Re: [opensuse] vmware and kernel version problem

2007-02-05 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Donato Azevedo wrote: On 2/5/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Donato, You have to install kernel sources using YaST, and than try vmware installation again. I just installed it. Now I get this error message: What is the location of the directory

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 04 February 2007, John E. Perry wrote: That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of Microsoft management can make.  They have gotten thousands of software patents in the past couple of years, If they got the patent in the last couple years it hardly matters does

Re: [opensuse] Novell Please make Bugzilla for OpenSuse really Open.

2007-02-05 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Stephan Binner wrote: On Sunday, 4. February 2007 00:49:29 John Andersen wrote: I's like to suggest that bugs related to openSuse be made available to the internet as a whole by allowing them to be crawled and indexed by google, yahoo, and any other search

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hi

2007-02-05 Thread Paul Walsh
JB wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2007 09:44, Chuck Davis wrote: person to whom I am replying forgot what (s)he said. Scrolling down is a waste of time and energy. Top posting LIVE FOREVER!!! :) Shout out that laziness! Bottom posting may have had a place in the 80's and 90's but

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Bob S wrote: No, I was very careful to make sure it didn't wrap. Nevertheless I then copied and pasted the text file you sent me. Same result. On reboot 10.0 does not show up on the menu. Could you please post your menu.lst file in your 10.2. That doesn't sound right. Not showing up

Re: [opensuse] KDE login manager

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Stevens wrote: How do I disable the opensuse login manager screen and use KDE's login manager? Go to Yast, System, etc/sysconfig editor, Desktop, Display Manager, DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME and delete SUSE, leaving it blank. Save and you are done. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user

Re: [opensuse] Problems with HP Pavilion DV6000

2007-02-05 Thread Will Stephenson
On Monday 05 February 2007 04:20, J Sloan said: #1 - wireless connections via network manager: In gnome, I can connect to the secure wireless networks in my house, but with kde network manager I can't connect to either of them. The gnome applet allows me to choose all the correct parameters,

[opensuse] Re: Daylight Savings Change

2007-02-05 Thread Joachim Schrod
Darryl Gregorash wrote: What would be the safest way to update the zoneinfo files, leaving the old binaries intact, using a timezone rpm package from, say, 10.2, if one only has a 9.3 system running? I do mean *all* the zoneinfo files, not just the specific one that is currently copied over as

[opensuse] XMMS trouble opening mp3 files

2007-02-05 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello list users: I have associated XMMS with mp3 files. When I double click on an mp3 file with empty space in the name either in krusader or in konqueror file manager XMMS starts but does not play the given file. The file name in XMMS playlist window becomes the last word of the real

[opensuse] Gnome Screensaver not asking for a password

2007-02-05 Thread Rory Slegtenhorst
Hi, I'm using SuSE 10.1 and Gnome... I lock my screen using the menubar, but when I move my mouse again, I get my desktop back without being asked for a password... Any idea's on how to fix this? Cheers, -- Rory Slegtenhorst rory dot slegtenhorst at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] KDE login manager

2007-02-05 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Rmouse on the top of the and select classic kde menu -=terry(Denver)=- On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:01 -0600, Stevens wrote: How do I disable the opensuse login manager screen and use KDE's login manager? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Novell Please make Bugzilla for OpenSuse really Open.

2007-02-05 Thread Juergen Weigert
On Feb 04, 07 23:12:46 -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007, Stephan Binner wrote: On Sunday, 4. February 2007 00:49:29 John Andersen wrote: I's like to suggest that bugs related to openSuse be made available to the internet as a whole by allowing them to be crawled

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John E. Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-04-07 23:38]: Darryl Gregorash wrote: ... There are no MS patents in code in any GPL software. There never will be. That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of Microsoft management can make. They have gotten thousands of

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 08:28 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * John E. Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-04-07 23:38]: Darryl Gregorash wrote: ... There are no MS patents in code in any GPL software. There never will be. That is a statement that neither you nor anyone else outside of

Re: [opensuse] Flash Player for Linux Now Available for Download

2007-02-05 Thread Francesco Scaglioni
Hi, ,-- | I am still using eg. | rpm ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt SuSE/10.0-i386 suser-guru | for my apt-sources. What would be the correct lisitng for | opensuse now? | | Wow, who knew anyone still used apt? Ummm, I don't know if there are | apt versions of the BS

Re: [opensuse] Gnome Screensaver not asking for a password

2007-02-05 Thread Rory Slegtenhorst
Rodrigo, I suppose you have the 'Lock screen when screensaver is active' option checked in in the Screensaver preferences, right? Yep :) -- Rory Slegtenhorst rory dot slegtenhorst at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Pi 2. Február 2007 05:59 Peter Van Lone napísal: I've looked over the basics of autoyast ...and it seems as though for a one off situation (a single, or only a few, repeated installations) that it is over-kill. However, I see that at the end of an install, you can select to have the

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.suse.de/~ug/ You can specify a kernel boot parameter at start up, autoyast=URL Or grab YaST CD creator, that is capable to put the profile on a CD, including a boot menu entry:

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Po 5. Február 2007 15:52 Peter Van Lone napísal: On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.suse.de/~ug/ You can specify a kernel boot parameter at start up, autoyast=URL Or grab YaST CD creator, that is capable to put the profile on a CD, including a boot

Re: [opensuse] KDE login manager

2007-02-05 Thread Stevens
On Monday 05 February 2007 04:15, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Stevens wrote: How do I disable the opensuse login manager screen and use KDE's login manager? Go to Yast, System, etc/sysconfig editor, Desktop, Display Manager, DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_THEME and delete SUSE, leaving it blank. Save and

Re: [opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work - FIXED

2007-02-05 Thread Stevens
On Monday 05 February 2007 00:14, russbucket wrote: Glad to hear you got it working, mine just started working after the updates also. Be nice to know what was fixed? -- Russ What was fixed was the hal program. It was entirely too finicky about what it expected from the dvd. They pushed out

Re: [opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work - FIXED

2007-02-05 Thread russbucket
On Monday February 5 2007 07:11, Stevens wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 00:14, russbucket wrote: Glad to hear you got it working, mine just started working after the updates also. Be nice to know what was fixed? -- Russ What was fixed was the hal program. It was entirely too finicky

[opensuse] OT - maybe (kde question)

2007-02-05 Thread Stevens
The My Computer icon brings up a konqueror window with the sysinfo:/ screen, but what it reports for Disk Information is interesting. It has entries for 1) both partitions of this drive, 2) the usb drive that is plugged in and 3) the floppy drive, but I have two other disk drives in the

Re: [opensuse] kwinrule/window-specific settings

2007-02-05 Thread David Mayr
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 14:56 schrieb Istvan Gabor: Hello list users: Could someone point me to a link where I can find detailed description on how to use kwinrule (KDE Control Center - Desktop - Window-specific settings)? I have no idea what 'window class', 'window role', 'window

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Unfound USB]

2007-02-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Sunday 04 February 2007 1:49:48 am Fred A. Miller wrote: On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:34, Fred A. Miller wrote: ...openSUSE 10.2 ... The box is an HP with AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) 4200, 1G RAM, 250G SATA drivenVidia 6150LE chipset ... ...all USB ports ... DON'T (work)

Re: [opensuse] autoyast ... can the xml file be used with just a simple dvd install?

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/5/07, Stanislav Visnovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, control file is the XML file generated by AutoYaST or by the cloning at the end of the installation. that is very good, thank you. Now, one or two more can it do this questions, and if the answer is yes, I'll go to the docs to

Re: [opensuse] XMMS trouble opening mp3 files

2007-02-05 Thread Chema Ollés
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Istvan Gabor escribió: Hello list users: I have associated XMMS with mp3 files. When I double click on an mp3 file with empty space in the name either in krusader or in konqueror file manager XMMS starts but does not play the given file. The

Re: [opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work - FIXED

2007-02-05 Thread Niels Østergaard Kjær
russbucket wrote: On Monday February 5 2007 07:11, Stevens wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 00:14, russbucket wrote: Glad to hear you got it working, mine just started working after the updates also. Be nice to know what was fixed? -- Russ What was fixed was the hal program. It was

Re: [opensuse] Have 4G, any reason to use x86_64 over i386?

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Miller
Linda Walsh wrote: I have an Intel cpu / 64-bit extensions on a machine with 4G of memory. Just want some confirmation (or not)...it seems like i386 would currently be my best choice: all memory is accessible, no program I am running needs 2G addr space, 32-bit programs execute faster and will

Re: [opensuse] Default installed kernel

2007-02-05 Thread ka1ifq
On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:17, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 12:11, ka1ifq wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 12:21, James Montgomery wrote: I know the default is picked at install time, I just checked my machine and found it installed 'bigsmp i686', the machine is a

Re: [opensuse] Novell Please make Bugzilla for OpenSuse really Open.

2007-02-05 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-02-05 01:01, Stephan Binner wrote: On Sunday, 4. February 2007 00:49:29 John Andersen wrote: snip I realize that the Novell Bugzilla also contains bugs related to proprietary packages and confidential bugs. However it would seem that a Those are only visible when you're

[opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Jan Karjalainen
How do I go through a text file and add ,on at the end of each line? /J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work - FIXED

2007-02-05 Thread russbucket
On Monday February 5 2007 08:41, Niels Østergaard Kjær wrote: russbucket wrote: On Monday February 5 2007 07:11, Stevens wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 00:14, russbucket wrote: Glad to hear you got it working, mine just started working after the updates also. Be nice to know what was

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 05 February 2007 10:15, Jan Karjalainen wrote: How do I go through a text file and add ,on at the end of each line? perl -pi -e 's/$/,on/' [your list of files] or find . -name *txt | xargs perl -pi -e 's/$/,on/' -- Brian Jackson Photo Sports ~ People ~ Events

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Jan, On Monday 05 February 2007 10:15, Jan Karjalainen wrote: How do I go through a text file and add ,on at the end of each line? Sed is the tool you want to use. sed -e 's/$/,on/' textFile textFileWithOn If you have several target files, do this: for targetFile in textFile1 textFile2;

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 19:15, Jan Karjalainen wrote: How do I go through a text file and add ,on at the end of each line? Does it have to be in bash? sed -e 's/\(.*\)/\1,on/g' filename or, if you want to make the changes directly in the file sed -ie 's/\(.*\)/\1,on/g' testfile -- To

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
James Montgomery escribió: This morning on Slashdot I read an article discussing the possibility of Novell being banned from distributing linux. Here is an excerpt: Reuters is reporting that Novell may be banned from selling Linux. Linux copyright is not owned by the FSF, Linux

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 February 2007 10:25, Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 19:15, Jan Karjalainen wrote: How do I go through a text file and add ,on at the end of each line? ... or, if you want to make the changes directly in the file sed -ie 's/\(.*\)/\1,on/g' testfile D'Oh!

[opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get: 18:36 emacs -q Warning: Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 05 February 2007 11:01, Jan Karjalainen wrote: Somehow all these examples add the ,on on a new line after each line, like this: 208.34.234.48-208.34.234.63 ,on 208.34.235.32-208.34.235.63 ,on etc... I want them to look like this: 208.34.234.48-208.34.234.63,on

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-05 19:53]: I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get: 18:36 emacs -q Warning: Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:09, Brian Jackson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 11:01, Jan Karjalainen wrote: Somehow all these examples add the ,on on a new line after each line, like this: 208.34.234.48-208.34.234.63 ,on 208.34.235.32-208.34.235.63 ,on etc... I want them

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Jan Karjalainen
Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 20:09, Brian Jackson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 11:01, Jan Karjalainen wrote: Somehow all these examples add the ,on on a new line after each line, like this: 208.34.234.48-208.34.234.63 ,on 208.34.235.32-208.34.235.63 ,on

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:14, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-05 19:53]: I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get: 18:36 emacs -q Warning: Cannot convert

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 19:53, Alex Bennee wrote: xlsfonts | wc -l 657 I get 7588, including adobe-helvetica and ibm-courier. They should both be in the package xorg-x11-fonts, which I suspect should be installed by default -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:14 +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Alex Bennee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-02-05 19:53]: I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get: 18:36 emacs -q Warning: Cannot

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:29 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 19:53, Alex Bennee wrote: xlsfonts | wc -l 657 I get 7588, including adobe-helvetica and ibm-courier. They should both be in the package xorg-x11-fonts, which I suspect should be installed by default

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:43, Alex Bennee wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:29 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 19:53, Alex Bennee wrote: xlsfonts | wc -l 657 I get 7588, including adobe-helvetica and ibm-courier. They should both be in the package

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:43, Alex Bennee wrote: It didn't seem to affect the rendering of every other app I'm using (in lovely anti-aliased smooth glory). Could this be a difference between everything else rendering locally and emacs? I have had the lines uncommented though - but it

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box

2007-02-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:43 +, Alex Bennee wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 20:29 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 19:53, Alex Bennee wrote: xlsfonts | wc -l 657 I get 7588, including adobe-helvetica and ibm-courier. They should both be in the

[opensuse] [SUSE 10.1] Lock packages so that rug doesn't try to update them?

2007-02-05 Thread Marlier, Ian
Hey, all -- I've got a machine running SUSE 10.1. It's a pretty standard server install, with the exception that it's running a custom-built set of postgresql-8.0.3 RPMs. Every time I run `rug lu`, it shows that updates for those packages (to 8.1.4-1.2) are available. However, I'm not

[opensuse] ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is.

2007-02-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already running, even though it isn't. FireFox is dead in the water - WON'T run. Openoffice will load, but then won't close so I have to kill it. DON'T tell me

[opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is.

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 09:26, Fred A. Miller wrote: ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already running, even though it isn't. FireFox is dead in the water - WON'T run. Openoffice will load,

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Jan Karjalainen
To continue on the same subject, how do I remove extra spaces from the list? 111.222.111.222 - 222.111.222.111,on should be 111.222.111.222-222.111.222.111,on Note that there should be no spaces around the - sign. /J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 05 February 2007 12:34, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? Umm, rm :) [12:46:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp l iso lrwxrwxrwx 1 bjackson users 4 2007-02-05 12:46 iso - /iso/

Re: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-07 15:38]: How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? rm soft-link -- Patrick ShanahanRegistered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org@

[opensuse] Re: softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Eberhard Roloff
James D. Parra wrote: Hello, How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? Thank you, James for me it works with: rm nameofsoftlink regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

RE: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread James D. Parra
* James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-07 15:38]: How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? rm soft-link ~~~ Thanks, I didn't know if 'rm' on a softlink to a dir' would also remove all of it contents. rm -fR name_dir_softlink

Re: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 05 February 2007 22:00, James D. Parra wrote: * James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-07 15:38]: How do you remove a softlink without removing the directory it is referencing, just the softlink itself? rm soft-link ~~~ Thanks, I didn't know if 'rm' on a softlink to a dir'

Re: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-07 16:03]: [...] rm -fR name_dir_softlink This is exactly what you said that you did not want to do. 16:04 wahoo:~ rm --help Usage: /bin/rm [OPTION]... FILE... Remove (unlink) the FILE(s). -d, --directory unlink FILE, even if it is a

Re: [opensuse] Bash script help needed

2007-02-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 February 2007 12:46, Jan Karjalainen wrote: To continue on the same subject, how do I remove extra spaces from the list? 111.222.111.222 - 222.111.222.111,on should be 111.222.111.222-222.111.222.111,on Note that there should be no spaces around the - sign. sed -e 's/ *-

RE: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread James D. Parra
rm -fR name_dir_softlink This is exactly what you said that you did not want to do. ~~~ That is correct. If I us rm name_dir_softlink, rm says it can't remove a dir. I used 'unlink' and that gave me the result I was looking for. Thank you, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread James D. Parra
rm -fR name_dir_softlink This is exactly what you said that you did not want to do. ~~~ That is correct. If I us rm name_dir_softlink, rm says it can't remove a dir. ~~~ Let me correct the above statement. That is what I 'thought' it might say, however that is not the case. 'rm' removes the

Re: [opensuse] ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is.

2007-02-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 05 February 2007 3:37:53 pm Anders Johansson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 09:26, Fred A. Miller wrote: ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already running, even though it isn't.

[opensuse] need to move /var to RAID

2007-02-05 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system? Many thanks in advance. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] softlink

2007-02-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 05 February 2007 13:20, James D. Parra wrote: rm -fR name_dir_softlink This is exactly what you said that you did not want to do. ~~~ That is correct. If I us rm name_dir_softlink, rm says it can't remove a dir. ~~~ Let me correct the above statement. That is what I 'thought'

Re: [opensuse] need to move /var to RAID

2007-02-05 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Mon, 05 Feb 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system? Many thanks in advance. Goto single user runlevel. # init S Then do whatever you have to do. Theo -- Theo v. WerkhovenRegistered Linux

[opensuse] KSMServer translation/string bug

2007-02-05 Thread Mark A. Taff
Novell wants too much of my personal information to report a bug, so I hope someone here can either report or fix the bug. ;-) Using KDE 3.5.6 binaries. In the KSMServer end session dialog, there is popup help for the reboot option that contains a grammatical error. I think suse puts the text

Re: [opensuse] need to move /var to RAID

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Monday 05 February 2007 13:28, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system? While the system is running??? Wouldn't really do that. Best option would be to build your new filesystem, boot a rescue CD, then

Re: [opensuse] need to move /var to RAID

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Patton
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 22:51 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Mon, 05 Feb 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How can I move /var, currently on the system drive, to the RAID drive without hosing my system? Many thanks in advance. Goto single user runlevel. # init S Then do

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Bob S
On Monday 05 February 2007 05:07, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Bob S wrote: No, I was very careful to make sure it didn't wrap. Nevertheless I then copied and pasted the text file you sent me. Same result. On reboot 10.0 does not show up on the menu. Could you please post your menu.lst file in

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-02-05 16:51, Bob S wrote: snip ### Added 10.0 Boot ### title openSUSE 10.0 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd This is correct as per your /etc/fstab for 10.0 (from your message of

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Bob S wrote: OK Joe, Following: --- # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Feb 1 22:04:23 EST 2007 default 4 BTW, I would reset this back to 0 til 10.0 is booting OK. Just less work for you.

Re: [opensuse] Upgraded Hardware - Foreseeable Problems?

2007-02-05 Thread M Harris
On Monday 05 February 2007 19:34, Doug McGarrett wrote: The old adage, If it ain't broke, don't fix it, seems to me to apply here. Amen... ... actually there are only five rules... 1) If you open something, close it. 2) If you make a mess, clean it up.

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 05 February 2007, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Reuters is reporting that Novell may be banned from selling Linux. Linux copyright is not owned by the FSF, Linux distrbution components rights are owned by large number of individuals, business and institutions around the world.

[opensuse] Suse 10.2 on hp dv8000 - media slot issues

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Smith
I'm running opensuse 10.2 on an HP Pavilion dv8000t Everything is great except the built in media slots (sd-ram, etc.) don't work... Any hints on getting these working? Regular USB works fine. Thanks, Mike Smith -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 03 February 2007 10:08, James Montgomery wrote: Link to full story: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/0921201from=rss My question is, will this effect OpenSuSE, and if so, how? Actually, this is the link to the full story...

Re: [opensuse] device.map - Darryl/Carl/Boyd

2007-02-05 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:56 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote: As far as I know, it won't, but I'm not an MS Guru. Someone mentioned Norton Anti Virus (and IIRC McAffee) might have auto-repaired the boot sector thinking it might have been changed due to virus activity. I do remember having this

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 on hp dv8000 - media slot issues

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Lewis
Michael Smith wrote: I'm running opensuse 10.2 on an HP Pavilion dv8000t Everything is great except the built in media slots (sd-ram, etc.) don't work... Any hints on getting these working? Regular USB works fine. Thanks, Mike Smith Lots of people, including me, have

Re: [opensuse] Installation methods

2007-02-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 04 February 2007 21:27, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: Actually I decided to find out how to do that after I sent the message. (I'm not coming to tell you I was holding the ctrl key while using the scroll wheel)  :-D Never too old to learn something :-) Thanks. -- Regards, Rajko.

Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 on hp dv8000 - media slot issues

2007-02-05 Thread M Harris
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:08, Michael Smith wrote:    I'm running opensuse 10.2 on an HP Pavilion dv8000t  Everything is great except the built in media slots (sd-ram, etc.) don't work... Any hints on getting these working?  Regular USB works fine. I have three HP Pavilion

Re: [opensuse] vmware and kernel version problem

2007-02-05 Thread Donato Azevedo
On 2/5/07, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007, Donato Azevedo wrote: On 2/5/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Donato, You have to install kernel sources using YaST, and than try vmware installation again. I just installed it. Now I get this

[opensuse] Wireless network problems still

2007-02-05 Thread Art Fore
I have tried a number of things to stop the incessant beeping from the wireless network card when it drops the link and acquires it again. Nuting the speaker, plugging in head phones, etc. does no good and volume control has no effect. Tried some mods to ifplud config file with absolutely no

Re: [opensuse] KSMServer translation/string bug

2007-02-05 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 05 February 2007 15:52, Mark A. Taff wrote: Novell wants too much of my personal information to report a bug, so I hope someone here can either report or fix the bug. ;-) I've seen this complaint before. Last time I was there it asked for the name and email address, both for

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Unfound USB]

2007-02-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 05 February 2007 10:20:57 pm Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 21:56, Fred A. Miller wrote: ... The problem is with SMP kernel for more than one CPU present in the system: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231118 the link at the end has typo. Use this one:

Re: [opensuse] Ctrl-ScrollWheel (was: Installation methods)

2007-02-05 Thread Jim Cunning
On Monday 05 February 2007 19:05, Rajko M. wrote: On Sunday 04 February 2007 21:27, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: [...] (I'm not coming to tell you I was holding the ctrl key while using the scroll wheel)  :-D Never too old to learn something :-) Very interesting. Nonexhaustive, nonscientific

Re: [opensuse] Problems with HP Pavilion DV6000 [SOLVED]

2007-02-05 Thread J Sloan
Will Stephenson wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 04:20, J Sloan said: #1 - wireless connections via network manager: In gnome, I can connect to the secure wireless networks in my house, but with kde network manager I can't connect to either of them. The gnome applet allows me to choose all

Re: [opensuse] KSMServer translation/string bug

2007-02-05 Thread Mark A. Taff
On Monday 05 February 2007 21:26:41 Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 15:52, Mark A. Taff wrote: Novell wants too much of my personal information to report a bug, so I hope someone here can either report or fix the bug. ;-) I've seen this complaint before. Last time I was there it

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Bob S
On Monday 05 February 2007 18:03, Darryl Gregorash wrote: On 2007-02-05 16:51, Bob S wrote: snip ### Added 10.0 Boot ### title openSUSE 10.0 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd This is

Re: [opensuse] LILO/Grub Problem

2007-02-05 Thread Bob S
On Monday 05 February 2007 18:40, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: Bob S wrote: OK Joe, Following: - -- # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Feb 1 22:04:23 EST 2007 default 4 BTW, I would reset this

Re: [opensuse] Fact or Fiction? Possible Novell Ban

2007-02-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 02:43:25 John Andersen wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007, Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Reuters is reporting that Novell may be banned from selling Linux. Linux copyright is not owned by the FSF, Linux distrbution components rights are owned by large number of