February 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SuSE Linux] Dell Poweredge 2300 and SuSE 6.0.
by fmiller＠lightlink.com 11 Feb '99

11 Feb '99

Ok.....I'm a much happier camper than I was! The Adaptec 7890 controller that is embedded on the Dell Server IS supported in SuSE 6.0, and also the ATI Rage Pro video, also embedded. The later you MUST use xf86config to setup, NOT SAX! SAX is a nice program, but it still lacks in supporting all drivers listed in the distribution. I've jury duty starting tomorrow, so I won't get to really get it setup properly till I'm off of that. I'm using the "old" kernel because of stability issues.....a "production" server shouldn't be "messed" with. Here at home, 'doing the same thing. Netscape came up fine....no problems. NICE improvements in KDE....more later. Best, Fred - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Updating to SuSE 6.0
by phil＠stokes.demon.co.uk 11 Feb '99

11 Feb '99

Well, I spent this afternoon updating my 5.3 system to 6.0. Mostly it went very well. I've had a few config files to tinker with. pppd got me scratching my head for a while, complaining of invalid options in the options file, until I realised that the syntax of some options has changed in the latest version. What didn't help is that I still seem to have the man page for 2.2 Apache was another problem. The run script was installed in /sbin/init.d, but the links in the rc2.d and rc3.d directories had somehow been removed during the update and not recreated, so I had to add them manually. A few warnings about missing files during the update, all of which turned out to be there when I checked later, except for libqimgio.so (see below). So far, all of my libc5 stuff works, including WP8, with the shlibs5 package installed. The only problem I haven't been able to resolve: "/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/i486-linux-libc6/lib/libqimgio.so (No such file or directory)" libqimgio.so is a broken symlink. Can someone running 6.0 check their box and tell me what it should point to. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil(a)stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] SuSE 6 and /opt
by chris＠usma.demon.co.uk 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

I've tried installing SuSE 6.0 from CD, and had partitioned my HD into /, /usr and /opt. The manual still says commercial packages are installed into /opt, so I gave it plenty of space. Howeverm when I went through YaST to select packages for installation, the running total showing remaining space on each partition indicated that nothing seemed to be going into /opt, but that my /usr was being used up at a great rate of knots. Should I just repartition into / and /usr, or am I missing something else? -- Chris Keenan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] DMULTIPLICITY
by risch＠tir.com 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

I received an error that this was not compiled into the kernel while running Mozilla. Does anyone know what its purpose is? TIA, Bob - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] Upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0
by rachel＠epinet.co.uk 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

Torvald Baade Bringsvor wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Rachel Greenham wrote: > > > How does a registered customer upgrade? Does she get any breaks, or does > > she just have to buy the complete new disk set from scratch? (Or do I > > finally get hold of a CD burner...?) We're not talking about a rich > > corporate customer here... > > A quote from <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/lx60.html#PRICES"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/lx60.html#PRICES</A">http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/lx60.html#PRICES</A</A>> : OK, thanks, that's all I needed to know really - And she and me should both have looked it up ourselves! :-} -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Upgrading from 5.3 to 6.0
by rachel＠epinet.co.uk 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

This question is on behalf of a friend whom I'm trying to help out with getting a Linux system going. She's actually bought the 5.3 set, but I've come onto the scene saying "get 6.0, it installs much easier" etc.; downloading and using it free like me isn't an option because she's not on a leased line and a phone call of several days to get it installed off the FTP site would just not be funny. :-) So I'm wondering... How does a registered customer upgrade? Does she get any breaks, or does she just have to buy the complete new disk set from scratch? (Or do I finally get hold of a CD burner...?) We're not talking about a rich corporate customer here... -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] KDM starts, then dies and keeps respawning
by Martijn.van.den.Burg＠asml.nl 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

Hi, I am using the graphical login of KDM to login in my SuSE 5.3 system (kernel 2.0.35) but _sometimes_ KDM does not 'catch on' after booting, and keeps respawning. What actually happens is: - all the ususal boot messages flash by - 'Starting kdm...' - screen goes black after one very short flash of something while KDM tries to connect to the X-server (I presume) and fails - KDM respawns and etcetera. The only way to stop this is the three-finger salute, switch off the pc and restart after a while. What causes this intermittent problem and how can I solve it? Regards, = Martijn van den Burg = Tech writer, archiver, Linux user = Publications Department, ASML = e-mail: martijn.van.den.burg(a)asml.nl = voice: +31 (0)40 2303856 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] useradd is brken on my machine...anyone else
by Spamoff＠tampabay.rr.com 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

Hello all. First of all some info. I have several variants of Linux, as well as FreeBsd, OpenBsd and NetBsd. This is the US commercial pavkage of Suse 5.3. I installed ity as a full install as I want to see what's loaded and 'play' with the system. O.K - Let's move on just tried adduser ( sorry useradd, I hate it when people change fundamental commands around) from the command line. It created the user , I gave it a password, went to log-in . It takes the log in and then comes back with no home created home=/ yes...it puts me as a user into the root and failed to create me a directory in home. Can anyone else try this and confirm it. Create a user from the command line adduser test passwd test (give it a password ). log in as test. See what it displays to the screen and where it put's you. Thanks. Regards...Martin - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] Staroffice help.
by suse_list＠hotmail.com 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

Yes thanks very much Andreas, I'll definately give that a try when I finish downloading Suse 6.0 and Staroffice 5.0, it may take another week or so by modem. :( Rachel, please let us know how you went. I would be very interested to hear. Thanks again, Brad. > > >Andreas Gerstlauer wrote: >> >> > > So my question is how do I go about installing staroffice >> > > from the version I will download from stardivision, using SuSE 6.0?? >> > >> > I would love someone to contradict me on this, but I can't seem to do >> > it! >> > >> > It insists on changes to /lib to reflect glibc2.0.7. I don't trust those >> > changes. Even when I did install it and get it to work once, it stopped >> > working the next day. >> > >> >> Well, I got StarOffice 5.0 to work on a SuSE 6.0 without changing the >> SuSE installation. It seems to work fine so far (although I haven't >> tried it extensively yet). > >[description snipped] > >OK, thanks, I'll try that. > >-- >Rachel >- >To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with >this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e >Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the >archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>> ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] News group vs Mail list
by jpb＠bigfoot.com 10 Feb '99

10 Feb '99

<PRE> Just wonder if anyone from SuSE reads this list. Although I find this mail list extremely informative, the mass of E-Mail traffic makes it almost impossible not to miss personal mail.. Is there any reason why SuSE stays with a mailing list instead of opting for a news server? Example of this route is the Norwegen browser company Opera who is located at opera.nta.no Paul </PRE> <A HREF="bin00000.bin"> S/MIME Cryptographic Signature</A></P>

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