Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha1 installer / step Software selection
David Bolt napsal(a): On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Stephan Kulow wrote:- snip I didn't get a reply till I looked at the dialog you're seeing. So here we are - any better suggestions? ;-) I actually like the look of the new System Type and Software Selection screen[0] with the different types in the single list. What would be nice is for the package selection to honour choices made on this screen. E.g. someone leaving Play games unchecked is likely to expect there to be no games, the same with multimedia and graphics. Leaving these unchecked shouldn't install packages within those groups, unless they are required by other packages. It would also be nice if not enabling the Open and modify documents from my mother would remove the Office patterns. Thanks :) This dialog has been designed to ease the installation for common users. In my opinion, many users want to only install the base system with some patterns and then install additional software later. If you select the base or minimal system type, then the checkbox does something, e.g., selects or doesn't select the OpenOffice and friends. Actually, the software selection is pattern-based and the pattern is called office. Of course, the label has been selected to attract your attention to get some reports and opinions from the community. At present, the new usage boxes don't appear to actually do anything. Or deselecting them doesn't at the moment. I guess that there's going to have to be some changes to the patterns again to make them actually do what the descriptive text says. There is a bug/old behavior in software proposal that doesn't expect anyone else to select a pattern/package/etc. to be installed/upgraded... Have a nice day Lukas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[opensuse-factory] libbeagle 0.3.2 is missing in the Factory repo
Hi there! I've just updated Factory on my test partition and I saw that libbeagle-0.3.0 is missing, which is probably the reason why I can't install libbeagle-python-0.3.0-2.i586.rpm. I hope you'll fix that soon so we can play with the new Beagle! Cheers! -- Igor Jagec signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [opensuse-factory] libbeagle 0.3.2 is missing in the Factory repo
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:54 +0100, Igor Jagec wrote: Hi there! I've just updated Factory on my test partition and I saw that libbeagle-0.3.0 is missing, which is probably the reason why I can't install libbeagle-python-0.3.0-2.i586.rpm. I hope you'll fix that soon so we can play with the new Beagle! libbeagle follows the shlib policy now, so libbeagle1 replaces plain libbeagle. -JP -- JP Rosevear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell, Inc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] libbeagle 0.3.2 is missing in the Factory repo
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:34 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: I've just updated Factory on my test partition and I saw that libbeagle-0.3.0 is missing, which is probably the reason why I can't install libbeagle-python-0.3.0-2.i586.rpm. I hope you'll fix that soon so we can play with the new Beagle! libbeagle follows the shlib policy now, so libbeagle1 replaces plain libbeagle. Ah so... ok, I've just installed it. But it seems that Beagle is not working on Factory. Here's what I got: Every 5.0s: beagle-info --status Debug: Done reading conf from /home/igor/.beagle/config/Daemon.xml Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Daemon.xml Could not connect to the daemon. And I'm sending in attachment the debug output I got. Cheers! -- Igor Jagec [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ beagled --foreground --debug Always: Starting Beagle Daemon (version 0.3.2) Always: Running on Mono 1.2.6 Always: Command Line: /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemon.exe --foreground --debug Debug: Established a connection to the X server Debug: Reniced process to 7 Debug: Done reading conf from /home/igor/.beagle/config/Daemon.xml Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Daemon.xml Debug: Starting messaging server Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Networking.xml Debug: Starting QueryDriver Debug: Found index helper at /usr/lib/beagle/beagled-index-helper Debug: Found 2 backends in /usr/lib/beagle/Backends/EvolutionBackends.dll Debug: Found 1 backends in /usr/lib/beagle/Backends/ThunderbirdBackends.dll Debug: Starting Inotify FSQ file event backend Debug: Loaded 0 records from /home/igor/.beagle/Indexes/FileSystemIndex/FileAttributesStore.db in 0.000s Debug: Done reading conf from /home/igor/.beagle/config/FilesQueryable.xml Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/FilesQueryable.xml Debug: Found 8 backends in /usr/lib/beagle/BeagleDaemonLib.dll Debug: Reading mapping from filters Debug: Loading system static indexes. Debug: Initializing static queryable: /var/cache/beagle/indexes/applications Debug: Done reading conf from /var/cache/beagle/indexes/applications/StaticIndex.xml Debug: Checking for dangling locks... Debug: Initializing static queryable: /var/cache/beagle/indexes/documentation Error: Unable to read config from /var/cache/beagle/indexes/documentation/StaticIndex.xml Debug: Found 1 system-wide indexes. Debug: Loading user-configured static indexes. Debug: Found 0 user-configured static indexes.. Debug: Waiting 60 seconds before starting queryables Debug: Starting Scheduler thread Debug: Starting Inotify threads Debug: Daemon initialization finished after 1.36s Debug: Memory usage: VmSize=57.8 MB, VmRSS=18.4 MB, GC.GetTotalMemory=1228800 Debug: Starting queryables Debug: Starting backend: 'EvolutionMail' Debug: Starting backend: 'EvolutionDataServer' Debug: Starting backend: 'Thunderbird' Debug: Starting Evolution mail backend Debug: Starting mail crawl Debug: Starting backend: 'Files' Debug: Adding root: /home/igor Debug: Starting Thunderbird backend Debug: No Thunderbird data to index in /home/igor/.beagle/Indexes/ThunderbirdIndex/ToIndex Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Sent Debug: Opening mbox Sent Debug: Done starting FileSystemQueryable Debug: Starting backend: 'IndexingService' Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Outbox Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/GNOME Annonuce Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Packman Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/openSUSE Users Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/openSUSE GNOME Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/openSUSE Factory Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/KVARK Debug: Will index mbox /home/igor/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Facebook Debug: Will index summary /home/igor/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folders/INBOX/summary Debug: Will index summary /home/igor/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders/INBOX/summary Debug: Will index summary /home/igor/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders/Trash/summary Debug: Starting backend: 'Liferea' Debug: Setting up an initial crawl of the IndexingService directory Debug: Will index summary /home/igor/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders/[Gmail]/subfolders/All Mail/summary Debug: Will index summary /home/igor/.evolution/mail/imap/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@imap.gmail.com/folders/[Gmail]/subfolders/Spam/summary Debug: Mail crawl finished Debug: Evolution mail driver worker thread done in .20s Debug: Starting backend: 'NautilusMetadata' Debug: Watching for creation of Liferea directory ** **
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux
M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, January 21, 2008 4:58 am, Aaron Kulkis wrote: With AutoCad, the better approach is to get them to port to Linux Of course, this is difficult to do as individuals, but small to medium-sized IT departments can. You tell the AutoCad rep that the company's strategic direction is to move from Winows XP to Linux, and that if they want to continue selling, they have to keep up. IF not, you're going to be buying SDRC Ideas, or some other product that fits into your company's plans to NOT migrate to Vista. The threat of permanent loss of sales is an excellant motivator to these sorts of companies. The problem is that such threats are only plausible if the customer doesn't have plenty of data locked in a format that only Autocad can fully understand, or will never receive from partners or potential customers files in such formats that need to be read or modified. Not really likely, see: cfr the Autocad paragraph and links in the second part of: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_format_history/ There are industry standard file formats for CAD/CAM, and AutoCad can export and import to those formats. Same scenario here: Once Linux captures a significant share of business desktops this won't happen until those business users continue to receive (or are required to send) files in the latest Microsoft Office formats, whatever that is in any given moment. In both cases, the most effective strategy, even if it's unglamourous, to get to the point where you can really do everything you need under Linux may be to demand laws that force all Public Administrations to only accept, store or distribute files in non proprietary formats, or at least formats that are 100% guaranteed to be fully usable under any operating system, with _more_ than one software program. That helps. Once businesses know that to keep selling goods or services to the state or city Government they MUST deliver contracts, bids, technical drawings, whatever, in formats that are completely usable with any operating sytems, the rest will happen by itself. Very true. Which is why MS is paranoid about ODF. And much sooner than if we wait for businesses who couldn't care less of the license of the software they use, not when changing it would make their existing files less readable (= interfere with business as usual). Marco -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to be used by a script). The remote is a router with embedded, and it is not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but one with a limited command set. You probably can't provide a typed password from anything other than the keyboard itself. For security reasons, ssh and similar programs are generally written to read only from /dev/tty. Is it possible to create a file called rhosts or hosts.equiv on the router? on the I can give the user, like: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I haven't found a way in the man to give also the password, as there is for instance in ftp. I think there is something like chat ? but I'v never used it and I'm unsure how. If any one is worried about security, don't: for instance, if you use subversion with ssh access (to Novell, for instance) the password is stored in clear text in ~/.subversion/auth, and the file is world readable! (Was, rather, I changed it). So subversion must be giving the password somehow. You've gotta be kidding. Someone needs to hit the subversion devs with a clue-bat. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] USB to ATA IDE Adapter, howto boot from it?
John Andersen wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 8:15 AM, Philipp Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried with USB, but with any other boot media I've encountered. Nuff said. Presumably the OP wanted to boot some other OS off of the USB disk. You are going on about initrd like you ASSUME he is going to boot linux off of a USB. Say he has Windows on the USB device. Then what? You expect that to boot with linux drivers? GRUB is a boot loader, a mini operating system all to itself. Not really. Grub is just a boot loader...although a very fancy bootloader, in that it actually understands multiple filesystems of several different operating systems. It's not even functional enough to be a monitor, let alone an operating system. It does not relay on Linux. It can boot almost any OS, BUT ONLY if it can read the media. I see no reason to expect Windows or Solaris to run with Linux drivers found in the initrd. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] openSUSE To the Rescue!
Kai Ponte wrote: Just thought y'all would get a kick out of this: On my business laptop, I'm running Vista with an openSUSE 10.3 VM appliance. I downloaded about 21G of files from our corporate network for me to use at home. I have a 500G USB drive here that I use to store stuff on. Well, I copied the files and went to paste them on the USB drive in Vista. After about ten minutes, I noticed the progress bar was still calculating the time to copy and had a current estimate of 74 hours. I cancelled the process and fired up the VMWare session of openSUSE. I then opened up the host drive via smb and the usb drive. I started copying. 40 minutes later, the process was complete. Considering that Vista was pronounced a steaming pile of on delivery, this is hardly a a great victory. In fact, I would be disappointed if your experience was not the case. Go openSUSE! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm testing rsnapshot, a perl utility to do backups, included with opensuse 10.3 It fails, does nothing; very verbose output follows: nimrodel:~ # rsnapshot daily require Lchown Lchown module not found Setting locale to POSIX C echo 3970 /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid /bin/logger -i -p user.info -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: \ completed successfully nimrodel:~ # It claims to success in under a second, without backing up a single file! That's not a good thing for a backup program. IMNSHO it is Horribly Bad that it claims success with a non existing backup! What on earth is that Lchown? I can't find it with pin. Could it be perl-lchown, which is not included in the distro? If that is so, I assume it is a packaging bug that the rpm for a required package is not included, not even required. LCHOWN(P) POSIX Programmer's Manual LCHOWN(P) NAME lchown - change the owner and group of a symbolic link SYNOPSIS #include unistd.h int lchown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group); DESCRIPTION The lchown() function shall be equivalent to chown(), except in the case where the named file is a symbolic link. In this case, lchown() shall change the ownership of the symbolic link file itself, while chown() changes the ownership of the file or directory to which the symbolic link refers. RETURN VALUE Upon successful completion, lchown() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate an error. blah blah blah. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Duel Screening
Jesse Shaver wrote: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 with a dock. and a Samsung SynchMaster 915N 19 inch monitor. the laptop works great, but I can't get it to split the desktop across two screens. I have gone into SaX2 through YaST and my settings are: Display 1: Intel 965 MGMonitor VESA [EMAIL PROTECTED] HZ Display 2: Samsung SSYNCHMASTER 1280X1024 Xinerama Multihead is selected for the Dual Head Mode, and the arangement is 2 next to 1. In this setting it simply clones the built in one (at 1024x768) onto the larger one. anyone have this working with a similar box/video card? I think you should let them fight it out at 15 paces. Oh..you mean DUAL screens. thanks in advance, -Jesse -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?
Jim Cunning wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 13:25:25 Ken Schneider wrote: Hans Witvliet pecked at the keyboard and wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:12 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: [...] I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to be used by a script). The remote is a router with embedded, and it is not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but one with a limited command set. As other posters mentioned 'expect' i won't. But as you specifically mention ssh i would rather advise you to generate a ssh-key-pair and copy the public-one over to the other machine into the authorizedkeys file. No asking for pwd's anymore What part of it is not possible is not understood here? Don't be so quick to be critical. I took Carlos statement to mean it was not possible on the REMOTE system, but it is certainly possible on his local one, which is all that is required so far as generating keys goes. He can generate keys on his local system, however, it is not possible to store either part on the router. I have a similar type of router... it's a dumb little machine meant stricty for interactive administration (in fact, the ONLY way to do so is through a web browser) However, it may not be possible to copy his public key to the 'remote' router with embedded (linux?). Carlos didn't say what limited commands were available, or whether it was even possible to copy files onto the router. It seemed pretty obvious to me. Lots of cheap home routers are braindamaged. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Swap Partitions with two versions of openSUSE
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Russ Fineman wrote:- I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I? An easy way would be to start up the pre-existing openSUSE 10.2 installation and then use suspend to disc to shut down. This changes the swap partition so that the kernel, and the installer, no longer recognises it as a valid swap and will use/create another one. I discovered this when trying to install the latest 11.0 alpha on a system that I'd forgotten I'd suspended. Until I rebooted the old installation and shut down properly, the installation system claimed that what was the swap partition wasn't a valid one and offered to delete one of my other partitions to create a new one. The good news is that sharing swaps won't do any harm, unless you manage to use suspend to disc in one installation and then reboot into the other. That would require a deliberate act to get round the present configuration, which should auto-start the suspended system on boot-up, and so all bets are off. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a0 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02| openSUSE 10.3 PPC |RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Difference between Yast-Group Mgmt. and groupadd
Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-25-08 15:59]: When adding a group with Yast, the group is added with an 'x' for the unset password: ochiltree:x:1002:david If the group is added with 'groupadd' an '!' is used for the password: dcr:!:1051:david Why? What is the difference? a guess from scanning the man pages (which *are* available), groupadd defaults to disabling the account. I said a guess. ! and x are both placeholders in the password field. Play with gpasswd to find out more. It appears that /etc/group is based on the old-style (no /etc/shadow) format of /etc/passwd. The field holds the encrypted password. Unlike the /etc/passwd file, there is now shadow to hold the actual (encrypted) password strings. Both x and ! are strings which no password (not even a 1-character password) can be encrypted into. Essentially, this locks the group (you can't chgrp into a group with a password, because nothing you type will, after encryption, match either the x or ! character). ther -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] beagleindex = bogus i_mode
Stephen Berman wrote: Starting four days ago, the kernel sends bogus i_mode messages after automatic beagle indexing, like this: Jan 25 21:15:02 escher su: (to beagleindex) root on none Jan 25 21:15:02 escher su: (to beagleindex) root on none Jan 25 21:18:09 escher syslog-ng[2198]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng Jan 25 21:18:10 escher syslog-ng[2198]: new configuration initialized Jan 25 21:18:36 escher kernel: klogd 1.4.1, -- state change -- Jan 25 21:19:07 escher su: (to nobody) root on none Jan 25 21:19:07 escher su: (to nobody) root on none Jan 25 21:19:11 escher su: (to nobody) root on none Jan 25 21:19:20 escher syslog-ng[2198]: last message repeated 4 times Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (33060) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30072) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (31460) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30060) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30462) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (31462) Jan 25 21:19:20 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (57553) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30057) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30170) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (72145) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (71145) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (55440) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (35063) Can anyone tell me what this means, and is it a cause for concern? What it means is that Beagle has serious problems, something which several people on this list seem to have a very great difficulty in understanding. Delete beagle. It's junk. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?
Chuck wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 1:44 PM, Lincoln Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Simon, teach TCP and Unix system administration in 1994, and other than Linux, I'm mostly a Solaris body. I have 3 Linux systems at home, two of which dual-boot with windows so I can run Photoshop in a color managed environment. I use VMWare for some other windows stuff that's less crucial to me. I also have a dual processor SPARC/Solaris 10 system. I loath and detest bill gates and everything he stands for. I regularly point out to I'm old school too. But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :) Linux and x86-64 are NOW! lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the opposite... Sparc IV+ Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive -- its damn good. That might have been true 5 years ago Sun is going to abandon the SPARC soon. As much as I despise the Intel x86 with its architecture and annoying instruction set, it IS the future of high- end computing. HP-UX was ported from PA-RISC to x86 AIX is being ported from the p5 to x86 Solaris has been ported to x86 -- and the x86 version is no longer a crufty toy like it used to be -- Sun has thrown in a well-rounded effort to finally provide the x86 version with all the drivers as the Sparc version. The only major Unix that I'm unsure of at this point is SGI. Sun doesn't have enough sales to keep the SPARC performance competitive with HP and IBM machines loaded up with x86's which have the development overhead spread over hundreds of millions of units rather than tens of thousands for SPARC and whatever SGI us using lately. Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. (and the field can't be reduced below two, because every competent military purchasing department on the planet requires that all electronic components be 2nd-sourced -- so if AMD fails, then Intel is cut out of that lucrative market until such time that another company is up and running as a 2nd source of Intel-like CPUs -- This is why Intel keeps AMD abreast of their future designs -- if AMD can't duplicate Intel functionality, then Intel loses). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM
Chee How Chua wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 11:33 AM, Benji Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your AM2 CPU will be a 64bit CPU presumably, so you won't need to change the kernel, unless you're using 32bit openSUSE. -- Benjamin Weber Hi, At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or the 64-bit installation DVD. It occurred to me that I've never got to install 64-bit openSUSE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?
Joe Sloan wrote: Chuck wrote: lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the opposite... Sparc IV+ Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive -- its damn good. I work for a fortune 100 company, and we run AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and SuSE Enterprise Linux in our data centers. I have to smile at the idea that solaris is somehow more robust than linux. Solaris is great, but so is linux. More and more, we're moving apps off of the old school legacy unix platforms onto HP/Compaq servers running linux. And the results have been very very good. We have dozens of busy linux servers with over 500 days uptime - and the uptime champ, by far for our whole enterprise? Take a guess: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ uptime 5:32pm up 1016 days 1:24, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 2.56, 2.36 An very busy old compaq 2450 running DB2, apache and websphere on SLES 9 Dude, there is *nothing* holding linux back here, other than fear and ignorance - and now that the SCO lawsuit has all but died, that fear is It's dead. You can buy several shares of SCOX (oops, it doesn't have listing symbol anymore) for a penny. Maybe they should change the name to Solidified Hydrogen giving way to a new boldness - and I'm doing everything I can to fix the ignorance. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2 I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found. How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too. Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice: For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems. It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Google Earth crashes with signal 6
Henk te Sligte wrote: Hi all, I am using OpenSuse for about a year now, but I never got Google Earth working. Today, I decided to give it another try. I removed everything related to Google Earth, logged in as root, and installed Google Earth. Installation works fine, no problems at all. But when I tried to run it, X server crashed. Also when I logged in as user, it crashes. I couldn't get anything useful from /var/log/messages, so I tried to find something useful from the internet. The only possible solution I found was at linuxquestions.org: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/google-earth-crashes-x-598569/ TaylorVcl recommends running the following: wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1 at the directory /opt/googlearth/. This is where Google Earth is installed, so everything should be fine. And yes, X server doesn't crash anymore when I try to run googlearth. But I get the message located at the bottom of this mail. The log file is attached to this mail. I hope someone has any idea to fix this, because I really love this application. Thank you very much in advance! Did you restart google earth so that the bug report would be sent to Google? And which version of Google Earth are you using? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Swap Partitions with two versions of openSUSE
Russ Fineman wrote: This is my first time trying to install two versions of openSUSE. I have two seperate 320GB SATA drives. Also an unused 120GB ide drive. 4 GB memory, 3.4 MHZ P4 processor. I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I? If you're only going to run one version at at time (no virtualization), there's NO NEED for seperate swap partitions. Google showed a lot on partitions but nothing to help with the installer. A link to a how to would be great. Simply make another partition, and designate it as swap. But all you're doing is robbing each installation of swap space. Your help would be appreciated. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Lost rpm db?
Carlos E. R. skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 08:44 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a problem.. One of my machines (10.2) lost its installed rpm database.. So, when I do a 'rpm -qa' it shows only 2 packages.. How can I rebuild it accurately? You should have backups in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb, the Packages file gzipped by date. But hurry, it is a daily backup holding only a week, so after a week the backup will only have your corrupted copy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. *sigh* There are a bunch of gzipped files there, but I guess none of them would be really accurate. Would there be a way to refresh a very old copy, like unpack the biggest one and somehow verify it against the actual packages installed? Anders. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 19:03 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Carlos E. R. [01-27-08 14:18]: What on earth is that Lchown? I can't find it with pin. Could it be perl-lchown, which is not included in the distro? look at: http://anorien.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/opensuse/guru/packages/Libraries/perl-lchown/ I have also seen it in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Archiving:/Backup/openSUSE_10.3 but I'm very hesitant and disgusted needing a non standard repo to use a standard rpm. (I'm trying to open a bugzilla, but the server is down) -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Unfortunately the underlying issue is a little worse (at least with 10.2). Try running cpan -O and you will begin to understand the problem. Many of the SuSE 10.2 Perl module RPMs from packman are badly out of date. The SuSE Perl stuff is a bit better but still lags (as would be expected). Only spotted problem when SuSE servers were down and was checking out what I thought were issues with a Perl Module to find that my current version of the module was 2 major releases out of sync. I think in future I will probably maintain my Perl stuff from CPAN. (The nuisance is that for compiled Perl modules one needs to install the devel RPMs relevant to the module). - -- == I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnbnyasN0sSnLmgIRAieXAJ9QkymIKGgynBFqEYp6jUeUbXgaRgCgnqK+ N4F0A6UJEoM+YzLcWInAz4U= =qitj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Lost rpm db?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 08:44 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a problem.. One of my machines (10.2) lost its installed rpm database.. So, when I do a 'rpm -qa' it shows only 2 packages.. How can I rebuild it accurately? You should have backups in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb, the Packages file gzipped by date. But hurry, it is a daily backup holding only a week, so after a week the backup will only have your corrupted copy. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnbkwtTMYHG2NR9URAhe2AJ9JuRXg+PzuJETf1F9eEPueHiZARQCeLb9L MN8l8NzE5C3cAli7ENzf59Q= =5CnL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 18:25 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: nimrodel:~ # rsnapshot daily require Lchown Lchown module not found Setting locale to POSIX C echo 3970 /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid /bin/logger -i -p user.info -t rsnapshot /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: \ completed successfully nimrodel:~ # LCHOWN(P) POSIX Programmer's Manual LCHOWN(P) Yes, but that's the C library function, not the perl module it is looking for. int lchown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group); The worst thing is that the program does a check of internal consistency and needed extensions, proclaims that everything is perfect, I go ahead attempting a backup, it claims sucess, and nothing was saved :-/ Just imagine this was a cron job. The sysadming has a brief look at the logs, sees sucess, and thinks the daily/hourly backup is alright. But there is nothing saved! Not a hint there is something wrong! Notice that at the default level of verbosity, there is no mention of lchown being missed; the logged output is the single line completed successfully. The above output with the error is a fully verbose output. This is the default output: Jan 28 03:07:08 nimrodel rsnapshot[14933]: /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed successfully - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnbehtTMYHG2NR9URAjKqAJ94KzpkAlYJYHvn1IwRcA3rQjiv2gCfeu0F /LL2IVfOVYXJcIkD/Pjhq4E= =uljK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-01-26 at 06:27 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: ... He can generate keys on his local system, however, it is not possible to store either part on the router. I have a similar type of router... it's a dumb little machine meant stricty for interactive administration (in fact, the ONLY way to do so is through a web browser) Mine is a cute little thing, supplied by my ISP with the adsl connection, and made by Broadcom It has an administration web server, which uses http instead of https for the password, and requires javascript on the client, and text only clients like links or lynx fail. But it also has telnet and ssh, and you can enable/disable any of them from the local/remote side, or allow from a range of IPs. it also has tftp, to save/upload the configuration or to flash the device. The console commands are not bash, but it's own limited set of commands: help logout save save_and_exit save_and_reboot restore_defaults reboot adsl atm brctl dumpcfg arp defaultgateway dhcpserver dns igmp lan nat passwd ppp proxyarp remoteaccess rip route statistics wan ping sntp snmp build tftp version wlan log macfilter qos and that's it. It can send the log of my syslog over the network, so I can see its firewall working, and when the connection failed; it also has snmp that I haven't been able to make much use of it. It does what it is supposed to do quite well for its size and price. One thing the log doesn't have is the external IP, I have to get it by command. Now that I know how to execute commands using expect, I could use the trick to detect IP change in the log, and then use the command interface on a script to get the IP and log it. I wonder if I can fire it from syslog-ng. to the 'remote' router with embedded (linux?). Carlos didn't say what limited commands were available, or whether it was even possible to copy files onto the router. It seemed pretty obvious to me. Lots of cheap home routers are braindamaged. We get what we pay for, I guess. Most users will be windows types, and they are not used to the shell. But I would appreciate an https interface, instead or added to the available http. Ha! I would like the thing having a plugable flash card, so that I could buy my own memory card, program it, and replace its card, and thus play around with the features I wanted instead of theirs. The card being removable would allow ease recovery in case of a bad flashing. I must be dreaming, not for that Little money! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnbM+tTMYHG2NR9URAksvAJ4qSH50O2l1AyErIn+0MIVvIGDLIQCePoX8 trezMmchR2GU8v+O/EXm3Po= =vvtj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Swap Partitions with two versions of openSUSE
Russ Fineman wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:22:40 pm you wrote: snip I presently have openSUSE 10.2 installed on sdb1,2,3. I'm wanting to install openSUSE 11.0 on sdc1,2, 3. When I get into the installer and setup the partitions it still wants to use the swap partition on sdb1. How can I have separate swap partitions for each version or can I? I think you need to learn how swap is used. If you create a new swap partition _both_ installations will _use_ _both_ swap partitions. So if the first swap partition is large enuf, you do not need to create another. HTH ne... /snip Thanks. I guess I did not understand how swap was used. I will see if I can enlarge the first one. If not I may delete it and create a new one that will handle both. It doesn't matter. Swap space is swap space. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Problems with X
Hi, after some update this morning (not automated, initialized by myself) my X do not work... I can fire Sax2 and it give me my old working configuration. But after I save it and exit Sax I can not startx. When I do it in root account I get errno 104. When I do it in my account I get errno 111. Please, could someone point me to solution to that? If needed I will attach my log files, only please, point me what files do you need. Audrius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Root antivir ?.
M9. wrote: I would not worry about the error message, as long as the app runs... with the 1.5 version, you got the message,*and* no connecting, or working app... (might even the message is still there when i run mercury, the messenger that could not connect to the server, i would have to look, when i start from shell, but after it worked, i called the app from Alt+F2..) And why would you change to a lesser app, just because of an error message anyway? Well all nice people. I carry on using Antivir. Many thanks to you all. -- Venlig hilsen - Best regards - Erik Jakobsen Licensed HAM-RADIO with the callsign OZ4KK http://www.urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 with http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] How can I give the password to an ssh session on the command line?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-25 at 09:40 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: I want to enter an ssh session without having to type the password (to be used by a script). The remote is a router with embedded, and it is not possible to create public key pairs because it is not a shell, but one with a limited command set. You probably can't provide a typed password from anything other than the keyboard itself. I solved it using expect - see other mails. Ah! It is your mail arriving three days late, as usual. You should get a gmail account :-p For security reasons, ssh and similar programs are generally written to read only from /dev/tty. Fortunately, expect can do the trick. Is it possible to create a file called rhosts or hosts.equiv on the router? Nothing at all, no files; or I would create a key pair. If any one is worried about security, don't: for instance, if you use subversion with ssh access (to Novell, for instance) the password is stored in clear text in ~/.subversion/auth, and the file is world readable! (Was, rather, I changed it). So subversion must be giving the password somehow. You've gotta be kidding. Someone needs to hit the subversion devs with a clue-bat. It is a documented feature of subversion. And they also document how to dissable it, on the client. They should be able to dissable it on the server side! I mean, the server side telling the clients not to store the password. However, it is very convenient. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHna6MtTMYHG2NR9URAuHPAJ9oMD14Jk+gFtVraC6QI1AT669j0wCfedHM vBYLLnMnSHsDMyymud2aveo= =FaZb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 02:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too. I save everything :-) Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice: For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem I believe in linux, or in suse, /opt is not required for that purpose, as it is only populated with files from rpms. But instead, /usr/local is not. On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems. It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition). Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using the scsi device name convention. In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot of data to have on a single partition. For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnbVVtTMYHG2NR9URAjDWAJ49Nz2HW2toeYYH3ULSC6QT/S0R5QCggwIg 9nFAZkPEsPLamvP0lj3zgag= =Giv7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Problems with cgi-scripts, apache2 on suse 10.3
I have been trying for a week to get apache to recognize a cgi script and execute it. The script is part of a distributed package, so I know it is my server configuration that is the issue. Basically, I just get a browser prompt asking me what to do with login.cgi. I would greatly appreciate any help with this. I am running out of ideas, and I know it is a simple fix. The folder is in public_html/cgi-bin/. Here is my mod_userdir.conf file: # # UserDir: The name of the directory that is appended onto a user's home # directory if a ~user request is received. # IfModule mod_userdir.c # Note that the name of the user directory (public_html) cannot easily be # changed here, since it is a compile time setting. The apache package # would have to be rebuilt. You could work around by deleting # /usr/sbin/suexec, but then all scripts from the directories would be # executed with the UID of the webserver. # # To rebuild apache with another setting you need to change the # %userdir define in the spec file. # not every user's directory should be visible: #UserDir disabled root # to enable UserDir only for a certain set of users, use this instead: #UserDir disabled #UserDir enabled user1 user2 # the UserDir directive is actually used inside the virtual hosts, to # have more control UserDir public_html Directory /home/*/public_html AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order allow,deny Allow from all /Limit LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND Order deny,allow Deny from all /LimitExcept /Directory /IfModule Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin AddHandler cgi-script .cgi #Enable cgi scripts in user directories Options ExecCGI /Directory Thanks in advance. Soren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] VirtualBox and USB support
Chris H wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 11:37:19 pm Ken Schneider wrote: USB will not work with the version shipped with openSUSE (the OSE version). You will need to download and install the version from here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads tks...:) You also have to uninstall the suse version and its kernel module manually as the two versions can exist side by side and cause problems. You enable the usb devices via filters. Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
G T Smith wrote: I think in future I will probably maintain my Perl stuff from CPAN. (The nuisance is that for compiled Perl modules one needs to install the devel RPMs relevant to the module). FWIW, that's what I've done for years and generally without any issues at all. Very occasionally an underlying compiled library from the Suse distribution is so old that the current CPAN release can't deal with it, but usually the CPAN modules will cope with binary libraries that are considerably older than themselves. To a large extent, these occasional difficulties are self-inflicted because I run Suse releases way past their sell-by-date. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Lost rpm db?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 12:23 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: You should have backups in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb, the Packages file gzipped by date. But hurry, it is a daily backup holding only a week, so after a week the backup will only have your corrupted copy. *sigh* There are a bunch of gzipped files there, but I guess none of them would be really accurate. Would there be a way to refresh a very old copy, like unpack the biggest one and somehow verify it against the actual packages installed? The best you can do, as far as I know, is to copy and unzip the latest correct version in the backup (probably the biggest), on top of the existing /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. Even if it is old, it will be better than having nothing. Then run --rebuild, and later YOU, so that it installs again the updates you are missing in the database list. There is no way I know of to regenerate the database by looking at the installed files all over the distro. I think it should be possible, by comparing files with the list of files in the ARCHIVE list in the dvd, but I do not know if anybody has created such an application. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHncLctTMYHG2NR9URAsMAAJwM2z00XNhb+N1SCFWRZH5VFOloMQCfV/42 e7qVA6Kdp+NbSZjXqUogScg= =IM2V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 11:18 -, G T Smith wrote: Unfortunately the underlying issue is a little worse (at least with 10.2). Try running cpan -O and you will begin to understand the problem. Many of the SuSE 10.2 Perl module RPMs from packman are badly out of date. The SuSE Perl stuff is a bit better but still lags (as would be expected). Yes, but for a non perl guy like me, I'd better stick to the rpms. The worst thing, for me, is that the rsnapshot application does an examination of itself without discovering any problem, does the backup claiming sucess, and fails to save anything. That's the worst thing, IMO. I can not trust a backup application that claims success after failing completely. :-/ I'll have to search for another one. Perhaps dirvish. Dunno. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHncP0tTMYHG2NR9URAlEaAJ9s7w3udUtifob8sSpjmLbG9x5gAQCfaAZ7 7cG3Sh5/aWfWAI4aovtNBnk= =6jNr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Duel Screening
I think you should let them fight it out at 15 paces. Oh..you mean DUAL screens. LOL :D Seriously: genious! -- There are two kinds of people: 1. People who start their arrays with 1. 1. People who start their arrays with 0. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Kiwi-devel] [opensuse] openSUSE 10.3 and LTSP
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:38 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: OK. I give up. Where is there documentation on how to add an RPM to KIWI/LTSP? If I add it to the config.xml, the build fails claiming that it failed reading the config file. So there is obviously more to it than that. The only info on LTSP I can find is runtime stuff about what services/features LTSP should enable. My concern is back when the LTSP images are being created. Of course, maybe LTSP is not the best vehicle for getting a minimal diskless SUSE up and running. Maybe there is a more appropriate KIWI project for this? I thought I would start with LTSP since it is not so far off from what I want, and fiddle from there. But my fist fiddling failed. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Lost rpm db?
Carlos E. R. skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 12:23 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: You should have backups in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb, the Packages file gzipped by date. But hurry, it is a daily backup holding only a week, so after a week the backup will only have your corrupted copy. *sigh* There are a bunch of gzipped files there, but I guess none of them would be really accurate. Would there be a way to refresh a very old copy, like unpack the biggest one and somehow verify it against the actual packages installed? The best you can do, as far as I know, is to copy and unzip the latest correct version in the backup (probably the biggest), on top of the existing /var/lib/rpm/Packages file. Even if it is old, it will be better than having nothing. Then run --rebuild, and later YOU, so that it installs again the updates you are missing in the database list. There is no way I know of to regenerate the database by looking at the installed files all over the distro. I think it should be possible, by comparing files with the list of files in the ARCHIVE list in the dvd, but I do not know if anybody has created such an application. That means I'm smoked.. Oh well.. I guess I'll find some weird way out eventually.. Hehe Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. (and the field can't be reduced below two, because every competent military purchasing department on the planet requires that all electronic components be 2nd-sourced -- so if AMD fails, then Intel is cut out of that lucrative market until such time that another company is up and running as a 2nd source of Intel-like CPUs -- This is why Intel keeps AMD abreast of their future designs -- if AMD can't duplicate Intel functionality, then Intel loses). According to an IBM Linux presentation I attended a couple of years ago, IBM manufactures many CPU's for AMD. This means that even if AMD fails, the chips are still being made elsewhere. Chips these days are designed using standard libraries, which make it easy for another company to start producing CPU's from a failed company. IIRC, in the 64 bit world, it's Intel following AMD, not the otherway around. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: Desktop focus problems in KDE
I have a dual head setup, with two independent desktops (not one single desktop as many people have) so I can run full screen apps on each monitor. Each independent desktop also has 2 virtual desktops (that I switch between with Ctrl+F1 or F2 while that desktop has focus). The dual head was configured with nVidia's tools, and works quite well... with the exception of the desktop focus jumping back and forth between the two desktops. Now to the problem and the hard part is describing it so that everyone can understand. I will be running a full screen app on Screen2, and working in it.. for example MythTV. this Screen and Desktop has focus, and the keyboard is being used to navigate the MythTV menus. Without moving the mouse off of Screen2, the focus will suddenly jump to Screen1. I get control back to Screen2 I have to click the left mouse button on the desktop of Screen2. The mouse never left Screen2 so focus is not following the mouse cursor over to Screen1. The same can be happen with a full screen app on Screen1. I will be working on Screen1, and switching between a full screen app on Desktop1, and Desktop2, when focus will suddenly jump over to Screen2. The mouse never left Screen1. I have been doing some digging on this one... and found this bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56255 So other people have encountered this too C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] What is Lchown? (rsnapshot)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2008-01-28 at 11:18 -, G T Smith wrote: snip Yes, but for a non perl guy like me, I'd better stick to the rpms. Unfortunately, I am getting the impression that the non-SuSE rpm variants are not terribly well synchronised (a couple introduced minor problems which only disappeared when I bit the bullet and did a full perl module update from CPAN), and the official Perl RPMs are a bit limited in scope. I think it might be good idea for CPAN support for Perl, possibly PEAR support for PHP and whatever the Python community use to be integrated into YaST. With YaST identifying the appropriate development RPMs and installing them as required. This would help non-Perl,php,Python people maintain their installations in these languages and could be of benefit for those who choose to work with these languages. AFAIK there is no cpan equivalent for checkinstall, so generating an RPM from a cpan install is unlikely to be straightforward. The worst thing, for me, is that the rsnapshot application does an examination of itself without discovering any problem, does the backup claiming sucess, and fails to save anything. That's the worst thing, IMO. I can not trust a backup application that claims success after failing completely. :-/ I agree.. It could be a packaging issue, it could also be a mixture of Perl module versions which does not quite work as expected (and you cannot really blame the developer for that), or both. I'll have to search for another one. Perhaps dirvish. Dunno. Which is why I am working on something initially for my own use. -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. - -- == I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHndS+asN0sSnLmgIRAj45AJ9miMMevl3HtO3Uf0HLB/QdbR4yaQCgvwtD 18JGD7CTKLlp6y8jcuYE21o= =u6Rh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. schreef: | | | | Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only | allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using | the scsi device name convention. | | In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several | partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to | a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a | few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot | of data to have on a single partition. | | For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow. | | -- Cheers, |Carlos E. R. Ofcourse. But maybe it is meanth for simple users? I myself *need* more partitions, to test also. Now i want to see how the new 11.0 installs, but i have an updated factory. I do not want to overwrite that, nor the working 10.2, that is around, and can be used if all others fail, which sometimes happens... /boot i have seperate, and that keeps all the nessesary files for all the platforms...(until now, this saved me lots of trouble..) /home can also be mounted to several platform versions, if one does not have the space for seperate different /home partitions...(having a recent back-up, just in case, might sometimes not be such a bad idea afterall..:) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. ~ OS: Linux 2.6.24-rc8-git2-3-default x86_64 ~ Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Systeem: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha1 ~ KDE: 3.5.8 release 36 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAked0hcACgkQX5/X5X6LpDh0NgCeNzT+QCohtjfhRprIfc4RWESQ AswAmwT7K6cF1kpG6VBfR86QWkTFA3aR =/xVn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Ping SUSE KDE Users - Nokia to buy Trolltech
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236 Interesting news about this. Not sure if openSUSE will be affected at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change the licensing in some way. Why would they (assuming you mean that they might try to do something stupid with QT)? People said the same thing when it was announced that Sun was buying MySQL, but Sun has no intention of futzing with the GPL on MySQL... why would Nokia mess with QT? It's not in their interest to do so. Nokia is getting more and more into open source and cross platform stuff. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] logging internet connection status
I have an ADSL connection to the Internet. Recently there have been some problems with my phone line, which set me thinking. Is there a standard way to make a log of my internet status (i.e. connection or no connection?) Or perhaps it's already logged and I just need to extract it? Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: 32bit libs in 64bit openSuse 10.3 (libasound2)
On 26/01/2008, Marcin Floryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could try compiling it from source but I am not sure how to force 32bit arch (and I suppose I would need some more 32bit libs) and will it not conflict with the version installed from rpm? I would ideally uninstall the 32bit version and install manually from source but I seem to have several other packets that depend on it. What's the best approach? Some digging around the archives revealed this info: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-04/msg02168.html I still wonder what the effect might be of overriding the libs installed from rpm with a newer version? -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 installer -- Checking media -- Use -pad option to burn conflicts with webpage
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: During the 10.3 install from a dvd (that carries the iso from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386.iso and was md5 checked and burned in k3b) the installer suggests to check media. Which I do and which fails with wrong checksum. The iso itself already has some padding sectors. No real point in adding more. Maybe the media _is_ defect? Is your downloaded iso ok (running checkmedia on it)? Steffen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Ping SUSE KDE Users - Nokia to buy Trolltech
http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.4605718236 Interesting news about this. Not sure if openSUSE will be affected at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change the licensing in some way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.0
Anyone running VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.0? Can one use the SUSE-supplied RPM? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Running slow, / full
My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB I've been downloading openSUSE 11.0 Alpha1, via ktorrent for the past 24 hours, but other than that I'm only doing what I always do - read email, news, browse the web, play music. -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, KDE 3.5.8 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] logging internet connection status
Philippe Andersson wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: I have an ADSL connection to the Internet. Recently there have been some problems with my phone line, which set me thinking. Is there a standard way to make a log of my internet status (i.e. connection or no connection?) Or perhaps it's already logged and I just need to extract it? You could try using a network monitoring tool such as Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/) or a logging and graphing tool such as rrdtool (http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/). Both are provided as RPM packages on OpenSuSE. Thanks, I'll investigate these. Having SNMP support on your ADSL modem/router would make the task of monitoring it easier. and G T Smith wrote: If you have an ADSL router they usually include a logging facility of some sort. In some cases you can configure them to send syslog messages to a linux box. Thanks, I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve the router. A previous problem proved to be a faulty router (the current problem is the phone line) so I'd prefer a monitoring technique that doesn't involve trusting the router. But I'll see what it offers as well. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.0
On Monday 28 January 2008 10:13:55 am Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Anyone running VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.0? Can one use the SUSE-supplied RPM? Use the ones from the project site. I has several issues like no usb support on the ones released from opensuse. -- /ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM
On Jan 28, 2008 8:22 PM, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or the 64-bit installation DVD. IIRC, the boxed set includes both versions on one DVD, but the download ones don't. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah... that's why I don't like to automate things too much. Makes me forget. I only visit the download page once per release =P Thanks! Cheers, How -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Switching to more RAM
Aaron Kulkis wrote: At which point during the installation do you choose 32-bit or 64-bit? When you choose to use the 32-bit installation DVD or the 64-bit installation DVD. IIRC, the boxed set includes both versions on one DVD, but the download ones don't. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Problems with cgi-scripts, apache2 on suse 10.3
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Soren Eustis wrote:- I have been trying for a week to get apache to recognize a cgi script and execute it. The script is part of a distributed package, so I know it is my server configuration that is the issue. Basically, I just get a browser prompt asking me what to do with login.cgi. I would greatly appreciate any help with this. I am running out of ideas, and I know it is a simple fix. The folder is in public_html/cgi-bin/. Here is my mod_userdir.conf file: Snip Have you made sure the script is executable? A quick test on Apache 2.2.4 on 10.3 failed if the script wasn't executable. It returned a 500 error and offered the error page as a download. Setting the script as executable and re-testing showed it works. Using: chmod 755 /path/to/script will probably get it working. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a0 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02| openSUSE 10.3 PPC |RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 installer -- Checking media -- Use -pad option to burn conflicts with webpage
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 Steffen Winterfeldt: The iso itself already has some padding sectors. No real point in adding more. So get rid of the installer's hint after all? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Ping SUSE KDE Users - Nokia to buy Trolltech
On Monday 28 January 2008 09:12:51 am PerfectReign wrote: http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-28.460571 8236 Interesting news about this. Not sure if openSUSE will be affected at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if they change the licensing in some way. They've already said they intend to maintain the dual-license strategy, and that they intend to permit Trolltech to operate in much it's current structure, rather than be absorbed into the Nokia fold. They intend to leverage Qt as cross-platform framework across desktop and mobile devices, and they've stated that they'll be further investing in KDE as well. Nokia is an organization that does not shy away from investing resources in RD, even if they occassionally stumble on their go-to-market strategies. Obviously it's too soon to see how things will shakeout, the deal hasn't even gone through yet, but I think it's a good thing for desktop linux in general, for KDE specifically, and hence openSUSE. Just my two pennies. Cheers, KV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
I watch this weekend the movie An Inconvenient Thuth and... i'm worried, i want cry... i feel so bad, really bad, i want help our planet, i change my lights in home, for some who save energy, i unplugged the things i'm not useing... and i don't know if u know this, but, please, enter to www.climatecrisis.net and read this, we have a serious problem for the warming world... and, the animals are dieing, the polar zones are bad... well, please, watch the movie and do your part... please, help to save my planet, your planet, your children planet... we can't live in mars or the moon, only here, and we are destroyeing the ecosystem, we can do something, the problem can ve solved, just, i need your help, the images in the movie The Day After Tomorrow are nothing, we wan't be in a ice age... or dead because we haven't food of water, we are old, if u want see like this, but, your children? my children? our grand children? please, do your part, help us, help me to live, and help yourself to live... i hope this mail don't make you angry... but... i don't know what else must be done... and thank you your read me.. we really need your help, thank you. Correo escaneado contra virus Subdireccion de Tecnologia de la Informacion del ISSSTE Correo escaneado contra virus Subdireccion de Tecnologia de la Informacion del ISSSTE begin:vcard fn:Victor Antonio Chavez de Anda n:Chavez de Anda;Victor Antonio org;quoted-printable:I.S.S.S.T.E.;Subdirecci=C3=B3n de Personal adr;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:;;Fray Servando Teresa de Mier # 32;Ciudad de M=C3=A9xico;D.F.;06080;M=C3=A9xico email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:51415400 ext. 15919 tel;cell:0445534213907 url:www.issste.gob.mx version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: [opensuse] tunapie?
* Carl Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20080128 16:27]: Anyone here having better success with this package? If so, care to share your secrets? ;-) See the openSUSE build service, there should soon be tunapie packages. This is IMO stupidly done, as the install script has /usr/local hardcoded and requires python-wxGTK without any mentioning in INSTALL and without any check done before installation. Thanks for the tip BTW, as I only knew of streamripper, which I package for the distribution. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] tunapie?
Hi All, I'm running 32-bit x86 openSUSE 10.3. After fulfilling a couple of recent requests for help with installing and configuring winamp on XP shiver! I decided to see if I could achieve comparable functionality on my box. Tunapie appears to offer what I want but is refusing to run after a fairly straightforward 'tarball' style installation. Anyone here having better success with this package? If so, care to share your secrets? ;-) TIA regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux?
Lincoln Rutledge Network Engineer OSC Networking 800-627-6420 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/25/08 10:43 PM On Friday 25 January 2008 03:42:16 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 14:54, Chuck wrote: ... I'm old school too. But Suns and SPARCs are yesterday dude :) Linux and x86-64 are NOW! lawl. Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... just the opposite... Sparc IV+ Solaris 10 dance circles around Linux on any hardware.. You need to spend some time in a true top-tier enterprise class data center. Linux still has scores or limitations holding it back in the enterprise realm. There is a reason the stuff is expensive -- its damn good. How do you explain the Googles and Amazons of this world, whose stock OS platform for customer-fronted services is Linux? I'm not saying Solaris is on its way out, but one can most certainly run very-large-scale enterprise operations on Linux. I tend to doubt it's held back. I had an interesting discussion regarding my data center yeterday. While advocating Linux for the data center the topic was brought up that we should use a true server such as FreeBSD UNIX or another UNIX variant. I then reminded my peers that Linux runs several thousands of true servers and we should be the ones to talk, since we run Windows Workstations in our data center, with the exception of one ancient HP 3000. Hehe, we are a FreeBSD shop too. But I already said what I think about FreeBSD's future... The GPL man, everything gets added to the snowball :) Linc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
JB2 wrote: On Mon 28 January 08 09:42, Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: B, baa. Baa, b, baa, b. Friggin' useless sheeple bowing to the Goracle. You may object to the gentleman's posting of his off-topic request on the openSuSE list, you may object to his interpretation of the movie or the data presented in the movie, but calling him a friggin' useless sheepie simply diminishes your credibility and makes you seem petty and small. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd Rather Be Sailing -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Syncing of Moto Q9x
Using 10.3 and have been trying to get my phone, 1 moto q9m, to sync with kontact 1.2.4. So far, i have tried kitchensync, opensync and synce (i have gotten the furtherest with synce but i am looking for a gui). Kitchesync: has a gui and i can add a group but it does not sync. Opensync: seems to be the actual component that does the syncing Synce: does not appear to have a gui Surely, i am not the only one trying to get kontact to sync with anything. Is there anybody out there that is able to sync their Q with anything. If so, please let us know what you are using and how you got it to sync. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
On Monday 28 January 2008 17:59:44 Bill Anderson wrote: Sunny wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 10:15 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB /proc is virtual file system, which resides in memory, not on disk. Even some files are not actually in memory, but when you read them, you actually receive information from the kernel. In your case, read here for /proc/kcore: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml Run the command df to see the how your partitions are filled in. Run top to see which process consumes more resources. Note, that if you run firefox for several days w/o stopping it, it may eat a lot of resources. Cheers I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. Bill Anderson WW7BA Hmmm. I can't say I understand much of that :(. I've been informed off-list that /proc/kcore is simply my running kernel, so that's probably not the file I'm looking for. Can anyone suggest a simple CLI incantation to find all files larger than, say, 500MB? -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, KDE 3.5.8 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Getting Java to work with browsers
Doctor Who schrieb: I cannot seem to get Java working with my browsers (Firefox primarily). I have these Java packages installed: java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u3-21 java-1_5_0-sun-1.5.0_update13-20 java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u3-21 I have both 'Enable Java' and 'Enable Javascript' selected in my Firefox (2.0.0.10) options. You should check whether /etc/alternatives/javaplugin points to the correct plugin, in your case: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0.u3-sun-1.6.0.u3/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so If not, you can create it with: update-alternatives --auto javaplugin update-alternatives --verbose --install /usr/lib/browser-plugins/javaplugin.so javaplugin /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0.u3-sun-1.6.0.u3/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 1605 Greetings However, when I visit pages the need Java, I get an error message stating that I'm missing the appropriate plug-in. Choosing to install the plug-in from this prompt only gives me a 'manual' option that takes me to the Sun site where I can get an appropriate package. I installled the *.bin file for Linux from the Sun site, but still no luck with Java pages. This is a 32-bit machine. Any help with this is greatly appreciated. -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research Development :: Internal Tools Don't Panic, Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] tunapie?
On Mon January 28 2008 12:08:15 pm Philipp Thomas wrote: Thanks for the tip BTW, as I only knew of streamripper, which I package for the distribution. Thank *you* for your attention and the reply, Philipp! Excellent news! :-) Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] 10.3 installer -- Checking media -- Use -pad option to burn conflicts with webpage
Hi, During the 10.3 install from a dvd (that carries the iso from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386.iso and was md5 checked and burned in k3b) the installer suggests to check media. Which I do and which fails with wrong checksum. _Maybe_ it fails because of what the installer's help text on the left hand side suggests: To use -pad when burning isos to avoid dangling sectors which in turn would mess up md5. This is not mentioned in neither 5. How to proceed on http://software.opensuse.org/ nor in Getting help - Burn DVD Image on http://en.opensuse.org/Download_Help#Burn_the_ISO_Image.28s.29 Which are like the front door. So if the use -pad help from the installer is sound advice then it's a tad late for that, right? I'll file the bug report if someone in the know tells me to. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: Problems with X
OK. Back in X after downgraded xgl-git_071026-30.1 to xgl-git_070104-84.1. Have to figure out what changed in new package. It could be that problem is not in package but in my XGL configuration. After all it was quiet hard to get stable working XGL on my IBM ThinkPad X60p with Mobility FireGL V5250. Audrius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
On Mon 28 January 08 09:42, Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: B, baa. Baa, b, baa, b. Friggin' useless sheeple bowing to the Goracle. -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
On Jan 28, 2008 10:15 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB /proc is virtual file system, which resides in memory, not on disk. Even some files are not actually in memory, but when you read them, you actually receive information from the kernel. In your case, read here for /proc/kcore: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml Run the command df to see the how your partitions are filled in. Run top to see which process consumes more resources. Note, that if you run firefox for several days w/o stopping it, it may eat a lot of resources. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Keeping my system up to date
On 28/01/2008, Klaas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may qualify for the most stupid question of the month, but please point me to the documentation for keeping my OpenSuse 10.3 system up to date. I know there must be fixes and updates but somehow the correct procedure to do this is not clear to me. Yast2 - Online Update http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Modules/Online_Update -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] ftp install
hello i have install my server from the cds, i have buy the novell license i have put the server into one remote location. now i cannot use the cds for installing packages. there is one method for ising one novell / suse ftp server for installing packages? thanks Please answer by email -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Will there be a LTS version of OpenSuse?
I have said many times that the .3 releases should stop being innovative and just be a cumulative of the .0 + .1+.2 + fixes and IT should get the 2 years of updates alone. This way those wishing to avoid cutting edge would be able to load a Distro with very little gotcha's . This would not really be an LTS as much as a this one is absolutely not beta version. Novell could actually profit from this in that it's support of the .3 could relate more directly to SP's for SLE. but I'm just a country bumkin, what do I know! LOL -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Newmarket NH 03857 let's make a difference http://en.opensuse.org/education -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
On Monday 28 January 2008 09:59, Bill Anderson wrote: ... I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. Where they do _not_ reside is on mass storage. It most certainly _does_ reside in primary storage (a.k.a. memory, a.k.a. RAM). The fact that the information is derived on-demand from the current state of the system is only incidental and not fundamentally different from the constituents of any more ordinary file system. Bill Anderson WW7BA Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
find / -size 50k you can specify where to find however, find /home ... would find all files larger than 500mb in /home. -- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic -Original Message- From: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:21 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full On Monday 28 January 2008 17:59:44 Bill Anderson wrote: Sunny wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 10:15 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB /proc is virtual file system, which resides in memory, not on disk. Even some files are not actually in memory, but when you read them, you actually receive information from the kernel. In your case, read here for /proc/kcore: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml Run the command df to see the how your partitions are filled in. Run top to see which process consumes more resources. Note, that if you run firefox for several days w/o stopping it, it may eat a lot of resources. Cheers I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. Bill Anderson WW7BA Hmmm. I can't say I understand much of that :(. I've been informed off-list that /proc/kcore is simply my running kernel, so that's probably not the file I'm looking for. Can anyone suggest a simple CLI incantation to find all files larger than, say, 500MB? -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, KDE 3.5.8 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Install and boot from usb disk
Hi all, I've installed 10.3 on a USB disc drive as I can't use the internal disc drive in my company notebook. Any idea which option I have to use so that I can boot from my USB drive? Currently it just tells me Missing operrating system. Thanks Jan -- http://blog.salid.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] tv cards
I have a Hauppauge 250, working with mythdora 4.0, works okay, no complains hardware wise, I had problems with the setup configuring the TV out, I have read their usb models also work okay and there is existing drivers for those: Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2\\ Hans Krueger wrote: My tv card just died had a wonder ati card looking for a replacement for it any suggestions would be helpful usb this time maybe ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Keeping my system up to date
Hi, This may qualify for the most stupid question of the month, but please point me to the documentation for keeping my OpenSuse 10.3 system up to date. I know there must be fixes and updates but somehow the correct procedure to do this is not clear to me. Thank you, -- Klaas Punt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
Sunny wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 10:15 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system has started running very slow, and the root directory is reported as having no free space. I've found a file /proc/kcore which is the probable culprit, being about 1000MB, with today's date, but even root is not allowed to move or delete this file. My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB /proc is virtual file system, which resides in memory, not on disk. Even some files are not actually in memory, but when you read them, you actually receive information from the kernel. In your case, read here for /proc/kcore: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/04.16.shtml Run the command df to see the how your partitions are filled in. Run top to see which process consumes more resources. Note, that if you run firefox for several days w/o stopping it, it may eat a lot of resources. Cheers I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. Bill Anderson WW7BA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-01-28 at 18:20 -, Bob wrote: My system looks like this: Device SizeMount point Free sda2965.1MB / 0B sda360.8MB /boot 46.8MB sda59.8GB /usr4.9GB sda62.0GB /var1.2GB sda72.0GB /opt906.3MB sda81011.4MB/tmp926.4MB sda9257.3GB /home 154.1GB ... Can anyone suggest a simple CLI incantation to find all files larger than, say, 500MB? Considering that / is only 1 GB in size, I don't think that's the problem. I would use 'mc', mark all directories not included in the list above, and then tell it to display directory sizes. Find what they are and what they hold. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHniXTtTMYHG2NR9URAqbpAJ4roWtJs/GtsAC1A+qV3cB2kmdToQCgh55P WRkJ8l+6crNM1sqTtze6hz0= =DdmP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Fresh 10.3 -- 1-click install of nvidia driver fails with dependency conflict
Hi, The 1-click-install http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp from http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA fails here with a dependency check error (see the screenshot at http://picpaste.com/pics/nvidia-dependency_conflict-20080128.1201541942.png) I merely wanted to ask if this is a known hiccup in repositories at the moment. Thanks. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] closing and an open DNS server
Hello, Running Bind 9.3 on Suse 9.3; How can I stop the DNS server from doing recursive lookups and also ensure that is not an open DNS server? Thank you in advance, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
On Monday 28 January 2008 13:09, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay: ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made. This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box that's 4 years old. You will not be pleased. I have an AMD K6 (1.4 GHz, 512 MB memory) that is definitely older than 4 years. It has had SuSE (or whatever they were called at the time) 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2 and currently has openSUSE 10.3 on it. This is a desktop machine (no real server functions) but as a desktop my experience has been that each release *seems* faster than the previous one. (Most likely this is due to improvements in KDE specifically). -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] tv cards
2008/1/28, Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Hauppauge 250, working with mythdora 4.0, works okay, no complains hardware wise, I had problems with the setup configuring the TV out, I have read their usb models also work okay and there is existing drivers for those: Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2\\ Hans Krueger wrote: My tv card just died had a wonder ati card looking for a replacement for it any suggestions would be helpful usb this time maybe ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauppauge PVR-500?, it's just like two PVR-150 on a board... Ciro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] closing an open DNS server
Hello, Running Bind 9.3 on Suse 9.3; How can I stop the DNS server from doing recursive lookups and also ensure that is not an open DNS server? Thank you in advance, ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] closing an open DNS server
James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Running Bind 9.3 on Suse 9.3; How can I stop the DNS server from doing recursive lookups Look up option recursion and set it generally. and also ensure that is not an open DNS server? Look up allow-query to restrict access. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
On Monday 28 January 2008 21:09, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay: ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made. This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box that's 4 years old. You will not be pleased. Gee, that's odd. I've got it installed on an old dual AMD machine that I bought about 4 years ago, and it runs fine. It runs a lot better than the XP that was on it. I also installed it on an old AMD 1000 with less than a gig of ram. Runs circles around XP. Not that it's a bad thing that linux distributions keep aiming at the moving target hardware. It's a good thing, but backwards compatibility is one of the things I like best about linux. When all else fails, I can always get it running when the winXX stuff dies. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 9:27pm up 166 days 1:59, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 1.12, 1.21 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Running slow, / full
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 09:59, Bill Anderson wrote: ... I prefer the term pseudo filesystem, since /proc does not reside in memory. As with any file system, procfs implements the functions defined by vfs, the virtual filesystem. The functions implemented actually read from, and in some cases write to, kernel data structures. The pathnames under /proc define which functions to call. There are a large number of such file systems: rootfs, sysfs, relayfs, tmpfs, and the list goes on. It works, because every filesystem is an implementation of vfs. Where they do _not_ reside is on mass storage. It most certainly _does_ reside in primary storage (a.k.a. memory, a.k.a. RAM). The fact that the information is derived on-demand from the current state of the system is only incidental and not fundamentally different from the constituents of any more ordinary file system. Bill Anderson WW7BA Randall Schulz You will not find a structure in the kernel that is an exact reflection of /proc. As I said, it is only a filesystem in that every filesystem is an implemention of vfs. The system calls involving any filesystem, flow through vfs. Furthermore, any module can create an entry in the /proc filesystem, and provide the routines to handle the open, close, read, and write requests. The reason for the existence of /proc is to provide a link between kernel space and user space that does not involving the creation of a system call to handle every request for information. Furthermore, you can configure the kernel so that it does not create a /proc structure. Of course, some of the user space commands will not work (eg: ps, vmstat, lsof, lsmod, lsusb, lspci, and others), as they derive their information from /proc. If you have an doubts, you can see the source fo information by using strace on any command. Bill Anderson WW7BA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Knott: I have it installed on my almost 6 year old notebook and it runs fine. The notebook has a 1.13 GHz P3. It certainly runs better than XP on thatg same computer. Ok, good for you. Some time ago a friend of mine wanted me to get her opensuse 10.2. I couldn't because her box had 256 mb ram only and the installer chocked on that. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Raid5/LVM2/XFS alignment
On Jan 28, 2008 11:25 AM, Ciro Iriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, anybody has some notes about tuning md raid5, lvn and xfs?. I'm getting 20mb/s with dd and I think it can be improved. I'll add config parameters as soon as i get home. I'm using md raid5 on a motherboard with nvidia sata controller, 4x500gb samsung sata2 disks and lvm with OpenSUSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Ciro -- I have not done any raid 5 perf. testing: 20 mb/sec seems pretty bad, but not outrageous I suppose. I can get about 4-5GB/min from new sata drives. So about 75 MB/sec from a single raw drive (ie. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4k) You don't say how your invoking dd. The default bs is only 512 bytes I think and that is totally inefficient with the linux kernel. I typically use 4k which maps to what the kernel uses. ie. dd if=/dev/zero of=big-file bs=4k count=1000 should give you a simple but meaningful test.. I think the default stride is 64k per drive, so if your writing 3x 64K at a time, you may get perfect alignment and miss the overhead of having to recalculate the checksum all the time. As another data point, I would bump that up to 30x 64K and see if you continue to get speed improvements. So tell us the write speed for bs=512 bs=4k bs=192k bs=1920k And the read speeds for the same. ie. dd if=big-file of=/dev/null bs=4k, etc. I would expect the write speed to go up with each increase in bs, but the read speed to be more or less constant. Then you need to figure out what sort of real world block sizes your going to be using. Once you have a bs, or collection of bs sizes that match your needs, then you can start tuning your stack. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay: ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by not forcing new computers to have to made. This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box that's 4 years old. You will not be pleased. Not that it's a bad thing that linux distributions keep aiming at the moving target hardware. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] 10.3 installer -- Checking media -- Use -pad option to burn conflicts with webpage
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 Steffen Winterfeldt: Maybe the media _is_ defect? Is your downloaded iso ok (running checkmedia on it)? Like I said: the iso was md5 checked in k3b and the sums matched. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
On Mon January 28 2008 10:42:03 am Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: I watch this weekend the movie An Inconvenient Thuth and... i'm worried, i want cry... i feel so bad, really bad, i want help our planet snip don't know what else must be done... and thank you your read me.. we really need your help, thank you. I know it is heartbreaking, Victor, but it is very important not to succumb to despair. There is hope if the majority undertakes tangible work, now, to address these critical problems on a local basis. There is strength in numbers and awareness and education are key. Please utilize the valuable resources, below, and distribute the links widely! Thanks so much for taking the initiative and God bless! -- Carl * http://globalpublicmedia.com/ Note: spend a few days in the multimedia scientific/academic 'Lectures' section starting at page 7 http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures?page=7 and work your way up, chronologically, to the present. * http://www.realclimate.org/ Climate Science from Climate Scientists A great resource for debunking special interest misinformation. * http://www.postcarbon.org/ Reduce Consumption: Produce Locally * http://www.postcarboncities.net/ Preparing Local Governments for Energy and Climate Uncertainty * http://www.energyfarms.net/ Reliable Renewable Energy for a Post Carbon World * http://www.relocalize.net/ Local Communities. Global Connections. * http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/ A Plan for a Sensible Energy Future * http://www.ecoshock.org/ IMHO one of the *best* radio programs dedicated to climate change and peak oil; don't overlook the extensive multimedia library and show archive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.0
Well, yes, I worked with VirtualBox on SUSE Linux 10.0. Use cross-distro installer, and read here: http://forgeftp.novell.com/lfl/.html/virtualbox.html -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] tv cards
My tv card just died had a wonder ati card looking for a replacement for it any suggestions would be helpful usb this time maybe ? -- Hans Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Keeping my system up to date
Montag, 28. Januar 2008 Klaas.: Hi, This may qualify for the most stupid question of the month, but please point me to the documentation for keeping my OpenSuse 10.3 system up to date. I know there must be fixes and updates but somehow the correct procedure to do this is not clear to me. It definitely isn't a stupid question at all as there is no obvious piece of info on opensuse.org, the installed help center etc. It's a shame because it really is a rather neat 2-step process: Open Yast, go to Software, choose Online update configuration. This will add the online update repository to your existing repositories. After that still in Software choose Online update which will check for available patches etc. Might be that the first available patch is for the online update module itself. Go along with it and in the next round you will get to see and review all other available updates. You can select/deselect these and again go along with it. Done. Something along these lines really needs to go up front somewhere in the initial user documentation on opensuse.org and the installed help center. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
On 2008/01/28 14:01 (GMT+0100) M9. apparently typed: Carlos E. R. schreef: | Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only | allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using | the scsi device name convention. | In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several | partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to | a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a It isn't any fault of SUSE distro developers. The kernel developers are the perpetrators of the SCSI partition limit in libata. | few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot | of data to have on a single partition. | For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow. Ofcourse. But maybe it is meanth for simple users? I myself *need* more partitions, to test also. Now i want to see how the new 11.0 installs, but i have an updated factory. I do not want to overwrite that, nor the working 10.2, that is around, and can be used if all others fail, which sometimes happens... /boot i have seperate, and that keeps all the nessesary files for all the platforms...(until now, this saved me lots of trouble..) Even in current 11.0 Factory you can still have up to 62 partitions per HD just as before if you follow the instruction in the 10.3 release notes. http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#09 Over the past few days I added 10.3 and Factory to a system already having 10.0, 10.1 10.2 and 19 partitions. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/gx260L05.txt Of several systems I have Factory installed on only one is using libata, and I did that only to experiment with LVM. -- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Problem getting printing to work in OpenOffice
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Basil Chupin schreef: | Not too long ago a similar question was asked and an answer given. I | have searched the Suse database/site and mailing list(s), including the | OpenOffice site, but cannot find the answer - obviously I am not looking | in the right places nor using the right search words. | | I am using Suse 10.2 (and 10.3 on a test bed) but cannot get OO | (everything upgraded to the latest versions) to print out a document to | an IBM/Lexmark 4039 12R Plus laser printer. | | If I use Kwrite, to create a document and then print it, the printing is | successfully done in seconds. | | Can anyone, please, either tell me what the fix is to get OO to print | out a document or point me to the location where I can get the answer? | | (I have a couple of documents which need to be printed out rather | quickly (but not as a matter of life or death) so if someone can | provide a quick answer I would be most grateful.) | | Ciao. | | | Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future. | | Maybe you solved the matter, maybe not. I ran into same issue just now, and the error log showed me to modify printer, if upgraded cups, which i did, and it worked immediately after i did modify the printer: | I [28/Jan/2008:14:39:28 +0100] [Job 4] Restarted by root. | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:28 +0100] [Job 4] No ticket cache found for userid=1000 | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:28 +0100] [Job 4] Can not get the ticket cache for monkey9 | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: The version of Gutenprint software installed (5.0.2) does not match the PPD file (5.0.1). | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: If you have upgraded your version of Gutenprint | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: recently, you must reinstall all printer queues. | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: If the previous installed version of Gutenprint | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: was 4.3.19 or higher, you can use the `cups-genppdupdate.5.0' | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: program to do this; if the previous installed version | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: was older, you can use the Modify Printer command via | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: the CUPS web interface: http://localhost:631/printers. | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Gutenprint: The version of Gutenprint software installed (5.0.2) does not match the PPD file (5.0.1). | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] PID 3564 (/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.0) stopped with status 1! | I [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to debug to find out more. | E [28/Jan/2008:14:39:29 +0100] [Job 4] Job stopped due to filter errors. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. ~ OS: Linux 2.6.24-rc8-git2-3-default x86_64 ~ Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Systeem: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha1 ~ KDE: 3.5.8 release 36 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAked4RwACgkQX5/X5X6LpDhP9ACgj53bc+vCL5fBgqDG6yrtJCAh JgoAoOJ2jKiwCzbNkHvKBUQ8c6y5j4xD =eNjG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Google Earth crashes with signal 6
2008/1/28, Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Henk te Sligte wrote: Hi all, I am using OpenSuse for about a year now, but I never got Google Earth working. Today, I decided to give it another try. I removed everything related to Google Earth, logged in as root, and installed Google Earth. Installation works fine, no problems at all. But when I tried to run it, X server crashed. Also when I logged in as user, it crashes. I couldn't get anything useful from /var/log/messages, so I tried to find something useful from the internet. The only possible solution I found was at linuxquestions.org: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/google-earth-crashes-x-598569/ TaylorVcl recommends running the following: wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7037027/libGL.so.1 -O libGL.so.1 at the directory /opt/googlearth/. This is where Google Earth is installed, so everything should be fine. And yes, X server doesn't crash anymore when I try to run googlearth. But I get the message located at the bottom of this mail. The log file is attached to this mail. I hope someone has any idea to fix this, because I really love this application. Thank you very much in advance! Did you restart google earth so that the bug report would be sent to Google? And which version of Google Earth are you using? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I restarted it quite often, so Google must have a lot reports from me. The version I use is the newest, downloaded yesterday, version 4.2 Beta. Henk te Sligte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] logging internet connection status
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Howorth wrote: Philippe Andersson wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: and G T Smith wrote: snip If you have an ADSL router they usually include a logging facility of some sort. In some cases you can configure them to send syslog messages to a linux box. Thanks, I'd prefer a solution that didn't involve the router. A previous problem proved to be a faulty router (the current problem is the phone line) so I'd prefer a monitoring technique that doesn't involve trusting the router. But I'll see what it offers as well. Cheers, Dave But you will not get any ADSL link information which is a good indicator of ADSL synchronisation and connection problems at the level below TCP/IP, which is good indicator of line issues (AFAIK NAGIOS deals with TCP/IP not with ADSL connection issues, all you will know is the connection is not working not many clues as to why it is not working). - -- == I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHngTkasN0sSnLmgIRAoOuAJ9Ypf0yplET4tDrUhOafMf9X5YyYgCgmI3q 8hAuYIV082mVJW/yUg9ub5c= =Yer8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)
Victor Antonio Chávez de Anda wrote: I watch this weekend the movie An Inconvenient Thuth and... i'm worried, i want cry... i feel so bad, really bad, i want help our planet, i change my lights in home, for some who save energy, i unplugged the things i'm not useing... I've started turning off my test servers when I'm not actually testing - fair enough? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
