Re: [opensuse-factory] broken mirrors again?

that couldn't be installed, they're all working fine. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory Rescue mkinitrd

have seen these on 2 x86_64 boxes, but the initrd gets built and the kernel boots fine. Still needs fixing though. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft

Re: [opensuse-factory] a checkin timeout before an Alpha release?

Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Dienstag 15 Januar 2008 schrieb Sid Boyce: Do I detect a single point of failure here? I would at least expect a couple of modest RAID systems with multi-pathing to prevent a disk Read opensuse-announce - the RAID system is exactly what died. For everything else you

[opensuse-factory] Radeon Xpress 1250 resolution problems

EndSection Section DRI Groupvideo Mode 0660 EndSection Help appreciated. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone

Re: [opensuse-factory] b43-fwcutter

regards, Christopher bcm43xx-fwcutter also if you can as some firmware files need it. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory-Upgrade impossible due to gnomekeyring.

x86_64 from Fedora core 8 and that fixed the problem with gnome-keyring. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all

[opensuse-factory] openSUSE-11.0-Alpha0-KDE-x86_64 upgrade and a laptop encounter

is to CANCEL and mark the package as KEEP. Selecting a new repository, it doesn't change to it until you click on another one. Nice GUI, shame about the disfunctionality, but guess it will come right one day. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus

Re: [opensuse-factory] g++/gcc 4.3 errors and header files need to be added to sources

CVS to make use of the latest development stuff. Regards Sid. 2007/12/16, Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sid Boyce wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: gcc version 4.3.0 20071129 (experimental) [trunk revision 130511] (SUSE Linux) While trying to build sources that previously built with gcc-4.2, I have had

[opensuse-factory] g++/gcc 4.3 errors and header files need to be added to sources

Worth a bug report Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] g++/gcc 4.3 errors and header files need to be added to sources

Sid Boyce wrote: gcc version 4.3.0 20071129 (experimental) [trunk revision 130511] (SUSE Linux) While trying to build sources that previously built with gcc-4.2, I have had to add header files, e.g string.h, stdlib.h, memory, pm_config.h to source files as I went along and met failures

Re: [opensuse-factory] g++/gcc 4.3 errors and header files need to be added to sources

Sid Boyce wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: gcc version 4.3.0 20071129 (experimental) [trunk revision 130511] (SUSE Linux) While trying to build sources that previously built with gcc-4.2, I have had to add header files, e.g string.h, stdlib.h, memory, pm_config.h to source files as I went along

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Sid Boyce wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -, Sid Boyce wrote: That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam trains, when PC

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Viljo Mustonen wrote: Sid Boyce kirjoitti: Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-02 at 19:04 -, Sid Boyce wrote: When I boot from 10.3 x86_64 DVD or from the ext3 drive, I can mount the jfs partition, also chroot works. In rescue mkinitrd

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -, Sid Boyce wrote: That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and dicing a separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam trains, when PC BIOS restrictions

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-02 at 19:04 -, Sid Boyce wrote: When I boot from 10.3 x86_64 DVD or from the ext3 drive, I can mount the jfs partition, also chroot works. In rescue mkinitrd also says the jfs module is included. I may

Re: [opensuse-factory] switch to Factory from 10.3

the update going again. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Viljo Mustonen wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Can't figure out what the trouble is, filesystems mismatch, like you can't use a jfs HD backed up from an ext3 HD? grub is the same on both HD's, so is mkinitrd, gcc, etc., etc., everything got rsync'd across. I think that this is reason. If initrd

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Viljo Mustonen wrote: Viljo Mustonen wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Can't figure out what the trouble is, filesystems mismatch, like you can't use a jfs HD backed up from an ext3 HD? grub is the same on both HD's, so is mkinitrd, gcc, etc., etc., everything got rsync'd across. I think

Re: [opensuse-factory] Problem booting a new hard drive with openSUSE 10.3

Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-01-07 16:13]: [...] Back on the original ext3 HD as /dev/sdb1, everything works. title 2.6.24-rc3-git5-smp kernel /boot/2.6.24-rc3-git5-smp root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi

Re: [opensuse-factory] gcc versions

Marcus Meissner wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:23:17AM +, Sid Boyce wrote: I have two versions of gcc from factory installed and have had failures with --ffmem unrecognised while building audacity. Do I have a mismatch here? The option -fforce-mem is gone from gcc4.3. Remove it from

[opensuse-factory] gcc versions

-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --build=x86_64-suse-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.0 20071118 (experimental) [trunk revision 130276] (SUSE Linux) Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review

Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-11-20 at 18:03 +0100, jdd wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html Mentions of for the uninitiated sounds about right. To sidestep any problems with the DVD, I've

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review

attempted to be fair (he points to the URL to show where he is coming from). Perhaps some pertinent pointers for 11.0. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach

Re: [opensuse-factory] rkhunter 1.3.0

, needing attention, so far, so good. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Review

jdd wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html Mentions of for the uninitiated sounds about right. To sidestep any problems with the DVD, I've installed from Factory. Looks like the DVD should have been delayed until it was compared with Factory

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE Factory update (gcc 4.3)

Robert Kaiser wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Problems compiling last Nvidia driver (100.14.23) and old one (100.14.19) since I updete to last gcc and kernel linux-2.6.24-rc2-4 I write a bug if somebody didn't it before I reported the problem to the NVidia forum on the basis of this report

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE Factory update (gcc 4.3)

and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.04-pkg2, the latter resulting in a black screen with X still intact as I can ssh -X in from another box, do init 3 and reboot. The black screen may possibly be due to the NVIDIA driver rather than 4.3 as other people are reporting other problems. Regards Sid. -- Sid

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSUSE Factory update (gcc 4.3)

and still builds under 2.6.24-rc2-git6. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] link error

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Re: [opensuse-factory] link error

Ruediger Oertel wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Sid Boyce wrote: Donn Washburn wrote: Hey SuSE Group; /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default/images has several hunderd incorrectly linked files The link shows ../../../../../gtk-doc/html/libgimpwidgets/ The file is in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes

[opensuse-factory] What ever happened to javaws

time. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] bug #336969

unusually silent. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory -- What's going on?

Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Donnerstag 01 November 2007 schrieb Sid Boyce: Sid Boyce wrote: lrwxrwxrwx1 rootroot 26 Oct 27 00:22 /usr/lib64/libgda-report-3.0.so - libgda-report-3.0.so.3.0.0 # rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libgda-report-3.0.so.3.0.0 error: file /usr/lib64/libgda-report

[opensuse-factory] Factory -- What's going on?

this on 2 x86_64 boxes after zypper update -t package recently and reported in #336969. ldconfig -v showed no broken links or missing stuff last night before I did the update. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory -- What's going on?

Sid Boyce wrote: lrwxrwxrwx1 rootroot 26 Oct 27 00:22 /usr/lib64/libgda-report-3.0.so - libgda-report-3.0.so.3.0.0 # rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libgda-report-3.0.so.3.0.0 error: file /usr/lib64/libgda-report-3.0.so.3.0.0: No such file or directory That's right, it does

[opensuse-factory] bug #336969

problems with zypper up -t package. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Some comment on openSUSE 10.3 and GNOME after a month from release

goes solid on for about a minute and the system freezes for the duration, then everything is OK. Something misbehaved, don't know what. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist

[opensuse-factory] Apparmor and Novell Lays Off 250 U.S. Workers

An earlier article I read said the Apparmor team had been laid off. What's the score, is apparmor in line for the chop in openSUSE and if so what will replace it? May be development moved to a different group? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus

Re: [opensuse-factory] Upgrade from openSUSE 10.3 (i586) Beta2 to 10.3 possible?

Andreas Vetter wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Sid Boyce wrote: Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 Andreas Jaeger: Wolfgang Woehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would I have to remove repositories like factory or opensuse xgl beforehand? Remove factory, otherwise you will update

Re: [opensuse-factory] openSuse 10.3 dual boot Solaris 10 usf

is correct). Has anyone gotten this to work? I did get Solaris to boot before loading SuSE 10.3 GM. That short time showed me why I prefer Linux!! I would suggest VirtualBox or using YaST to create a Xen domain for Solaris. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private

Re: [opensuse-factory] Ati propietary drivers will not install with kernel 2.6.23.1-6-default

] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I rarely find the ATI driver installable on any up-to-date kernel, they fall seriously behind, so even pointing out the problem to ATI gets no response or prompt action. That's where NVidia scores points. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce

Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box

Rajko M. wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2007 09:52:33 am Sid Boyce wrote: I must have a good look at the opeSUSE wiki, I'm sure there is noteworthy stuff that describes HOWTO on openSUSE, This will be good. If we would put so much time writing on wiki, as we use on mail lists the openSUSE

Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box

crashes and lost work. At work, I used to demonstrate to colleagues how much more functional and usable SuSE was for our line of work, compared to Windows and Solaris workstations that were their staple OS's. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus

Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box

- a sort of if you want it there is an openSUSE distro that covers it, you want small, get openSUSE, you want gigantic, get openSUSE. The one big question is why KDE on openSUSE is so treacle slow on a low spec box when compared to Kubuntu. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV

Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box

search. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Any known bugs in a in mixed IDE/SATA environment on 10.3?

IDE and the SATA controllers are built-in. One suggestion is to try installing 10.3 on the SATA drive without the IDE drive attached to see if it's a SATA or possibly a BIOS problem. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 41

a few DVD drives that have failed, around 50% have. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 41

-techzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-suse-why.html Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bad experience with 10.3

Donn Washburn wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Andras Mantia wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007, Sid Boyce wrote: Interesting to see if there is a happy outcome from the bug report. The result is that I fixed the system with the rescue option (chroot, manual rpm install, fix

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bad experience with 10.3

Sid Boyce wrote: Andras Mantia wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007, Sid Boyce wrote: Interesting to see if there is a happy outcome from the bug report. The result is that I fixed the system with the rescue option (chroot, manual rpm install, fix the software repository sources and other

Re: [opensuse-factory] AIGLX

. Is it stable on KDE and is it still a hack on KDE? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Bad experience with 10.3

if there is a happy outcome from the bug report. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] suggested work around for zypper/libzypp

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Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper trusted vendors list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:09:54 Sid Boyce wrote: Using zypper update, some locally built packages are removed. It would be nice to be able to be able to have an option so these would show up with an option

Re: [opensuse-factory] VirtualBox on 64bit

it to root:users, but root:vboxusers is probably what you want to try. /dev/vboxdrv was owned by root:vboxusers on my (64bit) machine post installation. _ Benjamin Weber Same here and it works. Regards Sid. - -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl

Re: [opensuse-factory] Fan stays on constantly..

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Fan stays on constantly..

M9. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sid Boyce schreef: Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:44:08AM +0200, M9. wrote: Hi, The thermic control does not work anymore. Ah, a nice, fully formed bug report, giving a detailed description of the specific hardware being

Re: [opensuse-factory] Linux and HiDef TV

using DVB cards for a few years now, just replacing replacing xine-lib from the distro. Should that read won't be able to watch TV with openSUSE out of the box? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech

[opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta3 cp problem

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Re: [opensuse-factory] VirtualBox can not work

Sid Boyce wrote: Pang Dawei wrote: Hi,there, I used the openSuse10.3 beta3 in the x86_64 machine.CPU is Intel Pentium 4 3.80GHz HT. I can create and configure a guest os, but I can not make it run, VirtualBox showd 'Aborted'. The dmesg reported 'VirtualBox[6299]: segfault

Re: [opensuse-factory] VirtualBox can not work

and 64-bit VM's. Not sure about Xen. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

seems missing in your install. I upgraded from Factory and it's all there. I also have the DVD and all the stuff is included in that also. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist

Re: [opensuse-factory] configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

to 10.3 Beta3. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Beta 2

hp-setup, then use YaST to get it shared across the network. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Grub Problem

Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Gabriel wrote: Sid Boyce escribió: Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed: I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I

Re: [opensuse-factory] SuSE 10.3 Beta 2

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Re: [opensuse-factory] BulletProofX - a critical feature request for openSUSE

, but haven't got around to it. It's been so in Mandriva going way back, worth looking into as it's been bullet proof for so long. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-2 + nvidia-drivers

kernel changes daily. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] Grub Problem

Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed: I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I removed /dev/sda. The SATA drive is now /dev/sda, but it won't boot, just the cursor on the top

Re: [opensuse-factory] Grub Problem

Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed: I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I removed /dev/sda. The SATA drive is now /dev/sda

Re: [opensuse-factory] Grub Problem

Gabriel wrote: Sid Boyce escribió: Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed: I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I removed /dev/sda. The SATA drive is now /dev/sda, but it won't

[opensuse-factory] Grub Problem

from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), still won't boot and grub commands give unrecognised device string errors. menu.lst now says gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message No luck. Thnks and Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers

Re: [opensuse-factory] NTP Daemon not working,

solidly synched. My problems may be just to do with vanilla kernels, haven't yet checked with openSUSE kernels. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST Software Management Hell

experience Windows users will tell you they have no problems using Windows, then when the conversation drags on, out comes their tales of woe, but they still love Windows. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers

Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST FACTORY Update

Sid Boyce wrote: Lukas Ocilka wrote: Sid Boyce wrote: Confusing as it says it can't update from an existing 10.3 to another, e.g trying to go from Alpha6 to Alpha7. Did a 10.2 YOU on another box, but it doesn't appear there as an option. What's it for, feature not yet working perhaps? Regards

Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory x86_64 still broken ?

it. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

[opensuse-factory] YaST FACTORY Update

Confusing as it says it can't update from an existing 10.3 to another, e.g trying to go from Alpha6 to Alpha7. Did a 10.2 YOU on another box, but it doesn't appear there as an option. What's it for, feature not yet working perhaps? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed

Re: [opensuse-factory] Known problem with zypper still?

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: Dňa Po 30. Júl 2007 10:33 Sid Boyce napísal: Opened a bug some time ago. If the bug is open, I don't think behavior has changed. What is the bug number? Bug #280387, duplicate of 275100. Selecting some packages from Factory will cause zypper to not return

Re: [opensuse-factory] Known problem with zypper still?

Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: Dňa Ut 31. Júl 2007 09:33 Sid Boyce napísal: Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: Dňa Po 30. Júl 2007 10:33 Sid Boyce napísal: Opened a bug some time ago. If the bug is open, I don't think behavior has changed. What is the bug number? Bug #280387, duplicate

Re: [opensuse-factory] problem with YAST software management

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[opensuse-factory] No factory update since 17/7/07

Possibly due to Novell free project work week? Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

Re: [opensuse-factory] No factory update since 17/7/07

Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Sunday 22 July 2007 schrieb Sid Boyce: Possibly due to Novell free project work week? What factory are you talking about? http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ has an update from 19th, which is 3 days ago - which is a very

Re: [opensuse-factory] DVD torrents not effective?

:) - Must be local difficulties at some points, Donn Washburn was also having problems, but here in the UK on cable I started the DVD torrent at 11:42 and at 16:25 I have 3.31 of 3.83 GB downloaded. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus

[opensuse-factory] HP Printers problem 10.3 Alpha5plus x86_64

+0100] Started /usr/lib64/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi (pid=17526) I [19/Jul/2007:13:40:46 +0100] Job 46 was canceled by root. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE

they spent installing them - as suggested above. When I installed openSUSE as the only OS for a relative, a smart Windows person remarked that she was amazed at the number of applications included as standard. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

: Fabrice Bellard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distribution: openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64) rpm -ql qemu will show what's installed. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach

Re: [opensuse-factory] Deps solving in Factory update..

to be. The list is not as long as it used to be, factory does a pretty good job of getting the latest stuff up. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 A4 and libiconv

/libpsiconv.so.6.4.2 It did complain of taglib (devel), upgraded taglib and taglib-devel from factory and amarok-1.4.5 builds fine. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-20 at 03:40 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: I also thought that VMWare had gone opensource, I tested a number of their 6.0 Workstation Betas, now I find the 6.0 release is for purchase only, so I'll leave

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all

Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows

went to fix a Windows box and had a discussion with 2 very bright lads who thought Bill Gates had invented the computer. I just took them back in history as far as Eckert and Mauchly, Univac and IBM - the computer before Bill Gates was born. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

, only once did I hit the enter key with, rm -rf / directory instead of rm -rf /directory, CTRL-C, but lots bullets had gone before I could take my finger off the trigger and data was lost. LVM sidelines the arguments, but backups are the only insurance whatever path you choose. Regards Sid. -- Sid

Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...

M9. wrote: Sid Boyce schreef: M9. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since reiser is accused of murdering his wife, nobody maintains the fs.. :-( Totally untrue. Many good reads on the subject out there. reiser2 is not being further developed, but the reiser4 team

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

Philipp Thomas wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007 16:33:07 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: That's also the reason I got a new box, as kvm reported no supported hardware found on the socket 939 64x2 box. kvm needs a processor with hardware vitualisation support, a feature that socket 939 Athlon64 X2s lack

Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?

, such as building a bridge between UnionFS and OpenVZ. Who are the people responsible for virtualization efforts in openSUSE ? Good question, very little has been seen on the list and it has all been about Xen. Hopefully you have smoked a healthy discussion out into the open. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce

Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda

Sid Boyce wrote: Donn Washburn wrote: Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:49 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New installs recognise IDE disks as /dev/sd, no problem. On this box 10.1 -- 10.2 -- 10.3Alpha3plus via factory updates, my disks come

Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda

Kenneth Schneider wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:49 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Sid Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: New installs recognise IDE disks as /dev/sd, no problem. On this box 10.1 -- 10.2 -- 10.3Alpha3plus via factory updates, my disks come up as /dev/hd. Changed /etc/fstab from

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

Rajko M. wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 09:43, Sid Boyce wrote: Rajko M. wrote: ... The speed test hdparm -t /dev/hda shows speed of 55 MB/s for ATA 100 drive, which seems to be right. For details on transfer rates http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT01170100

Re: [opensuse-factory] hdparm

. How much lower depends on many factors. hdparm is for the old IDE driver, sdparm is the one. # rpm -qf /sbin/sdparm scsi-1.7_2.36_1.22_0.18_0.99_0.91-44 There is also a manpage. sdparm -al /dev/sda for a good description of the bits. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV

Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Alpha3plus x86_64 memory allocation problems with 32-bit progs

Marcus Meissner wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:55:04PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: Marcus Meissner wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:26:00PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: On a new box I'm preparing for someone, I did a fresh install of 10.3Alpha3 and applied factory updates just yesterday

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