January 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Printing from KDE apps fails
by S Glasoe 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

openSUSE 10.2, KDE 3.5.5 release 50.1 and Konqueror and Kontact/KMail, cups 1.2.7. Trying to print email messages or web page or a frame of a web page and I get the following error after a one or more succesful prints. A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Unable to start child print process. Check the command syntax: cupsdoprint -P 'deskjet5650' -J 'http://www.opensuse.org/' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'sglasoe' -o ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3' I'm thinking an extra space gets inserted for the -o parameter between the single quote and copies=1. Is there a way to use the command line to verify this? Googled for ideas and have logged out/in, gone to init 3 and rcxdm restart. Next will be the old reboot just to satisfy me. Very annoying. It prints some copies then the error reappears. Thanks, Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work
by Stevens 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Is there anyone on the list who is running Suse 10.2 whose DVD drive automatically mounts media when inserted? If so, I would like to engage in a chat session to do a "stare and compare" to figure out how my setup differs, because my puter absolutely, positively refuses to automatically mount cd or dvd media. "lshal -m" will detect it's presence, Yast knows when the distro DVD is loaded, but that's it. I have fought with this problem since I installed 10.2 on 7Jan07 and it is to the point that if I cannot resolve the issue, I am kissing Suse goodbye, as the system is almost worthless to me if I cannot use the cd/dvd drive. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Hi
by Samir van de Sand 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, na ! It was like that: I wanted to reply to an email of a friend and apprently it was sent to the Suse mailing list (franky: I've no idea how that happened ..). Top List? You mean I should write my text after the quote? Actually, I think mailing lists are confusing and totally obsolete, but unfortunately the Suse forums don't look too promising so I have to get used to it :D On Monday 22 January 2007 01:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Samir van de Sand <samir.vds(a)googlemail.com> [01-21-07 19:34]: > > Dude, sorry ! > > I've misstake you with someone else. As you I'm still getting used to > > Kmaiil :D > > > > regards Samir > > > > On Monday 22 January 2007 01:26, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > * Samir van de Sand <samir.vds(a)googlemail.com> [01-21-07 19:11]: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > leider hat Andrej momentan meinen USB Stick ausgeliehen. Ich kriege > > > > ihn am Diesntag wieder, dann kann ich dir auch die Dokumente geben! > > > > > > English please. It's an english language list. > > > > > > thankyou > > Aha, kmail doesn't know what language to use. I knew there was > something wrong with it. I wouldn't use it. > > Don't know how you would mistake me for someone else. I'm me and > everybody knows it. :^) > > PLEASE, learn to trim your quotes, and DON'T TOP POST. Explanation > available if you don't understand. Or is that another trait of kmail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] remote access BUG in 10.2 can others confirm, and what wuold be fix?
by ted leslie 04 Feb '07

04 Feb '07

its happen now twice (my two and only installs of opensuse 10.2 on two separate machines). the remote management (Xvnc), when turned on, then you access from the client, you get the grey weave X screen but no login box or anything, just X, no window manager or standard GDM start up. I google'd and the standard fix is put a win. mgr. in the .Xvnc or .vnc file, but I don't think that is the fix, as the graphical greeter of a Suse install is before you have decided on what user would log in, and there is no such file on /root ...... and this certainly seems to be a bug as it never happened to me on many pasted versions of SLED openSuse, etc. help!!!! .... -tl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] video looking for Windows Media Player 9 or above
by Robert Lewis 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Any suggestions for how to get video working on sites that return: The CNN.com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9 or above. We are unable to determine the version of Windows Media Player installed. If you choose to not upgrade your player to Windows Media Player 9 or above your overall experience may be affected. You may continue to veiw the Video without a player upgrade, although you may be prompted to install a Microsoft Windows codec in order to do so. Mplayer did come up but went into a continuous loop and never played the video from this site. Does anyone have this working? http://www.cnn.com/video/ Click on any of the videos on the right hand side will probably reproduce the issue I am talking about. Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Suse 10.2 shared printer + Mac OSX
by Art Fore 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Ihave a laserjet 2300 connected to my desktop lpt0 port. I can print with no problem from the desktop. Went to Yast, Hardware, Printers, Other and setup to allow any machine on 192.168.1.* to access the printer and open port in firewall. Done the ipp permissions the same. Setup the Mac for ipp printer and select laserjet 2300 and the print queue name the same as on the desktop. Still am not able to print from the Mac. If I look at the print queue, it always says stopped. I can ping the desktop from the the Mac, so there is a connection. I can also start the printing of the file in the queue, but to still comes back stopped. Would appreciate any of you Mac enthusiasts to let me know how you got it to work if of course you did, or even if you did not get it to work. Art -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] cron job email attachment.bin
by Dave Howorth 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

My daily backup script on a server mails the output to me (it's a cron job run by root). Recently, instead of sending me a plain text email message, it's started sending me an empty email with an attachment called 'attachment.bin'. This is just a plain text file with the same old content. Does anybody know how to make it send me plain text messages again? The only notable difference I can see in the messages is this header: < Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=us-ascii I certainly haven't deliberately changed any settings, but is there a setting somewhere that controls this header? Does it depend on the settings on intermediate boxes that the mail passes through? The server is running Suse 9.2. Thanks and regards, Dave Howorth -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] I give up!
by charles＠daphatbell.com 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

This has to be the most ASSININE thing I have ever had to deal with! I have wasted darn near the whole weekend trying to get one stupid a$$ed bootloader to install and nothing on this earth should be this darn difficult! Even using the numbering system that was confimed/agreed to, it still gives me the error 23 statement. The main reason I liked SuSe is because it does mount (automatically) my Windows partition, thus I have access to different files. On Mandriva, although it installs in over half the time, and it's actually WAY faster than 10.2, and the bootloader ACTUALLY works, it's a pain to get the partitions to mount, I have to do a hard shutdown because there's no "restart" or "shutdown" command when you log off, which tales you to the login screen, which doesn't have a way to shutdown or reboot the computer. Ubuntu is a whole story by itself! Maybe in a few years when I'm 70 will Linux FINALLY be ready for prime time! Just think, I haven't even gotten to the HARD parts yet! Anyway, I really do appreciate all the help I have gotten on this. I need to go lay down, my head is about to freaking explode! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] menu.lst and fstab text - Carl
by charles＠daphatbell.com 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

I tried to copy the settings in the partitioner, but it wouldn't let me copy and that is a LOT of stuff to be typing! :-O Here's the other two items: --------------------------------- dev/sda8 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/sda9 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/mapper/sil_ahabbjcdfeab_part1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/mapper/sil_ahabbjcdfeab_part5 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/mapper/sil_ahabbjcdfeab_part6 /windows/F ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/mapper/sil_ahabbjcdfeab_part7 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda5 /windows/H ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda6 /windows/I ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb5 /windows/J ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb6 /windows/K ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sdb7 /windows/L ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jan 28 20:13:54 PST 2007 default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (/dev/sda,7)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.2 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 1### title windows 1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (hd0,0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows 2### title windows 2 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader (/dev/sda,0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.2 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: 2.6.18.2-34-default### title 2.6.18.2-34-default initrd (/dev/sda,7)/boot/initrd-2.6.18.2-34-default -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] a user call for attention on SuSE's mp3 support issue
by Zhang Weiwu 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

As I recently discovered it is not very easy to enable mp3 on most media players of OpenSuSE (except RealPlayer). I am getting upset for this, because this might block a lot of non-techie user using SuSE (after all RealPlayer is not the default player in SuSE). Maybe I am doing something stupid (I am only a one year old SuSE user after all, and not a community organization expert) but I wish to call SuSE user and developer's attention to this issue so that: I. as a best solution, motivate opensuse to enable mp3 by default on bmp, xmms, banshee, rhymbox, gstreamer (including totem) and all players; II. as a fall back solution, let's collect solutions on how to enalbe mp3 on various players and make sure end users can easily find these solution, and these solutions are not too complex. These solutions must make their way on the web so that users can find them very easily, things appear in second google search result won't be a lot helpful for users. (I knew there are already a lot of "solutions" but they are often either not easy to find or doesn't work. Check my ealier post.) III. if OpenSuSE decide not to enable mp3 support because it's not "Free" by GNU definition, at least we can try to submit some patches and make these patchs gets into opensuse so that when a music play failed to play mp3, it prompts with some user-friendly message that you need to look up this and that webpage for solutions on how to enable mp3 support. I myself am still looking for solution to enable mp3 on either Banshee or Rthymbox. Looks so far Banshee it's easiler to find a solution for Banshee. I am still working on it. Study shows not every "ordinary users" actually use google to search for a solution when they got a problem. So if people have to search for how to enable mp3, we already know many people has given up. And also study shows even in opensource world, only 1/7 people go ask questions on forum or mailing list. So if a google search doesn't leads to a workable solution, 6/7 people perhaps give up, only 1/7 will post something like me. Well perhaps only a very few percent will have a true hacker's spirit and hack down a solution when questions on forum/lists doesn't get a solution. P.S. I read some forum threads saying SuSE Enterprise Linux Desktop have mp3 enabled by default. Is this ture? If so I'd like to try it and recommend other people to use that one in place of opensuse provide it's not too expensive for most users. P.S. "If it's not working, source is there and why not work it out yourself?" Well, I'd be glad to hack the source to solve it myself IF THE MUSIC PLAYER don't support MP3 NATIVELY. But the mp3 problem we are facing is already solved by all Linux music players, the situation is music players support mp3, SuSE removed it. So this is a non-technical issue. Sorry for bad English! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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