[opensuse-factory] X broke in 10.3?

2007-12-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an HP Compaq nc6220 laptop display resolution 1400x1050. Intel GMA900 graphics. I praised SuSE always in previous releases because it was the only distribution that correctly supported the resolution out of the box with no hacks needed. Now in 10.3 it broke. To make the resolution work

[opensuse-factory] Misleading zypper error message

2007-12-22 Thread Joerg Mayer
Hello, A recent zypper dup removed the gpg2 package from my system (I have no idea why). When I later tried to update again I ended up with the following error: Checking whether to refresh metadata for factory Downloading:

Re: [opensuse-factory] Misleading zypper error message

2007-12-22 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Samstag 22 Dezember 2007 schrieb Joerg Mayer: The error message isn't really helpful. Should I open a bug requesting a less misleading error message like gpg not found - couldn't verify key? I'd say, that depends. If rpm -V zypper libzypp is silent, then it's a bug in the package. But if

*again*, sigh - Re: [opensuse-factory] ppc factory in stuck again?

2007-12-22 Thread Toni Harbaugh-Blackford
ppc appears to be stuck *again*, sigh. I wouldn't be so picky about this, except that at the moment ppc factory is uninstallable because of bug 346872. This is *technically* marked as fixed in libzypp-4.1.6, which was committed on 12/17. But as yet libzypp-4.1.6 hasn't made it to any part

Re: *again*, sigh - Re: [opensuse-factory] ppc factory in stuck again?

2007-12-22 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Samstag 22 Dezember 2007 schrieb Toni Harbaugh-Blackford: ppc appears to be stuck *again*, sigh. I wouldn't be so picky about this, except that at the moment ppc factory is uninstallable because of bug 346872. This is *technically* marked as fixed in Don't worry. If it has been synced

Re: [opensuse] how to turn off GUI on suse linux?

2007-12-22 Thread peter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JJB wrote: Is there something like /etc/init.d/gui stop? Nope, but you can do it two ways: 1. Edit /etc/inittab and change the default init to 3, or 2. Start yast2 change in System/sysconfig-Editor/Desktop/Display manager/DISPLAYMANAGER the entry

[opensuse] vbox and vmware compatibility

2007-12-22 Thread jdd
I installed Xp in vmware, before having the usb compatible virtualbox :-( I read in the vb manual that it can open the vmware vmdk files, but when I try this it say no bootable system found is there a way to use vmware disks with vbox? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Donald D Henson
Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-21-07 18:22]: Dave Howorth wrote: Another suggestion. Start YaST. Go to system, sysconfig editor, system, cron and set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to yes. Report back what gets output

Re: [opensuse] Frozen Throne

2007-12-22 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Schneider wrote: Kaare Rasmussen pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Try this: http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/459/ There are links to instructions, I did not check this out fully. Google is your friend, I I did try something similar last

Re: [opensuse] Frozen Throne

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:53:48 G T Smith wrote: Ken Schneider wrote: Kaare Rasmussen pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Try this: http://www.blizzplanet.com/content/459/ There are links to instructions, I did not check this out fully. Google is your friend, I I did try something

[opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos
HEllo i am desperate and i dont kow how to solve my problem. I have install the SLES 10, i have upodate online and i have install the SP1. I want to configure one email server using postfix, sasl, cyrus and the autentication againts the ldap (localhot) I have configure into the dns server (in

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 11:46:06 Carlos wrote: 1. problem: i am using the yast for adding users and when y add one ussers and i add it email adress using the yast pluging for editing the email date from user , or if i change the password whe i finalize appears this error into the

[opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi, This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this , hence my question. I realise that the repositories are used for updates but why has some of

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos
i only make these changes using Yast, only yast what can i solve this problem? Can you help me? thanks - Original Message - From: Anders Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix +

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:36:21 Anders Johansson wrote: Are you saying YaST itself is making this connection? That's new. YaST should be storing all its info in the LDAP server. I don't think I've ever seen YaST itself make an imap connection My mistake. I just checked, and YaST does do

Re: [opensuse] Totem and MPEG-2 playback

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Anders Johansson wrote: I think totem uses gstreamer, so you probably need the fluendo codec for mpeg. You can find it at packman I have the gst-fluendo-mp3 rpm installed and when i type in fluendo in software management (which i have packman as a software repo), gstreamer and flumotion

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:57:00 Carlos wrote: i only make these changes using Yast, only yast what can i solve this problem? I'd need to set up a system with multiple domains in order to test your second problem. The third, as I said, isn't a problem For the first problem, either add

Re: [opensuse] Problen with SLES + postfix + sals+ ldap

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 12:57:00 Carlos wrote: i only make these changes using Yast, only yast what can i solve this problem? I'd need to set up a system with multiple domains in order to test your second problem. The third, as I said, isn't a problem For the first problem, either add

[opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Philippe Landau
Hello Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu, buildservice mozilla and opensuse 10.3 updates. What do you recommend ? Kind

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread jdd
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: opensuse.mirror.ac.za/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/ ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ these two are static repository. Usually they don't change after the initial release. Very rarely there is an update if the

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Rodney Baker wrote: Chris, You can install compiz-fusion using one-click without first uninstalling compiz. Yast will take care of dependicies, obsoletes etc. I have done this successfully on 2 systems. I have both KDE and Gnome desktops installed (although I generally use KDE) so I

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
Hi, Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a backport of the fix is too complicated So yes, if you really want updated versions of the software, you need to either update to the latest suse

Re: [opensuse] Frozen Throne

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
aledr wrote: There is World of Warcraft 2 and other games in wine-doors... You can give a try... 2007/12/21, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:35, Kaare Rasmussen wrote: Hi Can anybody help me make my kids happy? I would really like to run World of Warcraft

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 02:34 -0700, Donald D Henson wrote: Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that

Re: [opensuse] Modem working on openSuSE 10.2

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 08:49 +0100, Cristea Bogdan wrote: I have an external USB modem and trying to get this working on linux. I have set up through yast the modem parameters related to Internet provider, but I am not able to communicate

Re: [opensuse] vbox and vmware compatibility

2007-12-22 Thread Ken Schneider
jdd pecked at the keyboard and wrote: I installed Xp in vmware, before having the usb compatible virtualbox :-( I read in the vb manual that it can open the vmware vmdk files, but when I try this it say no bootable system found is there a way to use vmware disks with vbox? thanks jdd

[opensuse] Alpine 1.0 is out

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Alpine 1.00 has been finally released. It is the new version of the mail client Pine, with an apache license. It is, as Pine, a text mode MUA. Now it also has a web based user agent. More info: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ There is

[opensuse] Graphics problem after fitting new Nvidia card

2007-12-22 Thread paul williamson
Hi all, I fitted a new Nvidia 6200geforce (AGP) graphics card a few days ago, and I saw this intermittent (maybe once a week) fault for the 3rd time today. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/phwilliamson/drawing2.png I was running openSuse 10.3 at the time, but I have also seen the same fault in

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Druid
On Dec 22, 2007 9:43 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this , hence my

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Rodney Baker
On Saturday 22 December 2007 23:08:36 Chris Arnold wrote: Rodney Baker wrote: Chris, You can install compiz-fusion using one-click without first uninstalling compiz. Yast will take care of dependicies, obsoletes etc. I have done this successfully on 2 systems. I have both KDE and

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 09:22 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if one nices and ionices beagle, there still is the matter of swap space getting filled. Usually it is when that happens when ugly thoughts against the

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse and USB card reader?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi, I am currently in the market for a flash card and floppy disk reader. Yes, floppy disks, the 3.5 ones. The reason I would like a reader for floppy disks as I have in excess of 100 disks that contain

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-22-07 04:40]: Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that mail get

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007 01:02:56 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote: ah... ionice seems to be a new invention. I'll give it a try when I build a new system this month. Even if one nices and ionices beagle, there still is the matter of swap space getting filled. Usually it

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Rodney Baker wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 23:08:36 Chris Arnold wrote: Rodney Baker wrote: Chris, You can install compiz-fusion using one-click without first uninstalling compiz. Yast will take care of dependicies, obsoletes etc. I have done this successfully on 2 systems.

Re: [opensuse] Install 10.3 on drive with the recover on it

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Chris Arnold wrote: I am gonna try to explain this as clear as possible. I have an IBM thinkpad T43 and it has that other OS installed. It also has the recovery part on the hard drive that i do not want to destroy (as they did not ship recovery cd's with this system). I want to install suse 10.3

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Bryen wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 02:03 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 14:31 -0600, Bryen wrote: Unless of course that solution destroys the performance on the target system. I am the one who started this thread, and as

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Friday 21 December 2007 01:06:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 09:38:46 am Carlos E. R. wrote: The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 09:22 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if one nices and ionices beagle, there still is the matter of swap space getting filled. Usually

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Kevin Dupuy wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:10 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Stevens wrote: Today Kevin Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I'm reading right now, I'm presuming either you have no documents, or they are all on your desktop. If you actually did work, you would love Beagle. I

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:45:53 Chris Arnold wrote: I am an id10tI failed to see the note in bold that said if you want a startup script, install this (which is compiz manager). I installed this and now i have the windows decorations. But now, i do not have window previews. It is

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Anders Johansson wrote: By default it only happens for windows on the current desktop. If you want it for all windows on all desktops, you need to configure it I see. So how do you configure it for all windows on all desktops? Oh, and for the record, compiz fusion is available for SLED10

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold wrote: Anders Johansson wrote: By default it only happens for windows on the current desktop. If you want it for all windows on all desktops, you need to configure it I see. So how do you configure it for all windows on all desktops? I see in CCSM, advanced search

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 16:22:37 Chris Arnold wrote: Anders Johansson wrote: By default it only happens for windows on the current desktop. If you want it for all windows on all desktops, you need to configure it I see. So how do you configure it for all windows on all desktops? If

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Chris Arnold wrote: I see in CCSM, advanced search and click the windows preview. In that dialog i see taskbar and under it is taskbar shows only windows of current viewpoint and it was checked. I unchecked it and reloaded window manager using the compiz-fusion icon in the panel. Still does

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 16:41:22 Chris Arnold wrote: Chris Arnold wrote: I see in CCSM, advanced search and click the windows preview. In that dialog i see taskbar and under it is taskbar shows only windows of current viewpoint and it was checked. I unchecked it and reloaded window

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Anders Johansson wrote: Can you change any settings at all in CCSM? I wonder if perhaps you've started compiz fusion with the gconf configuration setting Well, i can uncheck windows preview and there isn't a windows preview with the active window. So, i would answer yes, i can change

Re: [opensuse] Panel pop-ups

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 16:50:14 Chris Arnold wrote: Anders Johansson wrote: Can you change any settings at all in CCSM? I wonder if perhaps you've started compiz fusion with the gconf configuration setting Well, i can uncheck windows preview and there isn't a windows preview with

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed: Tnx jdd, I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the updates have already been transferred to a mirror which I might then be able to

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Philippe Landau wrote: Hi Hylton Unfortunately updating OpenSuse is a mess, but it is easy once you know the tricks. Would you like to update to OpenSuse 10.3 ? snip It is the tricks I wanted to learn and updating to 10.3 I have decided against although 11.0 is a 'definite' after watching

[opensuse] Change gdm login screen color

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Arnold
Using 10.3 and gnome with gdm. As the subject lines suggests, is there a way to change the login screen background/color to something else besides installing a new gdm? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Anders Johansson wrote: Hi, Version updates for released products are extremely rare. Essentially, they only happen when there is a serious bug or security problem, and a backport of the fix is too complicated So yes, if you really want updated versions of the software, you need to

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:57:50 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote: Kevin Dupuy wrote: OK, here's the issue: you're not most people. I'm not most people. All of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And most people don't name their files orderly, and put them in

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 22 December 2007 06:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Hello Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu, buildservice

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Smits
On December 22, 2007 07:56:12 am Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: jdd wrote about the triplicate installation sources I have listed: Tnx jdd, I'll do a clean-up although doesn't having more than one source provide greater accessibility i.e. if the suse site goes down, perhaps the updates

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Philipp Thomas
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:57:50 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue their idiotic behavior. By fully quoting the mail just to add that comment you're joining the club. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Druid wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 9:43 AM, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This has been bothering me for a long time as I am battling to understand the usage of software repositories. I haven't been able to find a reference in the fine manual of 10.2 that describes this ,

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Robert Smits
On December 22, 2007 04:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Hello Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu, buildservice mozilla

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 09:42 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR merely sets cron to report successful activity to root. It did nothing to your cron job. ... time a cron job is successful. You *will* change it when you

Re: [opensuse] Software updates and repositories understanding

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 17:49:50 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: If I get that dreaded upgraditis, I am then on my own, I've never liked that expression. The whole point of a community is that you're not on your own. There are mailing lists and forums, and you can report the bug (if there

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:06 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: [ulimit] The real solution here is to find and fix the bug that causes beagle to allocate so much memory. It doesn't happen on all systems. When it happens, a bug should be opened,

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-22-07 04:40]: Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Philippe Landau
Robert Smits wrote: On December 22, 2007 04:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu,

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:07:01PM +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Robert Smits wrote: On December 22, 2007 04:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Stevens
On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30, Rajko M. wrote: Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue their idiotic behavior. Insulting 90% of people doesn't help to make your case. You have to understand that not everyone has the same goals in life as you, and also that different

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 18:00:43 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:06 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: [ulimit] The real solution here is to find and fix the bug that causes beagle to allocate so much memory. It doesn't happen on all systems. When it happens, a bug

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 18:06:37 Stevens wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30, Rajko M. wrote: Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue their idiotic behavior. Insulting 90% of people doesn't help to make your case. You have to understand that not everyone has

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Philippe Landau
Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 06:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I am using Main Repository OSS and non-OSS, nvidia, opensuse edu,

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Saturday 22 December 2007 09:13, Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 18:06:37 Stevens wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30, Rajko M. wrote: Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue their idiotic behavior. Insulting 90% of people doesn't help to

[opensuse] Backup scheduling

2007-12-22 Thread Jerry Houston
I'm still having issues with scheduling backups, and I resolved to get them settled today. I could sure use some advice. To summarize: I've gone through the motions to set up two kinds of backups using YaST. One is a full system backup that I'd like to schedule for once a week (and also run it

Re: [opensuse] Backup scheduling

2007-12-22 Thread Anders Johansson
On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:43:50 Jerry Houston wrote: (1) SHOULD I be able to run crontab as a standard user? Do I need to add my user account to a specific group in order to be able to do that? Yes you should. If you run crontab -e as a normal user, it should let you edit the crontab

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Donald D Henson
Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-22-07 04:40]: Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes.

Re: [opensuse] Encrypted USB - Mac accessible?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Dennis E. Slice wrote: I have a couple of 300GB USB drives (reiserfs) encrypted with SUSE 10.0. Encrypted with which encryption system? There are many to choose from... starting with software which encrypts individual files, to filesystems that are entirely hidden AND encrypted. Can I

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Gary Baribault wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: Notwithstanding the fact that Beagle created performance issues on your system, have you considered converting from MBox to Maildir format for your mail? This will increase performance both in terms

Re: [opensuse] IPv6 and IPv4

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Hans Witvliet wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 20:21 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Ronald Wiplinger wrote: I am a lucky winner of both IPv4 and IPv6. I do not envy you. Why? Works as it should. I never said it didn't as it should. Just let's say, the organizational issues of operating a mixed

Re: NFS sync vs. async mounts (was Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 - Fortran compilation very slow through NFS network with a 64bit server and 32bit clients.)

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 11:10, primm wrote: NFS is kind of ugly itself, don't you think? Ugly? Naah! It's s neat. With nis and nfs anyone can login anywhere and get their own files and start work right after they've got a coffee. It just works. Just like NT

Re: [opensuse] how to turn off GUI on suse linux?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
JJB wrote: Is there something like /etc/init.d/gui stop? The GUI is 5. Apparently, you want run level 3 (multi-user with networking) $ su password: # init 3 # exit $ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Software Update conflicts while introducing KDE4 applications

2007-12-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 22 December 2007 11:20:28 am Philippe Landau wrote: Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 06:26:45 am Philippe Landau wrote: Without having switched to KDE4 i get conflicts while trying to update OpenSuse 10.3. Where does Suse store the list of repositories i use ? I

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 18:00:43 Carlos E. R. wrote: The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:06 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: [ulimit] The real solution here is to find and fix the bug that causes beagle to allocate so much memory. It doesn't happen on all systems. When

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Sloan wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: Joe Sloan wrote: Examples, please? What would be the security advantage of typing /opt/SunWzztop/bin/top every time, instead of top, with /opt/SunWzztop/bin in the path? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ which top /usr/bin/top [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ Why isn't top in /usr/bin

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Ken Schneider wrote: Aaron Kulkis pecked at the keyboard and wrote: Joe Sloan wrote: root's UID. Examples, please? What would be the security advantage of typing /opt/SunWzztop/bin/top every time, instead of top, with /opt/SunWzztop/bin in the path? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ which top /usr/bin/top

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Rajko M. wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:57:50 pm Aaron Kulkis wrote: Kevin Dupuy wrote: OK, here's the issue: you're not most people. I'm not most people. All of us subscribed to this mailing list are probably not most people. And most people don't name their files orderly, and

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Joe Sloan wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: Joe Sloan wrote: in fact anything in /opt or /usr/local usually wasn't even in root's path I should hope not! root should have a strictly limited path to limit security exploits. I'm not sure the lack of finish characteristic of the old school unices

Re: [opensuse] My desktop has become lazy lately

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 08:09 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: I would therefore suggest to pass cpufreq=no as a boot argument, and use Tried that, yesterday. All went fine, till a minute ago, it freezed. A key (shift), and it waked up. So,

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 21 December 2007 10:28:01 am Aaron Kulkis wrote: I just don't understand why it works so bad on such a good computer and an average data load. Simple, Gary. It's poorly designed and/or written, because it's behavior while executing is very careless, and consumes resources far

Re: [opensuse] Beagle under 10.3 is really eating up my CPU

2007-12-22 Thread Joe Sloan
Aaron Kulkis wrote: And since top is trustworthy, just put a symbolic link in /usr/bin to the top executable. Admittedly, it's a patch up, but it's superior to playing around with the $PATH variable(*) all the time (*) for one, it doesn't help much for anyone who has a currently running

Re: [opensuse] Modem working on openSuSE 10.2

2007-12-22 Thread umesh b
On Dec 23, 2007 12:58 AM, umesh b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 6:29 PM, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 08:49 +0100, Cristea Bogdan wrote: I have an external USB modem and trying to get this

[opensuse] Re: banned topic on mindlist...

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Conrad Cook wrote: Yeah, that's pretty intense, man. Glad you made it back in once piece.. I've been considering going around colleges hassling physicists with a video camera, to document what science does and does not show. Too many other, higher-priority, projects. How's your big project

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Rajko M. wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 10:28:01 am Aaron Kulkis wrote: I just don't understand why it works so bad on such a good computer and an average data load. Simple, Gary. It's poorly designed and/or written, because it's behavior while executing is very careless, and consumes

Re: [opensuse] Cron Job Problem

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Donald D Henson wrote: I want to run nightly backups, using rdiff-backup. I want the backups to go to one disk drive, Backup1, Monday thru Saturday and a different disk drive, Backup2, on Sunday. I used Kcron to enter the crontab data running as root. Here's what crontab looks like if I run

Re: [opensuse] Modem working on openSuSE 10.2

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-12-23 at 01:23 +0530, umesh b wrote: I have an EVDO USB modem provided by the local telco(ZTE AC8700). Its working beautifully on open suse, except for when it redials after connection is reset by telco( for some reason they say

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-21 at 11:31 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: mailbox format is not really accessible through mozilla APIs). This is one reason the thunderbird backend is packaged separately, so a quick thing for Gary to try is to rpm -e

[opensuse] Kopete stopped working

2007-12-22 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Hi list, SuSE10.2 plain vanilla. - I just did a stupid thing...went into YaST and asked it to upgrade my software. The little whatever-thing at the buttom of my screen has been orange for many weeks, it always breaks when I try to upgrade my sw. Yesterday, for some odd reason I clicked it,

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 21 December 2007 08:28, Aaron Kulkis wrote: snippage I just don't understand why it works so bad on such a good computer and an average data load. Simple, Gary. It's poorly designed and/or written, because it's behavior while executing is very careless, and consumes resources

Re: [opensuse] Nvidia GeForce 6200 drivers

2007-12-22 Thread Matt T.
On Saturday 22 December 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: Chris Arnold wrote: Yesterday, i installed 10.3 on a test drive. Today, i installed 10.3 on the regular drive and now i can't get nvidia drivers. No 3d... Yesterday, i did an update and rebooted, my display was set for the correct

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 21 December 2007 08:28, Aaron Kulkis wrote: snippage I just don't understand why it works so bad on such a good computer and an average data load. Simple, Gary. It's poorly designed and/or written, because it's behavior while executing is very careless, and consumes resources

[opensuse] will pay for wireless help

2007-12-22 Thread James Gardner
I have a Toshiba p205d-s7454 laptop with a built in atheros wireless card. The chipset is 5006. I have tried SUSE, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, and no distribution configures the card. I have tried madwifi and ndiswrapper. Neither works for me. I need wireless, or the PC is useless to me. I

Re: [opensuse] Kopete stopped working

2007-12-22 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 22 December 2007 02:43:11 pm Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: If I start Kopete from the CLI, I get: kopete: symbol lookup error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkopete.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN9KLineEdit17mouseReleaseEventEP11QMouseEvent Hi Verner, The answer is in the error:

Re: [opensuse] Opensuse and USB card reader?

2007-12-22 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: 3.5 inch floppies are going to become increasingly difficult to find, in the same way that 12-inch, 8-inch, and 5-1/4-inch floppies before them became rarer and rarer until becoming extinct. Where'd you see a 12 floppy? The original, from IBM in the '70's was 8 -- Use

Re: [opensuse] Why beagle?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Anders Johansson wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 18:06:37 Stevens wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 10:30, Rajko M. wrote: Catering to idiots only encourages them to continue their idiotic behavior. Insulting 90% of people doesn't help to make your case. You have to understand that not

[opensuse] web cam and kopete

2007-12-22 Thread jdd
Hello, When I configure kopete (msn), I see the web cam working (I see the image), but when I connect, I have not image sent nor received. where is the setup? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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