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feature requests
by Peter Czanik 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hello, How late is it to post feature requests? I'm testing openSUSE on a Pegasos PPC machine ( http://www.pegasosppc.com/products.php ). Right now a lot of workarounds are necessary to get it running (documented at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pegasos and http://www.opensuse.org/PowerPC_X11_configuration), which is far from the usual SuSE installation experience. I already know, that the Amiga partition table is not going to be supported by YaST2 (bug #121698). MSDOS partitions can be used as a workaround, but not officially supported by Pegasos. Xorg and mouse problems are under investigation. What I would like to see, is to make booting and kernel install more easy. This would require a few modifications and being able to see, that the installation is done on a Pegasos machine: - do not install a boot manager - if a fresh install, suggest creating a small ext2 partition on /dev/hda1 - do not suggest in YaST2 partitioner to create a CHRP boot partition (it can't be used) - run a command like this, after /boot/initrd is ready on the installed system, to get an OpenFiremware bootable kernel: mkzimage --vmlinux /boot/vmlinux --initrd /boot/initrd --output /boot/pegboot - prepare an e-mail with suggestions how to edit the file 'menu' on /dev/hda1 I'm currently downloading Debian and FC5 to see, how is it solved in those distributions. Bye, Peter

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alpha3 to factory
by Peter Czanik 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hello, I remember, that some simple y2pmsh commands were once posted, that upgrade everything to latest available packages. I was searching through hundreds of e-mails in the archives, but still could not find it. Could someone post it again? Thanks, bye, Peter

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mismatch
by Peter Czanik 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hello, When I try to install 'factory', I get a message, something like this: 'Boot CD and installation source mismatch Your bugreports are probably worthless' I have an up to date full mirror of factory on my Pegasos PPC at home. I use the supplied boot.ppc.iso and SL-OSS-factory/inst-source as my installation source. Is it normal, or I should file a bugreport? Bye, Peter

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What gives with SUSE-10.1-Alpha3 new Internet connection manager?
by James PEARSON 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello all Please excuse me if I am not sending this to the correct list. I installed SUSE-10.1-CD-OSS-i386-Alpha3 on two computers a HP PentiumIII ebox at the office and my T40 Thinkpad at home. On both computer my eth0 connection to Internet was KO during the installation connection test (first time!) and on the post install login (first time again!). If I ran "/etc/initd.d/network restart" after logon I could raise an Internet connection for a few brief instants until the new network connection manager (ifplugd?) took over, it killed the connection. # at work W3847:/etc/init.d # ./network restart Shutting down network interfaces: eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:01:02:0a:6e:13 done Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . done Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done eth0 device: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:01:02:0a:6e:13 eth0 is controlled by ifplugd done Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . done W3847:/etc/init.d # ping 10123.1.23 PING 10123.1.23 (10123.1.23) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=6.78 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=4.58 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=6.59 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=4 ttl=116 time=7.70 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=5 ttl=116 time=6.06 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=6 ttl=116 time=5.40 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=23 ttl=116 time=6.43 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=24 ttl=116 time=4.76 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=25 ttl=116 time=5.94 ms 64 bytes from 10123.1.23: icmp_seq=26 ttl=116 time=6.07 ms ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable # at home On my Thinkpad, my IP address is attributed dynamically (in the 192.x.x.x range), the new SUSE network connection manager kept changing it to another completely different IP range. The bottom line is that without a working Internet connection, the installation (and the SUSE-10.1-Alpha3 CD's) are useless. - does anyone have any ideas on how I get a working DHCP connection Thanks in advance James

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xosd without xmms-osd plugin on alpha3
by Chema Ollés 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: where can i found this package (xmms-osd plugin)... I remember I had it before update cheers - -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 Linux 2.6.14-rc3-smp #7 SMP Thu Nov 17 01:00:40 CET 2005 i686 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDghv965SpD7GhbzoRApzeAJ0aVB8EIDj8SKUu0bfcKZ3Yed8GgwCdGkSE FCWQK3ObZW6DCgqfcMPLl/I= =tUpC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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error: extra qualification... problems compiling differents programs with the new gcc 4.1
by Chema Ollés 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: I try compiled mplayer (error on LiveMedia libs) and aMule and find the same type of error: extra qualification. I just see now that gcc 4.1 is EXPERIMENTAL: linux:/opt/aMule-Unicode/amule-cvs-20051120/src # gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i586-suse-linux Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr - --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info - --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib - --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,f95,java,ada --enable-checking - --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.0 --disable-libssp - --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-libjava-multilib --with-slibdir=/lib - --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit - --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --without-system-libunwind - --host=i586-suse-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.0 20051110 (experimental) (SUSE Linux) Oh my God!!! Any idea? cheers - -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 Linux 2.6.14-rc3-smp #7 SMP Thu Nov 17 01:00:40 CET 2005 i686 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDgM1v65SpD7GhbzoRAgwFAKCjAB5xqhNWIBezXfz6ZX+k1cn44QCfTjz/ Pl8FJbSSAoEG8Tmjr9pj+6Q= =Ox8y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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updating to alpha3
by Chema Ollés 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: I just update from alpha2 to alpha3. I see a lot of errors on devices creation. I must create by hand devices for my mouse,sound and also,change permission for more of the normal devices like ptys,pcm,mixer.... :-( Is it a bug or I do something wrong? regards - -- Chema Ollés Usuario Linux: #198057 Linux 2.6.14-rc3-smp #7 SMP Thu Nov 17 01:00:40 CET 2005 i686 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDf7RD65SpD7GhbzoRAidJAJ9qRbI+w7yCt3hQsgCwFFYZvTwr8QCgjGk5 U5HHSLHNX8tzAkdbEgKY4u4= =KShS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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todays factory on PPC
by Peter Czanik 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hello, I wanted to install todays (Sunday) openSUSE factory on my PPC machine (a Pegasos2), but I ran into troubles with package selection. Rough translation from Hungarian on the YaST summary screen: "package selection trouble must be manually resolved". So I choose "packages" to solve the problem. Half of the world was waiting to be deselected, as there is a missing dependency: libGL.so.1 (or so, I rebooted to a working openSUSE 10.0 installation...) was missing. Bye, Peter

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Problems after update alpha2 from apt servers
by jmolles＠vodafone.es 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi all: I can't use thunderbird,openoffice,firefox and alsa doesn't works fine.I upgradealpha2 with smart. Anybody could explain me why this programs crash? for example: firefox -> /usr/bin/firefox: line 251: 27598 Violación de segmento $MOZ_PROGRAM $MOZ_LANG thunderbird -> ./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27655 Violación de segmento "$prog" ${1+"$@"} sorry for this mail,I write it with mail and there are many years ago I didn't use it... ;-) cheers -- Chema Ollés

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Another stupid question, I suspect, how do I build packageinfo.xml.gz
by Ian S. Nelson 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Is there a tool? I'm a Suse newbie still.. Converting from the Redhat empire. Ian

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