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Suse 8 kde 3 Crash
by s-vogelsang＠web.de 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hi everybody, I've installed Suse 8 with KDE 3 for the second time now and still the same error occurs over and over again. The whole system just freezes (very randomly). Most of the times it does that in the first minute, after I've logged in with my default user account. But sometimes the computer has been on for 2 days, not doin very much, but running, and then, about 10 seconds after I've started XMMS, it freezes too. By freeze I mean, that the screen freezes, the keyboard and mouse become irresponsible and I cannot even log into my computer from another computer via ssh. So I guess that the whole system is down. It hasn't happened as root so far, but with every user account I've created. I haven't changed any settings yet, besides installing the (latest) NVIDIA drivers. But with the first installation the drivers that came with SUSE did not work as well. My system is a - Pentium III 800 with - two soundcards (one from Guillemot, that I deactivated in the configuration because of the lack of driver support and another cheap one that I use for Linux) MAYBE it is because of the soundcards???!?!?! - Then just the usual ethernet....... nothing special And it all worked fine with Suse 7.3 So has anyone experienced something similar and has an advise, how to fix the problem? I would really appreciate it! Regards, Sebastian

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Problem using digiKam with SuSE 8.0
by Wetzel, Gerd 15 May '02

15 May '02

Hello, 1. I've got a Canon PowerShot G2 digital camera with USB cable. The Problem is, after installation of SuSE 8.0 Professional I'm able to connect to the camera using gtkam, without any problems, but as soon as I use digiKam, the program crashes after configuration of the camera. Unfortunately I'm not able to provide the komplete errormessage at the moment, but maybe somebody knows the error. 2. Login as root and configure the camera in KDE works fine, the camera added to the desktop. As normal user, NO icon is added to the desktop, I had to do this manualy. 3. Off topic, my little workaround for missing YAST1 feature INSTALL PACKAGES: for package in *; do rpm -F -vv $package > rpm.log; done I hope the feature INSTALL PACKAGES will be added in YAST2 soon. regards Gerd Wetzel T-Systems T-Systems ITS GmbH Global Computing Factory Competence Center Application Integration & Middleware Address: Am Wallgraben 99, 70565 Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany Postal address: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany Phone: ++49 711 972-7251 Fax: ++49 711 972-1622 Fax2: ++49 711 120303-000073 E-mail: Gerd.Wetzel(a)t-systems.com Internet: http://www.t-systems.de

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DCOP stopping KDE3 login
by Joe Sullivan 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hey all, Full install info below. But a basic description of the problem: KDE3 reverts back to the kdm login whenever trying to login to KDE3. KDE2, Gnome, various window managers all log in fine. I'm sure it's something to do with DCOP. I've read similar problems being had on various Usenet groups and such, but never found a solution that worked. The error messages I find in logs include: DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-1965' to 'kded' Error: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! And a similar error follows for knotify. Steps found on the web/usenet taken which haven't worked: 1- Delete everything in /tmp and any DCOP/ICE files (incl. hidden) found in the home directory. Didn't help. 2- Tried creating a new user. New user couldn't log in to KDE3 either. Anyone know anything about how DCOP works enough to get me out of this? The install process done, in order (all SuSE RPMs taken from SuSE ftp): 1- Install SuSE 7.3 with kde2. 2- YOU to update all installed programs. 3- Upgrade kernel to 2.4.16 (SuSE RPM) 4- Upgrade X to 4.2.0 (SuSE RPMs) 5- Install all base packages of KDE3 (SuSE RPMs), except the kde2 compatibility one. Not needed if KDE2 is installed, right? 6- Install some of the KDE3 apps (SuSE RPMs) Still uses kdm from KDE2. Add 'kde3' so I can log in to KDE3. So it works fine for a while. The only really major thing I did during the login session before it started this problem was font install. I used Kfontinst from the control center while logged in as a user (switched to superuser mode of course). Installed fonts from my Windoze partition to Linux, with no problems. So no logging in to KDE3 after that. I've tried doing the exact same procedure on another computer and I can't seem to duplicate the problem! Any suggestions on what caused this? Searching in bugs.kde.org turned up a few results, but none gave a solution that worked for me. (I really wish they'd post a quick rundown of what's been fixed in 3.0.1!!!) Anyone? :-( Thanks, Joe --------------------------------------------------- The surgeon general has determined that using Microsoft products may be hazardous to your wallet. And your computer. ---------------------------------------------------

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KMail Encrypting to Outlock - Bad Session Key
by AnonymousCoward 14 May '02

14 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . When I encrypt a message using KMail and GPG, to an Outlook user, they invariably get a message, "encrypted session key is bad". Checking Google there is some confusion, but the most credible answer (from Disastry) is this is: "probably because of MDC. GPG uses MDC with AES,Twofish. however 6.5.8ckt06 should be able to decrypt Blowfish encrypted msgs. "you can disable MDC with --openpgp switch. then 6.5.8ckt06 should be able to decrypt all ciphers. "> P.S. Disastry... what's MDC and why does GnuPG use it? "Modification Detection Code, generaly SHA1 hash of message appended to message before encryption. and message encrypted w/o resync after IV.But I need to encrypt to users of many versions." I can't find anywhere to tell it a preferred algo, and I added openpgp to options. Still the error. So do I ditch GPG for PGP? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzhKoMACgkQnQ18+PFcZJubgACcCBQ7ltlpQiZzXKqRv7KAgdf0 NEYAn1/W8QMb/f2PaAzFjFBgJ/j94MmK =2tpb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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K Update, Kaddressbook, Postgres, & KAlarm
by AnonymousCoward 13 May '02

13 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Man reeeally hoping for the update soon. Konq is so crashy, usability is about 70%. And I use it for about everything. This is why I got away from Netscape. I was really hoping the addressbook was further along by now. Was planning to use it for business, but it can't do mail-merge. I must have that. Maybe I'll have to stay with my Winduhs app (Time&Chaos) for a while. Or figure out how to make my own in Postgres. Anyone know a good, easy reference for learning Postgres? Needs to be accessible: "Postgres for businessmen" or something. Also KAlarm isn't alarming. I set it, but it doesn't kick. When I reboot, THEN it kicks (too late). Like a daemon's not running. But I can't figure out which daemon it would be, and docs aren't done. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83+BXnQ18+PFcZJsRAlEUAJ9E9Y0C3PWfScCrNAOs8PDkfz8wZACbBq82 wW21EX0uhK7QVb/rtuNdSOM= =ipj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Suse8.0 - Should we install the new rpms in ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.0/base/
by dids 13 May '02

13 May '02

As it says, what are the differences to the default installation don't want to mess up a working system dids

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Audio Browser doesn't work
by Michael Coan 13 May '02

13 May '02

Recently I upgraded from 7.3 to 8.0. With 7.3 it was easy to rip my CD's to the Ogg Vorbis format using the I/O slave in Konqueror. Now when I click on the Audio CD Browser get the error message An error occurred while loading audiocd:/ The file or directory / does not exist. I think this is a permissions problem, but I have checked my permissions, and they seem fine (at least to me:)) Here is my setup CD-RW as seondary Master hdc I have hdc=ide-scsi in lilo.conf /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder are both linked to /dev/sr0 Owner is mikecoan (me) and group is users. Permission is rw------- so I have rw permission. cdrom is linked to /media/cdrom and cdrecorder is linked to /media/cdrecorder These are owned by root, with group=disk. I am a member of disk. The permisssion for /media/cdrom and /media/cdrecorder are rwxr-xr-x. Seems to me that in 7.3 I had the owner of sr0 as root with group=disk. Any guidance would be appreciated. Mike

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arts over a network
by Anders Johansson 12 May '02

12 May '02

Hi, I'm running three computers here, two of which are over the network using xdmcp. Does anyone know if it's possible to get the remote computer to output its sound using my local arts daemon? I can see an option "Enable network transparency" but I can't seem to get the sound output started. Has anyone tried this? Pointers? TIA Anders

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Where to order SuSE 8.0?
by Matt Sheffield 12 May '02

12 May '02

This isn't exactly KDE related but it sort of is. I don't have a broadband connection yet, so I can't feasibly download 8.0 Could someone provide me a link to a Web site which has the download edition's CDs (i.e. no tech support or commercial apps) ready for shipping at a low price? I usually go to linuxcentral.com because they've got low prices. However, they don't seem to have it. Can anyone else direct me to another Web site? TIA

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Icons won't install
by Curtis Rey 12 May '02

12 May '02

Ok, I go to kdelook and dl a set of icons. In this case the osXIcons.tar.gz. So, this should be simple (or so I thought). KDE-menu=>look & feel=>icons. Click on the little browse button, select the file/package, in this case home/<user>/Downloads/klook/osXIcons.tar.gz. it shows in the path bar, click install. and ........ NOTHING. Checked the permissions, and chmod to rwx just in case. Still NOTHING. Same with the themes. <theme-whatever>.tar.gz or in the case of mosfet-liquid0.9.4.tar.gz was ungziped as per the install notes to mosfet-liquid0.9.4.tar. And, yes you guessed it, NOTHING. Arrrrgggghhhh..... Any hints as to whether I'm just being brain dead or theres a problem with users and installing themes (like the default settings in my new 8.0 are so locked down that I have to go throught and config all my users parameters)or something new to kde3? TIA, Curtis

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