December 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] icons appear as large hash marks
by ciosmuil＠dada.it 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

I am having a strange problem with Amaya and WordPerfect8. In WP8, all of the tool bar icons appear as large hash marks. In Amaya, any image that i insert appears in a similar fashion. The same image on the same page appears fine in any other browser. This only happens in these two instances. Everything else appears fine in X. I am running v6.2 with the SVGA server at 24bpp "1024x748°. thanks, mark Florence, Italy -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Floppies, the Right Way?
by jpennington＠atipa.com 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

# This absolutely blanks the disk jpennington@eureka:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 dd: /dev/fd0: No space left on device 2881+0 records in 2880+0 records out # This sets up the ext2 file system on the disk jpennington@eureka:/ > /sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 mke2fs 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done # This ensures that we did it right :) Note /dev/fd0 has 13 used blocks; this # is for the lost+found file system. jpennington@eureka:/ > mount /dev/fd0 jpennington@eureka:/ > df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 5741928 1884592 3560940 35% / /dev/hda3 2048000 472480 1575520 23% /win /dev/hda5 127918 106809 14283 88% /home /dev/hda1 7496 974 6122 14% /boot /dev/fd0 1412 13 1327 1% /floppy # Corrections/Flames welcome :) -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Re: Diskcopy question
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

"S.Toms" <tomas(a)primenet.com> écrit: > fp> I wonder if `dd' is not a mere archaism for such operations, nowadays. > fp> Why not more simply: > fp> > fp> cp /dev/fd0 /tmp/imagefile > fp> cp /tmp/imagefile /dev/fd0 > fp> rm /tmp/imagefile > fp> > I believe with dd though it will copy verbatim, whereas with just cp > as you show, you are missing a few parameters. You will most likely > want to use the following -dpR when using the cp command, this will > copy verbatim whereas with cp alone, the permissions will be changed, > symlinks won't be copied across correctly and you'll want to copy the > directories recursively. Just some things to think about. We are copying whole, simple, raw diskette images, here. So, options like `-d' (dereferencing) and `-R' (recursion) do not apply. A full raw diskette is not related to a directory entry or inode, and so, timestamps (`-p') are also irrelevant. I think that a mere `cp', with no option, does the job correctly. P.S. - Some people wonder about the boot sector of the diskette, and such things. /dev/fd0 defines exactly how to look at the diskette (there are many other /dev/fd* to look at the diskette in various ways). In my case /dev/fd0 just represents the whole surface of the diskette. A bootable diskette will produce a bootable diskette, through the recipe above. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Floppy Disk Question
by weberdr＠bellsouth.net 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

I am just curious about floppy formatting. I like the KFloppy interface but have found it somewhat unreliable. When I format it in dos format it seems to work but sometimes I end up loosing data after using the disks. Since I don't share my disks much anymore since I have everything networked I figured I would be better off using ext2fs. It is also an option in KFloppy so that would make it easy. .. .not! When I use KFloppy to format in ext2fs after doing the format I get a long stream of kernel errors from the verify process. So my question is: What is the best filesystem to use for my floppies and what is the best way to format them? As a sidenote I know that the config in yast that I stored on a floppy used minix format by default, is that related or is there a reason for that? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw(a)linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Xfstt-1.x. rpm for SuSE
by mflores＠midway.uchicago.edu 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

the src.rpms are for red hat . . . ----------- -----Original Message----- From: Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth(a)bsag.ch> To: Mac Q. Flores IV <mflores(a)midway.uchicago.edu> Cc: suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Xfstt-1.x. rpm for SuSE > >Where have you found the Suse .src.rpms? > >Hanspeter -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] mail weird (sorry if repeated)
by novo＠uiuc.edu 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Juergen Braukmann writes: > Hi Alvaro, > > your problem sounds odd. I do not know wether sendmail stores your mail > for further deliverance (I do, cause I have no permanent connection to > the net) and my outgoing mail sits in /var/spool/mqueue and waits for > "sendmail -q". I use sendmail and yes I did check under /var/spool/mqueue: the message is there until sendmail is activated (daemon) and then I see it going... but it never reached my novo(a)uiuc.edu account, while others do! Anyway, after several hours at changing several configuration files I decided to remove sendmail and re-install it. Now, everything is fine... but I wonder what was wrong. Thanks a zillion though, Juergen. Alvaro > > If you use this type (If you use it accidently, well there could be a > place with unsend mails) send a mail and look into the "waiting" mails, > read the headers for further guesses, maybe there is a hint in there. > > Juergen > > -- > =========================================== __ _ > Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann(a)gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ > Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb(a)db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] 6.3 Install: Undoing kernel choice??
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes: > 1. With previous versions, SuSE has always asked for the CD to be > changed remotely during initial installation over NFS, when it > needs CD 2/3/... for packages not installed from CD 1. > With 6.3, it said "installation complete" with about 40 packages > still to be installed from other CDs, and offered to "reboot > installed system". [...] > First of all: I don't like it being done this way. The old method > was fine and straightforward. The new method is complicated, and > lengthens what is already a pretty prolonged process (see below). I remember that some previous SuSE behaved like your 6.3 description above (I did not try 6.3 yet). Let me disagree a bit with you. Even if the 6.3 (or oldish) behaviour is surprising indeed, I found it especially useful when the machine mounting the CD-ROM was _really_ remote, that is, not in the same part of the town. Sparing one car trip, back and forth, was well worth some intricacy for me, and I much liked that SuSE tried so hard to mount each CD-ROM only once. I do not think the process is much lenghtened, if you want to be honest. That depends, of course, of how long you scratch your head while steering at the "installation complete" display :-). Once you understand that you may have confidence in the process, I guess things actually go faster. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] dummy - Re: [SLE] Subject: Re: [SLE] Netatalk
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Tim Duggan <tduggan(a)dekaresearch.com> writes: > This is beginning to sound alot like the problem many people had getting > samba to work some time ago. Again, it was the dummy device causing > the problem, IIRC the network traffic was going to dummy instead of eth. By the way, and hoping that someone will enlighten me. What is the real specificity of the `dummy0' device? Why not just use `lo' instead? One might have many occurrences of the `lo' device. And a particular `lo' surely does not have to be bound to 127.0.0.1. On some machines, I replace `dummy0' with `lo', and have not seen no adverse effects so far. Is the dummy device really necessary? How, why? -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Xfstt-1.x. rpm for SuSE
by mflores＠midway.uchicago.edu 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

has anybody found an xfstt-1.x.rpm for SuSE 6.x yet? i've done searches and i've come up only with src.rpms. i'm unable to compile apps in my system at the moment so i need to install the precompiled binaries. mac -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: Adding new users
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Karl Eichwalder <ke(a)suse.de> écrit: > François Pinard <pinard(a)iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > | Hi, gang. This is my first message to this list! :-) > François, you're welcome :-))) Glad to see you are here as well, Karl. In fact, it seems you are about everywhere something of interest goes on! ;-) (but on the Python list :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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