April 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

update configuration
by Peter Czanik 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

Hello, Is it supposed to work with current factory? I downloaded it this morning. When I got to "Update Configuration", I left it on the default "Configure now (Recommended)" and pushed "Next". For the past 20 minutes I have seen just the hour glass mouse pointer. All elements on screen are clickable, so I could change to "Configure Later", click "abort" "back", etc., but YaST does not respond to anything. Is it worth a bug report, or "Update Configuration" is still under heavy construction? Bye, CzP

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Where can I dump Translation 'bug'-reports?
by Azerion 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

I found some Dutch-translation problemsin Setup that may exist in other languages too. Where do I post the report? "Include Add-On (Media?)" is not translated "Traditional method without NetWorkManager" is not translated The Online-update-page is nog translated ===================================== Dutch only: - Welcom bij SUSE Linux >> Welkom - Bezoek opensuse.org over hoe u >> Bezoek opensuse.org -en lees- over hoe u - OpenOffice bevat oa......een database (is dat zo, ik denk dat dat database-beheer moet zijn) Azerion

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Beta9 Minimal Install
by Chad Groneman 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hi, >From AJ's announcement: > The distribution comes with 5 CDs. You need: > * CD1 only for a minimal text installation (English) > * CDs 1-3 for a default KDE or GNOME installation in German or English > * All CDs for other selections I just did an i386 minimal text install, it took approx 450 MB from CD1, but also required about 3 packages from CD2. Should I file a bug report? Thanks, Chad

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Beta 9: Automatic entries in Installation Source?!
by David Wright 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Just added gwdg.de factory to YaST and went back in to see if the ordering bug has been fixed (it hasn't), and I found that YaST had automatically added a new entry to the list for me that wasn't there on my first viewing of the form! It had automatically added http://ftp.lug.ro/suse/suse/update/10.1/ Is this expected behaviour? (This was a new install and the first operation I did after logging on was to go into YaST and add gwdg.de...) Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9
by Azerion 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Seems like makeSUSEdvd is broken in combination with beta9. The md5sums of the iso's are okey. When I wanted to install it reported that it could not found the packages. So I makeSUSEdvd-ed again and tried with y2pmsh. That one reports this: source -a /setup/beta9repo failed to detect sources on file:/setup/beta9repo ERROR(InstSrc:E_cache_dir_create) Azerion

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Update Configuration step fails - sometimes
by David Wright 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I've installed Beta 9 around 8 times now - tracking down various problems. The Update Configuration page sometimes comes up with a failed message with the text "Transaction already in progress. No product to register."... Also the user authentication page only gives me local or ldap now, is this an error or a change in specification? Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

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beta9 - installation hiccups
by Per Jessen 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

I'm just now installing beta9 on a test-machine - and I'm seeing some unusual behaviour. I don't really have much info/diagnostics, which is why I thought I'd ask here before going to bugzilla. The installation is now on CD2, and I've seen 6-7 popups saying "unable to install <package> blahblah ... file or directory not found". All I had to do was say "Retry", and it worked just fine. Also, a couple of times, maybe three, I've seen the installation complain that CDx has suddenly become unavailable - to which I have just said OK, and everything worked fine again. I'm doing a network install, booted off CD1. Has anyone seen anything similar? /Per Jessen, Zürich

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SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta9-Extra problems
by Michael DePaulo 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

Hey all, First of all, it looks like the non-OSS software repository for opensuse beta9 isn't setup right. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/install/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta9-Extra/ I get this message when I hit finish after adding it as a source (with opensuse 10.1 beta9 x86_64): Curl error for: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/install/10.1/SUSE-Linux10.1-Beta9-Extra/content. key: Error code: File not found Error message: RETR response: 550 You can still hit skip and use this install source fine. Upon looking at beta9 and previous sources, it looks like the beta9 sources are supposed to have the file content.key containing a PGP key, unlike previous versions, and this key is missing from this repository. This is only an inconvenience for us beta testers, since even if you dont know about using skip, you can download the RPMs themselves. Nevertheless, this should be fixed in the final version for the sake of casual users. Also, nano has been added since beta8. This is GPL and is already included on the media (10.1 x86-64 at least), and thus probably doesn't belong there. I would have posted this to bugzilla, but I figure these are problems with the suse.com repository that can be fixed relatively easily, not a problem with opensuse itself. -Mike

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commit ML & Factory/Beta
by Graham Anderson 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Evening folks, Do packages that appear on the commit ML make their way into the factory master repo at commit time or is there a further stage? If this is the case I presume then it's preferable ( from you dev's point of view ) for people using beta(9) to update beta packages from the beta release to the updated factory ones? cheers the noo, Graham

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Can't find tomcat5-webapps on beta9
by James PEARSON 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

Hello all I just installed SUSE-Linux-10.1-beta9 and I wanted to install and test the apache2 - tomcat5 - mod_jk_ap20 connector combination. I found and installed apache2 and mod_jk_ap20 connector OK but I can't find tomcat5-webapps on the CDs. Is this normal? Can someone tell me where I can download tomcat5-webapps ? TIA James

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program linked to printscreen
by Marc Collin 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

hi under kde with suse 10.1 beta 9 when we press on print screen, there a program who start ? what is this program? that seem a mono program...... how to change this bad action? i would like to replace it by KSnapShot thanks

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grub re-install
by jdd 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello :-) I work hard right now on grub :-). so two subjects: * there is a new flavor of grub, now what one is used on 10.1 (0.9... or 1.9...)? * there is a problem with grub (old flavor, don't know for the new), when the MBR is erased for some reason (windows install, for example), grub don't works anymore. Yast have an option to correct this, but it's very hard to find (under repair) - of course installation yast, given your linux don't boot no more :-(. however it's often possible to boot the linux install, for example with a grub boot disk. but then it's not clear how to fix grub. needs launching yast and founding the option to write back the MBR. could it be possible to write with yast, when writing the initial grub configuration a small script ("grub-mbr"?) to rewrite the mbr without lauching yast? If this could be run from a rescue cd, it would be even better (you know, like "lilo", or chroot /mnt lilo) Mandrake used to have such thing right from the install cd boot menu... thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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recommendation for WLAN PCMCIA card?
by Hartmut Meyer 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hi, I'm looking for a recommendation for a PCMCIA WLAN card. + supported out of the box (also with upcoming 10.1 release) + 54MBit or better if possible Greetings from Stuhr hartmut

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[opensuse beta9] Can't add bookmarks to Bookmark toolbar in Konqueror
by James PEARSON 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

Hello all I can't add bookmarks to the Bookmark toolbar in Konqueror (is this just me?) Normally I select Bookmarks \ Add Bookmark then under Settings \ Toolbars, I make sure the Bookmark Toolbar is selected. When I do this on my beta9 installation I get nothing... I also have a problem with "Save View profile" open in Konqueror. When I add "Bookmark Toolbar", select the save size option, nothing is taken into account. I get the standard default setup when I re open Konqueror :( So is this old age setting in or what? TIA James

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install software
by Marc Collin 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

hi somebody are a source to add to yast to install software like tomcat, eclipse? thanks

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old KDE update
by Frank-Michael Fischer 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

For a test I am looking for the supplementary KDE update_for_9.0. It has been taken off the mirrors everywhere. Does someone still have a copy on some accessible FTP server I could download? Thanks in advance! FMF

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Package Management: What am I missing?
by Alexander Antoniades 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I've been overall very impressed with the quality of the betas, but each time I run into a roadblock on getting ANY new packages. Specifically can someone tell me HOW DO I INSTALL NEW PACKAGES? I've tried rug, zen, and yast but nothing responds or they just hang. Does anything work? Can someone please give me explicit instructions on how to update beta9? Thanks, Sander

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setting up factory source with rug
by Philipp Wollermann 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hello, before I report this as a bug, I want to make sure, I configured everything correctly. I tried to switch over to the factory source after I installed Beta9 from scratch. I first tried this with the yast installation source manager but this didn't work. I stepped over a bug I have reported (Bug #162751) and when I finally got the factory source in the list, the yast software management wasn't able to find just a single package. I then emptied the list of installation sources and tried to add it with rug: acer:~ # rug sa --type=yum http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/… factory acer:~ # rug sub factory acer:~ # rug catalogs Sub'd? | Name | Service -------+---------+-------- Yes | factory | factory acer:~ # rug in vte-devel ERROR: Can not find resolvable 'vte-devel' The package vte-devel does exist in this source, I verified it by looking into the primary.xml.gz, the RPM file was also there. It seems my installation source management is completely broken, I can't even delete the factory-source in yast anymore, I click delete and finish but it reappears there everytime I launch yast installation source management ... Philipp

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add-on ISO for beta 9
by Glenn Holmer 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I just did an install of beta 9, and I was able to get the installer to recognize the add-on CD (...Addon-BiArch.iso) at the beginning, but he made me swap numerous times between CD 1 and the add-on CD during install. This won't happen in the final version, will it? -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "I love virtuosity. I love danger." -Pierre Boulez, 2005

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SUSEPlugger or KDEPlugger?
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I noticed the newer KDE has a little doo-dad that does the same thing as SUSEPlugger. I don't know if I'm using the proper terms, but when you put in a CD, camera, etc a window pops up asking you what you want to do. If SUSE 10.1 is coming with the newer KDE how is SUSE going to deal with two technologies that does the same thing? If you update KDE on SUSE 10.0 you have two things popping up when I put media in. It's kind of annoying. How will this be handled in SUSE 10.1 I hope I explained this clearly. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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dependencies: single-click
by Eberhard Moenkeberg 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi, I am just trying to upgrade beta8 to beta9. My crux is: I have to click each single dependency conflict without seeing the total situation. My guess is: impossible. BLOCKER! Beware to ask back, I will immediately shoot all I have. Incredible! It ducks the user to a stupid child. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke(a)gwdg.de, em(a)kki.org)

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Broken Packages Due to Patent Laws
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

I was wondering if anyone could give me a list of every package that is broken in SUSE off the shelf due to patent laws. I all ready know a few of the multimedia packages are, but I'm looking for a complete list. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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Package Sugestions and Driver request for SUSE 10.1
by Nathaniel Dube 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

First off, package request. There is a neat program called xtraceroute. It's pretty much eye candy for traceroute but I would like to see it come with SUSE 10.1 This program was once in SUSE 9.1 I would also like to see MythTV come with SUSE 10.1. I have future plans to build a home theater from computer parts and it would be nice that I could just throw in SUSE 10.1 DVD and install MythTV and be up in running in less then an hour. Recently I've come to noticed that SUSE 10.0 has improperly detected my Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card (F5D7000) which after further research says it uses the Broadcom chipset (if memory serves). While SUSE 10 says this... 01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01) Some one on #suse on Freenode suggested using "ndiswrapper" which I installed but don't know how to use. Regardless I think when SUSE 10.1 comes out it should be able to correctly detect the chipset on my hardware, not just for me but for every one else who buys SUSE 10.1 at their local store. You see, I've noticed that the adapter doesn't perform like it should. I've compared this with using the same card on Windows XP which gives me a better signal strength and the LED on the back lights up like a xmas tree. But when I use it in SUSE 10.0 the LED is dim as hell and I never get a signal strength above 45% It is my theory that SUSE 10.0 isn't using the proper driver and so the software is telling the hardware to basically do a half ass job. While on the subject of hardware. I have a cheesy IBM web cam I got some years ago at Best Buy. It worked (very crappy but it worked) in SUSE 9.3. SUSE 10.0 doesn't seem to detect it now. Was there any difference in 9.3 and 10.0 that would not detect some hardware any more? My philosophy is that SUSE needs to work on hardware compatibility for the most common found hardware at places such as WalMart which is where most people (in the US any way) look for good prices on hardware. Right now at Walmart they have only two vendors for wireless hardware. Lynksys and Belkin. Belkin being the cheaper ones. The adapters selling below $40US. I don't get all my hardware there. I also get a lot from newegg.com. But that's just me. The average Joe gets there stuff from places like WalMart. And I believe for SUSE and Linux in general to be more excepted by the average Joe, then I would say that compatibility with the most common found hardware at the places where the average Joe shops should be on the priority list of hardware compatibility. But that's just my opinion. Just a last note. I've noticed that supplementary updates tend to screw things up. Such as updating KDE. I wondering if there could be some way to have better support for updating packages in SUSE 10.1. And I don't just mean using YOU for patches and such. I think the whole system needs to be changed to it's easier to update packages. I might get flamed for saying this. I tried Ubuntu for about week and I liked the way I could easily update packages to newer version and it didn't break stuff. But after missing YAST I went back to SUSE. I almost forgot. Every distro I ever tried has never been able to autodetect my video setup with out giving me the black screen. I've used SUSE 9.0 to 10.0 and this issue still hasn't been fixed. My mother board comes from some eMachine I had back in 2000. It has not jumper or BIOS setting to turn off the onboard video. It's one of those boards that only turns it off when you put in a video card. I have a nVidia GeForce 2 MX400 chipset on my video card. I always have to edit the xorg.conf manually because sax2 turns my screen black any time I try running it. It would be nice for once if I can install SUSE and have the setup work all the way though the hardware detection. I'm not that experienced with the CLI (YAST has made me lazy) so if any one needs me to type any thing to collect more data, logs, etc about my system to give you better idea of my setup then feel free to ask. I would really like to get these issues sorted out and fixed for future SUSE releases. I love SUSE and really would like to see more people in the US using it. I only give out my GPG key upon request. Spammers where getting my email address from my old one when I submitted it to the key servers. I have a new email and key. If I give you my key I would ask that you keep it to your self. And if you want to email me directly I prefer a signed key and encryption. Thanks every one. -- Nathaniel Dube njdube(a)gmail.com http://www.freetalklive.com

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