July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

remote X vrs VNC
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 22 Aug '05

22 Aug '05

While I realize VNC can be used on multiple os's, I saw a snip of an article that POed me. It claimed that you couldn't graphically remotely administer a Linux machine before VNC. I assume it was a newbie (as am I), but one who didn't know about X, or Webmin, and came from a PC Anywhere background. I have used VNC at my brothers, but haven't messed with x remotely; what are the benefits/limitations of either, relating to a Linux installation. Has anyone messed with X remotely going either way from a X.org machine to Xfree or vice versa. Trying to learn from others mistakes before I fiddle TIA Randal

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AMD Opteron Laptops... Suggested ones for SuSE?
by Steve Kratz 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Anyone out there used any of the AMD Opteron laptops, and how well have they worked with SuSE Linux?

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Evolution 1.4.6 in Suse 9.1 memory hog?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Recently in 9.1 Evolution seems to slow the box and when I check top in console I find its hogging the CPU to almost 90%. This box is fully updated? Why is this occurring? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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network cards
by Mitja 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi! I have still problem with swaping eth0 and eth1 in SuSE 9.3 when i restart computer. I have 3com which is eth0 and i use for the Internet and D-Link which is eth1 and i don't use yet and is not connected. On each start of computer is different: once is 3com eth0 and next time eth1 but Internet works. What is wrong? Every time i must reconfigured KNemo... Thanks, Mitja

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/etc/alternatives
by Donn Washburn 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hey Group; Why is there /etc/alternatives? Shades of Debian! Why is /usr/bin/java linked to /etc/alternatives/java which linked to /usr/bin/java-#. Why not /usr/bin/java linked /usr/bin/usr/bin/java-# Why is /usr/lib/jvm/files linked to /etc/alternatives/files which is linked to /usr/lib/jvm/files. A loop. Why complicate a previously very simple straight forward system? -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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accessing partitions
by John R. Sowden 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

I am having a poblem accessing partitions. I use dosemu to access three fat32 partitions: dosc, dosd, and dose. They point to /media/dosc, ... My fstab follows: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 /media/dosc vfat auto,rw,users,exec 0 0 /dev/hda8 /media/dose vfat auto,rw,users,exec 0 0 /dev/hda9 /media/extra reiserfs user,acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid, nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid ,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 When I created the partitions, the mount points for the dos partitions had a user or root and a group of root, as indicated below. I changed these to john users, but it seems that it has changed back, on its own. I am now unable to write to these partitions. What are the two bottom entries of the /media for? What does user_xattr mean and why is it needed? Why is acl needed? I read about these in the Suse doc, and the Yast partition edit screen, but they do not say whay they are used. drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 1969-12-31 16:00 dosc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 1969-12-31 16:00 dosd drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 1969-12-31 16:00 dose drwxr-xr-x 6 john users 720 2005-06-23 00:20 dosx drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-16 00:02 dvdrecorder drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2005-06-16 00:02 extra drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-06-26 21:10 floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-16 13:07 MAXTOR__40G drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 2005-06-16 00:02 secure drwxr-xr-x 3 john users 184 2005-06-16 15:19 securex drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-18 17:15 SU930_001 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-06-19 16:52 SU930_001_1 Thoughts? John

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KDE 3.4.2 on SuSE 9.3
by Jay Vollmer 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi Everybody. Has anyone tried upgrading their 9.3 installs with the KDE3.4.2 RPMs located at: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4.2/SuSE/ix86/9.3/ and If so, have there been problems? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM

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9.3 install on Compaq 3017CL notebook hangs or fails to find hard drive
by Randall J. Parr 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Have Compaq Presario 3017CL notebook with SuSE 9.2 installed and running fine. Trying to install/upgrade SuSE 9.3. When booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation", the system hangs while "Initializing". When booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation w/o ACPI" or "Installation - Safe mode" the installation ask for keyboard, etc. but then says it can find no hard drive. I did not experience a problem like this when installing SuSE 9.1 or SuSE 9.2 on this system. Any idea how to get past this? Boot parameters to try, etc.? Thanks R.Parr, RHCE Temporal Arts

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Installing 9.3 - "time is in the past" ?????
by Per Jessen 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've just spent about an hour configuring a new install - I wanted a fairly small footprint. Now that I'm ready to go, yast tells me "Time is in the past - please correct it". I try to correct it, but it has no effect. Seriously, this p...... me off. What does YasT care about the time? (never did before) - and I don't care anyway, it will be set via NTP when the box is up. Assuming I'll have to set the time via the BIOS setup, I'm now stuck with having to start over, customizing the config etc - at least another hours worth of work. Where's the YasT override for this sort of idiotic sillyness?? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!

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Lost partitions!
by Anders Norrbring 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Anyone with any great ideas on partition recovery? One of my servers went to a hang yesterday, I rebooted and nothing happened.. Both the first and second volumes on the Compaq Array has lost their partition tables, how that now can happen... The first volume contained the root and swap file systems, the second carried the /home sub tree. I've made disk copies with dd to files, but how would I go on from here? gpart doesn't find anything on any of the volumes, I haven't tried Partition Magic yet, someone suggested that one, but I can't see how it would do any good. Suggestions are really welcome! Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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