January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] KDE locking up severely
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

I have been experiencing similar problems (although without Netscape up) - complete lockups while in KDE2 where I have to reset the machine. I think my problem rests with having several different versions of qt on the box (for various reasons). I have been meaning to clean this up & see if it helps, but have yet to find the time. This may not be your problem, but it might be something to look at anyway... Good luck! Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary(a)dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Poe [mailto:tompoe@peoplepc.com] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:14 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] KDE locking up severely Hi, All: Hope this gets through and posted. I have SuSE7.0 installed on a Linux box. It's wonderful. I have had negative experience with SuSE's Netscape, but don't use it any more than I have to. I love the Konqueror! This morning, with Netscape up, the damn thing locked up, severely. I had no keyboard, mouse control. Couldn't ctl-alt-<-, ctl-alt-del, ctl-D, ctl-alt-F1, or anything. Not sure what one does in that kind of situation. Of course, chose to shut it down hard. Had to fsck manually when I restarted, as hda3 was a big casualty. I then went back into my user KDE mode. Started the kmail, as that was originally what I was doing. Once again, as I was typing a reply [Netscape not up at this point], the whole thing just locked up tighter than a drum. So, now I need some advice on what steps one takes in this situation, before I shut it off. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tom -- 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/faq

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new system advise
by Donald G. Knecht 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

hey i see this question asked a lot but since i wasn't doing an upgrade at the time i really didn't pay much attention, i need to build a new i386 home office workstation, OS of course would be SuSE-Linux, now what to buy? i use a p200 currently, and usually do most of my work in staroffice, gimp, and netscrap,(no apache, servers or networking for that matter) the first two get really slow, gimp, usually when a lot of images are open or really big, staroffice just seems to be slow always.....i currently have a voodoo3 and 128mb ram which has helped, but now i can afford a faster processor/system. advise, thoughts, and ideas welcome specifically, what are the pros/cons of Athlon, Duron vs. Celeron, Pentium II, III TIA, don -- proud Linux user since kernel 1.1.54 icq#42235604

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KDE locking up severely
by Thomas Poe 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hi, All: Hope this gets through and posted. I have SuSE7.0 installed on a Linux box. It's wonderful. I have had negative experience with SuSE's Netscape, but don't use it any more than I have to. I love the Konqueror! This morning, with Netscape up, the damn thing locked up, severely. I had no keyboard, mouse control. Couldn't ctl-alt-<-, ctl-alt-del, ctl-D, ctl-alt-F1, or anything. Not sure what one does in that kind of situation. Of course, chose to shut it down hard. Had to fsck manually when I restarted, as hda3 was a big casualty. I then went back into my user KDE mode. Started the kmail, as that was originally what I was doing. Once again, as I was typing a reply [Netscape not up at this point], the whole thing just locked up tighter than a drum. So, now I need some advice on what steps one takes in this situation, before I shut it off. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tom

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Logging Stopped
by Andrew Smith 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hi My server's current uptime is 10 days, although there are no logs since Jan 3rd (8 days ago). All the files in /var/log seem to just stop at just after 20:32 on Jan 3rd, and I can't see any reason for this. Apart from that, my system is working fine! Any suggestions as to what could be wrong? Thanks, Andrew

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19'' flat monitor: what to buy.
by b stephen harding 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hi, Looking for suggestion of 19'' flat CRT monitors. If you've got one of these babies or you work on one please let me know what you think and would suggest for a new purchase. I'm presently leaning toward the LG Flatron 915ft Plus, but I'm also partial to NEC 950FP. So if you got two cents let me hear what you got to say. b stephen harding Black & White Rhino Press ---------------------------------------- "A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing." Jean-Paul Satre The Contemporary World

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Netscape Problem
by George H.Griffin 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hello: I'm an amateur. While trying to get Real Player 8 to run as a Netscape (using the Netscape version that came with SuSE 6.4) plugin I managed to cause a major problem on my system (AMD Athlon 700 mhz, 2 ide hard drives, ram=384 MB, Soundblaster Live sound card). I actually had Real Player running at one point although Netscape froze up. I had to switch to another console to kill Netscape. Since then I can get Real Player to work with sound files when I start from the command line, but Netscape doesn't work at all. When I click on the NS icon on the desk top nothing happens. If I go into a Konsole and try to run netscape from the command line I'm informed there a "buss error" occured. I've tried rebooting w/power off, and have removed/installed Netscape 3 times with Yast but to no avail. I do get a lock file in .netscape when I try to run the program. Once I deleted that, tried running it again and had the whole machine lock up. I finally had to turn the power off to get any response at all. Does anybody have any idea what I might try next? (Without a browser I can't even go to the archives to research the problem.) George -- George H. Griffin "Always believe your observations, not your theories (no matter how near they may be to your heart) if the two are in conflict." John Gribbin Powered by SuSE Linux 6.4

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Mac OS X lands MS Office support!
by Fred A. Miller 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

This isn't all that much of a stellar announcement, except when you consider other factors. Ballmer just announced that Linux is MickySoft's #1 threat, a firm in Israel HAS been working on a Linux port of Office, and it would be easier to port FROM a MAC OS-X version to Linux if they had to. Office is THE "cash cow" for MickySoft, and not only has 'Bloze2000 sales been a disappointment to them but Office2000 as well. Office accounts for 46% to 47% of their SALES revenue, (note that what really keeps their stocks viable are their investments), and sales are way behind what was anticipated due to market rejection ("why should we upgrade"), and the FREE availability and stability of StarOffice. MickySoft obviously doesn't want to support Linux, however, the time may soon come where they don't have any choice. I wouldn't be all that surprised to see them "hedge their bets" and port the MAC OS-X version to Linux. Fred _______________________ http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2673312,00.html

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Perhaps someone could explain to me the concept of multiple kernels...
by Jerry Kreps 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

I have 2.2.16 and 2.4.0 installed on my system. I am currently running -18tgz version of SuSE's 2.4.0 kernel (the httpd service fails). I have no problem using vmlinuz for 2.2.16 and vmlinuz.240 for the 2.4.0 kernel. My confusion relates to the System.map and the initrd file. A new System.map is generated everytime you recompile a kernel. Yet, I don't know of any way in lilo.conf to tell a kernel to use a specific map. Chris references "initrd=/boot/initrd-x.y.z" in his example of lilo.conf BUT, recompiling the kernel does NOT produce a new initrd file, at least not on my box, so why reference a different initrd file? Also, when you do "make modules" and "make modules_install" you change the modules to reflect the newly compiled kernel, not the old one. When I boot the old kernel it gives me a message bout the modules not being current, or something like that. Ok, Linux gurus.... what's the scoop? JLK -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.

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Lost my path!
by EagleIce 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

I just installed IBM java2 and the path to kava vanished, how do I make new path? (Don't remember the command....:-/ ) -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@

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Re: [SLE] Processes running out of control.
by quintaq＠yahoo.co.uk 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:30:42 -0600 Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps(a)jlkreps.net> wrote: > I'm attaching "memtest86" to this email. > I hope it helps you find your problem. > JLK Hi, Thank you very much Jerry and Chris for your help and for sending Memtest86 (which is **far** more thorough than the Win program I was going to dig out). Three hours of testing has not shown up any fault with the memory, which is, I suppose, good news. The problem has recurred only once in the past 36 hours - and that was again with xman - which was running though its window had been deleted. I wonder (without any scientific basis for my wondering), whether this might be a WM issue. There have been a few weird faults on the current Afterstep. I will try a post to the Afterstep list. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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