[opensuse-factory] online update problem after abort

2006-11-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Hi, RC1 is starting to look really good - not installing zen/rug now works (thanks much!) and I really like the new installation categories and the use of colour in the UI there. Configuring and connecting to an update mirror first time round only shows a zypp update - pretty clever. I didn't

Re: [opensuse-factory] online update problem after abort

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:25:50PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Hi, RC1 is starting to look really good - not installing zen/rug now works (thanks much!) and I really like the new installation categories and the use of colour in the UI there. Configuring and connecting to an update

Re: [opensuse-factory] online update problem after abort

2006-11-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
It should just see that the updated RPMs are not installed and update them again. Yes the zypp update is marked not installed, but this time both the zypp and the kernel update are ticked for installation, thus negating the clerverness of ensuring a zypp update before doing anything else. Not

[opensuse-factory] Re: synchronizing with ZENWorks

2006-11-30 Thread Martin Vidner
On čt 30. listopadu 2006 00:17, Felix Miata wrote: during final installation after first boot takes much too long to not have a progress indicator to tell that it isn't hung. Yes. No progress for running rug when adding installation source (was: No popup...)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Midnight Commander's (mc's) COPY command crashes RC1

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Richard Bos wrote: Op donderdag 30 november 2006 07:48, schreef Basil Chupin: RC1 was upgraded last night (using smart) and I noticed that mc was one of the apps which got upgraded. Using mc, I went to copy a directory from the second HD (hdc), which is formatted with reiserfs, to my home

[opensuse-factory] Change picture...

2006-11-30 Thread Monkey 9
When i try to change my picture, i get this: http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/Monkey999/Gebrb.jpg Is this supposed to be like this? (why than the possibility to change..) Or a bug.? M9. - To unsubscribe,

[opensuse-factory] kernel update results in boot failure

2006-11-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
The RC1 test kernel update creates a grub menu config which has entries for both the old and the new kernel (good) but the old one is default at the top and the new one is further down (not good). The system fails to boot on the default entry (top of menu) because the old kernel has been deleted

Re: [opensuse-factory] Cyrus idled missing?

2006-11-30 Thread Ralf Haferkamp
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:55, Anders Norrbring wrote: Wolfgang Rosenauer skrev: Anders Norrbring wrote: I get this in huge numbers in my log imap[3069]: error sending to idled: 3 In /etc/cyrus.conf, I have: idled cmd=idled But nowhere on the disk can I find the idled

Re: [opensuse-factory] After upgrade to RC2, Thunderbird fails to start. (x86_64)

2006-11-30 Thread Monkey 9
Op woensdag 29 november 2006 19:30, schreef Monkey 9: Op woensdag 29 november 2006 18:55, schreef Wolfgang Rosenauer: Monkey 9 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird: line 137: 5248 Segmentatie fout$AOSS $MOZ_PROGRAM $@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ I wonder

Re: [opensuse-factory] After upgrade to RC2, Thunderbird fails to start. (x86_64)

2006-11-30 Thread Monkey 9
Op donderdag 30 november 2006 12:07, schreef u: Op woensdag 29 november 2006 19:30, schreef Monkey 9: Op woensdag 29 november 2006 18:55, schreef Wolfgang Rosenauer: Monkey 9 wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird: line 137: 5248 Segmentatie fout$AOSS

Re: [opensuse-factory] After upgrade to RC2, Thunderbird fails to start. (x86_64)

2006-11-30 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Monkey 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Nov 30. 2006 12:15]: And when i start-up as user i get: (look at the faults each time +7 ?) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird: line 137: 6085 Segmentatie fout$AOSS $MOZ_PROGRAM $@ Please run it with strace

Re: [opensuse-factory] Midnight Commander's (mc's) COPY command crashes RC1

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Richard Bos wrote: Op donderdag 30 november 2006 07:48, schreef Basil Chupin: RC1 was upgraded last night (using smart) and I noticed that mc was one of the apps which got upgraded. Using mc, I went to copy a directory from the second HD (hdc), which is formatted with reiserfs, to my home

[opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
I just booted in order to update to the latest factory ftp tree. I opened YaST to check and see which installation source was set, because I already found out that my usual mirror is out of sync. Couldn't do it. zypp-updater was running and preventing access to the DB. So, I killed zypp-updater

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:12:02AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I just booted in order to update to the latest factory ftp tree. I opened YaST to check and see which installation source was set, because I already found out that my usual mirror is out of sync. Couldn't do it. zypp-updater was

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:22:49PM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: Marcus Meissner schrieb: You are getting progress bars, right? Its likely just your slow network connection. But it's a deadlock problem and a must-fix for the next release. There is _no_way_ to get the configuration

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2006/11/30 16:13 (GMT+0100) Marcus Meissner apparently typed: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:12:02AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I just booted in order to update to the latest factory ftp tree. I opened YaST to check and see which installation source was set, because I already found out that my

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: Now while I was waiting for a response the downloading has halted with this message in a window: ERROR: There were errors when restoring the source configuration. Not all sources are available for configuration.

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Hanke
Marcus Meissner schrieb: Is there a bugreport for this? It's a combination of multiple things. (1) Installation sources in offline mode https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223600 (2) Metadata shouldn't be refreshed when starting yast2 inst_source Currently not reported (AFAIK). (3)

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Andras Mantia
On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:26, Marcus Meissner wrote: Is there a bugreport for this? #22 is similar, but for 3rd party repo (I have not tested with the remote factory). Andras -- Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.kdewebdev.org K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

[opensuse-factory] ZMD updater hangs at 99%

2006-11-30 Thread David Wright
I've been running SUSE 10.2 64-bit on my Athlon 64 3500+ machine. When I do the factory updates, it kept failing with packages not being available - I'm guessing server overload. But, on the couple of occasions that it has successfully downloaded and installed everything, the Software

Re: [opensuse-factory] ZMD updater hangs at 99%

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 05:54:02PM +0100, David Wright wrote: I've been running SUSE 10.2 64-bit on my Athlon 64 3500+ machine. When I do the factory updates, it kept failing with packages not being available - I'm guessing server overload. But, on the couple of occasions that it has

[opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have an 10.1 test partition that I intended to dedicate to testing the update to 10.2 RC1, but it failed. As add on source, I enter: ftp://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ I get the error (hand

Re: [opensuse-factory] ZMD updater hangs at 99%

2006-11-30 Thread James PEARSON
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:54:02 +0100 David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, on the couple of occasions that it has successfully downloaded and installed everything, the Software Aktualisierung (Software Update in English?) window hangs at 99% finishing. I had the same problem (window

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Hanke
Carlos E. R. schrieb: I was told here that this type of add on source was working, last october, by Andreas Hanke (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-10/msg00355.html). And it does still work, but would you please consider using a mirror? It will make life a lot easier for you

[opensuse-factory] 10.2 GM

2006-11-30 Thread André Malin
Do GM will be released to day, or will have to wait till deember 7th or the official release? André - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] ZMD updater hangs at 99%

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Bos
Op donderdag 30 november 2006 20:33, schreef James PEARSON: But, on the couple of occasions that it has successfully downloaded   and installed everything, the Software Aktualisierung (Software   Update in English?) window hangs at 99%  finishing. I had the same problem (window hangs at

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 20:38 +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: Carlos E. R. schrieb: I was told here that this type of add on source was working, last october, by Andreas Hanke

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Hanke
Carlos E. R. schrieb: How on earth can I use a mirror, if the network is down, has not been configured? Please read again my email and explain. ping says unknown host, remember... Yeah, you're right. That was too fast. I don't know how to bring the network up because I don't know why it's

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 21:46 +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: Carlos E. R. schrieb: How on earth can I use a mirror, if the network is down, has not been configured? Please read again my email and explain. ping says unknown host,

Re: [opensuse-factory] synchronizing with ZENWorks

2006-11-30 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 18:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: during final installation after first boot takes much too long to not have a progress indicator to tell that it isn't hung. Perhaps i've been impatient... (I'd considered it to be hanging.) But after (re-)launching update it returned

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Lukas Ocilka
Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm doing an update or upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2-RC1 - it is not a fresh install (the 10.1 is a test partition installed almost on purpose to test this procedure). This is important: it is not a fresh install. It is an update of an already installed system. I'm

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: Use http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source ftp-1 is my best server these days for all suse and opensuse directories, both regarding performance and actuality. I switched to this for this

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to RC1 with add on source fails

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 22:23 +0100, Lukas Ocilka wrote: I hope this has been already fixed, we currently have an RC4. What??? On http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version only the RC1 is mentioned. To make sure, I had a look at

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Hi, On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: Use http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source ftp-1 is my best

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread jdd
succes of RC1 is incredible. My bittorent azureus has already 13 clients and I served 8 times my download of the 5 cd last week, for beta, 4 days after the release I had no more clients... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote: Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: Use http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source ftp-1 is my best

Re: [opensuse-factory] mirror performance (was: ludicrous software management)

2006-11-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2006/11/30 23:16 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: Use http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source ftp-1 is my best server these

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:05:33AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: [...] Interesting. What is the delivery bandwidth of ftp.skynet.be? Maybe Christoph should extend the redirect algorithm at download.opensuse.org to respect outgoing bandwidth... Sure, that would be nice to have -- but

Re: [opensuse-factory] mirror performance (was: ludicrous software management)

2006-11-30 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/11/30 23:16 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Felix Miata wrote: On 2006/11/30 16:39 (GMT+0100) Eberhard Moenkeberg apparently typed: Use

Re: [opensuse-factory] ludicrous software management

2006-11-30 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi. On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Christoph Thiel wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:05:33AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: Interesting. What is the delivery bandwidth of ftp.skynet.be? Maybe Christoph should extend the redirect algorithm at download.opensuse.org to respect outgoing

Re: [opensuse-factory] Q: Nautilus and removable device icons

2006-11-30 Thread JP Rosevear
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 07:02 +0100, Juergen Orschiedt wrote: Is it possible to show different icons for mounted/unmounted removable (USB) devices? It's a bit annoying always to right click to see the mount status... They should look different, do you have gnome-mount installed? The umounted one

[opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Keith Goggin
Hi, A suggestion for openSUSE10.3. I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. I had a look at this compressed text file and observed that it

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Hanke
Keith Goggin schrieb: I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. It's really insane. This XML stuff has made SUSE distros basically unusable

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Keith Goggin
On Friday 01 December 2006 12:54, Andreas Hanke wrote: Keith Goggin schrieb: I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. It's really insane.

Re: [opensuse-factory] Cannot mount volumes on desktop (HAL permission problem)

2006-11-30 Thread JP Rosevear
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 21:09 +0100, Émeric Maschino wrote: Hi Hugo, It doesn't seem to be related since the volumes on my desktop are definitely not mounted (as can be checked with a right-click to access the properties or the output of the mount command). I think you actually encountered:

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread John Kelly
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:54:41 +0100, Andreas Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really insane. This XML stuff has made SUSE distros basically unusable without a broadband connection. 3MB before the distro is even released - crazy! My diy-linux w/uclibc uses 20MB of disk, including perl. My SUSE

Re: [opensuse-factory] No sound in RC1

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Marcel Hilzinger wrote: Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 16:09 schrieb Basil Chupin: Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem in 10.2 (RC1)? It was also in Beta 2 but I didn't pay too much attention to it because I wasn't trying out the multimedia features. While I have the sound

[opensuse-factory] Selecting Screensaver sends RC1 back to logon menu

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
RC1 upgraded (with smart) with all the latest files as of 1 hour ago. Selecting Configure DesktopAppearance ThemesScreensaver terminates RC1 and sends it back to the logon menu (Name/Password). Same results with 4 attempts. Cheers. -- In a period of great joy and pleasure you are comforted

Re: [opensuse-factory] Selecting Screensaver sends RC1 back to logon menu

2006-11-30 Thread Vahis
Basil Chupin wrote: RC1 upgraded (with smart) with all the latest files as of 1 hour ago. Selecting Configure DesktopAppearance ThemesScreensaver terminates RC1 and sends it back to the logon menu (Name/Password). Same results with 4 attempts. Cheers. Mine works. Both by right clicking

Re: [opensuse-factory] Selecting Screensaver sends RC1 back to logon menu

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Vahis wrote: Basil Chupin wrote: RC1 upgraded (with smart) with all the latest files as of 1 hour ago. Selecting Configure DesktopAppearance ThemesScreensaver terminates RC1 and sends it back to the logon menu (Name/Password). Same results with 4 attempts. Cheers. Mine works. Both by

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Lukas Ocilka
John Kelly wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:54:41 +0100, Andreas Hanke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really insane. This XML stuff has made SUSE distros basically unusable without a broadband connection. 3MB before the distro is even released - crazy! My diy-linux w/uclibc uses 20MB of

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.2 GM

2006-11-30 Thread Andreas Jaeger
André Malin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do GM will be released to day, or will have to wait till deember 7th or the official release? 7th december is official release, we need time to get everything on the mirrors and do final stress tests, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [opensuse-factory] File list for Yast YOU

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:41AM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote: Keith Goggin schrieb: I've noticed that filelists.xml.gz is refreshed by Yast YOU if it has changed on the server. It takes me about 4 minutes to download from mirror.pacific.net.au and is currently 2.9MB in size. It's

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Riess
Scott Jones schrieb: On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:11, Mike McMullin wrote: I'm trying to copy a data DVD (Debian Sarge actually)using the command: dd if=/dev/hdb of=debiansarge.iso and it is failing with the following error: File size limit exceeded df gives this info for the

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2006-11-30 01:45, jdd wrote: Darryl Gregorash a écrit : On 2006-11-30 01:27, Andreas Jaeger wrote: And fat32 cannot copy with files 2 GB, Some day, I would dearly love if someone could explain to my why anyone would write any software that uses a signed integer for something that

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2006-11-30 01:46, Basil Chupin wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Run yast online update or install the final version out soon. OK, I'll take a deep breath in about 45 minutes and.do it - I'll boot up RC1 and run yast :-) . YOU is your friend. I have the RC1 iso, but now from what Marcus

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:10:04AM -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-30 01:46, Basil Chupin wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Run yast online update or install the final version out soon. OK, I'll take a deep breath in about 45 minutes and.do it - I'll boot up RC1 and run yast

Re: [opensuse] KDE update on sunday

2006-11-30 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:44, you said: So, you are using Xgl... Couldn't open log file '/var/log/Xgl.1.log' for writing: Permission denied But it can't find the gtk window decorator needed to draw the window borders. Is package 'compiz' installed? Could not find

Re: [opensuse] KDE update on sunday

2006-11-30 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:38 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:44, you said: So, you are using Xgl... Couldn't open log file '/var/log/Xgl.1.log' for writing: Permission denied But it can't find the gtk window decorator needed to draw the window borders. Is

Re: [opensuse] KDE update on sunday

2006-11-30 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:38 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote: But it can't find the gtk window decorator needed to draw the window borders. Is package 'compiz' installed? Yes, compiz is installed. And it was working fine prior to this update. Is the missing

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2006-11-30 02:15, Marcus Meissner wrote: snip So you will need to reinstall final anyway :) That's OK, I can do that without a DVD or CD without too much hassle -- it isn't as if I would be trying to upgrade a whole OS version while the system is running :-) -- The best way to accelerate a

Re: [opensuse] Get rid of zen-updater icon from systray

2006-11-30 Thread Glenn Holmer
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:56, Steven Martin wrote: I've been googling for a couple of hours now and can't find any references for permanently removing the zen-updater icon from the system tray short of erasing the rpm. Try removing it from /etc/xdg/autostart. -- Glenn Holmer (Q-Link:

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 01:39 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-30 01:27, Andreas Jaeger wrote: And fat32 cannot copy with files 2 GB, Some day, I would dearly love if someone could explain to my why anyone would write any

Re: [opensuse] Weird problem burning the RC1 iso.

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 08:43 +0100, jdd wrote: Carlos E. R. a écrit : I have tried four times to burn the 'openSUSE-10.2-RC1-DVD-i386.iso' image file to a dvd, and the three times it failed to compare: some clues? do you use a rw

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread steve reilly
If you're missing something that's not built for 10.2 yet, just let me know. cheers Once again smart - and you, Pascal - has come to the rescue with Suse. I used your smart-beta to be able to upgrade the 10.1 RC1 last night after the @#$%**!~ whatever is in RC1 at the moment sat for 2

Re: [opensuse] Weird problem burning the RC1 iso.

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 12:37 +0100, I wrote: Yast says the DVD is correct: Check started (/dev/hdc)... Identification: openSUSE-10.2-dvd5-download-10.2 Medium: CD1 Size: 3609402 kB Result: OK Weird and more weird. The

Re: [opensuse] Dell Computer with Suse 10.1

2006-11-30 Thread James Knott
Doug McGarrett wrote: The downside of these goofy new connections is that you can't use a keyboard you really want, or a mouse you really want. I have a number of IBM keyboards that I picked up years ago at flea markets, and they're loud, but indestructable, and have a really good touch. I

Re: [opensuse] Get rid of zen-updater icon from systray

2006-11-30 Thread Darko Gavrilovic
Glenn Holmer wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:56, Steven Martin wrote: I've been googling for a couple of hours now and can't find any references for permanently removing the zen-updater icon from the system tray short of erasing the rpm. Try removing it from

[opensuse] Re: adding user on command line

2006-11-30 Thread Craig Millar
On 30/11/06 01:39 -0600, Jay C Vollmer wrote: how do I add a user on the command line in suse 10.1? I thought it was adduser, but that didn't work. And is there a command line utility like KUser? adduser is an interactive perl script in Debian and its derivatives. From the man page:

Re: [opensuse] Mounting cdrecorder

2006-11-30 Thread A. den Oudsten
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-11-28 at 10:38 +0100, A. den Oudsten wrote: When I give - as su - - the command (as Ken Schneider advised) mount /media/cdrecorder I get back mount: unknown filesystem type 'subfs' For manual mount to

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.1/1680x1050 Widescreen/nVidia - does not work

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Matthias Hopf wrote: On Nov 29, 06 18:10:24 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: If you connect the ViewSonic using the digital cable you lose the ability to change Contrast/Brightness and any Manual Adjustments to the image size/position; only connecting using the analog connection can one get these

Re: [opensuse] SuSE 10.1/1680x1050 Widescreen/nVidia - does not work

2006-11-30 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Dec 01, 06 01:17:21 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: No, it's not the monitor that is broken but me :-) . |-) The monitor has 4 colour temperature settings: 4500K 6500K 9300K and sRGB This is were I went wrong with what I said earlier. It is setting the colour to sRGB which disables

Re: [opensuse] How does X11 decide what graphics card you have?

2006-11-30 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Nov 29, 06 16:11:12 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote: I'm trying to get my X server to recognize my graphics card properly. If I ask the system for hardware info, it knows that it has an Intel 945GM graphics card installed. But SaX is convinced that it's a generic VESA card and refuses to run

Re: [opensuse] external monitor with Suse 10.2

2006-11-30 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Nov 30, 06 22:33:56 +0800, Art Fore wrote: I am unable to get an external monitor to work with Dell Latitude D820 using the Fn +F8 key. This works with Windows and worked with Suse 10.1. Is there a new setting to change or is the a bug in Xorg, Suse, or the Nvidia driver. It partially works

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Scott Jones
On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:02, Michael Riess wrote: Scott Jones schrieb: On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:11, Mike McMullin wrote: it's a fat32 partition, unused except for my trying to create this file. FAT32 has a max filesize of 2GB. FAT16 has a max filesize of 2GB. FAT32 has

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:11:04PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Pascal Bleser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steve reilly wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 21:49, Robert Cunningham wrote: It is on the DVD rc1 and packman has already some compiled

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-30 01:46, Basil Chupin wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Run yast online update or install the final version out soon. OK, I'll take a deep breath in about 45 minutes and.do it - I'll boot up RC1 and run yast :-) . YOU is your friend. I have the RC1 iso,

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Basil Chupin
steve reilly wrote: If you're missing something that's not built for 10.2 yet, just let me know. cheers Once again smart - and you, Pascal - has come to the rescue with Suse. I used your smart-beta to be able to upgrade the 10.1 RC1 last night after the @#$%**!~ whatever is in RC1 at the

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:36, Basil Chupin wrote: YOU is not my friend - and hasn't been since 10.0. smart is my friend :-) . While I would like to see YOU (and the other THING) functional again I don't think it will happen by next Thursday when 10.2 is supposed to be officially

Re: [opensuse] external monitor with Suse 10.2

2006-11-30 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: Matthias Hopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 7:36:53 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] external monitor with Suse 10.2 On Nov 30, 06 22:33:56 +0800, Art Fore wrote: I am unable to get an

Re: [opensuse] Another (small) problem with 10.2rc1

2006-11-30 Thread Aveek Bhattacharya
Simon Roberts wrote: It used to be that my .profile file would be executed on login, but this no longer appears to be the case. Try creating a symlink to .profile called .bash_profile. (Since you spoke of bashrc, I assume that you are using bash.) -- Regards, Aveek Bhattacharya IIT Bombay --

[opensuse] print from command line through ipp using a printer defined in eDirectory

2006-11-30 Thread Gaël Lams
Hi all, We have our printers defined in eDirectory and accessibles through ipp. I'm trying to understand whether it's possible to have a script printing directly to one of these printers from one of my linux machiness. The idea would be the following: a file would be created with the name of the

[opensuse] Ktorrent - am I doing it wrong?

2006-11-30 Thread Simon Roberts
With a name like Torrent I thought this was going to be fast, but I notice I'm not the only one to find that it is relatively slow (dribble springs to mind :). Another new user mentioned that it took 12 hours to download 1/2GB, I'm finding it faster than that, more like 1/2GB/hour, but that's

[opensuse] Configuring Dual Head Mode on a laptop

2006-11-30 Thread Rylan Cottrell
I have dual head mode running on my hp dv4000 with the interl 915G. The problem I am having is with the resolution, my laptop is 1280X800(15.5 widescreen) and the second monitor is 1280x1024 (17inch). Currently I can only get them to run in the same resolution mode ... so I get a cut off screen if

Re: [opensuse] Network install/upgrades?

2006-11-30 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Darryl Gregorash wrote: Do you mean a complete upgrade of a running system from one version of the OS to another? That wasn't so far back in the mist of time, just 6 days ago :-) http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux but be advised that it's *strongly* not recommended. See also my first

[opensuse] Re: [SLE] SUSE9.3 - SUSE Plugger problem with USB Serial port cable

2006-11-30 Thread Bruce Samhaber
Hi, Here is some more info on this that might help someone. Note that I was previously using SUSE 9.3 and am now using SUSE 10.1. The Serial Port number was increased because I had a link to /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev # ls -als | grep USB 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root12 2006-11-28 10:44 pilot -

Re: [opensuse] Ktorrent - am I doing it wrong?

2006-11-30 Thread Clayton
With a name like Torrent I thought this was going to be fast It is fast if you are attempting to get a file with a lot of seeds (people who are sharing the source). If you are pulling in a file with one or two seeds, you are limited to the max upload limit set by the one seeder you're

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 30 November 2006 05:28, Carlos E. R. wrote: In dos, negative numbers were used sometimes as the resturn code of functions (instead of the expected size) to indicate the error code. yup ... and which negative number depended upon which error... typically a non-zero

Re: [opensuse] smart on 10.2?

2006-11-30 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:36:38AM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2006-11-30 01:46, Basil Chupin wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: Run yast online update or install the final version out soon. OK, I'll take a deep breath in about 45 minutes and.do it - I'll boot up RC1

[opensuse] xmms little but annoying problem

2006-11-30 Thread Sergey Mkrtchyan
Hi List, I usually left xmms open on one of my desktops and want it to come each time I boot into system. It used to work, but now every time I boot, xmms is on my both screens and I have to do manually RightClick - To Desktop - Desktop 1. That is really killing, and after that when I

[opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-11-30 Thread M Harris
How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. Performance of Vista is highly dependent upon how much memory is installed in the PC. For Vista, the minimum is 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM to run the operating system with all of the Aero visual enhancements enabled and have two or three

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 08:27 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Mike McMullin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to copy a data DVD (Debian Sarge actually)using the command: dd if=/dev/hdb of=debiansarge.iso and it is failing with the following error: File size limit exceeded df

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:04 -0600, Scott Jones wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 02:02, Michael Riess wrote: Scott Jones schrieb: On Thursday 30 November 2006 01:11, Mike McMullin wrote: it's a fat32 partition, unused except for my trying to create this file. FAT32 has a max

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Letourneau
M Harris wrote: How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. [snip] I have an old, really old Toshiba Tecra, Pentium MMX 128 megs of RAM. I had put Damn Small Linux on it (which I must say is an amazing distro if you have old hardware), but kept having issues with the wireless card

Re: [opensuse] Mounting cdrecorder

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 14:03 +0100, A. den Oudsten wrote: Thanks!! It works, but how could subfs in my fstab when I upgrade 10.0 to 10.1? Sorry? I don't understand, there must be some word missing in that sentence. - -- Cheers,

Re: [opensuse] Get rid of zen-updater icon from systray

2006-11-30 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 05:13 -0600, Glenn Holmer wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 17:56, Steven Martin wrote: I've been googling for a couple of hours now and can't find any references for permanently removing the zen-updater icon from

Re: [opensuse] DVD disk image

2006-11-30 Thread jdd
Mike McMullin a écrit : He's beginning to wish he'd never set that partition up as an exchange media between XP and Linux. there is a very good ext2/3 native driver for XP, and it's OSS, better use this jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO --

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-11-30 Thread jdd
M Harris wrote: How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. I installed 10.2 on a sub laptop (P233, 140Mo ram, 12Gb HD) it's not fast, but Gnome run's quite well (not to say this is the best HW for openSUSE :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net

[opensuse] SCO is toast... Novell go get em

2006-11-30 Thread M Harris
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061129165103775 Well, it looks like SCO isn't going to get to use their *evidence* because de judge has slapped them hard with a devastating ruling... basically upholding the lower court's ruling that a sanction is warranted because SCO

Re: [opensuse] How much memory does Suse need?

2006-11-30 Thread Hugo Costelha
On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:46, jdd wrote: M Harris wrote: How much memory does Suse need? hahahahahahahhah ehem. I installed 10.2 on a sub laptop (P233, 140Mo ram, 12Gb HD) it's not fast, but Gnome run's quite well (not to say this is the best HW for openSUSE :-) I am using a

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