March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSEconfig problem?
by Charles Yurek 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

hey guys I upgrade all KDE 2.1 to KDE 2.1.1 and didn't get any errors but when I exit the menu and SuSEconfig lauched it reads the /etc/rc.config and updates system. Then it runs /sbin/conf.d /SuSEconfig.groff...it sits there and the the space of my harddrive goes from 6gigs to 500megs I kill SuSEconfig because I think it's going to corrupt my HD. I check ps -aux and I see the cp command was using 68% of my cpu. Does anyone know what's going. On I'm running suse 7 on a k62 500 with 128 megs of ram and 13gig hd. thanks magnum

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.1 Professional Still in Minor Leagues
by Flavio Arthur Leal Ferreira 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

>Jerry Kreps wrote: > > Hi Fred, > > Gotta agree with you on everything but one part... > > > from MickySoft, StarOffice provides SOLID NON-crashing business > > > apps., > > I must say that in my experience, StarOffice is anything but > > "NON-crashing." :-) It crashed more and is a lot less intuitve than > > MS Office on Win2k. Then again, I'll live with it and WP8 until > > KOffice becomes more polished... > Tim, > I've experienced a SOLID operation using SO5.2. In fact, I can't > recall a single crash of it. I wonder how much the stability is > related to your xserver installation. Have you checked your > xserver error logs? Same feeling here. One feature that SO5.2 can receive high evaluation is solid operation. I use it most of the time. For me, the one, but big weakness of SO5.2 is it's very high demand for memory.

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KDE2.1.1 - Any Feedback?
by Jethro Cramp 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Has anyone tried 2.1.1 yet? Any noticeable improvements on 2.1? SuSE 7.1 arrived in the post with Applix 5.0 this morning. Now if I could just wave a magic wand to make this work on my desk disappear I could start on some install heaven. Jethro

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Haiku for MickySoft error messages.
by Fred A. Miller 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Imagine if, instead of incomprehensible geeky text strings, your computer using MickySoft 'Bloze produced error messages in "Haiku" . . You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. The page is not here. ********* Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. ********* Aborted effort. Close all that you have. You ask far too much. ********* Three things are certain Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ********* Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. ********* A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. ********* Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. ********* First snow, then silence This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. ********* VERY GOOD!! :) Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. ********* A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ********* The Web site you seek just cannot be located. But others exist. ********* Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. ********* Having been erased The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. ********* Rather than a beep Or a rude error message, These words "File not found." -- Winbloze: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition.

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xcdroast stalls at between 15 - 30% of read...
by Jerry Kreps 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

My PleXWriter 8423Ti is IDE and as hdd I could read data cd's and play music cds. But, I couldn't burn. I have used ide-scsi emulation and cdrecord recognizes the PleXWriter as scd0. My first test was to try to burn a copy of the Office52 subdir, about 250MB. I got an error which aborted the burn after about 64MB was written to the CDR. Then I tried the "Copy CD" function of xcdroast. At between 15-30% of reading the image off of the CD it stalls. I can watch xcdroast and cdrecord switching back and forth, using KDE System Guard. One sleeps while the other is running. Then both stay asleep. I've tried various speeds of reading and 8 gives the largest percentage, but no setting give 100%. Also, when I try to mount a data CD using mount -t iso8660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom it complains that /dev/scd0 is not a block device. mount -t vfat /dev/scd0 /cdrom gives the same error msg. What;s the problem? JLK

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Dxr3 DVD Decoder Card?
by Alex Daniloff 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

Hello Linux folkz, Has somebody succeeded in configuring Dr3 DVD Decoder Card with Linux? I've got Creative PC DVD ROM with this card and I'd like to be able to watch DVD movies on my Linux box Could you please share your positive experience or source of information how to configure this darn thing. Thank you in advance. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act! --------------> Try Linux and you'll understand why <--------------

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All-In-One Office Machines that play well w/ Penguins?
by Jeffrey Taylor 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I am looking at getting an all-in-one machine: fax, printer, copier, scanner, etc. Anyone have any experience with getting these to work with Linux? TIA, Jeffrey -- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck

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Can I lock the passwd and shadow files
by SuSe List 29 Mar '01

29 Mar '01

I have a need to obtain an exclusive lock on the shadow, group, and passwd files so that any process trying to modify these files will be blocked/denied until the lock is removed. I am not extremelly familiar with SuSE internals and etc.. I want to temporarily lock these files from either a perl of C program, preferably perl. It would take me many lines to explain line, but I simply need to lock these files so that no other process may modify them. (This lock would be held for a very short amount of time, but the process obtaining this lock is no where near atomic) These are clinical systems reponsisble for monitoring life support equipment among other things, so a 'jerry-rig' approach will not suffice. I need a 100%, rock solid way of this locking this file. Can anyone lead me in the right direction? Thanks CC

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"Mail not sent... sorry that domain....
by rob 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

"Mail not sent... sorry that domain isnt inmy list of recipant hosts" something happened to my mail confix postfix/main.cf I suppose my machine name is Serina and my provider cps92.com somehow postfix is looking for a list of qualified receiptants OR SuSE is bouncing my messages. I can send send mail out to myself... but I never receive it ;-/ However I *can* get mail from the list Ive switched to Postfix and It worked for a while... but something changed (Im not sure what) and the damm thing dosnt work. Ive rea the docs and the more I look... the more complex it seems. Like I say I have 2 parameters mymachine name = Serina local 10.xxx address myactual_provider

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Network Monitoring
by Pascal MiQUET 28 Mar '01

28 Mar '01

Hello, Sorry to ask question on the same topics... Does anybody install some SuSE monitoring solution from 7.1 Pro ? Or Install the NetSaint application, downloaded from the Official Web Site ? Is there any information concerning usage of the french solution Netup ? Thanks for your help Bests Pascal MiQUET

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