Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper from 10.3 to 10.2

2007-12-05 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi! Dne Wednesday 05 of December 2007 02:39:30 Gabriel . napsal(a): Is it possible to have zypper and yast from 10.3 working on 10.2? Does it have any special requirement? In theory yes, however, you will have to rebuild all binary packages (including libzypp) against 10.2 (and not be

[opensuse-factory] update to factory package error

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
In the process of updating to factory (using zypper dup, first time doing this on test machine), what should I do when I encounter the following type of error? [package] fails integrity check In this case it is bundle-lang-kde-en-11.0-23 -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998

Re: [opensuse-factory] About kde4 bugs in kde-four-live

2007-12-05 Thread Ladislav Michnovič
2007/12/3, Daniele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI all, I don't have time to search/follow kde bugzilla so what I have to do with kde4 bugs in kde-for-live? IMHO most of the serious bugs are reported. If you have no time to search the bugzilla and want to be sure that the maintainer get know, fill a

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to factory package error

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 05 Dezember 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: In the process of updating to factory (using zypper dup, first time doing this on test machine), what should I do when I encounter the following type of error? [package] fails integrity check In this case it is bundle-lang-kde-en-11.0-23

[opensuse-factory] Install dependencies

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
During the course of installing software sometimes additional software needs to be installed due to dependencies. Example I select program Y to be installed and it needs program Z installed to satisfy a dependency. If I change my mind and decide *not* to install program Y the installer still

Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper from 10.3 to 10.2

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 05 Dezember 2007 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger: in the BuildService home:dimstar, I started to collect everything that is needed to bring a working yast back, but the Factory-Imported yast actually does not compile in the BuildService (well: it would be time to switch the whole

Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper from 10.3 to 10.2

2007-12-05 Thread Gabriel .
On Dec 5, 2007 5:31 AM, Dominique Leuenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, in fact, zypper works quiet well, and libzypp is of course needed. Unfortunately, when doing so, you have to upgrade almost all of the Yast2 stack (packeger is missing dependencies, new version requires new yast

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to factory package error

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
Stephan Kulow pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Am Mittwoch 05 Dezember 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: In the process of updating to factory (using zypper dup, first time doing this on test machine), what should I do when I encounter the following type of error? [package] fails integrity check

Re: [opensuse-factory] Install dependencies

2007-12-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Ken Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-05-07 17:42]: During the course of installing software sometimes additional software needs to be installed due to dependencies. Example I select program Y to be installed and it needs program Z installed to

Re: [opensuse-factory] Install dependencies

2007-12-05 Thread Gabriel
El mié, 05-12-2007 a las 18:03 -0500, Patrick Shanahan escribió: You should use the force, Luke: rpm -q --whatrequires subject-package a little investigation would be called for before calling the BugZilla. You are suggesting a manual verification, this is not the real solution. Yast

Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper from 10.3 to 10.2

2007-12-05 Thread Jiri Srain
Hi! Dne Wednesday 05 of December 2007 02:39:30 Gabriel . napsal(a): Is it possible to have zypper and yast from 10.3 working on 10.2? Does it have any special requirement? In theory yes, however, you will have to rebuild all binary packages (including libzypp) against 10.2 (and not be able to

Re: [opensuse-factory] update to factory package error

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 05 Dezember 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: Thanks. One other question regarding factory, would it be possible notify this list when factory is going to be updated so that people will know when to/not to update their systems? Factory is updated by cron jobs. You can upgrade your system

Re: [opensuse-factory] Install dependencies

2007-12-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-05-07 20:26]: El mié, 05-12-2007 a las 18:03 -0500, Patrick Shanahan escribió: You should use the force, Luke: rpm -q --whatrequires subject-package a little investigation would be called for before calling

Re: [opensuse-factory] Install dependencies

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
Gabriel pecked at the keyboard and wrote: El mié, 05-12-2007 a las 18:03 -0500, Patrick Shanahan escribió: You should use the force, Luke: rpm -q --whatrequires subject-package a little investigation would be called for before calling the BugZilla. You are suggesting a manual

re:[opensuse] Problem getting printing to work in OpenOffice

2007-12-05 Thread Michel Rasquin
I had the same kind of problem with oo and OpenSuSE 10.2. The reason in my case is that oo is not initially configured to print through a NFS network. If your document to print is stored on a disk mounted with NFS, then edit the file /usr/bin/soffice and uncomment the two first lines:

[opensuse] Multiple audio apps

2007-12-05 Thread John
Hi, Have been living with this for a while, have tried a few things at different times to fix, but as yet still can't get multiple applications to successfully access the audio system in SUSE (or probably any other linux). When I start up I like to have Amarok open and also either Skype or

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

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 10:08 -, Fergus Wilde wrote: The rate of boozing does seem to be higher in the Netherlands. It's higher even than in the UK, though it did start out a lot lower. Booze is very much cheaper in Spain and Italy than

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

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Howorth
Carlos E. R. wrote: Can it be a filtering mechanism for the human species? Only the apt and sober survive? Better they die young than when a family depends on them? What a thought :( Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be

Re: [opensuse] ktorrent

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Binner
On Wednesday, 5. December 2007 10:14:24 Hans Witvliet wrote: Does anybody knows about any progress on KDE/ktorrent? The opensuse-kde mailing list maybe? :-) According to the list on kde.org, ktorrent is not to blame, but kde itself. Your bug report sounds different. It was stated in june

Re: [opensuse] Amarok update won't update

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Binner
On Tuesday, 4. December 2007 13:37:50 Jim Flanagan wrote: 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 version 4492-0. Yast shows installed version at 1.4.7-37-4.

Re: [opensuse] Amarok update won't update

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas Goettlicher
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:07 +0100, Stephan Binner wrote: On Tuesday, 4. December 2007 13:37:50 Jim Flanagan wrote: 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 version 4492-0. Yast

Re: [opensuse] [OT] British time

2007-12-05 Thread Damon Register
James Knott wrote: jpff wrote: That is the American name; in English it is called a Dummy I thought that referred to the president. ;-) But England doesn't have a president... :-) Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] GTK Integration with KDE 4

2007-12-05 Thread Stephan Binner
On Wednesday, 5. December 2007 00:10:01 Ben Kevan wrote: This is actually more towards Will or any other KDE 4 Developer that has insight on the project. This is actually more a questions which fits on opensuse-kde mailing list. What is the status or thoughts of GTK integration with KDE 4?

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Anderson
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 19:38 -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: There is no need to create the swap partitions as RAID drives. The simple solution is to use the ionice command to set the I/O priority of all swap partitions to the same value. The kernel then treats

Re: [opensuse] what is file /etc/aliases.YaST2save

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:- snip My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the aliases.YaST2save file, it just saves it in case it breaks something during an update, so that you can manually look in it to see

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 22:05 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: Herbert Graeber wrote: My partitions are set up as follows: primary /dev/md0 /boot extended /dev/md1 /swap /dev/md2 / /dev/md3 /home /dev/md4 /share 3. Have two swap partions one

Re: [opensuse] ketchup

2007-12-05 Thread James Knott
Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: How many of you use this program to keep your kernel up to date? If so, how do you like it? I'm thinking of using it once I find a good site with some information on it. One thing that's important on a list such as this, is a relevant title. A title

Re: [opensuse] what is file /etc/aliases.YaST2save

2007-12-05 Thread David Bolt
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Roger Hayter wrote:- snip My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the aliases.YaST2save file, it just saves it in case it breaks something during an update, so that you can manually look in it to see what you had before the update. I could, of course,

Re: [opensuse] what is file /etc/aliases.YaST2save

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 12:26 -, Roger Hayter wrote: My understanding was that yast did not actually do anything with the aliases.YaST2save file, it just saves it in case it breaks something during an update, so that you can manually

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Herbert Graeber
Carlos E. R. schrieb: The Tuesday 2007-12-04 at 22:05 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote: Herbert Graeber wrote: My partitions are set up as follows: primary /dev/md0 /boot extended /dev/md1 /swap /dev/md2 / /dev/md3 /home /dev/md4 /share 3. Have two swap partions one without raid for

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.3 - mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-56 Broken

2007-12-05 Thread Sunny
On Dec 3, 2007 6:13 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Among other things, mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-56 is broken in 10.3. The app starts, but freezes as soon as you select a schema. It works fine in 10.0 and worked fine in 10.2. What gives? Anybody else have any

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 06:48 -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: For perfomance, yes, you are right. For safety, no, you are wrong. I don't see the safety issue as a major issue. The kernel avoids sending dirty pages to swap. Also, any time the

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin 2.3

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold wrote: I am using SLED SP1 and pidgin 2.2.1 and i want to install pidgin 2.3. So, i found pidgin 2.3 on benjiweber search. I went to install pidgin 2.3 and got dependency error: rpm -Uvh pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpurple = 2.3.0 is needed

Re: [opensuse] what is file /etc/aliases.YaST2save

2007-12-05 Thread David Bolt
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:- On 12/05/2007 09:14 PM, David Bolt wrote: AFAIK, if YaST2 is used to generate a file, in this case /etc/aliases and the original file has been modified by the user, YaST2 saves the file with the changes it's made to a file with the .YaST2save

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin 2.3

2007-12-05 Thread Chee How Chua
On Dec 5, 2007 11:37 PM, Dominique Leuenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2007 at 5:33 PM, Chris Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, i got libpurple 2.3 from benjiweber search and tryied to install it and got dependency error : rpm -Uvh libpurple-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm error: Failed

Re: [opensuse] How to find what boot options i can use?

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
Rikard Johnels pecked at the keyboard and wrote: How/where can i find what boot options i have? (maxcpus=1, noacpi and the like) I need to pass something to prevent hald from running on boot, as the box i am trying to install always hangs at the init of hald. Even safe mode starts it, so

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-05 Thread Sloan
Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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. Why would geographic location matter? The whole idea of the WWW is that viewing is location independant. Hmm, you might want to compare notes

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Kulkis
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 multiple ones instead

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

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Chris Worley wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Screen Resolution problem

2007-12-05 Thread Bikram Chatterjee
Thanks for your reply Gabriel, The /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager I have is: (I left out the commented lines) DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER=Xorg DISPLAYMANAGER_XGL_OPTS=-accel glx:pbuffer -accel xv:pbuffer DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS=no DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE=no

[opensuse] Password vaulting

2007-12-05 Thread Kain, Becki (B.)
Hi: What do folks use for password vaulting on Linux, especially for root? Thanks in advance Becki Kain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: UK users help

2007-12-05 Thread James Hatridge
Hi all.. On Tuesday 04 December 2007 23:08, Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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. Why would geographic location matter? The whole idea of the WWW is that viewing is location

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

2007-12-05 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 23:50:16 Ken Schneider wrote: 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

[opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Creighton
I feel like taking my favorite deity's name in vain so he would smite me off of the face of the earth because I couldn't be madder in hell than I am now at openSuSE's updater program. I have a raid disk controller that is not directly supported by any kernel issued by openSuSE. Worse, there are

[opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT)

2007-12-05 Thread Jason Craig
Hi, not really about SUSE, but here goes. I'm trying to install a Windows program with Wine. The program has two discs, and when the install asks for the second one, I am unable to remove the CD, it complains that wineserver is still using it. Now, I know wineserver *looks* like it is using it,

[opensuse] howto to start with compiz/3d gadgets

2007-12-05 Thread jdd
Hello, I not really found of gadgets and most 3d effets I've seen loks like this, but having got a new laptop, I would like to install them, let only to make vista owners jalous :-) However the wiki is overcrowded by unusefull doc :-(. I find, with some difficulty, how to install the nvidia

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 16:32 -, Matthew Stringer wrote: If swap is a major issue you've clearly not got enough RAM ;) Swap is not a major issue; I didn't say that. What we are saying is that loss of swap when there is something

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 14:37 -0500, Richard Creighton wrote: Shortly after rebooting, the updater said it had a security patch on the new .13 kernel and (I know, I should know better than to trust anything by now), it was small, a patch and

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
I agree. How can a post like that be helpful? Could the author really be that happy about someone who is patching his kernel (while, more than likely, a helpful contributer to the list) will lose all of their data? Yes, I could. Specially after reading an email that seems to be writtien by a

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Kulkis
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. Why would geographic location matter? The whole idea of the WWW is that viewing is location independant. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

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

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Worley
On Dec 4, 2007 11:49 AM, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Worley wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
Wow! Well Ken, I stand corrected. yeah wow... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
There was absolutely no reason for Druid's response. Sure there was, just not one that was topical, polite, helpful, or warranted. Yeah, seems like an empty rant... just like the original post. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread James D. Parra
-Original Message- From: Ken Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:13 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight! James D. Parra pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40,

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Bryen
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:12 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote: James D. Parra pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data Wow. A new low. RRS ~~~

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
You could join me and send a message to the list owner and request the Druid be removed. There was absolutely no reason for Druid's response. There wasnt a reason for yours either. So Im sending a message to the list owner to remove us both. Regards Marcio -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] ketchup

2007-12-05 Thread James Knott
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:26:31AM -0500, James Knott wrote: Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: How many of you use this program to keep your kernel up to date? If so, how do you like it? I'm thinking of using it once I find a good site with some information on it. One

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data On 12/5/07, Richard Creighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like taking my favorite deity's name in vain so he would smite me off of the face of the earth because I couldn't be madder in hell than

[opensuse] Pidgin 2.3

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Arnold
I am using SLED SP1 and pidgin 2.2.1 and i want to install pidgin 2.3. So, i found pidgin 2.3 on benjiweber search. I went to install pidgin 2.3 and got dependency error: rpm -Uvh pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpurple = 2.3.0 is needed by pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586

[opensuse] How to find what boot options i can use?

2007-12-05 Thread Rikard Johnels
How/where can i find what boot options i have? (maxcpus=1, noacpi and the like) I need to pass something to prevent hald from running on boot, as the box i am trying to install always hangs at the init of hald. Even safe mode starts it, so i cant get the machine installed in the first place.

System update undo option would help (Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Philippe Landau
Ken Schneider wrote: Another thing you can do is download the updated kernel from the update site[1] and install it yourself using rpm -i and it will install as another bootable kernel and give you a chance to make your module and test before removing any older kernel. [1]

[opensuse] test

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Kulkis
test -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Processes amuck

2007-12-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:58, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: I have 2 suse boxes that are web servers with load averages consistently above 65 (they are 4 processor intel boxes). Top shows : top - 15:52:36 up 359 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 66.08, 66.18, 66.10 Tasks: 393 total,

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/12/05 15:12 (GMT-0500) Ken Schneider apparently typed: James D. Parra pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data Wow. A new low. I agree. How

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Stringer
Richard Creighton wrote: I feel like taking my favorite deity's name in vain so he would smite me off of the face of the earth because I couldn't be madder in hell than I am now at openSuSE's updater program. snip Get with it openSuSE If my name was Bill Gates, I'd be spending a few

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
James D. Parra pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data Wow. A new low. RRS ~~~ I agree. How can a post like that be helpful? Could the author

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Creighton
Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data I'm very surprised you can read...there weren't any pictures in my post, however, for your edification and delight, I maintain good backups and rsync several repositories just for

[opensuse] Processes amuck

2007-12-05 Thread Kain, Becki (B.)
I have 2 suse boxes that are web servers with load averages consistently above 65 (they are 4 processor intel boxes). Top shows : top - 15:52:36 up 359 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 66.08, 66.18, 66.10 Tasks: 393 total, 1 running, 392 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 35.9% us,

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin 2.3

2007-12-05 Thread K.R. Foley
Chris Arnold wrote: I am using SLED SP1 and pidgin 2.2.1 and i want to install pidgin 2.3. So, i found pidgin 2.3 on benjiweber search. I went to install pidgin 2.3 and got dependency error: rpm -Uvh pidgin-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpurple = 2.3.0 is needed

Re: [opensuse] ketchup

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:26:31AM -0500, James Knott wrote: Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: How many of you use this program to keep your kernel up to date? If so, how do you like it? I'm thinking of using it once I find a good site with some information on it. One

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: If swap is a major issue you've clearly not got enough RAM ;) Swap is not a major issue; I didn't say that. What we are saying is that loss of swap when there is something swapped IS a major issue. what this remark may me think is this: is the swap really identical to

Re: [opensuse] How to find what boot options i can use?

2007-12-05 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 18:12, Ken Schneider wrote: Rikard Johnels pecked at the keyboard and wrote: How/where can i find what boot options i have? (maxcpus=1, noacpi and the like) I need to pass something to prevent hald from running on boot, as the box i am trying to install

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Ken Schneider
Richard Creighton pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 14:37 -0500, Richard Creighton wrote: Shortly after rebooting, the updater said it had a security patch on the new .13 kernel and (I know, I should know better than to trust anything by

RE: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread James D. Parra
-Original Message- From: Druid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:19 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight! You could join me and send a message to the list owner and request the Druid be removed. There

[opensuse] Trouble running Eclipse on 10.3

2007-12-05 Thread Jim Cunning
Good day all, I recently updaded my laptop from 10.1 to 10.3, and then in Yast selected the eclipse RPMs: eclipse-archdep-platform and eclipse-archdep-platform-commons After installation, there is no eclipse* in the path, and nothing visible in the KDE start menus. When I enter

RE: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread James D. Parra
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data Wow. A new low. RRS ~~~ I agree. How can a post like that be helpful? Could the author really be that happy about someone who is patching his

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

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Howorth
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:48 +0100, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Tue, 04 Dec 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper

2007-12-05 Thread Jim Flanagan
Keller, Damon A SPC MIL USA wrote: Hello, Could someone copy and paste there hwcfg-bus-pci- file, IF you have a bcm4306 wifi card and using ndiswrapper. In 10.2, my notebook's wlan card was found and the hwcfg was easily edited and the card ran fine at boot up. Now in 10.3, I have

Re: OpenSuse ignoring most problem reports (was: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Bryen
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 23:18 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: SNIP It is obvious that OpenSuse ignores the vast majority of problem reports. There are great programmers working for them that have to concentrate on their tasks given by the hierarchy. The moment you publicly question the

Re: OpenSuse ignoring most problem reports (was: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Druid
On 12/5/07, Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Creighton wrote: For many weeks, going on months, I studiously ignored the red triangle of the updater. I weakened this one time.I will NEVER trust the updater again. All updates had been done via the YAST online update

System load and CPU usage monitoring (was: [opensuse] Processes amuck

2007-12-05 Thread Philippe Landau
Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: I'm confused - and I'll admit that it's been a while since I've been a sys ad. Httpd runs in user space, right? So why am I not seeing system processes at the top of top? Or am I reading this incorrectly? What more can I be looking at to see what in system space is

Re: [opensuse] Processes amuck

2007-12-05 Thread Bryen
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:58 -0500, Kain, Becki (B.) wrote: I have 2 suse boxes that are web servers with load averages consistently above 65 (they are 4 processor intel boxes). Top shows : top - 15:52:36 up 359 days, 19:01, 3 users, load average: 66.08, 66.18, 66.10 Tasks: 393 total,

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Creighton
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 14:37 -0500, Richard Creighton wrote: Shortly after rebooting, the updater said it had a security patch on the new .13 kernel and (I know, I should know better than to trust anything by now),

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahahah hope you had lost all your data Wow. A new low. RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread James Knott
jdd wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: If swap is a major issue you've clearly not got enough RAM ;) Swap is not a major issue; I didn't say that. What we are saying is that loss of swap when there is something swapped IS a major issue. what this remark may me think is this: is the swap really

Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Dog Walker
On 12/5/07, Ken Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James D. Parra pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:40, Druid wrote: [flush] I agree. How can a post like that be helpful? Could the author really be that happy about someone who is patching his kernel

Re: OpenSuse ignoring most problem reports (was: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!

2007-12-05 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Philippe Landau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-05-07 17:18]: It is obvious that OpenSuse ignores the vast majority of problem reports. There are great programmers working for them that have to concentrate on their tasks given by the hierarchy. The moment

[opensuse] Server stuck at Starting Hardware Scan at boot point

2007-12-05 Thread ankush grover
Hi Friends, I have installed Suse 9.0 Enterprise Edition on Core2Duo Xeon 3040 (2.4 Ghz) ,4GB DDR2 667 RAM and Hitachi 160 GB IDE HDD . I had installed the server with the minimal configuration but now need GUI for ex kde or gnome. I installed both kde and gnome but now the server is not

Re: [opensuse] Pidgin 2.3

2007-12-05 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 12/5/2007 at 5:33 PM, Chris Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, i got libpurple 2.3 from benjiweber search and tryied to install it and got dependency error : rpm -Uvh libpurple-2.3.0-3.1.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libpurple = 2.2.1 is needed by (installed)

Re: [opensuse] swap not available

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 15:39:36 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 06:48 -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: For perfomance, yes, you are right. For safety, no, you are wrong. I don't see the safety issue as a major issue. The kernel avoids sending dirty pages to swap. Also,

[opensuse] KDE system - gnome dependencies???

2007-12-05 Thread ne . . .
I am in the process on updating my system with the KDE4 (3.96.3) rpms when lo and behold a dependency is bundle-lang-gnome-en. This is on a system that I have been careful not to install any gnome stuff on. The only rpms I selected where KDE4 rpms. Can someone please explain to me why I have gnome

[opensuse] Yast2 http:// repositories with basic authentication

2007-12-05 Thread Roberto Sassu
Hello all i created a repository with the createrepo utility and i created a server with apache2. I want to protect my files and i wrote a .htaccess file for the directory that contains the repository. The content of my .htaccess is: AuthType basic AuthBasicProvider file AuthName Restricted

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

2007-12-05 Thread Maccy
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: Stafford Beer made the interesting suggestion that instead of cars being fitted with seat belts, they should be fitted with a row of spikes along the dashboard. You'd hope to God that nobody ever ran in the back of you Mark -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-05 Thread Anders Johansson
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 19:05:41 Sloan wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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. Why would geographic location matter? The whole idea of the WWW is that viewing

Re: [opensuse] UK users help

2007-12-05 Thread Sloan
Anders Johansson wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 19:05:41 Sloan wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: 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. Why would geographic location matter?

Re: [opensuse] How to turn off screen blanking?

2007-12-05 Thread Carl Hartung
On Wed December 5 2007 06:25:32 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have checked and turned off every power saving app under KDE3 on my desktop: openSuSE 10,3. I have set up my screen saver and all works well except, somewhere my LCD monitor is being turned off. I only want my

[opensuse] Evolution Plugins

2007-12-05 Thread Bryen
Does anyone know of a good source to browse and download additional plugins for Evolution beyond the standard plugins provided at install of 10.3? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] How to turn off screen blanking?

2007-12-05 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-12-05 at 23:25 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have checked and turned off every power saving app under KDE3 on my desktop: openSuSE 10,3. I have set up my screen saver and all works well except, somewhere my LCD monitor

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.3 - mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-56 Broken

2007-12-05 Thread David C. Rankin
Sunny wrote: On Dec 3, 2007 6:13 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Among other things, mysql-query-browser-5.0r12-56 is broken in 10.3. The app starts, but freezes as soon as you select a schema. It works fine in 10.0 and worked fine in 10.2. What gives? Anybody else

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

2007-12-05 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Dec 4, 2007 1:49 PM, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Worley wrote: 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

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