneider: Would all of you self righteous people stop telling others to _stop_ using the xfs file system? I've been using xfs successfully for many years _without one single_ problem. This even after numerous power outages because of a faulty UPS. If you are having problems take a good Still this very problem _is_ caused by xfs. Everyone having had this problem so far could not reproduce a single problem when not using xfs. Even though the real problem is not the file system, Here you contradict yourself. First you say the problem is caused by xfs then you say the real problem is not the file system. So it would appear that the problem resides within YaST during the install process and not by the xfs filesystem. Report the problem properly and it will be solved properly. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RC1 install not completing
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 15:16 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: By the way, Kenneth, you're putting a reply-to header in that directs replies back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless that was deliberate, it looks like some kind of copy-and-modify error that occurred when you set up you opensuse-factory mail folder. To reply-to was set by me because so many people don't know how to reply _just_ to the list. In this case I choose the wrong reply identity in Evolution. Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] PCI USRobotics FAX/Modem for Linux.
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:24 -0400, BandiPat wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007, Fred A. Miller wrote: 'Never needed to FAX much till now, so I've looking for a NON-Win modem and found this one USR has made. It's a tad pricey, but should work well, just in case someone else is in need of one. 'Ordered tonight. Fred --- And a PDF or word processing file won't do for them through email? Almost seems a bit archaic to have to resort to fax on a land line modem, doesn't it? Lee Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pick up an old fax machine? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Are there any tools in opensuse to download the src rpm?
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 18:39 +0200, Richard Bos wrote: Op Thursday 20 September 2007 18:12:35 schreef James Li: smart/rug/yast2/apt/yum or other tools? apt source package or apt source_pkg package These tools are all fine and dandy as long as you already know the name of the package you want to install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] how do i unsubscribe
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:28 +0200, Rolf Masfelder wrote: Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 14:39 schrieb Henne Vogelsang: Hi, On Friday, September 21, 2007 at 14:29:43, Michael Skiba wrote: Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 03:13:35 schrieb Aaron Kulkis: Just how stupid are you? May I return this question? No you may not ;) Aaron is no longer on this list. I'm sorry but it seems that this is the only solution possible. Sad but true. You 'unsubscribed' Aaron? Did I miss something? Yes! You missed the email from Henne that rude and intolerant behaviour will no longer be accepted on this list. Bravo. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: RAM
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:12 -0500, Jeremy Figgins wrote: I've seen a lot of top output thrown around on this topic and a bunch of people have touched on this issue, but let me ask this question: I'm sitting right now in front of my 1gig machine. I have my normal set of apps open: firefox, thunderbird, konsole, etc. How can I tell if I would benefit from additional RAM? What command and what output do I need to pay attention to? free is a good command to use. If you notice a lot of swap being used often then that would be a good indication of needing more ram. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Warning: Don't install kernel-flavour-2.6.22.5-21 from Factory
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:27 +0200, Hans-Peter Holler wrote: leads to panic on boot see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=326099 Hans-Peter Yet one more reason to keep the old kernel around, especially when using factory. Any Novell people have a _valid_ reason not to keep the most resent kernel when upgrading? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Warning: Don't install kernel-flavour-2.6.22.5-21 from Factory
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:44 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2007 13:40, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:27 +0200, Hans-Peter Holler wrote: leads to panic on boot see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=326099 Hans-Peter Yet one more reason to keep the old kernel around, especially when using factory. Any Novell people have a _valid_ reason not to keep the most recent kernel when upgrading? The whole story is what we select: update or installation. Update to new version will remove old one, installation of new version will retain the old one. Though, YaST will always update. There is no way to select installation instead of update, which is safe bet with new users, and old ones will find the way around with rpm. I would agree with that if it were the GM release _not_ the alpha/beta releases which people are trying to test. We should have a way to keep the old kernel _even in an upgrade_ when testing and as you pointed out YaST will always update. I can imagine how many people got stung by this one. Fortunately for me I use my laptop for testing and I only lost a couple of hours reverting back to the install kernel. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] kio_ftp
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:05 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: When I use Konqueror or Krusader to connect to my GoDaddy account I get too many connections error. It seems that for every action I do on the server a kio_ftp process is spawned until the server just kicks me off. Why is there so many kio_ftp connections? When does these connections timeout? (I finally killed all the kio_ftp's and installed gFTP). I see in the KDE control panel under FTP, Passive connections is active, should I deactivate it? I would really prefer using Krusader instead of gFTP. I use kasablanca myself with the accounts I manage at GoDaddy. Would prefer to use rsync but they do not allow it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenSuse 10.2
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote: RTF wrote: Re-hi all, Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2. It was getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed. This morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username and password but for some reason, it wasn't working. In the interest of time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked mail via Windows. Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was confronted with the sign-on. I tried what I normally would have used as a root username and password unsuccessfully. The same with my normal username and password. I have not set them but don't know how now to do that? Any clues? It is installed but I have not yet assigned a password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular username and password. :( It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first user. Not sure why it wasn't working. So this means you have no user and no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface, Root CAN log into the graphical interface, you need to type the name manually (as well as the root password). as it is generally consider a security hole to allow it. It is considered to login ALL the time as root to be the security hole. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] bcm43xx wireless
Linksys PCMCIA wpc54g ver. 1.2 card. Just upgraded to 10.3 b3plus and the wireless is broken AGAIN! Worked with A5 a I recall. Upgraded to factory to see if any fixes might have taken place but no luck. I can't be the only one in the world that experiences this on a continuous basis. Now I get the following: bcm43xx driver PCI: Enabling device :03:00.0 ( - 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: Radio turned off Adding 787176k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:787176k device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] loop: module loaded fuse init (API version 7.8) powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP' bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1, .auth_mode = 0 SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xef, pl 0xe (2003-07-10 18:59:06) bcm43xx: Radio turned on bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware bcm43xx: Chip initialized bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized bcm43xx: Keys cleared bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) Hopefully this can be fixed before the final release. Also, a bug report has been opened and closed numerous times on this problem. Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] bcm43xx wireless
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 22:17 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Linksys PCMCIA wpc54g ver. 1.2 card. Just upgraded to 10.3 b3plus and the wireless is broken AGAIN! Worked with A5 a I recall. Upgraded to factory to see if any fixes might have taken place but no luck. I can't be the only one in the world that experiences this on a continuous basis. Now I get the following: bcm43xx driver PCI: Enabling device :03:00.0 ( - 0002) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243 bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) bcm43xx: Radio turned off bcm43xx: Radio turned off Adding 787176k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:787176k device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] loop: module loaded fuse init (API version 7.8) powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0 ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP' bcm43xx: set security called, .active_key = 0, .level = 1, .enabled = 1, .encrypt = 1, .auth_mode = 0 SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? bcm43xx: PHY connected bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xef, pl 0xe (2003-07-10 18:59:06) bcm43xx: Radio turned on bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware bcm43xx: Chip initialized bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized bcm43xx: Keys cleared bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) Shouldn't the radio be turned on and enabled BEFORE scanning for networks? Hopefully this can be fixed before the final release. Also, a bug report has been opened and closed numerous times on this problem. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] find problem
Can someone explain the following find error. The path is specified
by the . in the command line.
find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
find: paths must precede expression
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Re: [opensuse] PCI-e graphics card
You also hijacked my thread! Please DO-NOT simply hit reply to ask a new question, start with a NEW email. The simplest way is to click on the list address in the To: field. On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:55 -0700, Ron Eggler wrote: Hi, Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :) Thanks for suggestions and hints, Ron :) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] PCI-e graphics card
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:21 -0700, Ron Eggler wrote: On Friday September 14 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote: You also hijacked my thread! Please DO-NOT simply hit reply to ask a new question, start with a NEW email. The simplest way is to click on the list address in the To: field. Yes, I'm sorry, won't do it anymore! Ron Not a problem Ron. A lot of people search the list archives and it just looks screwy there. Plus some people on the list don't reply to hi-jacked threads. A good way to reply to a posting on the list, since you are using Kmail, is just hit the letter l which stands for reply-to-list. This list is a very good source of info. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] crontab problem? How to debug?
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 19:14 -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Peter Van Lone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/14/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not incorrect, different. The path, and other environment variables, that programs running as cron jobs get are different that what they get when running normally. Whether this is a problem or not depends on each particular script, program, whatever. That's why some usually declare their own path inside the script. well since the exact same script works from shell (logged in as same user) but not from crontab ... then that would seem to suggest somthing about the crontab env specifically, correct? Cron runs programs directly, not thru the shell. Ah, yes it does it uses a non-interactive shell. IIRC it uses bash by default but you can specify the shell used with the hash bang directive on the first line: #!/bin/shell of your choice And then specify other shell env settings to your liking. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] boot cd for ftp install
Can someone tell me where the boot cd is for the ftp install? It used to be with the other cd's in the download directory. Thanks, Ken - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] boot cd for ftp install
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:13 +0200, Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Thursday 13 September 2007 schrieb Kenneth Schneider: Can someone tell me where the boot cd is for the ftp install? It used to be with the other cd's in the download directory. For factory? I don't think it was ever there. We only release mini ISOs for released products. You can use the Factory iso though: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/boot/ Greetings, Stephan Should have included that I'm trying to install 10.3 A3. The boot cd use to be included with the cd iso's so that the correct version was used, the one that matches the install source. Please only reply to the list. As we ALL know the only way to send/receive a message is by subscribing to the list and all you do is end up sending to copies to the person you are replying to. I believe Kmail has a reply to list function. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Questions for Partitioning guru's - Solved
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-09-11 at 09:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/09/11 14:39 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. apparently typed: Notice: beware of adding too many partitions! If you have more than 16 you The correct statement is more than *15*, as 15 are supported by SCSI, while 16 are not. You are probably right. It is fom 0 to 15, which makes 16; but the 0 is the whole disk. So it must be 15 partitions. Wrong! sda0 is a partition as well as hda0 is a partition _NOT_ the whole disk. The whole disk would be sda or hda (without the number). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Intel 965G and 1680 x 1050
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 10:27 -0400, BandiPat wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007, roN wrote: Hi, Has anyone gotten a resolution of 1680 x 1050 out of an intel 965G chipset? I'm looking for that, out of the box, my opensuse 10.2 only offers 1280 x 1024 which looks somehow wrong...I would appreciate if some one could help me in a way getting my x-server to display 1680 x 1050 pixel on my screen. Thank you! Ron -- chEErs Ron Hi Ron, I don't know if this will work for you or not, but it was a neat solution to problems like this. I'm not sure if xorg fully supports that chipset and if not, I think Intel has a driver for Linux on their site. Try this first though. In your xorg.conf file go to: DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Now just add your 1680x1050 resolution in front of each that begins with 1280x1024. Restart your X and see what you have. Don't forget to make a backup of your xorg.conf file too. The above is from mine, so yours may look a bit different. regards, Lee You also need to supply a line in the Section Modes area as well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Questions for Partitioning guru's
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 22:21 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:37, Bob S wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 06:44, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... Thanks Carlos. and for Rajko also Here is output of fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1130610490413+ 83 Linux /dev/sda21307326515735667+ 83 Linux /dev/sda332663527 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda43528 1005552436160f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda535284180 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda641814833 5245191 83 Linux /dev/sda74834613910490413+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda86140744510490413+ 83 Linux /dev/sda97446 1005520964793+ 83 Linux EasyStreet:/ # I really hope there is such a tool. Otherwise I have an awful lot of work/fooling around to do. That is what I meant when I said,in my original post, I did a really dumb/stupid thing when I partitioned that disk. OK. There are 2 options. 1) Run YaST partitoner and try to add more partitions, not to delete or resize /dev/sda4 2) Run in console as root cfdisk and see what it has to tell. In normal circumstances it doesn't list extended partition at all. The space after 10055 cylinder should be explicitly listed as free. So move highlight down to that line (free space) and try to add more partitions. -- Regards, Rajko. I don't think that will work as he has his extended partition ending at 10055 which is where sda9 ends. At this point his only option is to backup sda5-sda9, delete them and then recreate the extended partition using all of the available space. He will then be able to created more partitions. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] compiz-fusion doesn't works !
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 02:31 +0200, primm wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 01:58, you wrote: snip wtf The guys at cyberorg call it the super key. Maybe it's time for supper. Please do not send a message to the list and a copy to me. I'm a stupid girl I know. But I'm getting less stupid. Probably. Love from Lynn I wouldn't call you stupid girl, after all you're using linux. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] FTP download of 10.3 Beta3 DVD ISO
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:01 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:20 +0100, Matthew Stringer wrote: Anyone know of where this is available, only sites I've seen offer downloads via BitTorrent which will take ages. http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/ Should have added... Download the delta iso and use applydeltaiso to the old iso. applydeltaiso old_iso delta_iso new_iso I've been using this method since 10.0, downloads are much quicker and applying the delta is certainly much faster then waiting for the torrents to finish. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] FTP download of 10.3 Beta3 DVD ISO
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:20 +0100, Matthew Stringer wrote: Anyone know of where this is available, only sites I've seen offer downloads via BitTorrent which will take ages. http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/ -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 6 install
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:19 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error. Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades. Yes, ftp install is broken :-( - should be mentioned on the Most Annoying Bugs page and in the announcement, Andreas Follow up: Installation finished using ftp, yes it is broken and has a bug number, I was able to continue by pressing the retry button on several packages. Eventually it finished. Some other issues I will open a bug for: network setup reports could not convert 'ifcfg-eth-XXX': file already exists. I had to manually remove the file in order for the network to be configured. On the plus side my wireless is now working again and will report this in the bug I have open. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 6 install
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error. Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades. Ken Where did you find Alpha 6? http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha6/ Been there since early this morning. Further info while I'm at it: Applied the delta iso to the alpha 5 DVD, loop mounted the DVD on my server and I'm doing an FTP upgrade. The upgrade hangs every now and then with the above error, if I click on retry right away the error message comes back but if I wait 15-20 seconds the upgrade will continue on to the next package. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 6 install
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:46 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error. Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades. Ken Where did you find Alpha 6? http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha6/ Been there since early this morning. Further info while I'm at it: Applied the delta iso to the alpha 5 DVD, loop mounted the DVD on my server and I'm doing an FTP upgrade. The upgrade hangs every now and then with the above error, if I click on retry right away the error message comes back but if I wait 15-20 seconds the upgrade will continue on to the next package. Thanks Ken; However, is there a normal FTP or other way to get the DVD short of Bit Torrent. That is because I seem to only get a download speed of 6.3k off of a DSL 350K line. The last DVD (Alpha 5) took about 2 full days. I just tried Alpha 6 and it was just as slow. Anyone have a clue? Your been there since morning implies you are having the same problem. No. Downloaded the DVD delta via ftp this morning in about 1 1/2 hours. Took 2.5 hours for the applydeltaiso to run and I'm now going through the upgrade. I have tried bittorrent many times in the past and every time it was dead slow so I gave up on it and will only use ftp from here on out. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 6 install
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 18:22 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:46 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:20 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: Trying to upgrade from alpha 5 to alpha 6 and I'm getting a lot of curl errors with an unrecognized error code. Appears to be an ftp error. Never had this on all of the previous alpha upgrades. Ken Where did you find Alpha 6? http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha6/ No. Downloaded the DVD delta via ftp this morning in about 1 1/2 hours. Took 2.5 hours for the applydeltaiso to run and I'm now going through the upgrade. I have tried bittorrent many times in the past and every time it was dead slow so I gave up on it and will only use ftp from here on out. Sorry about the K and I meant M - this job I have is ruining my life and memory. I do agree that it BitTorrent is a dead horse. So where did you get the ftp version? From the above link. I downloaded the delta DVD iso image as I stated above. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] modification of my email and real name in bugzilla
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:10 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Krupanský wrote: Hello I want to change my email in bugzilla novell, but i can´t find where could i do it.In preferences is nothing. Is it possible somehow? No, Mozilla always uses the same email address and real name for everyone who use it. :-) Of course you can change it - look under 'Account Settings'. What has Mozilla have to do with changing your email address at bugzilla.novell.com? I went through this my self last week and had the same problem. Once you log in it's impossible to find a place in your profile to change your address. What I did was start with the bugzilla home page which has a link to your profile, login, hit the back page in the browser to get to the link and then I was able to change the email address. Hope this helps the OP. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unable to Install OpenSUSE10.2
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:28 +0530, arun murali wrote: Hi, On 7/16/07, Kenneth Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:31 +0530, arun murali wrote: Hi, I'd try an FTP install to eliminate the idea of a bad DVD image. Otherwise try a safe mode or text mode install. Matthew This is the next thing i have in mind but i heard it takes a lot of time. I have been doing ftp installs for 10.3 on my laptop and don't find it slow at all. You need to have the image on local PC though. How do you keep a local image ? May be i will give it a try this evening. I keep the image on my desktop system, loop mount the image and use ftp access it. Since it is on the local network I get the full 100M wire speed. The only bottle neck is the 5 year old slow laptop, but hey it still works and is good for testing the new release. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unable to Install OpenSUSE10.2
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:31 +0530, arun murali wrote: Hi, I'd try an FTP install to eliminate the idea of a bad DVD image. Otherwise try a safe mode or text mode install. Matthew This is the next thing i have in mind but i heard it takes a lot of time. I have been doing ftp installs for 10.3 on my laptop and don't find it slow at all. You need to have the image on local PC though. Besides i am not sure if the system will automatically be able to detect and load my wireless lan card driver and use it. I had an issue with earlier linux i was using. Any how i will give it a try. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Locked out of my software database!
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 23:58 -0400, John E. Perry wrote: Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2007-06-30 19:13, John E. Perry wrote: snip (Thanks, Ken, I did know better than to follow Daniel's advice on kill -9, although I have in the past gone straight from kill to kill -9. I'll have to read up on kill to see what -1 is). 1 is a HUP -- kill -l will print a list of all signals. Ah. So, using kill -l, I see SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT, SIGTRAP, SIGABRT, and SIGKILL, all of which seem to be closely related. So I still have some reading to do to understand it and know what to do (as opposed to following blindly the advice of people who maybe really know what's going on :-). Wait a minute! there's no description of kill with no parameter. and man, as usual, has no useful information. More googling, I guess. I haven't typed in 'kill' by itself in a long time. It only takes one mistake you know. 'kill' by itself IIANM will shutdown the computer or at least that was what happened the one time I did it on a server with 200+ people logged in. One of those mistakes you tend to do only once in your life time. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Google has an openSUSE repository
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 13:41 +0100, Kevin Donnelly wrote: On Sat 30 June 2007 21:17:19 Clayton wrote: Don't know if anyone here is aware of this (it's not listed at http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories ) Google has an openSUSE repository. Full detailed instructions on how to add the repo is here: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/suse102.html I get a 404 Not Found from the suggested http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 - http://dl.google.com/linux doesn't seem to exist, which means that the instructions for all the Linux distros will not work. That makes me wonder about how well-maintained the site is This link is strictly a YaST source and cannot be seen with a browser. Once I added it as a source I was able to see the _two_ packages available, whoopee! And neither was google earth. Seems Google needs to do a lot more work first. Oh, and the two packages were Picassa and Google Desktop. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Locked out of my software database!
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 01:54 +0300, Daniel Feiglin wrote: John E. Perry wrote: Hi, My opensuse updater suddenly started showing the yellow triangle with the exclamation point a few days ago. When I try to clear it, it exits with the message Another process is accessing the package database. Package management cannot be used now. ps -e | grep ast shows only something called master running, so it doesn't appear to be yast. I can't get either the updater or yast to run without rebooting the machine. What else could be locking the database? John Perry I've seen this happen, usually after having done something under yast related to software management or update. This works, without booting: As root - Ensure that the updater applet is NOT running (well, it wouldn't be in your case) ps -ef | grep yast If you have a copy of yast running someplace, exit it , or kill it. (kill -9 pid) Please do not use -9 except as a last resort. Using -9 tells the parent process to exit without regard to any child process that may be running. The best way is to just use kill pid. If that doesn't work then use kill -1 pid, and if that still doesn't work then use kill -9 pid. You'll leave yourself with a more stable running system that way. ps -ef | grep y2base Same thing. ps -ef | grep zyp You probably DO have a detached instance of zypper (the updater) running. Kill it. Re-run the starter applet. It should come up and start an immediate update check. I just did all this stuff half an hour ago. I hope that helps, -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2, desktop PC, disk being constantly written to. Any way to reduce it?
On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 02:01 +0300, Tero Pesonen wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Tero Pesonen wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Richard Creighton wrote: snip No, nothing relating to Beagle is running according to Ksysguard. Also I'm quite sure I uninstalled it rather soon after I upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 I checked again, and Here's an updated listing versus my oldder post, as it is actually ps -e that shows all running processes. Looks like my typical KDE session save ksysguard and kpowersave that were now running for testing purposes. PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ?00:00:01 init 2 ?00:00:00 migration/0 3 ?00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 4 ?00:00:00 events/0 snip You might also try running top to see what might be hogging the CPU/IO usage. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Digital Camera support
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:27 +0100, jpff wrote: I am not sure what you are asking, but the system I hacked up to manage my wife's photography habit, at home and when we are away, is a small bit of emacs-lisp that reads the photos with gphoto2, constructs an html page with basic information (date/time; aperture etc) from the exif data, and constructs a thumbnail image to act as a link in the html. Have you ever looked into using JAlbum? Does most of this and more for you and has a linux port. I usually travel with this laptop anyway, especially at conferences etc, but on pure holiday it is mainly for photos. The system is completed with the gimp to crop, adjust etc. Her final stages are just usual emacs stuff; deleting, moving pictures to archive directories and editing the index.html file. Still not sure what question you are asking though! -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Errors sending to Opensuse@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 07:57 +1000, John Bennett wrote: On 6/28/07, Anders Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:34:02 John Bennett wrote: What's the go here? I'm not sending to anything like that address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])?? Indirectly you are. The list server forwards your mail to all subscribers with you as the sender, which means that if there's a problem with a subscriber, you get the error message. Forward the error message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I only get it when I send from my Thunderbird client in Suse - if I send directly from Gmail it doesn't happen? When sending from your Thunderbird client what address shows up in the From: line? I don't use TB but with Evolution I have several email accounts setup and can pick who the sender is. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] fileserver box to box swap
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 17:49 +0200, primm wrote: Hi I have a fileserver serving /home via nfs to around 200 users on 20 clients. This server also runs nis for user logins. Currently it runs 9.3. I have a new box I'd like to transfer /home to and have it up as simply as possible. Will the following work? Install 10.2 on the new box. cp -a the contents of /home from the old box to it eg from a usb removable disk. Install nfs server using yast Install nis server using yast Copy /etc/passwd from the old box to the new box Copy /etc/group from the old box to the new box Don't forget /etc/shadow. Why not use rsync, that is what is it for. Assign the new box a different temporary IP until the data is transferred. Unplug the the network cable on the old box. Plug in the cable to the new box. Assign the new box the same IP Runlevel 3 Surely it's can't be as simple as that. How far away from the real world am I? It can be that simple but make sure you keep the old box around until you know for sure. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] using mailing list with Evolution
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 07:54 -0400, James Tremblay wrote: Hey guys, Is there a way to use the ctrl L command without hijacking a thread or some other shortcut key to open a new mail to a mailing list? ctrl-l is there specifically as a reply-to-list function. Why not add the list address to your address book and use that in a _new_ message. The other option is to just click on the list address in a message, this will open a _new_ message for you. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unsubscribe help
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 06:44 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to unsubscribe. The system does not seem to accept my reply to the unsubscribe message, even though I am copying and pasting the unsubscribe address directly as instructed. Help. Well then just hit reply instead and it should just work. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] 10.3A5 wireless network
Currently using 10.3A5 on my laptop and trying to get my Linksys wireless G card to work.Worked great up through 10.1 (skipped 10.2). The card is a Linksys 54G card with the BCM4306 chipset. I have installed the firmware using fw-cutter. I get the following with dmesg when inserting the card: Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: PCI: Enabling device :03:00.0 ( - 0002) Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :03:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 10 (level, low) - IRQ 10 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device :03:00.0 to 64 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Analog: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Jun 24 16:35:21 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 ifup: eth1 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 ifup: eth1 configuration: wlan-bus-pcmcia Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Microcode rev 0xef, pl 0xe (2003-07-10 18:59:06) Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned on Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Radio enabled by hardware Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Chip initialized Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: 30-bit DMA initialized Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Keys cleared Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 kernel: bcm43xx: Selected 802.11 core (phytype 2) Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: Starting DHCP Client Daemon on eth1... Jun 24 16:35:22 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: . Jun 24 16:35:23 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: . Jun 24 16:35:24 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: . Jun 24 16:35:25 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: . Jun 24 16:35:26 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: . Jun 24 16:35:27 lt1720 ifup-dhcp: no IP address yet... backgrounding. I also get a repeating error as follows in the messages file: Jun 24 16:27:08 lt1720 kernel: CCMP: received packet without ExtIV flag from 00:12:17:38:ed:08 At this point nothing further takes place, no network address and no routing setup. Any suggestions? Is this a known problem? Change to a different card? Report it to bugzilla? Give up using a computer? :-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Linksys wireless
Currently using 10.3A5 and trying to get my wireless card to work. Worked great up through 10.1 (skipped 10.2). The card is a Linksys 54G card with the BCM4306 chipset. I have installed the firmware using fw-cutter and can get the card to work if I turn off security settings. As soon as I enable WEP (or any security type) I can no longer get the card to work. Any suggestions? Is this a known problem? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] lost start menu in OpenSuse 10.2
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 11:42 -0600, Michael Folsom wrote: Folks: For some reason when my 10.2 box comes up the start menu does not appear. I have the bar across the bottom with a few icons on it but the start icon is gone. This happened after an app hanged and I did a cntrlaltbackspace to restart X My guess is that their something is screwed up in gnome - any guess where to start? Sorry, couldn't resist. Switch to KDE? :- -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Raid 5 installation
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:46 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-06-22 at 03:21 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote: thread history: The ultimate goal here is to use the 'fake-raid' controller built-in to the ASUS motherboard with the 4 SATA drives that board can natively control *without* having to use a 5th IDE or external drive just to boot the system The ultimate goal should be to have the best raid 5 possible with the hardware you have ;-p snip ...I did. In fact, in order to get the 5th drive to run my tests, I had to cannibalize an older RedHat system that is 'wounded' because I lost a cpu fan and damaged the cpu chip. I was going to replace the MB in that system at some point but now, I may also be short a drive having had to use it in what I thought was ample hardware; A new ASUS system MB with 4 SATA drives and with a so-called hardware raid controller built-in to the MB. As it turns out, that controller is a 'fake-raid' which borrows cpu cycles but still, with the hardware I had, under Windoze, the configuration would have worked (demonstrated), but I refuse to contaminate my system with that OS and I believe anything Windoze can do, Linux can (or should) be able to do better. You are right that linux _should_ be able to do that same things that windows does. The problem is the s l o w adoption by the hardware providers in providing *proper* drivers for their hardware, like ATI and Nvidia are trying to do. This will not happen until they get together with the kernel developers to come up with a solution. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Init Scripts broken
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 22:31 +0300, Andras Barna wrote: HI Yesterday I updated to my alpha 5 to Factory after i rebooted, almost all services started 2 or 3 times, so i tried to remove from them but e.g I run yast2 runlevel or automatically it recreates them. for example my /etc/init.d/rc5.d looks like this: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-06-15 08:04 S21SuSEfirewall2_setup - ../SuSEfirewall2_setup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-06-22 01:16 S04boot.localnet - ../boot.localnet lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-06-22 01:16 S03boot.clock - ../boot.clock lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-06-22 01:16 S03boot.cleanup - ../boot.cleanup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-06-22 01:16 S02boot.localfs - ../boot.localfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-06-22 01:16 S01boot.rootfsck - ../boot.rootfsck lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-06-22 01:16 K21boot.rootfsck - ../boot.rootfsck lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-06-22 01:16 K20boot.localfs - ../boot.localfs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-06-22 01:16 K19boot.clock - ../boot.clock lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-06-22 01:16 K19boot.cleanup - ../boot.cleanup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-06-22 01:16 K18boot.localnet - ../boot.localnet snip The different prefix stands for (S)tart the script when entering this run level and (K)ill the process when I leave this run level. Yes that is why there are two entries. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Help! RO File System Lock down OpenSUSE 10.2
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here some HW details:
1. A 5 year old system that had win2K on it for 3 years and since then
SuSE 9.3 and all the following. Here the problem occur with OpenSUSE
5 year old system = possible harddrive beyond its life expectancy.
10.2. It has an ASUS mobo with ATI Radion graphic card.
2. A 2 year old system only had SuSE 10.0 that had the problem and now
has WinXP without any problems. It's a Gigabyte mobo with ATI Radion
graphic card. I noticed that intensive file access by Evolution caused a
systrem lockup many times.
3. The latest 1 year old system showed the problem mainly with SUSE 10.0
and now with OpenSUSE 10.2. An identical system has SuSE 10.1, where the
problem has till now not occured. It is a Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi mobo with
nVidia GeForce 7600 GS.
Even newer systems come with a one year warranty on IDE harddrives. I've
seen new drives fail after only a couple of months of use includinf SCSI
drives which generally have a longer life expectancy.
The difference between the lockups of the SUSE 10.0 and OpenSUSE 10.2 is that
with 10.0 it did not allow any access to the system at all; a complete
lockdown - dead - only reset got it unlocked. The OpenSUSE 10.2 reports RO FS
problems by all applications. The system can be rebooted or shut down
normally.
plus
information from /var/log/messages about what is happening when the
filesystem goes RO
I noticed on two different systems this sort of messages
in /var/logs/messages:
Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04
{ DriveStatusError }
Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef
I only see these errors in relation to my DVD/CD drive (hda). Could this
possibly relate to your CD drive? If not I would suspect a bad cable.
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Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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Re: [opensuse] Desktop effects and CPU
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:28 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: My machine, openSUSE 10.2, AMD64 (32bit install ) 3200+ Beryl AIGLX, nVidia 6600, works fine. But; when I do really CPU intensive stuff, mencoder etc, all the effects become sluggish. As I understand the effects are handled by the display card, so why the slowdown? And what feeds the data to the display card? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Oo Question
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:36 -0500, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Pueblo Native wrote: Billie Erin Walsh wrote: On 06/19/2007 Dave Barton wrote: Menu Insert - Picture - Scan If you mean OCR directly, the answer is no. Dave Thanks. I was afraid of that. Check out the ocrad package if you want to do OCR. I checked with Yast and did indeed already have ocrad installed. It was the usual OCR disappointment. I use SimpleOCR running under wine with quite good results. You might give it a whirl. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: simple LAN
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 11:00 +0100, Robert Best wrote: It is a Speedtouch ADSL modem. Don't know about firewall capabilities. The firewall capabilities used by most of these modems is called NAT which stands for Network Address Translation ( there are other features available ). What this basically does is prevent an outside connection to an inside PC because there is no direct access via an outside IP address to an internal IP address. When you request an outside connection, lets say a connection to a web site, the modem automagically provides a temporary connection for you and drops it when the request has ended ( the web page has been loaded ). snip Don't understand. I use fish (or sftp, not ssh) to transport files in the LAN which I suppose is in Internal, not External Zone. Port 22 is never mentioned in these zones. I'd like to put the firewall between the LAN and the Internet. Currently I pull out the phone line from the router when I disable a Firewall. No need as the modem _is_ the firewall. In case that there are more problems that you encounter or you have more questions, just do not hesitate to ask. This list has only one sole reason for existence: It is here to help people achieve what they are heading for!!! I was amazed that so many people responded to my question. Thanks to all! That's why we volunteer to be here. And Linux may not be easy, especially when you are beginning to explore it, but chances are, you will never ever regret it. As I said in an earlier email it's easy once you know how. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] bugzilla.novell.com ?
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 20:52 -0400, James Knott wrote: Per Jessen wrote: Has anyone succeeded in accessing bugzilla this weekend? I've been trying all afternoon, and it's not really responding. Submit a report to bugzilla. ;-) LOL. Good one James. Reminds of when I need to call my ISP to report an outage and the on hold messages keep telling you to report problems on their web site. You know the one you can't get to because you have an outage. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Moving /home to root partition
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 00:01 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2007 23:01, Rajko M. wrote: init 3 mkdir home1 cp home home1 cp -R /home/* home1 umount /home mv home1 home mv /home1/* /home mv /home1 /home is correct. This is the rename incarnation of mv. It is too late to make no mistakes :-( But you just did :-) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
