[opensuse] dbus-daemon 100% CPU. Constant disk access.

2006-12-05 Thread Marius Roets
I have suddenly started to see very strange things in my openSuse 10.1 installation on my laptop. I was up to date with updates/patches, until about a month ago, but have done no updates lately, and the only new software I installed is the Novell linux client. First problem I have is that there i

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
Clayton wrote: I don't know what the local jargon "EMEA" stands for It's not local jargon EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa. You also have NA or NORAM for North America, LATAM for Latin America, and APAC for Asia Pacific. It's a fairly standard for companies that have offices worldwide

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
Marcus Meissner wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:01:46PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: D Gavrilovic wrote: On 12/5/06, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be rel

Re: [opensuse] More fallout on the Novell <> MS Deal on /. and Groklaw

2006-12-05 Thread Pavel Nemec
Dne Wednesday 06 December 2006 06:36 Kai Ponte napsal(a): > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061203015212989 Huh, i read it, but did not find any reasonable point. IMHO just another FUD. Pavel -- Pavel Nemec Software Engineer ---

Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: blobAndConquer

2006-12-05 Thread Pavel Nemec
> also have a problem on my notebook (intel graphic chip, openSUSE 10.2 > factory): I just don't get any texts inside the game. And we didn't find > yet, what it is: freetype is there, it's linked.. but that's another > story. > > Dominique I test it on 10.1. Problem was that some graphic file was

Re: [opensuse] education (fwd)

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I felt like forwarding this mail, so here we go. Comment below. Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:25:27 -0500 From: James Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:45 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> Agree, but the intertwangled short name "suseucator" is a verbal >> mishap. "suseducator"

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:01:46PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: > D Gavrilovic wrote: > >On 12/5/06, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many > >>bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released > >>

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-05 Thread scsijon
At 02:20 PM 6/12/2006, Basil Chupin wrote: Michael Loeffler wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 16:46, Anders Norrbring wrote: [8<] Can we buy a commercial SuSE Linux 10.2? If so, where / when? openSUSE 10.2 (pyhsical boxes) are currently in production and should be dlivererd to distributors

Re: [opensuse] Find process using a mount?

2006-12-05 Thread Anders Norrbring
Jan Engelhardt skrev: On Dec 4 2006 12:40, Anders Norrbring wrote: Thanks to all of you.. Now the second problem is growing the xfs file system mounted.. I added a new disk to the lv, remounted the lvm volume (mounted by iSCSI) and issued xfs_growfs /iscsi. Nothing happened. Next I did xfs_growf

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many > bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released > next summer. I'll wait. Take note, Novell. You misunderstood me. This is the general policy with eac

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 07:50 PM 12/5/2006 -0900, John Andersen wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I want a box thank you.. so as not to have to chase off all over the place >> when one or another thing goes pop! haul out the disc reinstall whatever >>

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org font delight

2006-12-05 Thread Sven Burmeister
Hi! On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:51, Michael Leuty wrote: > I've been running 10.2 RC1 for a week, and I'm particularly delighted > with the high standard of the display of fonts in OpenOffice.org. It's > the best I've seen in any Linux distro and is as good, if not better, > than under Windows(

Re: [opensuse] Spamassassin Dependency in kde?

2006-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:45, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > I have the opensuse repository for kde3 in my list of updates. > > > > Today it has 77 updates, but in the process it wants to install > > spamassassin 3.1.3, which is back level by several releases. I run SA > > 3

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

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 22:40 +0100, jdd wrote: > Carl William Spitzer IV a écrit : > > > It was when I had a TRS80-4P > > and my HP-41 with 64 10 bits registers :-) - 640 _bits_ I figured you were one of us old farts. These kids have it easy now. Graphical installs that just work unlike 7.0 whic

Re: [opensuse] More fallout on the Novell <> MS Deal on /. and Groklaw

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:36, Kai Ponte wrote: > Now, whether PJ is just freaking out because of the SCO case or there is > clear and present danger to the Linux ecosystem I'm not sure at this > moment. Yes, and yes. ... again, its a huge trust issue... with folks who have not

[opensuse] Lenovo Suse Question

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
Some time back (August maybe) Lenovo committed to ship the T series ThinkPad with SLED 10. I went out to the Lenovo site to look at the Suse offerings and find that Lenovo recommends XP professional... and I can't find the Suse pre-loaded machine. Did something change? :-O -- Kind regar

Re: [opensuse] Multiple DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf

2006-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:17, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote: > My guess at this configuration would be: > /etc/resolv.conf: > domain company.net > nameserver 10.0.0.1 > nameserver 10.12.1.2 > But this results in opensuse.org being looked up, while > intranet.company.net fails. > > Another guess: >

[opensuse] More fallout on the Novell <> MS Deal on /. and Groklaw

2006-12-05 Thread Kai Ponte
Not to beat a dying horse, but this was too intersting to pass up and not to pass on to you fine folks. Slashdot has an article linking to a groklaw piece on why they thing the MS/Novell deal is very very bad. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/06/0134211 http://www.groklaw.net/artic

Re: [opensuse] education

2006-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:45, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Agree, but the intertwangled short name "suseucator" is a verbal mishap. Mishap or not, I like it. -- _ John Andersen pgptBnOMk0C1i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-05 Thread Clayton
I don't know what the local jargon "EMEA" stands for It's not local jargon EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa. You also have NA or NORAM for North America, LATAM for Latin America, and APAC for Asia Pacific. It's a fairly standard for companies that have offices worldwide to refer to thes

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:19, Kai Ponte wrote: > ... > > > ls -l /proc/$$/exe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /proc/$$/exe > lrwxrwxrwx 1 kai users 0 2006-12-05 19:18 /proc/4165/exe -> /bin/bash > > > Very cool. No clue what all that means, but it looks important. :) $$ is expanded by the she

Re: [opensuse] VEEERY elementary script question

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 18:01, Greg Wallace wrote: > MYVAR=xyz > export MYVAR > > After the script runs, I do an echo MYVAR and it comes up empty. hi Greg, Please allow me to add a couple of tips to what Jorge has already told you, just for clarification. The export k

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want a box thank you.. so as not to have to chase off all over the place > when one or another thing goes pop! haul out the disc reinstall whatever > was there before the video/sound/hard drive/ and other assorted bits n > bobs fry the

Re: [opensuse] Gateway MX6454 Laptop setup issues

2006-12-05 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:43 -0600, Dan Chesmore wrote: > Hello everyone. I think I have found the most uncompatable laptop for > SuSE 10.1. This is one sweet laptop but I have a few problems. I am > running the 64 bit version of OpenSuSE 10.1. The laptop has the > following specs: > Blade-K8F GW UM

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread D Gavrilovic
On 12/5/06, Basil Chupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2006-12/msg0.html Fair enough. Thanks. As long as the update(s) issue is sorted out. -- "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to s

[opensuse] Go Indiana Linux

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
     http://www.crn.com/weblogs/thechart/blog.jhtml?id=196601151 ... its about time... Yes. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

[opensuse] M$ ZeroDay Attack again and again and again

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068786,00.asp ... and now, we have the future comfort of knowing that there will be better *operability* between M$ and Suse OpenOffice... I sure hope that doesn't mean that OpenOffice will be affected by the next wave of unpatch

Re: [opensuse] Home network problem

2006-12-05 Thread Joseph Loo
Doug McGarrett wrote: > At 07:25 AM 12/5/2006 -0500, James Knott wrote: >> M Harris wrote: >>> On Monday 04 December 2006 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> The connection is through a cable modem. I didn't try pinging the boxes back and forth. >>> Make sure that your i

Re: [opensuse] More Software updater issues

2006-12-05 Thread Joseph Loo
Tim Nicholson wrote: > On one of my systems in the list of software updates I frequently get > both a noarch patch and an x86-64 full version of the same package > listed, and if I try to do a select all install I get a dependency > failure which can always (so far) be cured by opting to install on

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2006/12/05 09:39 (GMT-0800) Kai Ponte apparently typed: > I use mc all the time when downgraded to the command line, because I simply > don't use it enough to remember all the commands. This tool really helps out > with file copies, permissions, viewing files, and editing. I use to do everyt

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
Michael Loeffler wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 16:46, Anders Norrbring wrote: [8<] Can we buy a commercial SuSE Linux 10.2? If so, where / when? openSUSE 10.2 (pyhsical boxes) are currently in production and should be dlivererd to distributors next week. That means first boxes could/shou

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:16, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:15, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > > Hmmm... I would like to point out that this will (most likely) only > > print the default shell which is set in /etc/passwd (which should be > > fine in Kai's situation). If th

Re: [opensuse] education

2006-12-05 Thread Kai Ponte
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:45, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 4 2006 18:37, Rajko M wrote: > >On Monday 04 December 2006 09:22, James Tremblay wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> There is a new page on OpenSUSE, > >> http://en.opensuse.org/Education > >> please sign in and help us out. > >> JT > > > >N

Re: [opensuse] Is There a (Non-Enterprise) Commercial SuSE Linux 10.2 Product?

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
Anders Norrbring wrote: [8<] Can we buy a commercial SuSE Linux 10.2? If so, where / when? RRS I have a feeling that OpenSUSE is going the way of Fedora Core. I'm doubtful that any more boxed sets will be released for sale. It's never been a money maker and it's gotten less

Re: [opensuse] education

2006-12-05 Thread Rajko M
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:45, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 4 2006 18:37, Rajko M wrote: > >On Monday 04 December 2006 09:22, James Tremblay wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> There is a new page on OpenSUSE, > >> http://en.opensuse.org/Education > >> please sign in and help us out. > >> JT > > > >N

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
D Gavrilovic wrote: On 12/5/06, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released next summer. I'll wait. Take note, Novell. --doug Can you please post links

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Rajko M
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:39, Kai Ponte wrote: > Very nice introduction! Thanks. It is actually kind of a translation from http://de.opensuse.org/Midnight_Commander > I use mc all the time when downgraded to the command line, because I simply > don't use it enough to remember all the comm

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 RC1 upgrade stories

2006-12-05 Thread Basil Chupin
Dominique Leuenberger wrote: Reply on 05-12-2006 17:30:57 <<< I may be wrong but there won't be a GoldMaster release -- what's being released this coming Thursday is the final 10.2 release. GoldMaster has been skipped. You are wrong in this case. There is always a GoldMaster release.

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Rajko M
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 06:47, zoran korac wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:38, Dominique Leuenberger Schreef: > > >>> Reply on 05-12-2006 14:36:59 <<< > > > > > > If I remember correctly, Norton commander has bulid in FTP option, > > > > but I > > > > > do > > > not see it on mc or it

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread James Knott
D Gavrilovic wrote: > On 12/5/06, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many >> bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released >> next summer. I'll wait. Take note, Novell. >> >> --doug > > Can you

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

2006-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2006/12/04 16:06 (GMT-0800) Carl William Spitzer IV apparently typed: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:04 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> To work with openSUSE in Graphical KDE Mode, you will need about >> Pentium III 450 MHz Computer + 256 MB of RAM + 10 GB Hard Disk. >> This is the recommended w

Re: [opensuse] knote -- export or save knotes data?

2006-12-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 12/5/06, Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Peter Van Lone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-05-06 15:04]: > neither the kde pim nor the knotes documentation mention anything > about where and how knotes data is stored. ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes.ics most excellent, thank you -- To un

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-project] New versioning system?

2006-12-05 Thread Rajko M
On Monday 04 December 2006 21:48, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Yeah. You don't want to experience bit rot! Oh, no!! Right :-D Seriously, the expiration date will be the time when official security updates will be stopped. That opens space for recommendation to buy SLED if you need more than that.

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Druid
Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released next summer. I'll wait. Take note, Novell. I dont want to come here and take the candy from your hands, but thats whats happens with any release... Som

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread D Gavrilovic
On 12/5/06, Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another posting from someone at SuSE suggests that there are still many bugs in 10.2, and that they will be squashed by 10.3, to be released next summer. I'll wait. Take note, Novell. --doug Can you please post links/sources? I have been

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 07:48 PM 12/5/2006 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Tue December 5 2006 1:20 pm, Stan Glasoe skratched these words onto a >coconut shell, hoping for an answer: >> On Tuesday December 5 2006 12:04 pm, Bruce Smith wrote: >> > > We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 1

[opensuse] ProjectX problem

2006-12-05 Thread John Meyer
Okay, I've been trying to update (or install) Project X with the software-updater software, and it keeps complaining about needing to find the package that provides "oso". What is OSO and where do I get it? Running 10.1, BTW. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread jfweber
On Tue December 5 2006 1:20 pm, Stan Glasoe skratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On Tuesday December 5 2006 12:04 pm, Bruce Smith wrote: > > > We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 10.2 RC5 and declared it as > > > goldmaster. > > > > "RC5"??? I haven't been following 1

[opensuse] Gateway MX6454 Laptop setup issues

2006-12-05 Thread Dan Chesmore
Hello everyone. I think I have found the most uncompatable laptop for SuSE 10.1. This is one sweet laptop but I have a few problems. I am running the 64 bit version of OpenSuSE 10.1. The laptop has the following specs: Blade-K8F GW UMA Motherboard w/ R5485M and 1394. ATI RS485m chipset (Gateway say

Re: [opensuse] knote -- export or save knotes data?

2006-12-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Peter Van Lone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-05-06 15:04]: > neither the kde pim nor the knotes documentation mention anything > about where and how knotes data is stored. ~/.kde/share/apps/knotes/notes.ics -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.o

Re: [opensuse] converting an audio file from .asf to .mp3 format

2006-12-05 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:16, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:10 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: > > Can I pipe the dumpfile into sox or mencoder or something else such that, > > next time, I won't have to convert the format? Also, I want to automate > > this capture via a short

RE: [opensuse] VEEERY elementary script question

2006-12-05 Thread Greg Wallace
On Tuesday, December 05, 2006 @ 6:11 PM, Jorge Fabregas wrote: >On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:01 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: >> After the script runs, I do an echo MYVAR and it comes up empty.  If I >> simply enter those same statements outside of a script it works fine! >>  Could someone enlighten me

Re: [opensuse] converting an audio file from .asf to .mp3 format

2006-12-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:10 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: > Can I pipe the dumpfile into sox or mencoder or something else such that, > next time, I won't have to convert the format? Also, I want to automate > this capture via a short script (called by cron, probably) to be run on a > daily basis to

Re: [opensuse] VEEERY elementary script question

2006-12-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:01 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: > After the script runs, I do an echo MYVAR and it comes up empty.  If I > simply enter those same statements outside of a script it works fine! >  Could someone enlighten me as to what the heck is wrong with having that > in a script? Ok, y

Re: [opensuse] converting an audio file from .asf to .mp3 format

2006-12-05 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 18:54, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > You need to convert ithat to a wave file first and then you can encode it > with lame. > > Assuming you are on the directory where the dump file is: > > > mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav dump.asf > > and then: > > lame -b 192 output.wav ou

Re: [opensuse] bittorrent client of choice for pulling 10.2?

2006-12-05 Thread Hoper Edei Deixai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 05/12/06 22:43, jdd wrote: >> Azureus seemed to be the better of the two, but I don't know if >> anything has changed or maybe there is something new. > azureus is very nice and runs also on win (java) Azureus is THE bittorrent client, but you

[opensuse] VEEERY elementary script question

2006-12-05 Thread Greg Wallace
Ok, I've written very few scripts in my time but I've generally gotten them to work. However, I've run into something that completely has me stumped. I have the following 2 line script (it was more than that, but I stripped it down just to see if I could get something extremely basic to work) --

Re: [opensuse] converting an audio file from .asf to .mp3 format

2006-12-05 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 7:26 pm, Carl Hartung wrote: > I used mplayer to 'dumpstream' and 'dumpfile' a stream to an .asf format > file, which I can play with mplayer, but I'd now like to convert it to .mp3 > format. Anyone care to share a commandline shortcut for this procedure? You need to co

[opensuse] converting an audio file from .asf to .mp3 format

2006-12-05 Thread Carl Hartung
Hi All, I used mplayer to 'dumpstream' and 'dumpfile' a stream to an .asf format file, which I can play with mplayer, but I'd now like to convert it to .mp3 format. Anyone care to share a commandline shortcut for this procedure? TIA & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Multiple DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf

2006-12-05 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Hi, I recently (just now), installed and configured the pptp-client, to help me hook me up to my workplace's MS VPN server. Unfortunately, i have ran into a little bump in the road, regarding nameservers, and how hosts are looked up. Take this scenario: -- Company setu

[opensuse] OpenOffice.org font delight

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Leuty
I've been running 10.2 RC1 for a week, and I'm particularly delighted with the high standard of the display of fonts in OpenOffice.org. It's the best I've seen in any Linux distro and is as good, if not better, than under Windows(TM). Well done to the developers, and roll on Thursday! Mike -- M

Re: [opensuse] Spamassassin Dependency in kde?

2006-12-05 Thread Adi Pircalabu
John Andersen wrote: > I have the opensuse repository for kde3 in my list of updates. > > Today it has 77 updates, but in the process it wants to install spamassassin > 3.1.3, which is back level by several releases. I run SA 3.1.7 and install > from CPAN, and I don't want to go back to 3.1.3.

Re: [opensuse] Directory consolidation - or cluttering

2006-12-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:44, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 5 2006 21:46, Christoph Thiel wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:40:32PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >as per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00118.html > >> > , /usr/X11R6 is moved into /usr, and similar

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 05:09 AM 12/5/2006 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >I'm trying to run FlightGear. I saw an article - >http://applications.linux.com/applications/06/11/20/0533247.shtml?tid=8tid= 49 >- on Linux.com yesterday about it and was reminded. I think I had it on my >9.3 system t

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:15, Thomas Hertweck wrote: > Hmmm... I would like to point out that this will (most likely) only > print the default shell which is set in /etc/passwd (which should be > fine in Kai's situation). If the current shell needs to be determined, > it's better to use "echo

Re: [opensuse] Home network problem

2006-12-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 07:25 AM 12/5/2006 -0500, James Knott wrote: > >M Harris wrote: >> On Monday 04 December 2006 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> The connection is through a cable modem. I didn't try pinging the boxes >>> back and forth. >>> >> Make sure that your internal network is working fi

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

2006-12-05 Thread James Knott
jdd wrote: Carl William Spitzer IV a écrit : It was when I had a TRS80-4P and my HP-41 with 64 10 bits registers :-) - 640 _bits_ jdd My IMSAI 8080 came with no memory, that's 0 K. Memory was an extra cost option. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Solved: Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Does anyone have a how to or more info on "net console" I did a quick >google and did not seem to find anything I thought was relevant... /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] Directory consolidation - or cluttering

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 5 2006 21:46, Christoph Thiel wrote: >On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:40:32PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >as per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00118.html , >> >/usr/X11R6 is moved into /usr, and similar things have been done or are >> >in progress for /opt/{Mozilla

Re: [opensuse] bittorrent client of choice for pulling 10.2?

2006-12-05 Thread jdd
Greg Freemyer a écrit : Azureus seemed to be the better of the two, but I don't know if anything has changed or maybe there is something new. azureus is very nice and runs also on win (java) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-

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

2006-12-05 Thread jdd
Carl William Spitzer IV a écrit : It was when I had a TRS80-4P and my HP-41 with 64 10 bits registers :-) - 640 _bits_ jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Solved: Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Letourneau
Simon Roberts wrote: > Lovely, thanks Jan. This is just what I needed (the boot option). Thanks > for the extra info too, always good to get a better understanding. > > Cheers, > Simon > > "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether > a man is wise by his questions."

Re: [opensuse] Directory consolidation - or cluttering

2006-12-05 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:40:32PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >as per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00118.html , > >/usr/X11R6 is moved into /usr, and similar things have been done or are > >in progress for /opt/{MozillaFirefox,kde3,gnome}. > >Question: Why? It coul

Re: [opensuse] Size of /proc/kcor

2006-12-05 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Susemail wrote: > Is this normal? # du -hsx /proc/*-> 4.8G/proc/kcore Yes, see David's email. It's the kernel core image. > ps: Why do the first 2 outputs happen?: > > # du -hsx /proc/* | grep kcore > du: `/proc/18268/task': No such file or directory > du: `/proc/18268/fd': No such file o

Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:20, Simon Roberts wrote: > True, the panic kills it, but it takes quite a while (minutes) to die. It's > generating recursive faults for quite a while, and it's still writing to > the screen of tty10 if I'm already viewing that (but kills the keyaboard, > so I can't c

Solved: Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Simon Roberts
Lovely, thanks Jan. This is just what I needed (the boot option). Thanks for the extra info too, always good to get a better understanding. Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz - Original

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:37:53PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> >We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 10.2 RC5 and declared it as > >> >goldmaster. > >> > >> "RC5"??? I haven't been following 10.2 development very closely, and > >> opensuse.org seems to show RC1 being the latest available to d

Re: [opensuse] Directory consolidation - or cluttering

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Hi, > > >as per http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-08/msg00118.html , >/usr/X11R6 is moved into /usr, and similar things have been done or are >in progress for /opt/{MozillaFirefox,kde3,gnome}. >Question: Why? It could have just been the way it always was. >(I appreciate links to

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

2006-12-05 Thread M Harris
On Monday 04 December 2006 18:02, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: >  Makes one wonder if BG > is a Ferengi or at least has memorized the rules of acquisition. No... he is BORG... I have seen the implants. Ballmer is Ferengi -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 is done

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> >We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 10.2 RC5 and declared it as >> >goldmaster. >> >> "RC5"??? I haven't been following 10.2 development very closely, and >> opensuse.org seems to show RC1 being the latest available to download. >> I can't even seem to find RC2-RC4. > >RC2-RC5 have been done i

Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
The right way: >I want to attach to the output stream of an existing terminal. I want >to "tee" that output to the serial device so I can send it to another >machine that will log and save the output. The terminal in question is >created and started by "the system". It is acutally /dev/tty10,

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> > In the instructions, it tells me to make some environment variable >> > changes. However, it has one set for a Borne Shell and another set >> > for a C shell. >> > >> > Which do I have? >> >> echo $SHELL >> >> probably /bin/bash which is Borne Again Shell. I would select Borne. > >Ahh, than

Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:31, Simon Roberts wrote: > This, I guess, is probably a generic Unix question, No, most Suse users will never do this... --

Re: [opensuse] xmms and mp3 - RC1

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> >> >Just add this packman mirror to your installation sources : >> >> >> >> No, that would pull in a bunch of unnecessary packages. Until smart >> >> supports the "experimental" channel, it's deactivated. >> > >> >No it does not "pull in a bunch of unnecessary packages". >> > >> >Where did you

Re: [opensuse] Which Shell do I Have?

2006-12-05 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-05-06 08:12]: > ... >> In the instructions, it tells me to make some environment variable >> changes. However, it has one set for a Borne Shell and another set >> for a C shell. >> >> Which do I have? > > echo $SHELL Hmmm... I would

Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty

2006-12-05 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 10:47:10 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] How to attach to existing tty There are multiple ways I can help you: 1. You can try "shared session" by using "screen". (read info

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> It certainly IS a great app, but it isn't a clone of xtree but of Norton >> Commander, which was great app in it's day. MC is the only console text >> editor I need. Works great over ssh as well. Wished it was installed >> on the rescue system, but not a big deal as I have it when I mount an

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Midnight Commander is a *great* interface. For those old MS-DOS heads >from the eighties, it's like Xtree Pro/Gold, but *better*. Actually, it's like Norton Command, but *logically* better since Linux is not limited to 8.3 and no-permissions. Great "news": You can have it inside Cygwin, free,

[opensuse] Re: Maybe on Linux?

2006-12-05 Thread James Hatridge
Hi Pete et al... On Monday 04 December 2006 23:27, Pete Connolly wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 10:45, James Hatridge wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm thinking about buying some stamp software (I'm a stamp > > dealer/collector). The info says this: > > > > the PC must have 200mhz with 64mb m

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

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> > 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 >> >> And there I thought 64K was more than enough for anyone. Shush, t

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

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> I mean, how in the world is M$ going to compete with an >> OS that runs four times faster I was not thrilled with Vista so far. It *really* was slower than all Windowsen and a SUSE combined. Well, slightly exaggerated, but that's how beta2 was. (Yeah, a long time has passed, but still.

[opensuse] knote -- export or save knotes data?

2006-12-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
neither the kde pim nor the knotes documentation mention anything about where and how knotes data is stored. I have quite a few knotes, and I am going to need to wipe the machine -- and I'd like to preserve these. Hopefully BOTH in a format that I can use within another application, and also so t

Re: [opensuse] VMWare Full-screen problems with nvidia binary driver

2006-12-05 Thread Don Raboud
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:28, Stephan Binner wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:49, Don Raboud wrote: > > nvidia driver 1.0-9629 > > Try 9631 - it fixes some fullscreen X.org crash bug. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: [opensuse] xmms and mp3 - RC1

2006-12-05 Thread jfweber
On Sun December 3 2006 10:53 am, Jan Engelhardt skratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > >> Uh, I tend to disagree. On 10.1, I could install > >> i586/xmms-1.2.10-103.pm.1.i586.rpm and > >> i586/xmms-lib-1.2.10-103.pm.1.i586.rpm and everything worked. Now > >> being on 1

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

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:14 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:52 -0600, M Harris wrote: > > 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

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

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:04 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > To work with openSUSE in Graphical KDE Mode, you will need about > Pentium III 450 MHz Computer + 256 MB of RAM + 10 GB Hard Disk. > > This is the recommended workable minimum, below which the OS will be slow. Looks like Ill have to stic

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

2006-12-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:06 -0600, M Harris wrote: > I mean, how in the world is M$ going to compete with an OS that runs > four > times faster on existing hardware for a fraction of the money??? Do any of > you see my point??? Mickey$oft has the best marketing department bar none. No A

Re: [opensuse] article about Midnight Commander

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 12/5/06, James Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 December 2006 8:17 am, Mark Goldstein wrote: > On 12/5/06, Lev Lafayette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Midnight Commander is a *great* interface. For those old MS-DOS heads > > from the eighties, it's like Xtree Pro/Gold, but *bet

Re: [opensuse] Apache2 SIGSEGVs on SuSE 10.1

2006-12-05 Thread poeml
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:42:53AM +0100, Patrick Schoenbach wrote: > I am using apache2 out of the box on SuSE 10.1, nothing changed, but it > always SIGSEGVs on every access. What could be wrong? Start with rpm -qa --last | grep apache a2enmod -l tail /var/log/apache2/error_log Peter -- When i

Re: [opensuse] education

2006-12-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 4 2006 18:37, Rajko M wrote: >On Monday 04 December 2006 09:22, James Tremblay wrote: >> Hello all, >> There is a new page on OpenSUSE, >> http://en.opensuse.org/Education >> please sign in and help us out. >> JT > >Nice idea, but I guess that you have to wait some time until people that ha

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