March 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig apparent hang
by Sid Boyce 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Whilst doing update or software installation in YaST, I was getting an apparent hang during SuSEconfig of the tetex module - it has got stuck there for around 8 hours and counting until I killed SuSEconfig. While YaST was still updating packages, I tried installing another RPM and got a message that said I should "rm /var/lock/SuSEconfig-is-running". After doing that SuSEconfig produced the following messages:- kpsestat: /etc/texmf/ls-R: Value too large for defined data type kpsestat: /etc/texmf/ls-R: Value too large for defined data type kpsestat: /etc/texmf/ls-R: Value too large for defined data type kpsestat: /etc/texmf/ls-R: Value too large for defined data type # l /etc/texmf/ total 43985423 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 200 2007-03-10 07:19 ./ drwxr-xr-x 132 root root 10392 2007-03-16 17:12 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-02-23 18:31 dvips/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44997120000 2007-03-08 13:04 ls-R <<=== drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-03-10 07:23 .lsR.d20218/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2007-02-23 18:31 tex/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176 2007-02-26 11:42 web2c/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2007-02-26 11:42 xdvi/ Surprisingly a "ls-R" file that took up over half of my remaining disk space. This is what it now looks like > l /etc/texmf/ total 14 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 200 2007-03-17 00:56 ./ drwxr-xr-x 132 root root 10392 2007-03-17 01:01 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-02-23 18:31 dvips/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 631 2007-03-17 00:56 ls-R drwx------ 2 root root 48 2007-03-10 07:23 .lsR.d20218/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 2007-02-23 18:31 tex/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 176 2007-02-26 11:42 web2c/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2007-02-26 11:42 xdvi/ Strange, perhaps something that occurred during updates. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] interrupted install without root pass
by jdd 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hello Trying to install alpha in the VirtualBox VM, I tested the "minimal grafical" I was asked for cd #(more than &) and did not give it (I haven't already dl them). This led me to the usual root screen, without having defined the root passwd. But the usual workaround don't work :-( starting the rescue, mounting /, chrooting to / and launching "passwd" led me to an error because of a bluefish (not sure of the word) /dev/random unavailable any idéa? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.shtml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Xen domU startup fails on 2.6.20 (patch attached)
by Matt T. Yourst 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Xen domains cannot be started on the 2.6.20.2-2 SuSE kernel - they crash immediately after xm create. This happens no matter what Xen hypervisor version is in use, but it's new to 2.6.20. I've attached a patch to privcmd.c to fix this problem. When the Xen tools try to copy the kernel image and page tables to a new domU, the IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAP is used to mmap the domain's pages into xend. Unfortunately, some changes to the page flags in 2.6.20 cause the kernel to configure the mapping of the foreign domain's pages as a copy-on-write private mapping (despite MAP_SHARED being used). This means the domain builder never actually modifies the physical pages, even though it thinks everything is fine. The patch is simple: add VM_INSERTPAGE to the page flags in privcmd_mmap(). This forces vma_wants_writenotify() to leave the page alone, rather than marking it read only to trigger a copy-on-write. I don't think this has any side effects other than telling the kernel not to mess with the PTE bits after we set them. --- linux-2.6.20-mtyrel/drivers/xen/privcmd/privcmd.c.orig 2007-03-17 02:37:32.929101000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.20-mtyrel/drivers/xen/privcmd/privcmd.c 2007-03-17 02:42:26.890256006 -0400 @@ -234,8 +234,15 @@ if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap)) return -ENOSYS; - /* DONTCOPY is essential for Xen as copy_page_range is broken. */ - vma->vm_flags |= VM_RESERVED | VM_IO | VM_DONTCOPY; + /* + * DONTCOPY is essential for Xen as copy_page_range is broken. + * + * INSERTPAGE is needed to prevent vma_wants_writenotify from + * marking the page read-only so as to trap initial write attempts. + * The kernel gets very confused with foreign domain pages and + * erroneously tries to make a copy-on-write duplicate. + */ + vma->vm_flags |= VM_RESERVED | VM_IO | VM_DONTCOPY | VM_INSERTPAGE; vma->vm_ops = &privcmd_vm_ops; vma->vm_private_data = NULL; - Matt ------------------------------------------------------- Matt T. Yourst yourst(a)cs.binghamton.edu Binghamton University, Department of Computer Science -------------------------------------------------------

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[opensuse-factory] mkdir /sys
by Donn Washburn 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hey Group; I am running SuSE 10.3 alpha - which runs very nice. I do have a question. Permissions are rather easy to figure out but what is NEW that causes root to not be able to "mkdir" in several places as in /sys. At boot time I get a error message that states my modem /sys/class/net/modem0/file is missing. As a test I was going to mkdir /sys/net/modem0 and see if that would solve the boot error message. so, mkdir /sys/class/net/modem0 give permission denied error yet root:root and drwxr-xr-x are valid. This appears to be a udev issue. I did setup the modem vis yast2 after setting ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem and "hwinfo --modem" confirms /dev/ttyS2 is correct. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] ide module bug #250241
by jdd 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello :-) Trying to install alpha 3, (VirtualBox) I hit the bug in subject. I could do the install going to ncurse yast and loading the ide-disk module. however this module is located in the "unknown folder" and it takes me at least one hour to find it :-(, should it not be with the ide modules? what is the syntax to load it from the boot menu? I tryied many without luck thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.shtml --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] DNS server IPs not retained in 10.2a2
by Silviu Marin-Caea 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255312 Added to most annoying list too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Boot speed and services
by Martin Schlander 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

There's been talk about improving boot speed and stopping unnecessary services from running by default. I believe postfix, sshd and AppArmor are not necessary on most installations, I certainly always disable them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Re: dvd-delta-isos
by Andreas Jaeger 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Andreas Vetter <vetter(a)physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Vetter wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> >> > >> > I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. >> > ... >> >> I try to get the dvd-delta-isos using ktorrent. It says >> Tracker: invalid response >> Seeders: 0 >> >> Is it on my side, or do you experience the same? > > Now it works. Thanks. Yeah, we restarted the tracker, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Linux audio foks
by Sid Boyce 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Donn Washburn wrote: > Sid Boyce wrote: >> Donn Washburn wrote: >>> Hey Group; >>> >>> I have the record player > phono In > line out going to the sound card >>> Line In. Hopefully the impedance is good enough and the level is OK. >>> It plays out of the speakers and sounds OK also. Now for the question ? >>> I would like to save the music as a mp3, ogg or whatever. Kmix spots it >>> as a Line Input. What is needed to capture it and put it in a file. >>> Say like a mixer record output >>> >> >> No luck with audacity? >> The Input selections in 1.3.2 are Vol, Line, Mic, CD, Line1, Phonein, >> Phoneout and Video. You should then be able to record from the Line >> input. >> >> File --> Export as --> MP3 or whatever format. >> Regards >> Sid. > The problem is Sid; > That Audacity will only work as a user if you change the permissions on > /dev/dsp. I tried several and only 777 seem to work. However, Audacity > will only "Record" once and then it fails on the second try. Now this > may be a "Me" problem understanding the way it saves data. I have fixed > it by removing /home/donn/.audacity-data and trying it again. It ask > for lang. which I set and then it comes up with full features. > I and several others have had similar permissions problems with gizmo which actually said there was no audio device. I did strace and submitted it to the forum, but the mystery continued. Then I had a brainwave, tried it as root and it was AOK. So I added the user to audio in /etc/group, also did the same for video a while back when kaffeine complained about no video, though OK with audio. was audio:x:17: now audio:x:17:lancelot video:x:33:lancelot It's a strange behaviour, stuff used to come up with ownerships in /dev of e.g <user>:audio, then quite a while ago on Mandriva and more recently on openSUSE, they are "root:audio", so the user can't get to them. Don't know whether it's a bug or feature, but it's a gotcha. Most apps work, but there is always one or two that experience the problem. It's only last week I got this problem when I fired up gizmo the first time in months. Without the changes my DVB card would complain when kaffeine is fired up. # l -R /dev/dvb /dev/dvb: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-03-10 07:27 ./ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 16520 2007-03-12 00:19 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2007-03-10 07:27 adapter0/ /dev/dvb/adapter0: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2007-03-10 07:27 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2007-03-10 07:27 ../ crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 4 2007-03-10 07:27 demux0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 5 2007-03-10 07:27 dvr0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 3 2007-03-10 07:27 frontend0 crw-rw----+ 1 root video 212, 7 2007-03-10 07:27 net0 Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] no cdrecord
by Donn Washburn 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hey Group; In SuSE10.3 there is no cdrecord. I guest the author of cdrecords message to Linux hit home. Anyway, while downloading/updating or just lucky I saw a note the cdrecord was being replaced. Problem is my memory has not locked on the new substitute. It may have been in the SuSE Yast Install notes A "which cdrecord", "locate cdrecord" fails to answer the question. What is the binary replacements file name? -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Printing in openSUSE 10.3
by JP Rosevear 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

A couple weeks ago at the dist meeting we discussed improving how printers are configured on openSUSE. Specifically we discussed the following use cases as something we would want to achieve for 10.3, and we'd like to open up the discussion on implementation: 1) Detecting a local USB printer when plugged into the machine and prompting the user to configure it or automatically selecting a driver and configuring the printer We have a lot of the detection code, both usb and hal cups backends can detect the usb printer. Hal being a general hardware detection layer actually sends a message when its plugged in and GNOME uses this to pop up a dialog to configure the printer via a hal backend for cups. However the hal backend is not a standard upstream cups backend and its very difficult to convert a cups hal:// uri to a usb:// one - but not entirely impossible, there is some code in /usr/bin/add-unknown-printer (part of the gnome-volume-manager) to do some of this. Yast also does not support the hal backend currently. The usb cups backend is the standard upstream cups backend but it does no polling so we'd need to poll somehow (gnome-volume-manager and kmediamanager are possiblities). For true zero config printer, we'd need to build up a database of printer ids and driver mappings and include that in the distro. We also need to make this configurable so that you have the possibility of not doing zeroconfig printing on servers. 2) Not needing root to configure a printer Couple of thoughts here, for a hal based solution we might be able to leverage PolicyKit and unify our hardware access permissions system with an upstream default. We could also alter resmgr for this or use sudo. We need to make sure this is configurable though, because it needs to be turned off for servres. 3) Detecting when a printer is connected/disconnected and offering visual feedback via a notification area icon, or some other ui feedback An easy thing to do here would be to patch cups to send out dbus signals and both GNOME and KDE could put up tray icons or whatever. HAL could also be used to detect disconnects reconnects 4) Ability to remove printers from cups (even shared printers) when they're unplugged to prevent jobs from accumulating in the queue or being default If we can get to zeroconfig printing we could optionally just remove a printer from cups when its unplugged. A little more unclear how useful it would be. If someone wants to throw up some info as an openSUSE project http://en.opensuse.org/Projects that would be great. I suspect items 1) and 2) are really the keys, if they work then 3) or 4) should be pretty straightforward. -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] cvsgraph?
by Andreas Vetter 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Just a question regarding viewcvs (aka viewvc). Can we include a package cvsgraph in openSUSE? -- Regards, Andreas Vetter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Update notification via mail
by Christian Boltz 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hello, an outstanding feature of the new package management is sending a mail to root with the available updates listed. Not a problem on a desktop machine (there's opensuse-updater ;-) , but really needed on a server. I have written such a application. Well, application is exaggerated - it's a 10 lines script calling zypp-checkpatches-wrapper + 110 lines of XSLT stylesheet. Download: package "patch2mail" on http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cboltz/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/ (also available for factory) Usage is easy: just install the package ;-) Every time cron.daily runs, it will send you a mail if updates are available. Questions: - is sending the mail to root ok or should the mail address be a config option? - is it ok to install to /etc/cron.daily directly? (IMHO yes, several other packages (for example logdigest) do this also.) - any other ideas? - will it be included in 10.3? ;-) On my todo list: - add a line listing the zypper command to install a specific patch (ready for copy&paste) BTW: What is the correct command to install a specific patch? zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer works, but I'd like to include the patch number. zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer-2706-0 does not work - "patch 'yast2-printer-2706-0' not found" :-( Regards, Christian Boltz PS: an example notification mail looks like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Update sources: - SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates (http://suse.inode.at/pub/update/10.2) === yast2-printer - Patch 2706-0 (recommended) === yast2-printer: show remote printers This patch will fix several bugs: (#240727) - show also remote printers (#220712) - if more PPD's are available, select recommended first (#214243) - suggest PPD file for the selected printer (#223838) - select proper default queue === kernel - Patch 2705-0 (security) === Linux Kernel security update. This kernel update fixes the following security problems: - CVE-2006-5751: An integer overflow in the networking bridge ioctl starting with Kernel 2.6.7 could be used by local attackers to overflow kernel memory buffers and potentially escalate privileges [#222656] [... several other issues ...] Furthermore, it catches up to the mainline kernel, version 2.6.18.8, and contains a large number of additional fixes for non security bugs. -------------------------------------------------------- Total: 2 updates (1 security) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Ausgaben mit einer 0 sind ok, es sei denn sie sind es nicht. [Thorsten Haude in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Checksum errors on packages.en
by Magnus Boman 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 18:17 -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: > Magnus Boman wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:25 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote: > >> Magnus Boman wrote: > >>> Hello list! > >>> > >>> I have an issue when at home which I'm hoping for some help with. > >>> > >>> I have two installation sources on my machines (I've got two machines > >>> and 4 different installations of openSUSE 10.3Alpha1Plus). > >> > > >> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > >>> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/ins… > >>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Magnus > >> I believe it is due to the fact that SuSE's update is looking for a > >> repodata file. > >> Try > >> http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > >> > > Well, I found that using ftp works and I could use http from my office, > > just not from home. So there's something else wrong here. At least using > > ftp allows me to update my machine now :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Magnus > At home Firewall, NAT, router, gateway, DNS settings. Try this and see > if you are at least getting out. This is a friends site so only do it > for a very short time. "ping 44.76.5.200" > > It should look like this if the ethernet network is working. > 64 bytes from 44.76.5.200: icmp_seq=2 ttl=114 time=139 ms There's nothing that prevents me from accessing the internet. I don't have a proxy so nothing is cached. The packages.en file that gives me checksum errors (when using http in the installation source) is downloading, it's just that the SHA1 checksum doesn't match what's in the content file (funny enough, the md5 checksum matches). Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] Checksum errors on packages.en
by Magnus Boman 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:25 -0600, Donn Washburn wrote: > Magnus Boman wrote: > > Hello list! > > > > I have an issue when at home which I'm hoping for some help with. > > > > I have two installation sources on my machines (I've got two machines > > and 4 different installations of openSUSE 10.3Alpha1Plus). > > > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > > http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/ins… > > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ > > > > > > Cheers, > > Magnus > I believe it is due to the fact that SuSE's update is looking for a > repodata file. > Try > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… > Well, I found that using ftp works and I could use http from my office, just not from home. So there's something else wrong here. At least using ftp allows me to update my machine now :-) Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] konquerer / KDE SSL problem?
by Volker Kuhlmann 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Could someone please check out whether they get a response (login page) from https://authorproof.ieee.org/ please? Mine always times out after a long wait. Using firefox or wget works, so it's not my firewall or ieee's server!!! Running wireshark shows no data is ever received back from the server when using konqueror, but there's a normal exchange with firefox. openSUSE 10.2 with all current updates except kernel. A second 10.2 computer shows the same problem. All other http:// and https:// sites I have been using in the last many months have been fine. Is this only affecting me or others too - before I open a bug? Which component could the problem be in? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] openSUSE @ Google Summer of Code 2007
by Christoph Thiel 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

Hi everyone, [sorry for cross-posting.] We just submitted our Google Summer of Code application for being a mentoring org in this years program. Therefore we are now looking for your project proposals and ideas, that could be turned into potential Summer of Code projects. Please share your thoughts with us on the mailing lists and/or add them to http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2007 Thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Checksum errors on packages.en
by Magnus Boman 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hello list! I have an issue when at home which I'm hoping for some help with. I have two installation sources on my machines (I've got two machines and 4 different installations of openSUSE 10.3Alpha1Plus). When I try to refresh the inst-sources, it starts to download everything, and when it's done, it tells me that there is a checksum verification error on packages.en. I've tried the following installation sources and they all fail; http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-fact… http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/ins… http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ The other day, I went to my work office and refreshed the inst sources on my laptop, and it all worked fine! Then when I came back home, it was "broken" again. On the laptop, I've tried both wired and wireless but with the same result. I know that (most, if not all) other people don't have this issue. What I would like to do, is to try to pin-point where it goes wrong. So my question; 1. Is it somehow possible to download packages.en manually and then use some utility to do a checksum test on it (it needs to be identical to what libzypp is doing) to see if it actually fails. Then I can VPN in to the office and download it from there and do the same test. Any other help trying to figure this out would be much appreciated. Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Tor package
by Nikolay Derkach 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I suggest including tor [1] package to the distribution. I suppose many people use anonymous Tor network in their daily activities and this app would be very usefull. In addition a GUI frontend like TorK [2] is welcome. What do you think about this? [1] http://tor.eff.org [2] http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=39442 -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach

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[opensuse-factory] xvkbd and tablet pcs. Please make xvkbd optional in 10.3, kde integration
by antikristian 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

I've currently got a Toshiba tablet PC with built in keyboard and a wacom tablet built in. In opesuse 10.2, the xvkbd virtual keyboard is started automaticaly as you log into KDE I do see why this is but I really do not use it and it is only an annoyance to me and probably others with a convertibla tablet PC. What I would really would have liked is a virtual keyboard that you could add to kicker or a panel. This would allow it to hide automatically like a normal panel can be configured, it would not constantly take up space on the taskbar and it would be more similar to how a PDA place a virtual keyboard. I would really like to have the virtual keyboard (and text recognition) as a more integrated part of the desktop environment. The current situation of having an odd program here and there does not give you a feeling of consistency. I was planning to undertake this task myself, but I am not a sufficient QT/c++/kde developer as of yet. I hope someone would find this to be an interesting project because the linux tablet support is in need of some minor work here and there. -- Mvh Kristian Alvestad --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] y2pmsh, why is not integrated?
by Vincenzo Barranco 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi, So, why the y2pmsh is not integrated on the factory development tree? Best Reagrds, Vincenzo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Network Printing Problem @ Johannes Meixner...
by M9. 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, What about a real problem, in a real situation? ( i recall sending you this at jsmeix(a)suse.de , but never got any response, must have been caught in the 'spamshredder'..) > Hi JSM, > > We met in Resolved Bug #250113 , and in opensuse mailing. > > As the expert you are, i have a question , that will most likely be very > simple to you, (i hope), so you might want to answer it, end solve my > little problem? > > Here it is: > > (sent to cups mailing list, some time ago, but never answered..) > > Hello interrested members of this list, > (and hopefully one expert among you, who is willing share the solution.;-) > > I have one printer, connected to lpt#1, (local) which is shared in the > network. > The machine, an IBM PIV 1.8Ghz, is one part productionmachine: XP, > shares printer to all windows, and linux clients, + is Dual boot SuSE > 10.3 testingmachine. > The printer must be able to print at all times. > > If the productionmachine (XP) is on, no problem to find the printer, and > use it, Windows easy, Linux bij using the ip adress for the printer. > > But, when SuSE103 is on, the one printer is seen as the networkprinter, > AND as the local printer, so 2 printers are listed, and either one of > them is useable. > When i want to use the local one, this is 'forbidden' by cups > (localhost:631), > When i want to use the network printer, it is paused... > So no printing can be done when testing SuSE103... > > We talk about 'one' EPSON Stylus C64 Photoedition, using CUPS+Gutenprint > v5.0.0, for Lin2Win, and if possible for Lin2Lin. > > How can i solve this? (is it solvable?) > > (unfortunately this model cannot work with a printserver, if so, there > would be no problem at all..) This is an 'actual' and 'real', 'existing' problem, which i would realy have to be solved. The catch is in this: > # Host name of the SMB host (always needed) Because for the: > The printer share is identified by unique "names" in the network: Which part will be recognised: The OS, or netbios name? Q: What will happen if the netbios name is the same in both OS's? (there can be only one OS up at the time...) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45.2" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFF79yNX5/X5X6LpDgRAvH4AKDZivxtDDoWQGP7/sk7xJBQejJrDgCVFZfQ o3Fk3z9pZBLdn9KSiNK4sg== =iCvL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Update policy, Seamonkey and OpenOffice.org
by Terje J. Hanssen 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I'm wondering what is the policy and what decides which package versions that become updated to the current released openSUSE vs which versions that only become available on the factory and upcoming openSUSE version? I.e. Semonkey 1.0.99 = version 1.1b(eta) is still the version for both the current openSUSE 10.2 and on the Factory list. According to Mozilla/Seamonkey the 1.1 beta was released on November 8, 2006, the final 1.1 was released on Jan 18, 2007 and the current version 1.1.1 was released recently on February 28. Especially as 1.1b is a beta, I had waited an update for openSUSE 10.2. OpenOffice_org 2.0.4 was released with openSUSE 10.2, while OpenOffice 2.1 is the current Factory version. The current OpenOffice 2.1.0 is available on the Factory list. Are there any chances that updates for Seamonkey and OpenOffice will become available for openSUSE? Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Are we supposed to be moving this fast?
by Per Jessen 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

I've had a couple bug reports closed with WONTFIX, despite the reports being perfectly documented and diagnosed. To summarise the reasoning - "your hardware is too old or buggy, so we can't be bothered". I operate a 7x24 production environment with a few thousand customers, so I understand the reasoning with respect to aiming for an SLES release. I have also not reopened any of those bugreports. But - is it right for openSUSE to move towards an environment where only recent hardware is supported properly? The hardware I'm talking about is datacentre-level servers (Compaq mostly), up to 7 or 8 years old. I can accept that SUSE gave up on supporting Intel 486s long ago, despite these being used in production in many environments around the world, but I'm not really comfortable with openSUSE taking on a Vista-like attitude of "if your hardware isn't up-to-date, you're effed". /Per Jessen, Zürich -- ENIDAN Technologies GmbH - managed email-security. Is _your_ business under attack? http://www.spamchek.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] libzypp broken this week
by Duncan Mac-Vicar 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi everyone This week we are integrating a new libzypp which uses a new buildsystem and a new .so version, which will be the base for integrating the features for 10.3 This uncovered some problems with link order and static initialization which we are solving this week. So it is very likely applications will crash or segfault. The integration of new packages had some effect in zypp stack. Like a curl bug affecting ftp source probing, which is [now fixed][1]. So be careful, I'd recommend to install / update the packagemanager stack only in a virtual machine this week. Also, we updated [the instructions how to build][2] for this new series. Had fun. Duncan [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.cvs/6893 [2]: http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Devel -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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