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Problem starting KDE after upgrade from alpha 3 to alpha 4
by David Bolt 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

First the problem: After finishing the upgrade from 10.1 alpha 3 to alpha 4 I tried to use the graphical log-in to my user account. This initially resulted in an alert box with the warning that it couldn't start kstartupconfig. Pressing "Okay" resulted in a second alert box stating that kdeinit couldn't be started. After pressing "Okay" on this box resulted in being returned to the log-in screen. The solution/workaround: I logged in using fvwm as the window manager instead of KDE, logged back out, swapped back to KDE and logged back in again. Not sure what this reset, and a look at the available log files doesn't appear to show anything, but this sequence worked. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62

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iomega REV drive
by Clay Jackson 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

So - I've got an iomega REV (35Gb removable hard disk) drive, and am trying to use MicroLite's BackupEdge software. 9.2 and earlier worked fine - with SuSe Professional 9.3 it broke, and it's still broken with 10.0 The issue seems to be related to blocking. It WRITES just fine (returns no errors) for any size files, and it will READ small files just fine, but when I try to back up a whole directory, it returns a bunch of errors - edge says "Directory not in proper format"; but there's nothing in /var/log/messages or anywhere else that I can find. Has anyone else seen this? Has anyone else got a REV working with 10.x Thanks in advance! Clay Jackson

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Different glibc versions in x86_64
by Otto Meier 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

why are there different glibc rev. (2.3.5 and 2,3,6) packages in the x86_64 version?

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opensuse 10.1 alpha3-plus
by Chema Ollés 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: Please,anybody knows the difference between alpha3 and alpha3-plus? I don't know why is so difficult to read about the differences between updates and upgrades (on apt packages) Thanks - -- 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) iD8DBQFDlBYH65SpD7GhbzoRAqvJAJ9VFUMWm+ZoFUSyO8Qe+K421iL2IgCgifVG gY4BX/+xxSwOBrQNo3G+mhg= =wlBf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Error after update OpenOffice(2.0.0.99.140-1@i586)
by Chema Ollés 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: I just update for my alpha3 this packages from apt-server: OpenOffice_org-2.0.0.99.140-1@i586 OpenOffice_org-es-2.0.0.99.140-1@i586 OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.0.99.140-1@i586 Well,now when I try to open an old ods file I was create,I see this message: Switch table size to 48915 from 97831 KCrash: Application 'soffice.bin' crashing... X IO Error and ooffice crash... Any idea? Thanks - -- 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) iD8DBQFDlAPQ65SpD7GhbzoRAsU4AJ93ECZHx+ZQ77Iaf4YQbOlm29hgsQCfYv/u 0yN25oBQngHCmtQB/5vkVuY= =YGuG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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package selection problems
by Peter Czanik 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hello, I try to install yesterdays (saturday) factory on a Pegasos PPC computer. I have a full local rsync mirror of factory on a second HDD (-x86 packages) and I get a "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media error?". Is this a problem on x86 as well? Bye, CzP

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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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