Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper and kde login

2007-07-29 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Rafal Kwasny escribió: Check permissions of /dev/null special file after reboot alt+f1, login, chmod 777 /dev/null should fix this you only need to update syslog-ng package to fix that. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] Audacity memory problems

2007-07-28 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Juan Erbes escribió: I could'nt use audacity because it crashes inmeditely. Executing it from konsole, I got: ***MEMORY-WARNING***: [5906]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected;

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory update breaks the system (resmgr problem)

2007-07-24 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Silviu Marin-Caea escribió: I have just performed an update to latest factory, and there must be something broken with resmgr. /dev/null is not accessible by my user, I get /dev/null permission denied when I log in the console, and KDE does not start at all. I have stopped the

Re: [opensuse-factory] when to refresh?

2007-07-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett escribió: for the search, you need cache, for the cache you need metadata. Should ZYpper exit and tell the user to refresh, or should it ask the user whether to refresh without exiting? hrmmm.. I think neither of those.. why ask if it knows that a refresh is needed

Re: [opensuse-factory] opensuse-updater: Check for any kind updates option?

2007-07-04 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Benji Weber escribió: Smart handles this quite badly, it just blindly upgrades to newer versioned packages regardless of the vendor/repository. Yup, smart is no model of good behaviuor in this case...and better not to talk about the mess it produces in 64 bit systems..;-) signature.asc

Re: [opensuse-factory] call trace on opensuse10.3alpha5

2007-07-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Mohammed Omar escribió: Linux linux-0gxvrp 2.6.22-rc4-git3-2-ppc64 #1 SMP 2007/06/12 15:00:04 UTC ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux machine type: p520(power 5) Whether any bug in the kernel ? Please open a bug report ..thta definately looks like a bug ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: How can we integrate OpenVZ into openSUSE ?

2007-06-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: I believe SUSE should not be limited by Xen-only approach. and I believe openSUSE should do one thing, and do it right, not many half working virtualization alternatives. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 A4 and libiconv

2007-06-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Donn Washburn escribió: Has anyone found a usable version of libiconv that works with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070430 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) . It is not on the CDs. It is needed by AmArok and since SuSE's version is boken I was going build my own working version of 1.4.5 huh ? iconv library

Re: [opensuse-factory] php5-pear-db-1.7.6-75 in 10.3a4

2007-05-25 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote: I guess the latter. Please open a bugreport. :) We did noticed it :) it is needed by squirelmail ( as I told the to reporter ;) ) however maybe squirelmail can use MDB2 instead.. have to check that. but not before 2 week break/vacation of this geek.

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: I think we have php4 in the Build Service. Is that correct? yes, mmarek mantains it and I may move/add an updated version there , although is not a priority Wouldn't that solve the problems - give Stephan a php4 that works with openSUSE 10.2 and us not needing to

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: And the reason I am forwarding this as a last point to aj is that I am deeply concerned about the ongoings. Whenever I experienced situations like this they did not survive. With situations like this I explicitely mean people not listening and acting like

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: Really, Cristian, stop it. No. you should stop acting like kid that mom denied a caramel. if you have a problem, fix it. if you are having incompatible scripts is your problem, not mine. in most cases you did something wrong in your test migration.. the most

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-10 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
jdd escribió: just a question: is SLES/SLED in the same situation?could be a reasonable solution if php4 is maintained in SLES It is only mantained in SLES 8 and 9, SLES10 does not include PHP4. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] I can't update from factory today

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Adrian Schröter escribió: Hard to say ... what kind of errors do you see ? the error is obviuos ;) there is no yum metadata in factory mirrors.. the repodata directory disappeared... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Sylvester Lykkehus escribió: Really ? I always thought open_basedir was a part of safemode. both are different things. Safe Mode was removed in PHP 6.0.0. warning sign. yes, it is already removed, in fact was one of the first prioritary things to in PHP6 (and the other was removing the

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-09 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: I am in no way interested in PHPversionwhatever. I am _only_ interested in setting up an environment for _users_ that do what users do. If they need some (php) application, they google until they reach a download link, click on it and expect the webservice

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: Dear all, please let me draw your attention to some problems with and around PHP. 10.2 delivers only PHP5 on the isos. Exaclty and will stay that way.. PHP4 upstream supports end on Dec 31 , 2007. it is EOL. One might think that this is completely

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: Ok. that brings us to the fundamental question what a distribution is really for. We are using linux for about 10 years now. Very early we decided to switch to the SuSE distribution because it contained all parts necessary for setting up internet hosts. So

Re: [opensuse-factory] PHP - tales from the crypt

2007-05-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Stephan von Krawczynski escribió: ed. And 5 will end up as the next dead horse? Probably, but is not time to worry about that, maybe in about 5 years or so.. dunno, but now **is** time to worry for PHP4 as it is going away this year.. software has a lifecycle and in 5 or 6 years your

Re: [opensuse-factory] ntfs-3g.

2007-05-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Greg KH escribió: If it is in the main kernel.org tree, yes. greg.. did you actually read the page !? it is a userspace driver!! it cannot be in the kernel because is not a kernel module ;-P signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] LTSP 5 + openSUSE

2007-04-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
David Mayr escribió: I'd really like to work on this, but have no time for it until july because I have to write my diploma thesis. I have some extended experience with LTSP 4.0 up to 4.2. I think it would be very good to have it in openSUSE. It offers many new opportunities by e.g.

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: I'm under the impression that end users want to know in an easy way why the version update happened - and not only that it happened. 1. for patches this is already done in the patch changelog or in the suse security announce newsletter 2. if you are thinking about an

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Klaus Kaempf escribió: A lot of developers here do this, so its not a technical problem per se. I have been upgrading my factory copy with zypper since early alphas and seems it can manage upgrades preyy much fine except for 1. it is slow ( well, that's a general problem) 2. it emits

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-19 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: 2. it emits scary(for users) errors and then seems to try with --nodeps and continue anyway. Please file a bugreport. filled long way ago, noticed in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216042 3. it emits equally scary invalid object messages (wth means

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: . ZENworks components are fully available and supported for SUSE Linux Enterprise based products and not longer part of the openSUSE distribution. Ok. that's good news. :-) now we can focus on a single solution instead of having to provide a large number of instructions

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcement: Software management for openSUSE

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Eberhard Moenkeberg escribió: But unfortunately not for SLES - there the hassle has to go on (by order), and that may affect the business part of SUSE/Novell. well.. you probably know what happends to a part of a commercial product if cause to loose money..it becomes either an documented bug

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: * log entries in .changes file Just a simple Update to version x.y is not valid in the packages changelog but happens far too often. Goal: present the changes done to packages to users in a good way and use that for e.g. Release Notes. 1. The

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST message

2007-04-18 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Sid Boyce escribió: Any clues on how to proceed appreciated. Use yast installation source format not yum/rpm-md as it is currenlty b0rked. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] OpenSuSE Alpha 3 on VMWare

2007-04-17 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Christoph-Erdmann Pfeiler escribió: Gentle readers, 1. the default setting of VMWare with LSI Logic SCSI adapter failed to detect the hard disk, the alternative BusLogic worked flawlessly, known issue : see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263883 2. the default installation with

[opensuse-factory] error messages of the package manager stack considered harmful

2007-04-11 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Hi folks: Errors and informative messages that comes from zypp/yast and related stuff are just ..well ..plain horrible..:-( In this mail I attempted to summarize the problems (although there are many more..and are easy to find) the main issue is this stuff is not user friendly and people gets

Re: [opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild

2007-03-21 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Other interesting scripts seem to be applied after the build: ... checking for files with abuild user/group ... testing for empty debuginfo packages ... testing for serious compiler warnings ... checking filelist ... testing for suid/sgid and world writable

Re: (SOLVED) [opensuse-factory] Dependency problem

2007-03-21 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Anders Norrbring escribió: Anders Norrbring skrev: I don't know where to start looking.. I'm trying to use PHP 5.2.1 from the repositaries, from what repòsitories server:php in the buildservice ? the memcache rpm was expecting php 5.2.0, hehe. checks worked :) currenlty all extensions

Re: [opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?

2007-03-12 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Vetter escribió: Thank you for support. That's exactly my point of view. I personally prefer quality over quantity... however took five minutes to create a cvsgraph package and should be available shortly at:

Re: [opensuse-factory] konquerer / KDE SSL problem?

2007-03-10 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Volker Kuhlmann escribió: Could someone please check out whether they get a response (login page) from https://authorproof.ieee.org/ please? Mine always times out after a long wait. Using firefox or wget works, so it's not my firewall or ieee's server!!! Running wireshark shows no data is ever

Re: [opensuse-factory] no cdrecord

2007-03-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Donn Washburn escribió: What is the binary replacements file name? wodim signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] Updates applet for GNOME

2007-01-28 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alberto Passalacqua escribió: Hello, in the last status meeting Andreas announced that ZMD won't be installed by default in OpenSUSE 10.3. This means that the current version of zen-updater won't be used as the default update applet. As a consequence, GNOME would be without a dedicated

Re: [opensuse-factory] expat-devel on factory

2007-01-06 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Chema Ollés escribió: Hi all I have expat-2.0.0-34.i586.rpm I download yesterday from factory. I need libexpat.la because this package doesn't contains it. How do I create it? If I run libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O -o libexpat.la -rpath /usr/lib -lexpat from /usr/lib directory, before some

Re: [opensuse-factory] nVidia GeForce Go 6150 on Suse 10.2 x86_64

2006-12-30 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Digvijoy Chatterjee escribió: nVidias latest version of the driver for x86_64( 1.0-9746 ) does not have GeForce Go 6150 in the list of supported cards for linux drivers. If it is not in the list, does not meant it does not work, install the driver and **try** it yourself zyyper -vv sa

Re: [opensuse-factory] Out of memory - endless loop

2006-11-14 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Hans Witvliet wrote: Gents, I know that in certain circles, PHP has not a good reputation( security) Untill know, i had never any problems. PHP has problems, but the biggest problem is the code quality of the applications written on it. Nov 13 19:05:11 fw3 kernel: Call Trace:

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] obviously not, so I`ll try again

2006-11-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Detlef Steuer wrote: so I´ll try again: Hi, what do others think of yesterday´s deal? Bussiness as usual.. How do you feel? I feel this can be a good thing , but probably unlikely to affect us, nor the buildservice , probably we will not notice any difference. A (very unusual)

Re: [opensuse-factory] Insatiable zmd

2006-11-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Randall R Schulz wrote: Is it normal for this process to run on and on like this? Is expected but not normal...it is just another sign that zmd should be bye,bye very soon now :-P see bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215649 where the discussion is. signature.asc

Re: [opensuse-factory] tiny-nvidia-installer removed from factory

2006-11-02 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Greg KH wrote: I have explained this, many times in the past. See: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html for the last time I did. I had read that notes a few months ago. Just buy stuff that works with the OS you choose to purchase, it's that simple. Unfortunately,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Package management architecture

2006-10-31 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alex wrote: With zypper (cli) and opensuse-updater (updater applet) it is within grasp to not have zmd+friends on KDE installations. That would indeed be excellent news. I, too, would consider this a great idea. Yes, this tools requires testing though, I encourage the readers of this list

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Web Development Pattern

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Andreas Jaeger escribió: Here's a pattern for Tools and libraries for web application development. Please comment and help to improve, Cheers, Andreas Must have (if pattern is selected this is mandatory): LAMP-Pattern the LAMP pattern, for the P and the M to be useful must contain the

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Web Development Pattern

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: I am not sure, but I think apache2-prefork is mandatory, because Apache2 won't start without it. exactly, it is :) additionally mod_php is compiled in non-zts mode, so, it will only run with apache prefork ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [opensuse-factory] spca5xx drivers

2006-09-22 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Justin Haygood escribió: Any chance these can be included in OpenSUSE 10.2, at least as a KMP? They're fairly high quality, and support quite a bit of the webcams on the market today. http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html those are here : http://repos.opensuse.org/drivers:/webcam/ ps: I

Re: [opensuse-factory] Discussion about starting BETA process earlier - by end of sep 2006

2006-09-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: Hi all ! I would like to ask to start the BETA process of openSUSE 10.2 earlier. Alpha4 now is stable enough to be almost BETA - a few fixes here and there and we are BETA-ready. I think it is not-needed to waste another month of time to get to Alpha5 and then

Re: [opensuse-factory] Discussion about starting BETA process earlier - by end of sep 2006

2006-09-08 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Alexey Eremenko escribió: Pushing half-developed features into OS results in SUSE Linux 10.1 - both late and unstable OS. 10.1 is stable, the only problem it has (or had) is the persistent bugs in package manager stuff. still looking forward the new 10.1 ISOS.. signature.asc Description:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Announcing Yast-GTK

2006-08-23 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Volker Kuhlmann escribió: So with the Summer of Code over, it's time to announce the GTK+ interface for Yast (other SoCees, I would love to hear from you btw :)). Just out of interest, what is the advantage of re-implementing yast by linking it with libgtk instead of libqt? Wouldn't the