March 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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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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ftp install can't find package data
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I tried 3 times today on two mirrors, mirrors.kernel.org, & ftp.cise.ufl.edu. Each time it failed with: "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?" This looks rather like the other thread today about "makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9". -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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minimal install don't install
by jdd 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I try to install my extremely lowend laptop :-). from cd, no luck, extremely slow. I could copy the cd (beta 8) on the hard drive and boot from there, with an acceptable speed. I choose minimal text install; problems: a manual install was required. *first for a dependency problem. libX11.so.6 asks for "NX". Accepting this gives tyhe go. why is this not done automatically, I don't know. *second, worst, the time was wrong. I have until now (more than one hour work) unable to pass this. the date is said "le temps est passé" (I think this is "the time is past due". This mean nothing on a computer not net connected (so where does it know the time?). worts there is absolutely no way to change the given time. going to the time menu allows changing the time, but the chage is not transmitted to the previous screen. when coming again in the install, the time is still the same. I even could change the computer date (on an other console), but not passing the install screen so the install was refused by yast... sad 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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updating factory
by Felix Miata 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I've been running Mandriva devel (Cooker) for several years. Last week I installed factory from ftp. Now I want to update. This was a simple 2 step process in Cooker: 1-urpmi-update -a; 2-urpmi --auto-select. The options in YaST Control Center don't seem to have an equivalent, and looking on http://en.opensuse.org/ doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere. Can someone please point me to instructions for how this is done in factory? -- "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord." Psalm 119:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/

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Re: makeSUSEdvd broken for beta9
by Azerion 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Sorry, I wasn't root. Now y2pmsh does work. Will do another install-try. ps. Why can you start y2pmsh when you are no root? You can start it but you cannot use it, so why not a root-check? Azerion

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factory
by Peter Czanik 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hello, What is the current status of factory? Is it now: factory = beta9 and frozen until Monday? Bye, CzP -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/

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Q: OOo: where and which version?
by Ulrich Windl 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, I just browsed the SL-OSS-factory tree at "suse/i586". There are OpenOffice templates and a quickstarter, but I failed to find the packages with the program. I wanted to know whether 2.0.2 will be part of 10.1. Yesterday I found out that 10.0 still has a "pre-2" version, which is not wat I really want. Regards, Ulrich

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ndiswrapper
by Kenneth Schneider 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

OSS 10.1 beta 8 Trying to compile km_ndiswrapper-1.2-2.i586.rpm from 10.0 and am getting errors. Since I cannot connect my laptop I am NOT going to copy a 120 colume X 25 row error message here. One small part states: halt passed 1 argument, but takes just 0 then the errors start and the compilation craps out. Any suggestions short of sacrificing my first born? And yes I do need ndiswrapper because it is the only way to use my wireless card and no I -AM NOT- going to buy a different card so don't suggest it. Ken

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crash on time error
by jdd 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

still on this very low end machine (only 76Mo ram), I got a time error (I don't really understand why). I didn't change anything to the time :-(. this took 2 hours to correct and got a hard crash. after 16 hours of install :-(. I wont fill bug reports for such things. This computer runs well with 10.0. I only try to find a way to make a very straightforward install on low end machine, kind of machines that runs quite well and are nearly free nowaday. this one could be very handy as a personal gateway (it's a mini laptop). what make me upset is that the machine runs linux very well, it's only an install problem this mail only for reporting a situation, not at all as a complain :-). If I find a way, I'll report it :-) 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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opensuse-commit up & running
by Christoph Thiel 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello everyone, we have just enabled the opensuse-commit mailinglist. It will carry all checkin mails for Factory. To subscribe just sent an empty mail to <opensuse-commit-subscribe(a)opensuse.org>. The web archive is available at http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-commit/ Have a lot of fun Christoph

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ndiswrapper missing on the beta8 CDs
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

About the bug I posted bellow: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160804 It has been closed with the following comment: [Andreas Jaeger]: "We will not add it to our media, it will be available via ftp only." Can I have a "why" on that? I can't see the logics here. I didn't have a wired LAN available by the time of install, and it's not easy to get one, so you mean I'm forced to use floppies, usb sticks, or whatever other way I could get to download the packages somewhere else and install them on my machine? Yes, I fail to see the logics here. So you're simply stating that I can't have network connection because my wlan card isn't natively supported by the kernel? See, I would accept if you say it's a license problem with ndiswrapper (which I think isn't), but simply saying "we will not" isn't a polite answer. Oh, BTW, the ndiswrapper on factory doesn't match ther kernel installed by beta8 CDs, so I can't even use it, unless I switch my kernel too. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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y2pmsh fails while upgrading
by Azerion 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Don't know if I mailed this before but this happens sometimes when I try to upgrade: y2pmsh: auto refreshing sources newer: shows a lot of new packages upgrade: some packages installed fetching yast2-bootfloppy (71.2 kB) *** failed: ERROR(Media:file not found)[HTTP return code: 404 (URL: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/sus…) ERROR(InstSrc:E_cancel_media) ============================ Maybe it is related to the fact that if a source does have newer packages and have to be updated, y2pmsh stops after it shower the message that the source is updated. If you have more then one and source 1 is updated, it just hangs there. You have to restart y2pmsh and the it shows that list 1 is up to date and continues with the other sources. Azerion

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Beta 8:- zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp
by Graham Anderson 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Help! :P I appear to be stuck in some sort of nasty update hell. I wanted to update zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp from the versions on the beta 8 CD's to the newer ones on the factory repo. Here's what I did. I added the factory repo as a YUM source into rug, then I subscribed to the catalog. After refreshing the catalog I opened up zen-updater and was presented with a long list of available updates. From there I deslected all and re-selected zmd/zen-updater/rug/libzypp and allowed the updater to do it's own 'thang' At this point things went wrong, the updater either stalled, 'crapped out' or the repo was synching and a file was missing or something that the updater couldn't handle. Either way, i had to kill the updater and now i have some problems. I cant update/install/remove anything with zen-*. The updater stalls every time trying to list the available updates. I can't update/add/remove packages with rug. I can't add/remove/update packages with YaST ( both 'Installation Source' and 'Software Management' applets fail to load). I receive the following error in rug when trying to perform package operations:- ERROR: Dependency resolution failed: Resolver Failed Here are the current installed versions rug - 7.1.1-13 libzypp - 0.0.8-64 libzypp-zmd-backend - 7.1.1-10 zmd - 7.1.1-3 zen-updater - 7.1.0-25 So should I update any or all of these? and if so how? rpm? y2pmsh? cheers Graham

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zen-updater
by Marcel Hilzinger 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Can anybody explain me in 2-3 sentences, howto setup the new replacement for Suse watcher? Or point me to the right documentation? Thanks. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG Süskindstr. 4 D-81929 München Tel: +49 (89) 99 34 11 0 Fax: +49 (89) 99 34 11 99

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NVIDIA 1.0-8183
by Pascal Bleser 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I guess a lot of you read linuxtoday.com as well, but just in case, and FYI: It seems HP puts nVidia drivers dubbed "1.0-8183" online, although they're not on the nVidia website (yet ?) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=427&num=1 - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEKIwrr3NMWliFcXcRAmlwAJwKquOAKUDwKCHX43ZFC+saofy+wwCfenwq eB5ktt8hwJ4Lsr3KGPKWtEo= =gBeA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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KNetworkManager + (adsl/pptp)
by Mauricio Teixeira 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

I noticed that I can manage modem (dial-up) connections using KNetworkManager, but since I don't have any, but have many ADSL and PPTP connections, I would need to manage them from KNM. Any plans to support that? Should I fill a feature request? Ps.: I've set up my PPTP connections as ADSL from YaST, so they work fine with ifup/ifdown. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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beta8 install package count error
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi! I've just installed SUSE 10.1beta8 using default KDE selection, and I found a strange behavior. The package countdown from CD1 reached zero, and it shows "Finished", but it still installs about 10 or 15 packages more (forgot to count :). It also happens when finishing CD2, but it only installs 4 more. It didn't happen with CD3 or 4. Anyone else got this? I'll reinstall later just to confirm, and take notes on the correct numbers and packages. But I would like to hear if it's an expected (wrong) behavior. -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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Wallpaper changed after update
by Azerion 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

It's me again, I have updated to factory and after the next boot my wallpaper was changed to default (nice!). However it is that nice, it was not supposed to be that way. Is something changed about the settings of KDE (means: is it normal that that happens) or is there something wrong? comment: I updated with y2pmsh and not with Yast2-"Upgrade Computer" or whatever it is called. Azerion

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Q: locate single RPM on opensuse
by Ulrich Windl 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, I failed to find my patch from opensuse.org to downloading a specific package. I hoped to find the information needed (URL) in en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories, but failed. I suggest to add a search function for "locate software package" or a table (probably quite huge) with all current (=included) packages. I don't want to download whole ISO images to try a single package. Maybe I'm just too dumb to solve this problem. Anyone who can help? Regards, Ulrich

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problem to install software
by Marc Collin 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

hi everytime i try to install a software with yast, i wait, wait.... after 30 minutes, nothing happen

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YOU
by Peter Czanik 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello, I see, that updates for 10.1 appeared on mirrors. I have some questions about it: - is this for beta8 or for factory? With factory they fail to install... - is it possible to chose a mirror during installation? I would prefer to use 192.168.X.X, my local update mirror instead of a randomly chosen mirror which needs my ADSL to get downloaded... I can't find your answer any more, but could it be solved before release, that one does not have to fix dependency problems one-by-one? It takes a lot more time and clicks and would give a much better overview of problems. A summary page with all problems would be much more efficient. Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/

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web2ldap from 2004-08-12 ?
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello, why, web2ldap is so old ? In factory tree we have web2ldap-0.15.2-8 this Version is from 2004-08-12 ? The current Version is web2ldap-0.16.10. -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer

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ssh protocol 1 not disabled
by Andreas Vetter 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, I just wanted to ask why ssh protocol 1 is still enabled in standard installation? There must be a reason ;-) On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, bugzilla_noreply(a)novell.com wrote: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=148471 > > > meissner(a)suse.de changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED > Resolution| |FIXED > > ------- Comment #1 from meissner(a)suse.de 2006-03-23 06:18 MST ------- > ssh protocol v1 will not be disabled yet. (but likely soon) > > added 10.1 (i586) and 10.1 (x86_64). > > > -- Andreas Vetter Tel: +49 (0)931 888-5890 Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Fax: +49 (0)931 888-5508 Universitaet Wuerzburg

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FYI: "sensors" of 10.0 generating false alarms
by Ulrich Windl 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, added bug #160542 for "sensors" of 10.0 generating false alarms for my nForce4 bases mainboard. Maybe someone can check the current "sensors" package for his/her hardware... Regards, Ulrich

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