Re: [opensuse] [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:35 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2007 16:57, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Monday 2007-12-03 at 16:05 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > from Illinois driving up to Wisconsin on weekends to party. > > > Finally, in part under pressur

Re: [opensuse] [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Howorth
Randall R Schulz wrote: > There used to be ongoing vehicular carnage in the > zone between southeastern Wisconsin and northeaster Illinois with kids > from Illinois driving up to Wisconsin on weekends to party. Finally, in > part under pressure from Illinois citizens and legislators, Wisconsin

[opensuse] lvm on raid

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi all, Followed the thraid on raid, and thought to have another spin at it, Read the pointers "how install SL on soft-raid" and lvm-on-raid. In the example the make two raid-devices, md0 and md1 md0 is used for root and md1 is the physical volume for the lvm. However, from yast, during install,

Re: [opensuse] Any news on SiS SATA problem

2007-12-04 Thread Bob
On Monday 03 December 2007 23:37:44 Greg Freemyer wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 6:14 PM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 03 December 2007 19:43:48 Greg Freemyer wrote: > > > On Dec 3, 2007 2:00 PM, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Each kernel update gets me excited as I hope they will

Re: [opensuse] Reset settings for -> "Open With.." > "Remember application association.."

2007-12-04 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:15:11 -0500 schrieb Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You associated the folder with amarok, not the mp3's. > > > > No, he associated the file-type "directory" with amarok. hi! i think this is exactly, what 'williamkow' didn't unterstand :) -- // Jonas de Buhr //

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Bob S wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2007 10:09:38 pm Cristian Rodríguez wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >> >>> It seems there is one major downside to all the disks being "called" scsi >>> devices in 10.3. >>> >> There is no downside, error or annoyance, it is just a well kn

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-03 at 21:53 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after re-reading the release notes i can see that libata can be disabled, thanks:) Only for 10.3, in version 11 this workaround might disappear. That's their intention :-( That

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 06:21 -0500, James Knott wrote: Bob S wrote: back. We patiently await fixing the partition limitation. Soon? I hope ? What happens if you use LVM? Are you still limited to 15 partitions? I guess not. By the wa

Re: [opensuse] lvm on raid

2007-12-04 Thread mourik jan heupink
> However, from yast, during install, after creating md1, you can either > format the md1, with the options of ext2,ext2,swap,vfat,etc etc. > Or choose not to format. > But here, it is not possible to choose to label it with lvm Hi Hans, I did this same procedure a few weeks ago, and this is how

[opensuse] Call for testers

2007-12-04 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hello everybody, during the openSUSE Packaging Day(s) [1] last weekend, I 'created' several packages. It was a very nice atmosphere in the channel and I felt people were very helpful to each other. I would like to express a big thank you at this place to all participants! I would like to get

Re: [opensuse] Re: save rpm files from online update

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 07:21 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: ... Here here. I REALLY hope they bring back the function to save RPMs and patches with the YOU tool. A proxy in all theory might work but it would require a separate box and

Re: [opensuse] Re: vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 08:02 +0100, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Cristian Rodríguez wrote: Bob S escribió: By being limited in the partitions available. Especially with the huge drives that are available today. LVM exists in order to preserve me

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 00:09 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: It seems there is one major downside to all the disks being "called" scsi devices in 10.3. There is no downside, erro

Re: [opensuse] Simpler forum for OpenSUSE?

2007-12-04 Thread Ken Schneider
Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2007 20:22, Ken Schneider wrote: >> ... >> >> And remember, on this list the only stupid question is the one that >> *isn't* asked. > > You insult the multitude of questions I have not asked! Just think of how stupid I fee

[opensuse] Amarok update won't update

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Flanagan
Hi, I did security updates to all offered updates on my new 10.3 install. All went well except the Amarok update does not seem to update. I've tried it alone several times and it shows to be updating with suse updater, but afterwards it still remains in the suse updater as a new update with versio

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 01:51 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: LVM exists in order to preserve mental sanity in such setups. Per your own documentation: Warning ] Using LVM might be associated with increased risk, such as data loss. ]

Re: [opensuse] [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
jpff wrote: >> "Ken" == Ken Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Ken> Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > > >> Babies were given one of those rubber things to suck and shut up (I > >> don't know the English name) > > Ken> pacifier > > That is the Americ

[opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Flanagan
Hi, On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" beside it. My partitions are set up as follows: primary /dev/md0 /boot extended /dev/md1

RE: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited

2007-12-04 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
|-Original Message- |From: nordi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 3. desember 2007 19:36 |To: suse |Subject: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited | |The current version of openSuse 10.3 easily outscores the GM version. Tanks for the update,Nordi, maye it is time to try 10.3 t

Re: [opensuse] Software updater Suse 10.1 still shows update available after update has been performed.

2007-12-04 Thread Ed McCanless
Ed McCanless wrote: > > Well, yes. I this case, Audacity was everything. The update was a > package, going from "Installed version 1.3.4-1.pm.beta-x86_64" to > "Available version 1.3.4-2.pm.beta-x86_64." > > Thanks, > > -ED- > Finally broke down and allowed update

Re: [opensuse] Starting apps automatically in console session - SOLVED

2007-12-04 Thread Ed McCanless
Aaron Kulkis wrote: > Stephan Hegel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks for the feedback, especially Randall's hints for generalization. >> Also, I've added already a few lines of code to check if dcop is >> installed and executable. >> > > The best way to learn shell scripting is by looking > at other

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Jc Polanycia
I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you running your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using image files gives us more flexibility in with our VMs(portable, easily duplicatable)

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Jc Polanycia
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:46:03 Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using > > software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in > > Kinfocenter>memory swap is sh

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Howorth
Dave Howorth wrote: >>> I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do >>> enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught >>> process if anything goes wrong :( >>> >>> I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went >>> happily and eve

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: > Hi, > > On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software > raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory > swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" beside it. > My partiti

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-12-04 Thread Michel Rasquin
Thanks a lot gentlemen for all your suggestions... I played a little bit with the rsize and wsize options for the nfs clients and I made some test on the network speed with some dd commands. The best results for the clients were obtained with rw,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 To test the writing

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
Jim Flanagan wrote: > I tried editing swap in yast to format it > again as /swap but it failed with an error code -3004. If i understand it well mount point in partitioner for partitions formatted as swap should be "swap" not "/swap". Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread jdd
Philippe Landau wrote: Jim Flanagan wrote: I tried editing swap in yast to format it again as /swap but it failed with an error code -3004. If i understand it well mount point in partitioner for partitions formatted as swap should be "swap" not "/swap". Kind regards Philippe there is no

Re: [opensuse] lvm on raid *solved(

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:43 +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > > However, from yast, during install, after creating md1, you can either > > format the md1, with the options of ext2,ext2,swap,vfat,etc etc. > > Or choose not to format. > > But here, it is not possible to choose to label it with lvm >

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Flanagan
Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software >> raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory >> swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 15:16 +0100, Michel Rasquin wrote: I played a little bit with the rsize and wsize options for the nfs clients and I made some test on the network speed with some dd commands. The best results for the clients were obtain

[opensuse] My 10.2 machine stopped booting

2007-12-04 Thread opns0246
Hi All, I have a machine which has been happily running 10.2 since it came out, and earlier versions before that. Just this week is has stopped booting. It gets as far as writing GRUB on the screen then apparently locks up, pressing NumLock doesn't toggle the LED etc. It boots just fine off

[opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread James Hatridge
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 01:57, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Here (Spain) the... how do you say? the age to be of age? Ok, they are > adults at 18, for all things: driving, drinking, voting, owning property, > marrying, going to prisons (as inmates)... I believe there are some > exceptions, like heavy

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Bryen
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:06 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: > Jc Polanycia wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:46:03 Matthew Stringer wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirro

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread M. Todd Smith
On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Jim Flanagan wrote: error code -3004 You haven't defined any swap space it seems. Swap space is space reserved on your hard drive for the machine to use for paging out of memory. It is defined in the partition manager as a FILESYSTEM TYPE which is named s

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Jim Flanagan
Jc Polanycia wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:46:03 Matthew Stringer wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using >>> software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Matthew Stringer wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi, On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" besid

[opensuse] Re: vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jc Polanycia wrote: > I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > running > your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? -to use existing installations? -to use an already existing windows without the need to either install again or

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Neil
Hi I live in the Netherlands, and we can drink beer and buy weed at 16. We have to wait to 18 to drive though. I would say this is a good sequence. The "drinking till you drop" has been tried before you are allowed to drive a car, and everyone knows where their limits are by then. Most do not care

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: > Hi > > I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] My 10.2 machine stopped booting

2007-12-04 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tue December 4 2007 10:13:54 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a machine which has been happily running 10.2 since it came out, >  and earlier versions before that. Just this week is has stopped booting. >  It gets as far as writing GRUB on the screen then apparently locks up, >  pressing Num

Re: [opensuse] in 10.2 two & two masters & slaves. Now in 10.3 one is missing

2007-12-04 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 02:28:14 Patrick Shanahan wrote: > /usr/sbin/hdinfo --cdrom /usr/sbin/hdinfo --cdrom bash: /usr/sbin/hdinfo: No such file or directory That is all. No hardware info about the cdrom. Still looking for the d***ed device. It worked up to 10.2 and still boot the 10.3 DVD

Re: [opensuse] Re: vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:32, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Jc Polanycia wrote: > > I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > > running your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files > > on a filesystem? > > -to use existing installations? > -to use an alre

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 16:45 +0100, Neil wrote: > Hi > > I live in the Netherlands, and we can drink beer and buy weed at 16. > We have to wait to 18 to drive though. > I would say this is a good sequence. The "drinking till you drop" has > been tried before you are allowed to drive a car, and ever

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: > > Hi > > > > I live in the Netherlands, ... > > Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job > offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. > Don't.

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
jdd wrote: > Philippe Landau wrote: >> Jim Flanagan wrote: >>> I tried editing swap in yast to format it >>> again as /swap but it failed with an error code -3004. >> If i understand it well mount point in partitioner >> for partitions formatted as swap should be "swap" not "/swap". > there is no m

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Jos van Kan
Randall R Schulz schreef: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: >> Hi >> >> I live in the Netherlands, ... > > Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job > offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the late 80s. A few years later they decided to lay off the

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Catimimi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It seems there is one major downside to all the disks being "called" scsi devices in 10.3. There are applications that take /dev/scx literally as a scsi disk x. One such application is vmware. This ended being a major problem when i tried to use a raw partition as a

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Russell Jones
Hans Witvliet wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:56 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: Hi I live in the Netherlands, ... Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made to me in the

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] British time

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:30, Jos van Kan wrote: > Randall R Schulz schreef: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:45, Neil wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I live in the Netherlands, ... > > > > Every year that goes by I regret more and more not accepting the > > job offer that Philips (Apeldorn) made t

Re: [opensuse] in 10.2 two & two masters & slaves. Now in 10.3 one is missing

2007-12-04 Thread Ken Schneider
Constant Brouerius van nidek pecked at the keyboard and wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 02:28:14 Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> /usr/sbin/hdinfo --cdrom > > /usr/sbin/hdinfo --cdrom > bash: /usr/sbin/hdinfo: No such file or directory > > That is all. No hardware info about the cdrom. > Still loo

[opensuse] Migration Assistant

2007-12-04 Thread Pavol Rusnak
Hello all! Ubuntu came with nice feature called Migration Assistant. It helps user to migrate documents and settings from another OS present on system. Currently it supports Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux. We imagined that it would be nice feature to have also in SUSE, so I began investigati

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: > Matthew Stringer wrote: > > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster just > > to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one). > > Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system running when a > dr

[opensuse] Attempting to remove acroread 7.x --> nspluginwrapper inconsistency

2007-12-04 Thread Timothy Cahill
I am using Opensuse 10.3 (64-bit) with MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.11-1.1 (x86_64), nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-2.3 (x86_64) and acroread-7.0.9-59 (i586). When I attempt rpm -e acroread, I get the following error: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 623: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Jc Polanycia
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 10:02:45 Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: > > Matthew Stringer wrote: > > > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster > > > just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one). > > > >

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Worley
On Dec 4, 2007 6:28 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > running > your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? > We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using image files give

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Aaron Kulkis
James Knott wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi, On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory swap is shown as not available. Yast shows sw

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Matthew Stringer wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one). Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system run

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Jim Flanagan wrote: Hi, On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" beside it. My partitions are set up as follows: primary /dev/md0 /b

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Jc Polanycia wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 10:02:45 Matthew Stringer wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one).

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Chris Worley wrote: On Dec 4, 2007 6:28 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you running your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus image files on a filesystem? We use VMWare a bit over here and found that using imag

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote: > ... > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > perform best), What impact do you believe partitioning has on disk performance? I can think of none. > ... > > Chris Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

[opensuse] Re: [OT] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Jc Polanycia
> Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > perform best), but, you're setting yourself up for disaster using LVM > (any corruption to the LVM layer is not recoverable... you'll loose > everything... been there done that), and the performance is poor, and > MD RAID5/6 device

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Matthew Stringer wrote: On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster just to have multiple ones instead (you're not limited to one). Given one of the goals of RAID is to keep the system run

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Worley
On Dec 4, 2007 10:16 AM, Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Worley wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007 6:28 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I've been following this thread and have a question. Why are you > >> running > >> your VMWare instances on raw partitions versus

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:28, you wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 10:20 AM, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > > > perform best), > > > > What imp

Re: [opensuse] Re: [OT] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Worley
On Dec 4, 2007 10:22 AM, Jc Polanycia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > > perform best), but, you're setting yourself up for disaster using LVM > > (any corruption to the LVM layer is not recoverable... you'll loose > > everything... be

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 17:22:24 James Knott wrote: > Matthew Stringer wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: > >> Matthew Stringer wrote: > >>> I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster > >>> just to have multiple ones instead (you're not l

[opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-04 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Any one in the list in the UK? I need to test a webpage a make sure folks in the UK can view it. My apologies for posting this request to the list. If someone knows of a site in the UK that tests DNS or webpages, that would be most helpful. Many thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread kanenas
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 02:02:46 am Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-12-03 at 21:53 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > after re-reading the release notes i can see that libata can be disabled, > > thanks:) > > Only for 10.3, in version 11 this workaround might disappear. That's > their in

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-04 Thread Benji Weber
On 04/12/2007, James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Any one in the list in the UK? I need to test a webpage a make sure folks in > the UK can view it. It might help if you included the link. -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-04 Thread Bikram Chatterjee
Thanks for the reply Todd, Oh yes, I did that several times... (old windows habbit). I restarted the machine also! Each time I change the resolution and try to save it a window comes with "Test" button. This takes me to a screen that looks like adjusting screen size and position etc, I guess thi

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:20:54 -0800 Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote: > > ... > > > > Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives > > perform best), > > What impact do you believe partitioning has on disk perform

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread kanenas
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:33:33 am Catimimi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > It seems there is one major downside to all the disks being "called" scsi > > devices in 10.3. There are applications that take /dev/scx literally as a > > scsi disk x. One such application is vmware. This end

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 17:22:24 James Knott wrote: > >> Matthew Stringer wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: >>> Matthew Stringer wrote: > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-04 Thread Allister Gearon
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 18:07, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > Any one in the list in the UK? I need to test a webpage a make sure folks > in the UK can view it. In the UK, yes. Post your URL. -- Cheers Allister Gearon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [opensuse] Zypper disappeared from panel - boost update bug help from IRC channel #suse

2007-12-04 Thread Jerry Feldman
Just want to add that this was solved. I don't know why the SuSE Updater disappeared from the panel, but after reinstalling boost and zypper, it did not come back. I then did a subsequent YOU, and found an interesting unsolvable dependency. I fixed that by adding another repository, but in further

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Herbert Graeber
Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2007 13:48:46 schrieb Jim Flanagan: > On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using software > raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in Kinfocenter>memory > swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with an "*" beside it. > My partitions

[opensuse] GTK Integration with KDE 4

2007-12-04 Thread Ben Kevan
This is actually more towards Will or any other "KDE 4 Developer" that has insight on the project. What is the status or thoughts of GTK integration with KDE 4? Will KDE 4.0.0 release just give us an ugly GTK integration? (Right now Firefox is still pretty darn hidious). I know you have bigg

[opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Ben Kevan
With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the application Bluefish as an RPM. Do we know if anyone worked on this specific package? Really miss this one. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I wonder if any body has the same problem - the check is simple, run this grep command: grep "time

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
Carlos E. R. wrote: > I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, > and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. > I believe there must be a kernel problem or ntp problem in 10.3. Excellent work, Carlos, someone on PCLinux told me of a similar proble

Re: [opensuse] vmware and fake scsi devs

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 08:16 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, a symlink would not work. You should change all the references to device independent ones, like label, id, or uuid (not sure if all are valid). Nowhere should you have references

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 01:05 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. I believe there must be

[opensuse] Remove all audio

2007-12-04 Thread Chris Arnold
I use SLES10 and this server does not have audio of any type. I am wanting to remove all audio (gstreamer, gnome-audio, flac and all the other multimedia/audio) from this server. I tried removing gnome-audio and gstreamer but of course it is hooked to all kinds of stuff. Even vcdimager is tied to s

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Stephan Hegel
Ben Kevan wrote: > With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the application > Bluefish as an RPM. I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education:/desktop/openSUSE_10.3 Rgds, Stephan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
Stephan Hegel wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: >> With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the application >> Bluefish as an RPM. > I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: >http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education:/desktop/openSUSE_10.3 Which file there d

[opensuse] Wine-Doors

2007-12-04 Thread Joseph Loo
I have been playing with Wine Doors on Opensuse 10.3. I downloaded the program from the 10.3 repository. It was working fine in the initial program. Subsequently, there has been an update and I now get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> wine-doors ]Created log file: wine-doors.log Started

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very > slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. > > I wonder if any body has the same problem - the check is simple, run > this grep command: > > > grep "time reset " /var/l

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Stephan Hegel
Philippe Landau wrote: > Stephan Hegel wrote: >> Ben Kevan wrote: >>> With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the >>> application >>> Bluefish as an RPM. >> I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: >>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education:/deskt

Re: [opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.3 benchmarking revisited

2007-12-04 Thread Linda Walsh
nordi wrote: However, comparing results to 10.0 shows that overall, the performance of the base system is still not as good as it could be, at least in this benchmark. Suse 10.0 still scores higher in most areas. Since the syscall test scores are ~12% lower than in 10.0, it seems logical that

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Joseph Loo
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm investigating a problem I'm having with the clock getting very > > slow, and I have traced the problem to something new in opensuse 10.3. > > > > I wonder if any body has the same problem - the

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Philippe Landau
Bluefish is a powerful html and programming editor supporting search/replace patterns over several documents: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ Stephan Hegel wrote: >>> I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: >>> >>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education:/desktop/openS

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 17:41 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: grep "time reset " /var/log/ntp | less I get 24 Oct 19:41:38 ntpd[3347]: time reset -0.130426 s 29 Oct 18:20:20 ntpd[3433]: time res

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Billie Walsh
Somewhere in the past I read that computers are wonderful machines. Capable of great things. BUT, they are horrible clocks. The way it was explained was that when system use was high and resources were strained the clock was the last thing to get updated. Thus, it looses time. I'm sure it isn't ne

[opensuse] Dial on Demand on opensuse10.2 and sonyericson k-608i

2007-12-04 Thread Patrik Hasibuan
Dear my friends... I build my SOHO facility with opensuse10.2. The internet gateway has sonyericson k-608i as its modem. I use BIND as the DNS server. And squid as the proxy server. ip-masquarading from SuSEfirewall. All of them are in the same linux-box. Everything runs properly if the interne

Re: [opensuse] ntp can not manage to put the clock in sync.

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Anderson
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 17:41 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 20:24 -0500, James Knott wrote: grep "time reset " /var/log/ntp | less >>> >>> I get 24 Oct 19:41:38 ntpd[3347]: time reset -0.130426 s >>> 29 Oct 18:20:20 ntpd[3433]: time r

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-04 Thread Bill Anderson
Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 17:22:24 James Knott wrote: >> Matthew Stringer wrote: >>> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 15:27:06 James Knott wrote: Matthew Stringer wrote: > I don't normally SoftRAID the swap partitions as it would be faster > just to have multip

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Ben Kevan
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:18:58 pm Philippe Landau wrote: > Stephan Hegel wrote: > > Ben Kevan wrote: > >> With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the > >> application Bluefish as an RPM. > > > > I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: > > > > http://downl

Re: [opensuse] BlueFish - Was it worked on during the "Package Days"

2007-12-04 Thread Ben Kevan
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 05:02:38 pm Stephan Hegel wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > > With the merger of the packman and guru repositories we lost the > > application Bluefish as an RPM. > > I've got mine from the openSUSE-Education repository: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Educati

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