May 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

What are the font rpms doing?
by Tom Horsley 17 May '06

17 May '06

Just installed i386 10.1 on a machine not as speedy as my main box, and as I was observing the rpm's go past I noticed that every single rpm that said it contained a font of some kind would take forever to install. The CD drive would spin down, I'd start to wonder if the installation was hung, then finally it would go on to the next rpm. What in the blue blazes takes so long to install a font? Couldn't it wait till they are all installed and take a nap then instead of taking a nap for every font?

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media.X/products question
by houghi 17 May '06

17 May '06

As far as I can see, for the setting of the Automatic Online Update during installation, the script looks at /content It then looks on https://secure-www.novell.com what the current products are. The list is below. My question is, is my thinking correct and is there a way to get this list with e.g. wget? If that is the case, then I can do several things. 1) Put the latest list in the latest version of makeSUSEdvd 2) Let makeSUSEdvd fetch the latest version if wget and a network connection are available. (Nice for future releases) 3) Will this stay the same for a while, or are the changes to be expected? For now I have just use the following code for I in $VERSIONS do NAME=`grep $I $CD_DIR/media.1/products` if [ "$NAME" != "" ] then PRODUCTS=$NAME fi done done echo $PRODUCTS > $CDIR/media.1/products A beta of makeSUSEdvd that uses this is available on http://houghi.org/script/makeSUSEdvd (And now the *.sel issue) VERSIONS="SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-download-ppc SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-download-x86 SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-download-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-ppc SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-x86 SUSE-Linux-10.1-CD-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-OSS-i386 SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-OSS-ppc SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-OSS-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-i386 SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-10.1-DVD9-x86-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-10.1-FTP SUSE-Linux-10.1-OSS-DVD-x86 SUSE-Linux-CD-OSS-i386 SUSE-Linux-CD-OSS-ppc SUSE-Linux-CD-OSS-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-DVD9-i386 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-i386 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Desktop-x86_64 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-i386 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-ia64 SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-ppc SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-s390x SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-x86_64 SuSE-Linux-10.1-PromoDVD-i386 TestProduct" -- houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/ http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...

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online update servers not uptodate
by jdd 17 May '06

17 May '06

on the way of configuring the online update, I had a message I could not copy :-(, but saying something like "service no more available" (message from the server, I think) an other try gave a correct hit. anything to do? 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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Open-iscsi wonderings..
by Anders Norrbring 17 May '06

17 May '06

Would there be a possibility to have the open-iscsi client automatically reconnect to a target if it looses its session? Or if it's set to establish sessions automatically, then if the target isn't online when the iscsid starts, it should retry to establish the session for x number of times (or x seconds) and if not successful issue a warning (log, e-mail) to the admin? This would be really useful if (for example) the target suffers a power-outage, restart, whatever, and the initiator side comes online first. Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting.

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Update 10.0 to 10.1
by Marcel Hilzinger 15 May '06

15 May '06

I've tried to update 10.0 OSS ot 10.1 OSS serveral times. YaST randomly reports problems with package signature checking and offers me the possibiliy to abort, retry or ignore. If I choose abort -> No upate If I choose retry -> YaST aborts update If I choose ignore -> YaST segmentation fault So actually Update is not possible. Did anybody have similar problems? Might it be due to the selfmade DVD? Why does YaST crash, if I say ignore? -- 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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source: cd or dvd
by jdd 15 May '06

15 May '06

I don't know if it can be called a buf, probably not. I neither know is it is possible to do so :-). I have the 6 cd set of 10.1. So I have it as source I made a dvd with makeSUSEdvd. When I'm asked for a cd, I try to give the dvd, but this is not accepted. of course, I can add the dvd myself as source (I did), but it should be nice if it could be recognised directly 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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No cdrom icon created, kinternet
by Volker Kuhlmann 15 May '06

15 May '06

1) Installation from CD didn't create a cdrom icon on the desktop, didn't create an appropriate line in /etc/fstab, and didn't create a mount point under /media. Minor problem. Is this only me? 2) kinternet isn't installed with a "KDE system" (or any other, none of the *.sel files in inst-sources contain it), but configuring a modem with yast still shows that yast tries to start kinternet after saving the changes. This app was one of the outstanding features of SUSE! Has it been replaced? Nothing shows up in its place. I'll report these unless someone says not to. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

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sel package question
by houghi 10 May '06

10 May '06

Where can I find info on how to add my own sel file in the installation source. I have looked and did not find any real info on how to do that. As a test I have copied Games-10.1-63.noarch.sel to Personal-10.1-63.noarch.sel and also added the line Games-10.1-63.noarch.sel to $CD_DIR/suse/setup/descr/selections I asume I must still do something extra, but I have no idea what. Documentation about this is not extremely available. I found how to save from an installed file, but nothing on how to add your own selection with your own software to the installation. What I want to do is to be able to select my own rpm's. I am already able to do so by searching, so the files are availble. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau

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Xorg 7.x Modular for 10.2?
by Andrew Lofthouse 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi all, I know that 10.1 is just coming out and this may be a little soon... What are the plans for Xorg 7.x modular build for 10.2? How soon can we expect packages (perhaps even updates for 10.1)? I ask because I run SUSE on a Tablet PC, and display rotation is only available in the latest intel video driver that is only available for Xorg 7.0 modular. Fedora Core 5 already has it and I'm able to rotate the display correctly with the updated drivers in Fedora (but Fedora integrates KDE horribly, and the other niceties, such as powersaved and s2ram are not available in Fedora, so I prefer SUSE). By the way, I just installed 10.1 again from the factory inst-source yesterday, and it looks great. Regards, ajl

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RFD: Make bugzilla categories match "something"
by Ulrich Windl 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, the bugzilla categories didn't change for a long time, and I'm afraid they were created somewhat "ad hoc" som time in the past. Occasionally I wonder what the correct category for bug reporting might be. How about providing a match for the RPM package "group"? E.g. "bash" has group "System/Shells", so I'd expect to find at least some category "System". Yes, I now that does not necessarily match the internal support structure, but it would help outside. I have specific problems with categories like "Console Apps" vs. "X11 apps", because they are kind of catch-all (the latter could also catch all KDE and GNOME issues). Any thoughs on that? Regards, Ulrich P.S. The list of groups I see here is similar to this ("sort -u"): Amusements/Toys/Background Amusements/Toys/Screensavers Development/Languages/C and C++ Development/Languages/Fortran Development/Languages/Java Development/Languages/Other Development/Languages/Perl Development/Languages/Python Development/Languages/Scheme Development/Languages/Tcl Development/Libraries/C and C++ Development/Libraries/GNOME Development/Libraries/Java Development/Libraries/KDE Development/Libraries/Other Development/Libraries/Parallel Development/Libraries/Perl Development/Libraries/Python Development/Libraries/Tcl Development/Libraries/X11 Development/Sources Development/Tools/Building Development/Tools/Debuggers Development/Tools/Navigators Development/Tools/Other Development/Tools/Version Control Documentation/Howto Documentation/HTML Documentation/Man Documentation/Other Documentation/SuSE Hardware/Fax Hardware/ISDN Hardware/Mobile Hardware/Modem Hardware/Other Hardware/Printing Productivity/Archiving/Backup Productivity/Archiving/Compression Productivity/Clustering/Computing Productivity/Clustering/HA Productivity/Databases/Clients Productivity/Databases/Servers Productivity/Databases/Tools Productivity/Editors/Emacs Productivity/Editors/Other Productivity/Editors/Vi Productivity/File utilities Productivity/Graphics/Convertors Productivity/Graphics/Visualization/Graph Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Grabbers Productivity/Multimedia/CD/Record Productivity/Multimedia/Sound/Players Productivity/Networking/Boot/Clients Productivity/Networking/Boot/Servers Productivity/Networking/Boot/Utilities Productivity/Networking/Diagnostic Productivity/Networking/DNS/Servers Productivity/Networking/DNS/Utilities Productivity/Networking/Email/Clients Productivity/Networking/Email/Mailinglists Productivity/Networking/Email/Servers Productivity/Networking/Email/Utilities Productivity/Networking/Ftp/Clients Productivity/Networking/Ftp/Servers Productivity/Networking/IRC Productivity/Networking/LDAP/Clients Productivity/Networking/LDAP/Servers Productivity/Networking/LDAP/Utilities Productivity/Networking/NFS Productivity/Networking/NIS Productivity/Networking/Novell Productivity/Networking/Other Productivity/Networking/PPP Productivity/Networking/Radius/Clients Productivity/Networking/Radius/Servers Productivity/Networking/Routing Productivity/Networking/Samba Productivity/Networking/Security Productivity/Networking/SSH Productivity/Networking/System Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers Productivity/Networking/Web/Proxy Productivity/Networking/Web/Servers Productivity/Networking/Web/Utilities Productivity/Office/Organizers Productivity/Other Productivity/Publishing/PDF Productivity/Publishing/PS Productivity/Publishing/Texinfo Productivity/Publishing/TeX/Utilities Productivity/Publishing/Troff Productivity/Publishing/XML Productivity/Scientific/Math Productivity/Scientific/Physics Productivity/Security Productivity/Text/Convertors Productivity/Text/Utilities Public Keys System/Base System/Benchmark System/Boot System/Console System/Daemons System/Fhs System/Filesystems System/GUI/GNOME System/GUI/KDE System/GUI/Other System/Kernel System/Libraries System/Management System/Monitoring System/Packages System/Shells System/Sound Daemons System/X11/Displaymanagers System/X11/Fonts System/X11/Icons System/X11/Servers/XF86_4 System/X11/Terminals System/X11/Utilities System/YaST

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