March 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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